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.
part of it is heredity
some people are just naturally better at particular strokes than than others
but a huge part of breastroke is technique and timing,
another part comes from hard breastroke training.
I'm sure if your daughter
improved her breastroke technique and
trained more breastroke
her times and ability would improve.
Maybe remarkably.
If she wants to be an good IMer
I'm sure if you had a breastroke expert observe her, he could tell your daughter what she needed to correct to swim breastroke right.
If she really wants to improve, she might benefit from watching videos of great breastrokers.
Read Waynes articles, he's broken breastroke down to a science.
http://www.breaststroke.info/
This past season I concentrated on improving my breastroke and made some great strides. I figured I could make bigger improvements in my 200 IM concentrating on my weakness (breastroke) rather than on my strengths (fly, back and free)
Good luck,
Ande
Originally posted by SWinkleblech
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.
part of it is heredity
some people are just naturally better at particular strokes than than others
but a huge part of breastroke is technique and timing,
another part comes from hard breastroke training.
I'm sure if your daughter
improved her breastroke technique and
trained more breastroke
her times and ability would improve.
Maybe remarkably.
If she wants to be an good IMer
I'm sure if you had a breastroke expert observe her, he could tell your daughter what she needed to correct to swim breastroke right.
If she really wants to improve, she might benefit from watching videos of great breastrokers.
Read Waynes articles, he's broken breastroke down to a science.
http://www.breaststroke.info/
This past season I concentrated on improving my breastroke and made some great strides. I figured I could make bigger improvements in my 200 IM concentrating on my weakness (breastroke) rather than on my strengths (fly, back and free)
Good luck,
Ande
Originally posted by SWinkleblech
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.
