When watching elite sprinters like Dressel rotate, the motion looks full-body — but it's actually upper-body only. Hips stay still, shoulders stay close to the head, and all the rotation lives in the shoulder joint. Most swimmers waste energy rotating from the hips, which breaks streamline and slows the stroke. The illusion of whole-body rotation is created by isolated shoulder rotation done at high speed.
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