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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Hi Wayne,
Very interesting remarks. I am back into swimming for about a year now (breaststroke is my main stroke), after a 20 year break. First 6 months I made great progress (as you would expect:)), but since then hardly any, even though I am leaner, stronger and fitter. I am struggling with the breaststroke technique, and getting conflicting advice from the coaches.
- You say Dave Denniston sculls too much, he should pull more. I am told that 'breaststroke pull is not pulling back, but sculling'. Can you explain what you mean by 'pulling more' and how that relates to the width of the pull.
- When I do a wall kick, my kick feels powerfull, but I find this very hard to do when doing the full stroke. My feet sometimes even break the surface. Any advice on how to improve this?
All the best,
Robert
