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Participant: (Question) Terry: I don't like that word sinker, I never ever use it. We all are sinkers,
some people think more than others.
The thing is, balance is acquired and achieved by sinking in a horizontal fashion,
instead of sinking like that. The reason
and some people are sinkers. They have
denser bones and body composition is different. Some people are
sinkers, even though I don't use that word. I have to acknowledge
it's true, but most people are not sinkers
who think they are.
And one of the really surprising things about achieving better
buoyancy. In other words floating better is relaxing, relaxing makes a huge
difference. It changes the gaseous composition of the blood and the
muscles from more carbon dioxide. If you are tense,
there's more carbon dioxide in the blood, and carbon dioxide is heavier than
oxygen. If you are relaxed,
there's better perfusion of the blood, and the muscles, and the body tissues by
oxygenated blood
and you float better. Everytime we do have people, one of the main reasons we
do that superman glide is it gets people to relax. And they're surprised to find they
don't sink like they always have when they do that. But relaxing the head, relaxing
the hands, having the hands, the wrist must be below the elbow,
and the head must be hanging
for you to get into a horizontal position. But balance is sinking
into a horizontal position. It's not failing, it's not staying on top. We do
not swim on top of the water, we swim through it.
Participant: Why is it important to breath on both sides? Terry: It makes your movement symmetrical.
When you breathe only to the left side, I was a left side breather for ten years.
And everything was sort of more over to that direction. And my right hand, you saw
that really patient catch?
My right hand moving so patiently into that catch.
That never happened when I was a left side breather. My hand was going like
that quickly when I was left side breather. It took a lot of right-side
breathing to allow my hand to experience it doesn't always do that.
Like I could actually let it sort of
drift out here and in a very leisurely way feel the catch.
So that's the primary reason.
Participant: There was part of difference between you swimming and your daughter swim as far as
Y axis with the hand
Terry:Hers was a little bit higher you mean? Participant:Yes.
Terry: I mean it was....The thing is Participant: the shoulder flexibility?
Terry: The angle of the shot was a little bit different and
it's a moment in time, rather than the whole stroke. So it's a little
bit harder to tell, but we do it
in terms of
what we teach and what we have found is really essential. That the arms should be
on the shoulder line not in front of the nose when it extends out and
makes its catch.
And that
in order to have your legs be light, not sinking, you want the wrist
below the elbow. There should be some slope here, and if the hand is hanging...
You think about when the front end of a kite catches the wind,
the tale goes down. Think about it the same way, you're moving forward, your
hand is going through water. There's the dynamic of the flow of water, and if your
hand is going that way, your legs are going to sink. So you want your hand that way,
not only for that. But because the first moment of pressure I put on that hand, I
want the result of the force to be that way, not some other direction. Talk about the
97 percent lost in horsepower and energy. A lot of is because
the hand is always, spent so much time pushing water some direction.
other than directly that.
Last question?
Participant: What would I tell my swim coach that has been using.....
Terry: I would just ask him what he thinks the benefit of doing so. What's
the outcome?
Don't say Terry Laughlin said not to, but to say
what's the benefit? I used those things for a long time
and I didn't swim very well. As soon as I stopped using it, then all the people I've coached
has swam better. And it was you know, if they had races where they
were going to give out medals for the person who's best at pushing and kickboard
down the pool, I would train for it.
But they don't, So i don't. Participant: Thank you very much.
Terry: You're welcome!