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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Amanda Beard is a mystery. I have not seen here stroke since the 2000 Olympics. She has a new coach for some time. What I really like about her is she started swimming the World Cup. eek after week swimming short course meters against the fastest women in the world. Their times are getting so fast. I call it getting race hardened. I have never bought in the theory of only swiming one or two important races a year.
Spitz could race and break world records in practicein heavy training. Ed Moses has broken records in heavy training, as many others who now swim the World cup series. I think it gives you more chances of experimenting at race speed. Plus $5000 for a win, $25,000 for a world record, and $25,000 for swimer of the meet is incentive. Two weeks ago when Moses went 2:02.92, he won $65,000 in two days. He then won $15,000 the next week.
The biggest women swimmers change is Megan Quann. She used to come real high out of the water. She now swims like a man, head down. And she is BACK!
Amanda Beard is a mystery. I have not seen here stroke since the 2000 Olympics. She has a new coach for some time. What I really like about her is she started swimming the World Cup. eek after week swimming short course meters against the fastest women in the world. Their times are getting so fast. I call it getting race hardened. I have never bought in the theory of only swiming one or two important races a year.
Spitz could race and break world records in practicein heavy training. Ed Moses has broken records in heavy training, as many others who now swim the World cup series. I think it gives you more chances of experimenting at race speed. Plus $5000 for a win, $25,000 for a world record, and $25,000 for swimer of the meet is incentive. Two weeks ago when Moses went 2:02.92, he won $65,000 in two days. He then won $15,000 the next week.
The biggest women swimmers change is Megan Quann. She used to come real high out of the water. She now swims like a man, head down. And she is BACK!
