What stroke are you best at? (not necessarily favorite)
Former Member
Note: This poll is not about your "favorite stroke", for which there is already a thread, although for many the two coincide. I think this should be a more interesting aspect, technique-wise.
... but there is one truth in my swimming that will never change -- breaststroke will always be, by far, my weakest stroke. That is, until Mr. Salnikov has his way with the stroke and I can do 60% of it all underwater SDK (swimswam.com/.../).
I can't believe backstroke is in the lead! So many masters seem to grumble about it.
I will be over the moon if the breaststroke rule is changed for the start! But I thought Salnikov's comments were very ambiguous. What does he mean that 2-3 would be the maximum kicks one might take? That only makes sense if there were a 15 m rule in breaststroke, which there isn't and there was no explicit suggestion that such a rule would be added. Without a 15 meter rule, you could take 10+ dolphin kicks to the 15 m mark and then do a *** pullout. I don't see why you'd eliminate a pullout unless you were worried about oxygen. If they did impose a 15 meter rule, then yeah I'd skip the pullout and just kick to the 15 m mark.
Another article on same: www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/.../33586.asp
... but there is one truth in my swimming that will never change -- breaststroke will always be, by far, my weakest stroke. That is, until Mr. Salnikov has his way with the stroke and I can do 60% of it all underwater SDK (swimswam.com/.../).
I can't believe backstroke is in the lead! So many masters seem to grumble about it.
I will be over the moon if the breaststroke rule is changed for the start! But I thought Salnikov's comments were very ambiguous. What does he mean that 2-3 would be the maximum kicks one might take? That only makes sense if there were a 15 m rule in breaststroke, which there isn't and there was no explicit suggestion that such a rule would be added. Without a 15 meter rule, you could take 10+ dolphin kicks to the 15 m mark and then do a *** pullout. I don't see why you'd eliminate a pullout unless you were worried about oxygen. If they did impose a 15 meter rule, then yeah I'd skip the pullout and just kick to the 15 m mark.
Another article on same: www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/.../33586.asp
