Philipp Unterreiner

Munich, Germany

23:00 I see Clay explaining 2 ways of opening the shoulder. One is like this what he shows in the video where the hand is held high, the other one is where the hand is held low and the opening motion happens kind of "below the hip". Not sure if I'm explaining it right but could you elaborate on the difference between these two techniques?

09 Feb 00:36

What I see (and that might be of course wrong) is that you’re losing speed even though you should be gaining speed by coming down the turns. I think it’s because you’re focused a lot on your upper body and the front on posture, but you’re somehow separated in the middle of your body in the sense that you’re not compressing/extending with ease but somehow already your legs are bent a lot as you ride into the turn so you’re actually absorbing speed. I guess practicing speed generation independently could help you. I had an aha moment with this in one of the public you tu be videos from clay where he always tells the guy to stand taller and just press down. Once I felt this for the first time I was surprised how little effort it takes to actually generate speed (since I was overurillizing throwing my arms up before to get lift while in reality speed comes much more from simply pressing into the ground as you go down the ramp)… not sure if this helps / makes any sense?

Edit: I looked at the video again and definitely you kill speed because you lean too much forward. I believe clay would tell you to keep your back straight while practicing just the speed generation „speed is easy“

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04 Feb 19:32

Is it also a matter of speed? Would the lean have worked if she was faster?

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22 Oct 20:56

All the best for the surgery!

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Question: If comparing this to swimming (freestyle stroke) the "enter over the barrel" eliminates the catch phase. In freestyle swimming you want to reach as much forward as you can so that you have a more efficient pull using EVA (early vertical forearm) which you also describe here. If someone is used to freestyle stroke and able to do EVA from it wouldn't it be more efficient to reach straight?
Idea: What about a drill where you roll in, turn in the flat and then lift back up. I think the bowl you have and most bowls would be too small for that but wouldn't that be the ideal bottom turn drill?
Think you missed showing the drill /example in this video?
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25 Dec 19:32

Hmm ... It's hard to understand what you're doing wrong or right from this. Overall all attempts look decent to me just some have more amplitude than others