Swimming Drill: Tap your head drill

Tap Your Head Drill

1. It lets you know where your head is for posture in the water.
2. It gives you and indication of where your hand is to prevent over reaching (reaching in front of the head)
3. It promotes rotation.

How to do it:

While swimming freestyle, stop in mid-recovery and lightly touch the crown of your head, then slip the hand into the water in front of the shoulder in a kind of catch-up fashion, and then the other hand pulls through and repeats the motion. This is a Sloooowww drill.

Your hands should never touch each other and you need to make yourself as long as you can from fingertip to toe tip, each stroke. Kick should be kept to a minimum and the emphasis is on awareness of head, hands and hips. As with all drills, it is important to remember that you are effecting a change in habit, so forget the clock and do it slowly and methodically so you can do it correctly.