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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Regarding the statement below made by Wayne:
"I have modified the pulldown by doing a regular wave pull underwater and then a kick to the surface. That means 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."
If I read this correctly,
1. After a turn or a dive, your swimmers do a mini-outsweep and insweep and put the arms forward instead of to the side of the body.
2. Kick to the surface and do another pull to start the stroke.
Is this legal? According to the rules, it appears to be. Wayne, you are ahead of your time :-) It makes a lot of sense to me, definitely minimizes the drag.
Regarding the statement below made by Wayne:
"I have modified the pulldown by doing a regular wave pull underwater and then a kick to the surface. That means 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."
If I read this correctly,
1. After a turn or a dive, your swimmers do a mini-outsweep and insweep and put the arms forward instead of to the side of the body.
2. Kick to the surface and do another pull to start the stroke.
Is this legal? According to the rules, it appears to be. Wayne, you are ahead of your time :-) It makes a lot of sense to me, definitely minimizes the drag.
