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.
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Ian,
My normal race pull out to when my head breaks the surface is 13-15 yards in the 200 breaststroke. I will continue to use the old, long pulldown for the 200. Once in a while I can get 20 yards from the start.
My normal race pull out to when my head breaks the surface is 11-12 yards in the 50 breaststroke. Using the *** scull pullout technique I loose 0.5 yards. But to the 15 yard mark I am about 0.5 seconds faster.:D That is a lot to cut. I do end up with one more complete stroke per length, but I will take the time off. When I am in shape I can do 12.6 for 25 yards from a dive, using the conventional pulldown. I hope to get that down to 12.3 this year.
My big problem was at no time in the last year have I been in shape. The most I swam in any one month was 5 workouts. There were 6 months with no workouts. It looks like I made top 10 in LCM last year with no workouts for 3 months, I just showed up at a meet and swam.:p But I never lose technique for the start, underwater stroke and the stroke itself. But I also slow down real fast. My 100 times are 10 seconds slower than what my 50 times would indicate. The 200 times were worse.
Bottom line you have to work out even for the 50 ***!
Ian,
My normal race pull out to when my head breaks the surface is 13-15 yards in the 200 breaststroke. I will continue to use the old, long pulldown for the 200. Once in a while I can get 20 yards from the start.
My normal race pull out to when my head breaks the surface is 11-12 yards in the 50 breaststroke. Using the *** scull pullout technique I loose 0.5 yards. But to the 15 yard mark I am about 0.5 seconds faster.:D That is a lot to cut. I do end up with one more complete stroke per length, but I will take the time off. When I am in shape I can do 12.6 for 25 yards from a dive, using the conventional pulldown. I hope to get that down to 12.3 this year.
My big problem was at no time in the last year have I been in shape. The most I swam in any one month was 5 workouts. There were 6 months with no workouts. It looks like I made top 10 in LCM last year with no workouts for 3 months, I just showed up at a meet and swam.:p But I never lose technique for the start, underwater stroke and the stroke itself. But I also slow down real fast. My 100 times are 10 seconds slower than what my 50 times would indicate. The 200 times were worse.
Bottom line you have to work out even for the 50 ***!
