Day 113: The High Elbow Catch

Technique, technique and more technique is the best way to improve your performance on any given sport. Once you start doing the things the right way you are more than halfway on the road to success. Every sport has its technique and definitely swimming has to be one of the more challenging sports to dominate because of all the technique related to its practice.

Today we want to focus on one of the things that is necessary to practice a lot in order to be able to be more efficient on the water: The High Elbow catch. We found two great sources on how to master this process. First of all a great article by Active.com on How to Train the High Elbow Catch in Swimming, and then a little bit of visual help for those like us who need that extra useful video.

The article goes through a series of tips to remind you about arm and body position, while the video shows frame by frame how it needs to look once it is applied. Check these two sources out and continue improving your swimming form to be as good as you train to be.

“And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself.
You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of
your usual ideas. And this is a whole other category that you can get
into.”- Dave Brubeck