The Fastest Age

Maglischo has a nice discussion of the catch-up style, which he discourages because of the loss of forward velocity. He does advocate front quadrant swimming, but points out that this simply means that both hands are in the front quadrant at the same time (and thus can be up to 180 degrees apart). I thought that anchoring was more a figure of speech, although I did read in TI that your arms/shoulders are much less important than your core muscles (which I still find hard to believe). Is Ion at a relative disadvantage compared to lifelong swimmers? I have no doubt that he (and other late starters) are. There are probably multiple reasons why. Does it matter? To Ion it does, because he wants to excel.

Maglischo has a nice discussion of the catch-up style, which he discourages because of the loss of forward velocity. He does advocate front quadrant swimming, but points out that this simply means that both hands are in the front quadrant at the same time (and thus can be up to 180 degrees apart). I thought that anchoring was more a figure of speech, although I did read in TI that your arms/shoulders are much less important than your core muscles (which I still find hard to believe). Is Ion at a relative disadvantage compared to lifelong swimmers? I have no doubt that he (and other late starters) are. There are probably multiple reasons why. Does it matter? To Ion it does, because he wants to excel.