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.
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Phil,
Have you had a good coach work with you on your breaststroke? Do you work on the breaststroke underwater pulldowns? Because a good butterflyer like yourself should have a great pulldown.
When you swim a 200 yard ***, how far do you actually swim? When I am in shape and feeling good, I swim breaststroke 80 to 90 yards out of a 200 ***. The rest is the start and 7 turns, and those LONG pulldowns.
A 2:08 flyer should be about 2:30 more or less 200 ***.
Phil,
Have you had a good coach work with you on your breaststroke? Do you work on the breaststroke underwater pulldowns? Because a good butterflyer like yourself should have a great pulldown.
When you swim a 200 yard ***, how far do you actually swim? When I am in shape and feeling good, I swim breaststroke 80 to 90 yards out of a 200 ***. The rest is the start and 7 turns, and those LONG pulldowns.
A 2:08 flyer should be about 2:30 more or less 200 ***.
