Originally posted by Ion Beza
Materially speaking swimmers don't anchor anything.
You use the term 'anchor' metaphorically.
Swimmers pull (or crawl) their body thru water.
I thought about it, and you are wrong Ion. The literal definition works.
anchored verb
Hold; To hold fast by or as if by an anchor
For an observer on the pool deck, watching an efficient swimmer (Olympic or otherwise), the hand exits the water at about the same place it goes in. (For Popov, his hand exits ahead of where it went in; for less skilled swimmers, the hand exits behind where it went in.) If the hand does not move forward or backwards relative to a fixed spot, then anchored is an acceptable and accurate phrase to use.
Originally posted by Ion Beza
Materially speaking swimmers don't anchor anything.
You use the term 'anchor' metaphorically.
Swimmers pull (or crawl) their body thru water.
I thought about it, and you are wrong Ion. The literal definition works.
anchored verb
Hold; To hold fast by or as if by an anchor
For an observer on the pool deck, watching an efficient swimmer (Olympic or otherwise), the hand exits the water at about the same place it goes in. (For Popov, his hand exits ahead of where it went in; for less skilled swimmers, the hand exits behind where it went in.) If the hand does not move forward or backwards relative to a fixed spot, then anchored is an acceptable and accurate phrase to use.
