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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....Well, that brings up another important difference between butterfly and breaststroke: In butterfly, you recover your arms over the water; in breaststroke, you have to recover them under the water. Again, part of your body is moving contrary to the flow of the water moving past you. Because of this, you can do a great pulldown and then lose all of your momentum when you recover your arms forward. And the same thing can happen with your arm stroke.
That kills me too. I feel like I have a decent pull down. I come off a wall and pass freestylers in the lane next to me when we were even at the wall. Then, I recover my hands to start my first stroke and its like slamming on the brakes.:( :mad:
....Well, that brings up another important difference between butterfly and breaststroke: In butterfly, you recover your arms over the water; in breaststroke, you have to recover them under the water. Again, part of your body is moving contrary to the flow of the water moving past you. Because of this, you can do a great pulldown and then lose all of your momentum when you recover your arms forward. And the same thing can happen with your arm stroke.
That kills me too. I feel like I have a decent pull down. I come off a wall and pass freestylers in the lane next to me when we were even at the wall. Then, I recover my hands to start my first stroke and its like slamming on the brakes.:( :mad:
