When considering the overall speed of swimmers in the past and present it seems that although times are still dropping for swim events there is a "dropping off"graphically of time improvement..now do you think this could mean that there will be an ultimate saturated speed time that will never get beat?i think that unless we evolve say webbed feet or the like then this is possible....thoughts?
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To be serious about this, butterfly may eventually overtake freestyle as the fastest stroke, what hinders it is the two hand touch rule. The start hurts backstroke, is there one single reason to start in the water? Is there a real reason for two handed touch in fly and breaststroke? Remember freestyle used to have to touch with the hand.
Some World Records Long Course are not up to pare in my opinion. Women have dropped from 56 to 53 in the 100, yet the 200 has not dropped as much. The womens 100 back is slow.
Mens 100 *** could be in the 58's instead of the high 59's.
Look at how much the mens 200 and 400 IM's have dropped by just one still very young american. He is still learning the breaststroke leg:p
The mens back stroke could be 1-2 seconds faster.
I think eventually we will get a swimmer like Edward Moses in track, he ran as fast as he could as far as he could, gradually building up so he could sprint the whole 400 hurdles.
Eventually some male freestyler will go out in 21 high and come back in 24 low for a 45 100meter freestyle.
The butterfly may see a 49 this year or next, hope it is Crocker!
To be serious about this, butterfly may eventually overtake freestyle as the fastest stroke, what hinders it is the two hand touch rule. The start hurts backstroke, is there one single reason to start in the water? Is there a real reason for two handed touch in fly and breaststroke? Remember freestyle used to have to touch with the hand.
Some World Records Long Course are not up to pare in my opinion. Women have dropped from 56 to 53 in the 100, yet the 200 has not dropped as much. The womens 100 back is slow.
Mens 100 *** could be in the 58's instead of the high 59's.
Look at how much the mens 200 and 400 IM's have dropped by just one still very young american. He is still learning the breaststroke leg:p
The mens back stroke could be 1-2 seconds faster.
I think eventually we will get a swimmer like Edward Moses in track, he ran as fast as he could as far as he could, gradually building up so he could sprint the whole 400 hurdles.
Eventually some male freestyler will go out in 21 high and come back in 24 low for a 45 100meter freestyle.
The butterfly may see a 49 this year or next, hope it is Crocker!
