Breathe Easy

Here is an excerpt from my recent post on the topic of breathing:

There are several details to making the breath (in freestyle stroke) feel relaxed and easy.

Among the several here is one that, coincidentally, several recent students have noted as making the biggest breakthrough:

Turn to breathe sooner.

Now, this assumes that you are already keeping your head down, and rotating on your laser spine (I label it the “Shishkabok” here in Turkey) because that is the only way this will work smoothly for you.  If your head is tilted up it disrupts the whole set up.

So presuming you are holding good head position, let your head rotate to air with the turn of the shoulders, as soon as you set the catch. The Catch, torso rotation, and turn to breath are one smooth, unified movement.

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