Freestyle High-Elbow Catch

Coach's take: Sharp, original catch coaching.

Coach's take: In-depth, honest, genuinely useful catch coaching.

Coach's take: Top-tier: clears up the dropped-elbow myth with a simple fingertips-below-wrist-below-elbow cue and real analysis.

Coach's take: Root-cause clear, great examples and drills. Excellent.

Coach's take: Kills the surface-elbow myth and teaches the real thing well.

Coach's take: Strong, injury-aware catch analysis. Credible.

Coach's take: Clear quick cue; short, just a seed not the full lesson.

Coach's take: Deep and credible, but meandering and plug-heavy.

Coach's take: Right idea, but feels half-finished.

Coach's take: Proper progression with rehearsal then pool work and the right cues (hold with lats/core, do not drop the elbow); only part 1 of the series.

Coach's take: Sound cue and self-correction drill; rambly intro.

Coach's take: Genuinely useful catch drill and cueing — just sit through the clinic plug first.

Coach's take: Clear why-it-matters with freeze-frames (catch keeps your line; shoulder-pull bounces you), but light on how-to drills.

Coach's take: Nuanced teardown linking catch to rotation and timing. Good.

Coach's take: Useful dryland fix for a stuck catch.

Coach's take: Credible flexibility self-test with clear targets, but it diagnoses the limiter rather than teaching the catch, and finishes on a product plug.

Coach's take: Good mental model (kickboard/propeller lift) but it is mid-podcast audio with no visuals - concept over coachable reps.

Coach's take: Strong drills, light on catch.

Coach's take: Strong drills, light on catch.

Coach's take: Right cue (internal rotation to keep the elbow up) but it is a single throwaway tip buried in unrelated training talk.