After the I.M. thread and watching my daughter at her meet I got to wondering if being good at certain strokes has anything to do with heredity. If you read the I.M. thread you know that I am terrible at the breaststroke. Today my daughter had to do the 100 I.M. She was second after the fly and doing the backstroke. She had at least a 1/4 of a pool length on the two swimmers behind her. All the parents around me were commenting on how good she looked. I told them to wait and see what happens on the breaststroke. What do you know the two swimmers behind her caught her and past her on the breaststroke. She dropped down to fourth place. Is she destined to be a terrible breaststroker like me? Keep in mind that she has always done lessons at the Y and not with me.
It probably is body type somewhat. I was swimming with DD in her age group practice one day. We started doing a fly set, and the coach started chuckling. She said we both did it exactly the same way! We both have best strokes of free and ***, and cannot backstroke to save ourselves! DS is a flier and backstroker...he has those broad shoulders, although he is not bowlegged.
I have seen a lot of good freestylers be long torsoed, and short legged.
It probably is body type somewhat. I was swimming with DD in her age group practice one day. We started doing a fly set, and the coach started chuckling. She said we both did it exactly the same way! We both have best strokes of free and ***, and cannot backstroke to save ourselves! DS is a flier and backstroker...he has those broad shoulders, although he is not bowlegged.
I have seen a lot of good freestylers be long torsoed, and short legged.
