The Fastest Age

Good: Originally posted by Phil Arcuni Ion, About Popov's rotary style, didn't you say that he (or someone like him) had arms 90 degrees out of phase, and isn't that the classic picture of front-quadrant swimming (one arm outstretched, the other recovering by the head?) You understand that many beginning swimmers think the arms should always be 180 degrees apart, and that these are the swimmers TI is trying to address. Now we are talking at my level. The rotary style becomes such at at least 90 degrees. TI doesn't address this, TI says to bring both arms in front (0 degrees) before one starts to pull. The border between the two styles must be somewhere, and arbitrarily is set at 90. In that issue of Swim Technique that I mention, the pictures allegedly representing Thorpe and Hackett battling in 2001 in Japan and Popov all the time, their arms are at least 120 degrees apart all the time -even at 180 degrees apart, oftentimes-.

Good: Originally posted by Phil Arcuni Ion, About Popov's rotary style, didn't you say that he (or someone like him) had arms 90 degrees out of phase, and isn't that the classic picture of front-quadrant swimming (one arm outstretched, the other recovering by the head?) You understand that many beginning swimmers think the arms should always be 180 degrees apart, and that these are the swimmers TI is trying to address. Now we are talking at my level. The rotary style becomes such at at least 90 degrees. TI doesn't address this, TI says to bring both arms in front (0 degrees) before one starts to pull. The border between the two styles must be somewhere, and arbitrarily is set at 90. In that issue of Swim Technique that I mention, the pictures allegedly representing Thorpe and Hackett battling in 2001 in Japan and Popov all the time, their arms are at least 120 degrees apart all the time -even at 180 degrees apart, oftentimes-.