What is Early Vertical Forearm? (EVF) | Whiteboard Wednesday

Early vertical forearm is used in all 4 competitive strokes, and doing it right will make you faster and take pressure off of your shoulders.
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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro: What is EVF?
4:23 - EVF Training Tips & Drills

[aruplalchakraborty]

Excellent explanation. I love the precision of the phrases you use. You are a natural teacher.

[anneharkonen]

Very clear instructions. I usually just watch and learn. You are the One and only teacher that I don't get tired of just listening. Thanks and greetings from Finland!

[davidgraham]

I love your detailed and very clear explanations in this and your other videos. I've seen other people''s videos describing the high elbow through the catch and the angle of elbow bend, but they miss the reason IE (greatly) increasing the surface area in the direction of the stroke over and above the area of the hand. I sort of figured it out, but you explain it so well. I think it helps tremendously to understand the WHY of doing something. Thank you so much.

[nanoRat]

THE, THE, THE most important swimming technique to master.

[AT-pwdx]

Sir I cannot thank you enough for this video.i think youre going tk save me a whole lot of heartache

[piersto]

To sweem with fist really forced me to execute EVF!
Then when I added one finger I felt the huge difference and importance of EVF.
And after all that while I swom with big hands I had impression to be a torpedo!
Thanks a lot for this video, Fares!

[eminem]

You have evolved so much from 2018, props to your hard work!

[LizNguyen]

Fantastic video! Thank you so much! Will use these drills for my next session!!

[rv]

Great clear explanation with the nice set of drills!

[y.g.]

dam, I watched all kinds of free-style videos, turotials, Ian Thorpe etc- but this guy's explanation is the top quality !! thank you so much.

[nuttanunk]

Amazing ... easy to understand .. Thank you so much ... I will try as soon as the pool is opened during covid situation.

[julianaranguren]

I have watched a few videos to understand and learn how to do the 'catch' and this is BY FAR the BEST one I found. I specifically looked for a video from this coach (Fares) because I watched the one in which he explains how to do a flip turn and it was also (and by far) the best I found on youtube.

[dcoughman]

Very good explanation! I have something to add. I had a great coach who had a slightly different interpretation of evf. There is no pause after the extention. Immediately after the extension you point your fingers down and set the catch meaning as early as possible. I never understood how to do that until this week when it clicked that the whole key is showing down your armstroke when setting up the catch and then accelerating through the exit into the recovery.

[einfachbesserschwimmenalex]

Great explanation and good Drills!! Love the white board and the clear and logical structure 💪🏻

[rolandmarichal]

This is beautiful!!!! Excellent explanation

[markspinozzi]

I also purchased the Finis forearm fulcrum and bolster paddles. After just a couple weeks of using them I saw an improvement in popping my elbow early and keeping the wrist straight which keeps the integrity of your paddle.

[MuhammadAli-qgid]

Very informative... really amazing... i have never seen such videos on youtube before... thank you so much bro...you are great.

[pierguidoventulini]

Excellent lesson! I loved it. I'd like a video on arms/legs synchronisation! Many Thanks!

[darebo]

Thanks, this is great video, and I'll start to practice these drills today! One question: I've seen you say elsewhere (I think on the video with the 5 beginner freestyle drills), that the elbow should always be the highest point of the arm through every arm position of the freestyle stroke. On this video, you speak of stretching the arm out straight in front before the turn/bend of the elbow that begins the catch. This seems to contradict the instruction in the video I referenced. Can you help me reconcile the two? Thanks!

[sathishas.]

Excellent video, cristal clear explanation, we need more videos like this.