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 have had coaches from other countries tell me that it wasn't a dolphin kick, and that Bossinni was repositioning his legs for the turn.
Let me tell you as a life long breaststroker, where Kitajima took his dolphin kick was calculated and deliberate. In no way was it due to the pulldown. It is much easier to remain streamlined than to carefully sneak the feet up in order to do dolpin at exactly the correct point to get maximum thrust.
And Bossinni was way too far away from the wall for his dolphin to be part of the turn.
For coaches, the actual turns of Kitajima and Hanson are textbook, just don't show the dolphin kick on the 100 ***.
For years Ed Moses had the fastest times for breaststroke turns, that is 5 meters into and out of the turns. He was between 0.3 and 1.0 seconds faster! But Kitajima caught him in turn speed in 2001 and became faster than ed from 2002-present.
This is something all masters swimmers can inprove on. I have a video of myself touching at the 25 yd of the 50 yd *** at nationals at DeAnza. I touched in front of everyone, but came up almost a yard behind after the pullout. I got third but swore I would never loose another turn! Every turn in practice is a race turn, always looking for perfection.
It is a great way to get respect from freestylers when you can beat their flip turn and come up a body length or more ahead after the pulldown:D
I have had coaches from other countries tell me that it wasn't a dolphin kick, and that Bossinni was repositioning his legs for the turn.
Let me tell you as a life long breaststroker, where Kitajima took his dolphin kick was calculated and deliberate. In no way was it due to the pulldown. It is much easier to remain streamlined than to carefully sneak the feet up in order to do dolpin at exactly the correct point to get maximum thrust.
And Bossinni was way too far away from the wall for his dolphin to be part of the turn.
For coaches, the actual turns of Kitajima and Hanson are textbook, just don't show the dolphin kick on the 100 ***.
For years Ed Moses had the fastest times for breaststroke turns, that is 5 meters into and out of the turns. He was between 0.3 and 1.0 seconds faster! But Kitajima caught him in turn speed in 2001 and became faster than ed from 2002-present.
This is something all masters swimmers can inprove on. I have a video of myself touching at the 25 yd of the 50 yd *** at nationals at DeAnza. I touched in front of everyone, but came up almost a yard behind after the pullout. I got third but swore I would never loose another turn! Every turn in practice is a race turn, always looking for perfection.
It is a great way to get respect from freestylers when you can beat their flip turn and come up a body length or more ahead after the pulldown:D
