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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Wings and beer, I will catch a flight now.
It is the little things that make for good breaststroke.
Like how you hold your streamline, how you place your hands during the streamline, where your arms are in relation to your ears.
The modern streamline is worth at least one yard, for free each and every length.
The arms are behind the ears, back behind the head. The hands are NOT side by side and are not one on top of the other. Something simple like locking the thump of the top hand over the other hand can be worth several feet distance:D
How deep you push off can make a huge difference, if there is any ripple at the surface, you are loosing several potential feet of distance. The bigger you are the deaper you have to go.
Wings and beer, I will catch a flight now.
It is the little things that make for good breaststroke.
Like how you hold your streamline, how you place your hands during the streamline, where your arms are in relation to your ears.
The modern streamline is worth at least one yard, for free each and every length.
The arms are behind the ears, back behind the head. The hands are NOT side by side and are not one on top of the other. Something simple like locking the thump of the top hand over the other hand can be worth several feet distance:D
How deep you push off can make a huge difference, if there is any ripple at the surface, you are loosing several potential feet of distance. The bigger you are the deaper you have to go.
