So recently my friend recorded me doing some easy laps in a 25 meter pool. I saw that my stroke was not really as good as I thought. Here is a link to it 28072011016 - YouTube (Sorry for the bad quality) . I compared my stroke to people like Cesar cielo , weber gale , Fred bousquet etc. and found out that those strokes are much superior to mine. Plz give me some tips on how to improve the stroke and make it as good as those guys.
@ Debugger : sorry dude you are totally missing the point. Aleksandre popov stroke tempo in that video is lot faster then mine. from what I measured his tempo in that 25 meter was 1.3-1.4 while mine was a lot slower of 1.9 or more and also my glide was longer then his. Anyways how about this one :
www.floswimming.org/.../183883-the-sprint-free-stroke
You will see cesar cielo filho do a 25 meters in some point in this clip with just 7 strokes and yes I can also do that by slowing down my tempo a bit more.I know for certain that I am missing the point.
So are you trying to swim like the elites do when they are drilling, not racing? All you've stated is that you want to swim like Mr X, Mr. Y and Mr. Z. Sounds like you want to swim perfectly at less than race pace. This is essentially what Popov did in his training and then ramped up the stroke rate. Look at Popov's stroke- it has the same mechanics if you look at the first clip (slow) and the second clip (maybe 100 pace). With him at least, stroke rate is meaningless.
But if stroke rate is so important to you in mimicking the elites, here are some stats from the 2008 Olympic games (Salo, 2008):
50m free stroke rate for top 8: 1.03sec/cycle
100m free stroke rate for top 8: 1.17sec/cycle
200m free stroke rate for top 8: 1.29sec/cycle
1500m free stroke rate for top 8: 1.46sec/cycle
Again, I'm not sure if I'm understanding what your question is, so maybe some clarification is nessecary. Good luck.
@ Debugger : sorry dude you are totally missing the point. Aleksandre popov stroke tempo in that video is lot faster then mine. from what I measured his tempo in that 25 meter was 1.3-1.4 while mine was a lot slower of 1.9 or more and also my glide was longer then his. Anyways how about this one :
www.floswimming.org/.../183883-the-sprint-free-stroke
You will see cesar cielo filho do a 25 meters in some point in this clip with just 7 strokes and yes I can also do that by slowing down my tempo a bit more.I know for certain that I am missing the point.
So are you trying to swim like the elites do when they are drilling, not racing? All you've stated is that you want to swim like Mr X, Mr. Y and Mr. Z. Sounds like you want to swim perfectly at less than race pace. This is essentially what Popov did in his training and then ramped up the stroke rate. Look at Popov's stroke- it has the same mechanics if you look at the first clip (slow) and the second clip (maybe 100 pace). With him at least, stroke rate is meaningless.
But if stroke rate is so important to you in mimicking the elites, here are some stats from the 2008 Olympic games (Salo, 2008):
50m free stroke rate for top 8: 1.03sec/cycle
100m free stroke rate for top 8: 1.17sec/cycle
200m free stroke rate for top 8: 1.29sec/cycle
1500m free stroke rate for top 8: 1.46sec/cycle
Again, I'm not sure if I'm understanding what your question is, so maybe some clarification is nessecary. Good luck.
