{"id":18031,"date":"2016-03-01T01:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T07:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.championshipproductions.com\/news\/?p=18031"},"modified":"2016-03-01T08:39:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T14:39:56","slug":"discover-entry-position-techniques-for-freestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.championshipproductions.com\/news\/2016\/03\/01\/discover-entry-position-techniques-for-freestyle\/","title":{"rendered":"Discover Entry Position Techniques for Freestyle!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arm action is a huge part of what separates good swimmers from great ones. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.championshipproductions.com\/cgi-bin\/champ\/auth\/2572\/Ian-Pope.html\">Ian Pope<\/a>, Melbourne Vicentre Swimming Club head coach and Olympic team coach for Australia, shows you how he instructs swimmers to position their arms and shoulders for the sprint and distance freestyle strokes.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Entry Position<\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yOVRbVxLktw?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Drill Summary:\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the sprint freestyle, the hands should enter directly in front of the shoulders with a slight angle in the wrist to promote a deeper catch. In the distance freestyle, the hand entry is closer to the surface so the swimmer can extend out in front. Always keep the hand relaxed on entry and open up the fingers to catch the water. As for the shoulder position, focus on keeping shoulders close to the water on entry and avoid over-rotating as dipping the shoulders too much can create drag.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>This video came from Championship Productions&#8217; video &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.championshipproductions.com\/cgi-bin\/champ\/p\/Swimming-Diving\/Ian-Popes-Swimming-Down-Under-Freestyle_MD-03764A.html?crm=a-2572\">Ian Pope&#8217;s Swimming Down Under: Freestyle<\/a>.&#8221; Browse through other\u00a0<a title=\"Swimming &amp; Diving\" href=\"http:\/\/www.championshipproductions.com\/cgi-bin\/champ\/swimming-dvds-videos.html\">Swimming &amp; Diving<\/a>\u00a0videos online at ChampionshipProductions.com!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Interested in receiving a FREE swimming newsletter? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.championshipproductions.com\/cgi-bin\/champ\/query\/signup.html\">Sign up today<\/a> to get tips, technique and drills similar to the post above!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arm action is a huge part of what separates good swimmers from great ones. Ian Pope, Melbourne Vicentre Swimming Club head coach and Olympic team coach for Australia, shows you how he instructs swimmers to position their arms and shoulders for the sprint and distance freestyle strokes. Entry Position Drill Summary:\u00a0In the sprint freestyle, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[101780,103211,101691,101127,101772,103212,101130,102609,100569,102606,102605],"class_list":["post-18031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-swimming-diving","tag-aau-swimming","tag-entry-position","tag-freestyle","tag-ian-pope","tag-issue-44","tag-shoulder-position","tag-swimming","tag-swimming-drill","tag-swimming-dvd","tag-swimming-newsletter","tag-swimming-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.championshipproductions.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.championshipproductions.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.championshipproductions.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.championshipproductions.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.championshipproductions.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.championshipproductions.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18065,"href":"https:\/\/www.championshipproductions.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18031\/revisions\/18065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.championshipproductions.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.championshipproductions.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.championshipproductions.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}