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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Allen,
You mis-read. The 12.3 is the goal with the shortened pulldown. The 12.6 is my best.:D The real secret to this pull down is not breathing the first stroke up. Try it, you will feel much more power and carry more speed into the next breathing stroke. Allen, you have to try things in swim meets. Practice is not the same. You just might be surprised.
Do you do two turn sprints? We start as if going into a turn, swim a fifty and a reace finish. Basically the last 50 of a hundred. My best is 32.1. I have always felt my start was worth 3 seconds over a wall pushoff.
I have always had a very narrow kick. I could always kick along the pool wall without hitting the wall. But I am very concious of water resistance and streamlining during the kick. I continue to take videos underwater to make sure I keep the knees inline with the body, so not to break streamline. Videos of Barrowman, Moses etc all show a very low angle of knee bend when the feet are brought back. Poor breaststrokers have this huge bend at the waist that is the real major flaw in their strokes.
Only the feet are brought up, and that should be explosive. You want to cause as little time with this water resistance as possible. I really don't think exploding the kick back, that comes naturally. And I always snap the ankles so the heels smash together. Kitajima's coach feels that is what he does better than any other swimmer, and he feels all great breaststrokers do the ankle snap and heel crash naturally. The faster the heels are brought back to the but, the beter the kick will be.
Allen, PM me, I will send you my latest article.
I have had 6 swim workouts and 4 weight workouts this month, the most in over a year. There is still another week in this month. I was real sick at our Las Vegas meet, it has taken me two weeks to get back into the water.
Allen,
You mis-read. The 12.3 is the goal with the shortened pulldown. The 12.6 is my best.:D The real secret to this pull down is not breathing the first stroke up. Try it, you will feel much more power and carry more speed into the next breathing stroke. Allen, you have to try things in swim meets. Practice is not the same. You just might be surprised.
Do you do two turn sprints? We start as if going into a turn, swim a fifty and a reace finish. Basically the last 50 of a hundred. My best is 32.1. I have always felt my start was worth 3 seconds over a wall pushoff.
I have always had a very narrow kick. I could always kick along the pool wall without hitting the wall. But I am very concious of water resistance and streamlining during the kick. I continue to take videos underwater to make sure I keep the knees inline with the body, so not to break streamline. Videos of Barrowman, Moses etc all show a very low angle of knee bend when the feet are brought back. Poor breaststrokers have this huge bend at the waist that is the real major flaw in their strokes.
Only the feet are brought up, and that should be explosive. You want to cause as little time with this water resistance as possible. I really don't think exploding the kick back, that comes naturally. And I always snap the ankles so the heels smash together. Kitajima's coach feels that is what he does better than any other swimmer, and he feels all great breaststrokers do the ankle snap and heel crash naturally. The faster the heels are brought back to the but, the beter the kick will be.
Allen, PM me, I will send you my latest article.
I have had 6 swim workouts and 4 weight workouts this month, the most in over a year. There is still another week in this month. I was real sick at our Las Vegas meet, it has taken me two weeks to get back into the water.
