how is this done?
the last masters national meet hosted in austin was
short course nats in 1988
ande
Originally posted by jerry clark
Hey thanks Ande, and also thanks Rob for updating Ande's post.
Ande, I'm on championship committee, and would sure like to see a bid from Texas for one of our nat'l chmpshp meets to be held there. If you'd like to contact me, you can address mail to me at jerryclark@usms.org Thanks, Jerry
Originally posted by Rob Copeland
Auburn has posted their video of Bousquet’s 50s, at:
www.auburntigers.com/.../page.cfm
He is swimming out of lane 6 in his record breaking swim.
I don't know about anyone else, but with my high speed connection here at work I couldn't watch it. The sounds were fine, but the video was really choppy and I couldn't back it up to watch the whole thing it would just reload. Of course the ad worked 100%. I also tried the non sound version but it was the same thing.
Watched the video and Bousquet looks like he gained a .2 or .3 over the field on the turn! At the flags before the turn, Cavic in lane 3 actually has the lead. At the turn Cavic, Draganja, Grevers and Bousquet (lanes 3,4,5,6) look to start the flip almost simultaneously. But Bousquet touches .2 before the other 3. He must have had tremendous abdominal tourque...unbelievable!
And then look at the push-off. Grevers (5) and Cavic (3) go for the long glide...Bousquet's first to break water and takes 2 strokes before Grevers and Cavic take one. By the time everyone is up, Bousquet has half a body length lead! What does Grevers think at this time--30 yards into a 19.40 50 and he's on Bousquet's hip?
So was this the best turn ever?
I spoke with my brother-in-law who writes computer programs for NASA and understands motion better than anyone I know. He said there is one huge flaw in thinking about using some one's bow wave. The lead swimmer is also creating a wave that is probably stronger than the person behind and would negate the force coming up to the lead swimmer.
He doesn't think that it would be possible or important. More likely, the lead swimmer would create so much backwards ppush that those following would be slowed.
Can't wait to see it on tv.
Originally posted by breastroker
Can anyone download a good mpeg of this swim and post it somewhere?
Darn, I just had it on my Tivo yesterday, but I deleted it. I didn't think to transfer it to an mpeg. It would have been a short mpeg file.:D
Originally posted by Bob McAdams
It doesn't look like a straight arm recovery to me - just a very fast arm recovery!
He took 12 strokes during the first lap, but jumped to 17 on the second, which was partly because he didn't streamline as far after the turn as he did after the start.
In my experience I always get farther on the start (off blocks) that on my push after a turn. Even if I compare a lousy start to my very best turn. I just get way more force from a block start than I ever can from a mere push off the wall.
Originally posted by jerry clark
how bout his straight arm recovery! I've not seen the results for the times of everyone in that heat, but in the 2nd video (from the side), it looked like the other 7 swimmers were all in line as they hit the end wall.
It doesn't look like a straight arm recovery to me - just a very fast arm recovery!
I agree that it looks neck and at the end of the first lap. He pulls ahead on the streamline out of the turn, but then his lead actually increases as the lap continues. He took 12 strokes during the first lap, but jumped to 17 on the second, which was partly because he didn't streamline as far after the turn as he did after the start.
