I was wondering if being tall gives you an advantage in swimming because alot of the olympic male swimmers today are over 6 feet.
What do you guys think?
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Being taller gives you an advantage in the long axis strokes because longer ships are faster(hull speed.) It is not as big a factor in short axis strokes as the undulation can disturb the bow wave.Judging by who I can beat LCM but not(yet) SCY being tall is an advantage on the turns(although SDK mitigates against the height advantage in BK and Fly.) The height advantage can be overcome of course by training,technique and power.(Once you go faster than hull speed,wave drag goes up as the cube of speed,but it goes up as the square of speed for form drag so if you are stronger and more streamlined you can be short and faster.)
Being taller gives you an advantage in the long axis strokes because longer ships are faster(hull speed.) It is not as big a factor in short axis strokes as the undulation can disturb the bow wave.Judging by who I can beat LCM but not(yet) SCY being tall is an advantage on the turns(although SDK mitigates against the height advantage in BK and Fly.) The height advantage can be overcome of course by training,technique and power.(Once you go faster than hull speed,wave drag goes up as the cube of speed,but it goes up as the square of speed for form drag so if you are stronger and more streamlined you can be short and faster.)
