"Feel" of the water and for the water is not rare and can be nurtured in nearly all swimmers. Despite what you may read in books and swim magazines, "feel" for the water is not rare. It simply has been suppressed for an increase of power by the majority of coaches, who, in their incomplete and or insecure knowledge of technique, coach technique using a "painting by numbers" approach as mentioned below by Howard Firby.
This "painting by numbers" method first saw the light of day in the world of art. Where a child applies certain colours to certain numbers to colour a predesigned outline.
This approach in teaching swim technique, has the swimmer follow the directions given by their coach such as, "push this far back", "bend here". The result is that swimmer becomes stifled and lose their sense of creativity and end up swimming like mechanical robots, who are actually no match for those swimmers who have "feel" or "soul" on their side.
A coach should look for a symphony of movement and learn to think in terms of moving body mass, clean alignments, momentum, shifting forces, and the subtle nuances of timing.
The above should be seen within the framework of fluid mechanics, kinesiology, physiology.and psychology because "feel" is a total experience in which the temperament of the swimmer musy be taken into account.
Below: the excellent technique of Kristina Egerszegi can be related to a canoe in how she rides in the water.
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