Breaststroke technique

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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. Any comments? 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. Any comments?
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    I personally do not do any exercises for ankle flexibility. I can only turn my feet about 75 degrees from straight. Some can turn their feet 90 degrees from straight. Mike Barrowman and others used to sit on their ankles with the ankles turned out. I recommend sitting is a hot tub, drink some wine, then turn the ankles out:D
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  • Former Member
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    I personally do not do any exercises for ankle flexibility. I can only turn my feet about 75 degrees from straight. Some can turn their feet 90 degrees from straight. Mike Barrowman and others used to sit on their ankles with the ankles turned out. I recommend sitting is a hot tub, drink some wine, then turn the ankles out:D
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