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Fingers Together Or Apart?

Fingers Together Or Apart?

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Paul Newsome, Swim Smooth
Nov 15, 2013
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Fingers Together Or Apart?
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Take a look at these two pictures of Michael Phelps (left) and Ian Thorpe (right), two of the greatest swimmers of all time. How are they holding their fingers? :



If you said 'slightly apart', are you sure? What about the other hand?

Many elite swimmers do spread their fingers slightly at the front of the stroke as they enter and extend forwards but once …

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