29/09/2026
⚡️ACTIVE WRISTS⚡️
A crucial key for swimming effiency! Why?
👉The stroke begins at the wrist and if you can have an active wrist you will enjoy a much more powerful and immediate stroke compared to a passive or negative wrist.
👉The hands are what anchors your stroke and hence your most effective way of forward motion. By applying an active wrist you will anchor those hands way quicker in each stroke cycle.
👉By activating the wrist the elbow will follow suits and bend which will activate larger muscles. Your entire stroke will be much more dynamic and effective compared to a passive wrist and straight elbow.
How?
👉Imagine your entry into the water with each arm cycle rather going slightly angled at the bottom of the pool rather than straight forward at the surface. At the front of each stroke you have the activated wrist that will lead your fingers pointing slightly down to the bottom and back of the hand will face forward.
👉Throw you arms and hand entries as far in front of the body as possible – think of windmilling. Key word is ”throwing” which is opposite from carrying, holding, steering or lifting the arms through the air to begin the next stroke cycle. Throwing is relaxed and quick. Carrying is slow and tense.
👉Make sure you actually activate the wrist and not the actual hand or palm. The hand itself should be flat, large and relaxed and the action is in the wrists
How not?
👉Avoid sticking and gliding on each stroke. With sticking I mean forwarding the hand early, like barely past your head, as opposed to windmilling the hand as long as possible. With sticking and gliding you´ll be guaranteed to either have a negative (flat) wrist but more likely a negative wrist, face palming the water and effectively trying to swim with the brakes on.
👉Stretching the arm out on the surface rather than slightly pointed towards the bottom with a rounding at the bottom (like the arms hugging/extending around a truck tire). The straight surface arm will lead to the elbow sinking beneath the shoulder and wrist – very poor for propulsion.
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