Sprint Freestyle - Deep vs Deeper Pull • The Race Club

In this velocity meter study coach Gary Hall Sr. analyzes Olympian Brad Tandy's sprint freestyle technique. Brad typically uses a deep pull and we wanted to find out what happened to his velocity when he used a slightly less deep pull. While using a deeper pull creates more frontal drag, the sprint freestyle allows the athlete to make this compromise for a limited duration of time. Since no one (world class) is swimming sprint freestyle with a high elbow pull the question is, how deep should the pull be?

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