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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In the very early days of the wave style some recovered their hands over the water. But all soon realized that when the hands came out of the water, it caused the hips to sink. Same relationship as the head. Most people recover the hands through the top of the water or just under the waters surface.
The new style underwater pull satisfies the rules, gives nearly the same distance, but keeps the speed at a much higher average. Most people come to a complete stop after the hands come back to the sides of the hips.:mad:
In the very early days of the wave style some recovered their hands over the water. But all soon realized that when the hands came out of the water, it caused the hips to sink. Same relationship as the head. Most people recover the hands through the top of the water or just under the waters surface.
The new style underwater pull satisfies the rules, gives nearly the same distance, but keeps the speed at a much higher average. Most people come to a complete stop after the hands come back to the sides of the hips.:mad:
