Now I will stir the pot, everyone should have the latest Swim magazine, with the great woman breaststroker from San Diego. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, well several photos are showing her doing the breathing and pull wrong, again in my opinion. She is coming up way high and the head and eyes are looking down the pool. I call that swimming like a woman, or Amanda Beards old style. Even Brandon mentions he tries to get her to look down.
More and more women now swim breaststroke like the men, head down at all times and not coming up very high. Remember for every inch the head comes up the hips will sink two inches. I went to a development meet in November, the young hot shots. Only one girl in the entire group swam with a high head position.
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This will be a real interesting year for swimmming. There will be a lot of world records broken in trials and the Olympics. In my opinion all the mens breaststroke records are soft. It may take a 58 and 2:07+ to win the mens gold. The women have developed the speed they need this last year. A 1:04 and 2:20+ is possible.
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I make all my swimmers swim the wave style breaststroke for full lengths underwater, exactly as if they were on the surface. They are really fast.
Actually the fastest underwater stroke would be if you were allowed to just kick to the surface, but the rules require a pull down first.
I have modified the pulldown by doing a regular wave pull underwater and then a kick to the surface. That mens the hands only come to the front of the face and then forwards. Also it is important to have a narrow kick to the surface. A wide kick causes too much de-acceleration. A narrow kick keeps the speed underwater up and gets you to the surface faster with more total speed.
Cynthia, I hope you are at least putting your head down. You don't have to do the wave to take advantage of the rules.
When my swimmers are keeping their heads up too much, I make them swim like we had to do in the 60's and 70's, head always up. They hate it, calling it cruel and inhumane punishment:D
I make all my swimmers swim the wave style breaststroke for full lengths underwater, exactly as if they were on the surface. They are really fast.
Actually the fastest underwater stroke would be if you were allowed to just kick to the surface, but the rules require a pull down first.
I have modified the pulldown by doing a regular wave pull underwater and then a kick to the surface. That mens the hands only come to the front of the face and then forwards. Also it is important to have a narrow kick to the surface. A wide kick causes too much de-acceleration. A narrow kick keeps the speed underwater up and gets you to the surface faster with more total speed.
Cynthia, I hope you are at least putting your head down. You don't have to do the wave to take advantage of the rules.
When my swimmers are keeping their heads up too much, I make them swim like we had to do in the 60's and 70's, head always up. They hate it, calling it cruel and inhumane punishment:D
