{"id":276740,"date":"2017-09-07T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T19:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=276740"},"modified":"2018-02-14T10:36:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T17:36:50","slug":"swim-drill-of-the-week-straight-arm-free-with-paddles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/swim-drill-of-the-week-straight-arm-free-with-paddles\/","title":{"rendered":"Swim Drill Of The Week: Straight Arm Free With Paddles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the \u201cSwim Drill of the Week\u201d. Swimming World will be bringing you a drill, concept, or tip that you can implement with your team on a regular basis. While certain weeks may be more appropriate for specific levels of swimming (club, high school, college, or masters), Drill Of The Week excerpts are meant to be flexible for your needs and inclusive for all levels of swimming.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This week\u2019s drill is straight arm freestyle with paddles. This is a drill that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/fitter-and-faster-swim-drill-of-the-week-straight-arm-recovery-freestyle\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">we have featured before<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, but want to add a variation of the drill with paddles to do with your more advanced swimmers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the name suggest, straight arm recovery freestyle has your athletes using a straight arm recovery to get maximum reach at the front of their stroke when their hand enters the water. Once contact with the water is made, swimmers should immediately begin the pull phase of their stroke, which should still be a traditional high elbow catch. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The goal of adding paddles to the drill is to challenge your swimmers to perform this drill while pushing their stroke tempo as high as they can while maintaining technique. You may want to start out slow so your swimmers can get the feel of the drill with paddles, creating a simple progression like:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1 x 25\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">slow <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">straight arm recovery w\/ paddles, perfect technique<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3 x 25\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fast <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">straight arm recovery w\/ paddles, maintain technique<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the paddles will make it easier to \u201cgrab\u201d onto the water at the beginning of the catch, it will also make it more difficult to get their tempo up as they will also have to move more water at a higher speed. 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