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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I said well past the flags. My head probably comes out 10 yards from the wall, usually. If I try for distance I can easily go past midway of a 25 yard pool. If I glide to a stop, and don't do the pulldown, I am past midway, also.
As Wayne described the stroke, the breath occurs after the start of the first stroke, not before the start of the stroke, and not on the second. That is the usual way. Not breathing until the second stroke is non-typical even amoung olympic swimmers, but I imagine it could be effective. You have to be sure your head breaks the surface before the end of the first pull, however.
I said well past the flags. My head probably comes out 10 yards from the wall, usually. If I try for distance I can easily go past midway of a 25 yard pool. If I glide to a stop, and don't do the pulldown, I am past midway, also.
As Wayne described the stroke, the breath occurs after the start of the first stroke, not before the start of the stroke, and not on the second. That is the usual way. Not breathing until the second stroke is non-typical even amoung olympic swimmers, but I imagine it could be effective. You have to be sure your head breaks the surface before the end of the first pull, however.
