QUOTE(fastreader @ Sep 9 2012, 07:52 PM)
rotate 90 degree?.. meaning from the "face down" to 'just looking at the shoulder' position of the head?

ya, 1 eye in the water, 1 eye outside the water while breath at side..just rotate, not lift ur head. u lift ur head, ur butt go down, not good.. not in bodyline..
Added on September 10, 2012, 1:15 pmQUOTE(hawk123 @ Sep 6 2012, 05:31 PM)
It's not necessary to hv consistent left and right breathing when you're in competition.
The reason why the coaches encourage swimmers to breath left and right side is to make the swimmers hv a better sense of its body position and hand strokes in the water.
All swimmers will get used to breath one side better than the other, but good swimmers hv at least not so much different in either side breathing skill.
And it's very wrong to drop your elbow after your hands enter the water.
To swim more efficiently, swimmers like to maintain the high elbow positions.
A lot of ppl mistaken that high elbow position is maintained during the recovery.
But, it's not very true.
High elbow position should be kept in the water too.
If you go to Youtube watch those olympic swimmers' video, you're going to notice that their hands are almost perpendicular to their bodies.
This explains why the swimmers hv big latissimus muscle.
Freestyle and butterfly use a lot of energy from this muscle.
when swim front craw, the elbow maintain as high as possible close to the water while pull & push?
This post has been edited by timetravelller: Sep 10 2012, 01:15 PM