I am still to go to my first meet, so I was very curious about one thing: how do swimmers(pretty much everything except freestyle) watch their competitors in other lanes, especially when moving your head can do some time damage when it really matters in very tight and important competitions.Do swimmers actually sometimes not see what is going on next to them and just try to swim their best?I was watching the 200m. breaststroke final from Athens and if you pay attention to the last meters of the race it looks like Brendan Hansen was not aware of the hungarian kid(Daniel Gyurta)coming right behind him to steal his silver which he did in a very amazing waY.Hansen could have taken two short explosive strokes at the very end instead of gliding slowly with one long stroke to finish the race where he lost to the hungarian by .08 sec.
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As a vetern swimmer...
A quick turn of the head during the recovery/breath of the fly you can see who is next to you, same in *** stroke, in the backstroke, as you roll from one side to another you can see the kick of someone ahead of you, and if you are in the lead, just watching the field. However...
You shouldn't be looking, just swim your own race. If you beat your time you have a personal victory, if you are first --that's gravy!
As a vetern swimmer...
A quick turn of the head during the recovery/breath of the fly you can see who is next to you, same in *** stroke, in the backstroke, as you roll from one side to another you can see the kick of someone ahead of you, and if you are in the lead, just watching the field. However...
You shouldn't be looking, just swim your own race. If you beat your time you have a personal victory, if you are first --that's gravy!
