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Paul Newsome, Swim Smooth
Sep 17, 2010
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Here's a  brief video clip of our Scull #1 drill to watch this week: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WYyowAvb5U

The focus here is what happens at 14 seconds in, when we see the problem with dropping your wrists that we discussed in last week's blog. Doing so in your stroke adds a lot of drag, and as we see in the clip, it pushes you backwards!

Also, we have two …

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