3 Hand Drills To Improve Your Freestyle Catch! 😃

Coach Abigail Fish walks us through three freestyle swimming hand drills you can use during practice to improve your feel for the water during freestyle. These drills will take away your feel for the water so that when you open your hand back up you can feel your freestyle catch better while increasing your power.
Cideo Chapters:
0:00 - Intro to video
0:15 - Drill #1: Closed Fish
0:32: Drill #2: Pinky Out
0:48: Drill #3: Okay Drill
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Here’s a great drill for getting the feel for early vertical forearm:
Start with a pair of medium-sized hand paddles.
Instead of slipping your fingers in the straps,
Hold your palm out flat, facing up.
Place the bottom edge of the paddle into your palm, and wrap your fingers over the paddle, so that it rests in your palm and over your wrist and forearm.
Repeat with the other hand.
Now swim as you would with a hand paddle.
This drill forces you to use your forearm for propulsion in an early vertical forearm.
I call this reverse paddles, although recently I found a video with a coach calling it knuckle paddles. Either way, I’ve found it highly effective.