i breath to both sides and i prefer to breath every 3 strokes even though it has always made my coaches crazy. they prefer one breath down and one back. however since i never practiced that it messed up my stroke rhythm and stuff. i have always loved the fact that summer sanders breathed every stroke when she used to swim fly.
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maybe it's just me, but isn't the slowdown due to breathing more related to techniques more than anything else? Well, I guess I see so many people in the pool that swims by themselves, and they move like a torpedo through water...until they breath....then their trunks sink, head flops, and basically, an re-enactment of some ocean liner going down the bottom of the ocean... Does this happen to atheletes when they try to sprint too? Granted their technique can be "great" when going at a decent pace, but in an all out sprint does the technique deteriorate?
...I believe I saw some clips before of Popov vs. Klim in a sprint... Popov seems to be breathing a lot less than Klim, but that doesn't mean Klim is going that much slower (ok, so maybe 0.01 seconds slower)..
maybe it's just me, but isn't the slowdown due to breathing more related to techniques more than anything else? Well, I guess I see so many people in the pool that swims by themselves, and they move like a torpedo through water...until they breath....then their trunks sink, head flops, and basically, an re-enactment of some ocean liner going down the bottom of the ocean... Does this happen to atheletes when they try to sprint too? Granted their technique can be "great" when going at a decent pace, but in an all out sprint does the technique deteriorate?
...I believe I saw some clips before of Popov vs. Klim in a sprint... Popov seems to be breathing a lot less than Klim, but that doesn't mean Klim is going that much slower (ok, so maybe 0.01 seconds slower)..
