Coaches will always tell you on the two short axis strokes of breaststroke and butterfly, never pull into a turn. Always kick into the turn. By adjusting your stroke about 5 meters out, looking at the wall, you will automatically adjust and come into the wall with all the power of the breaststroke kick.
But what if you are at the Olympics and you have misjudged the turn. Your kick has finished too far out and you have to pull into the wall. What do you do? Why cheat of course!
Check out the mpeg video called bossini2004a.mpeg at swimfastest.net/.../athens2004.html
This video of Paolo Bossini and Kitajima in heat 4 of the 200 ***, shows the start of the race, where both Bossini and Kitajima have some loose legs but not actual dolphin kicks like what Kitajima did in the 100.
What is interesting is at frames 700-731 (23.357 to 24.358 sec) which distinctly shows a downwards dolphin and eddy to push him (Bossini) into the turn faster. His kick ended at frames 653 (21.788 sec) and he is pulling into a turn, which every breaststroker knows is a no no.
So to keep himself up he dolphins into the turn.
This is how you cheat at the Olympics:mad:
Avery Lee's video processing tool VirtualDub www186.pair.com/.../index.html
This will allow you to move the slider and go frame by frame.
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I hope you don't mean cheating tools:D :D
There is great technique in these videos. Most breaststrokers and butterflyers no longer scull out and in, it is more a pull back.
The turns are so important in races. The push offs the wall on free and fly easily show that with proper streamline and some dolphin kicks you can make up as much as a meter. Phelps and Natalie do this so well.
Please note I was not the original poster of this link, although many of us have been looking at the site for over a year.
I hope you don't mean cheating tools:D :D
There is great technique in these videos. Most breaststrokers and butterflyers no longer scull out and in, it is more a pull back.
The turns are so important in races. The push offs the wall on free and fly easily show that with proper streamline and some dolphin kicks you can make up as much as a meter. Phelps and Natalie do this so well.
Please note I was not the original poster of this link, although many of us have been looking at the site for over a year.
