The Fastest Age

I won't address all the nonsense above, just this one below: Originally posted by mattson ... Let's say we have two 50 year olds. The first started swimming at age 30, and has been swimming to the present. The second swam for four years in high school, stopped swimming, and only started again last year. Are you saying that the first person, with twenty years of swimming experience, is at a disadvantage compared to the person who only swam 5 years (total)? Obviously I am closer to the person with twenty years of experience, at seventeen years of experience. I think that I am faster than over 90% of the Masters Swimmers in U.S. (i.e.: less than 4,000 are faster than me), many who have been swimming in high school, because of my training quality. The ones that are faster than me and that I don't overtake were also swimming in high school at a high level that they developed then -not later, according to me speaking to many, not all of them but anough to generalize- and kept to a degree. As for the front quadrant in Total Immersion, read in page 47: "...One hand doesn't start until the other one's nearly back...". You got your near 0 degrees apart, righ here. In 'Swimming Dynamics' by Colwin in page 176, it reads: "...When Kieren sprints (i.e.: Kieren Perkins (Aus.), the second fastest 1500 freestyler in history) ... he retards his timing by bringing the pulling hand further back before the other hand enters. When his hand enters, his left hand will be level with his shoulder..." You got your near 180 degrees apart of the rotary stroke, right here in Kieren Perkins' sprinting -who went 50 seconds in 100 free in the early 90s-. (I gave Perkins' example one and a half years ago, but you didn't learn it.) Also read and look at the images shown in page 16 of the Swimming Technique of April-June 2003, 'Overlapping and Rotary Strokes' by Colwin.

I won't address all the nonsense above, just this one below: Originally posted by mattson ... Let's say we have two 50 year olds. The first started swimming at age 30, and has been swimming to the present. The second swam for four years in high school, stopped swimming, and only started again last year. Are you saying that the first person, with twenty years of swimming experience, is at a disadvantage compared to the person who only swam 5 years (total)? Obviously I am closer to the person with twenty years of experience, at seventeen years of experience. I think that I am faster than over 90% of the Masters Swimmers in U.S. (i.e.: less than 4,000 are faster than me), many who have been swimming in high school, because of my training quality. The ones that are faster than me and that I don't overtake were also swimming in high school at a high level that they developed then -not later, according to me speaking to many, not all of them but anough to generalize- and kept to a degree. As for the front quadrant in Total Immersion, read in page 47: "...One hand doesn't start until the other one's nearly back...". You got your near 0 degrees apart, righ here. In 'Swimming Dynamics' by Colwin in page 176, it reads: "...When Kieren sprints (i.e.: Kieren Perkins (Aus.), the second fastest 1500 freestyler in history) ... he retards his timing by bringing the pulling hand further back before the other hand enters. When his hand enters, his left hand will be level with his shoulder..." You got your near 180 degrees apart of the rotary stroke, right here in Kieren Perkins' sprinting -who went 50 seconds in 100 free in the early 90s-. (I gave Perkins' example one and a half years ago, but you didn't learn it.) Also read and look at the images shown in page 16 of the Swimming Technique of April-June 2003, 'Overlapping and Rotary Strokes' by Colwin.