Kind of sad that this guy does this amazing world record and, at best, there are only a few people there to see it. A lonely sport, indeed.
On another note (no pun intended), does anyone have an idea of who the music that accompanied this is by?
-LBJ
Originally posted by fatboy
George 125 yds IS good. Were you wearing fins?
No fins but I did cheat a little maybe more then a little. Our pool had a three foot ledge separating the deep end from the shallow end. 5' deep on the shallow side , 9 ' on the other side. When I pushed off from the end of the pool I would grab the ledge and get an extra push off with my feet, 2 push offs for every 25 yards.
There was another swimmer from our club, Ted StAubin (held the Canadian record for breaststroke) who equalled the distance, I don't know if he cheated or not. I still had a headache after the underwater swim.
I notice that he did hold his breath the all 2:30 minutes that he took for the 166 meters, with out droping a single air buble, I allways let out a little bit of air every few meters when I do underwater distance diving.
I guess I was wrong on my believe.
What do you people think about it?
I like to swim an underwater 25 every now and then to work on breath capacity and control. Like Bob McAdams, I assumed that faster was better for getting there. I usually can only do them consistently at the beginning of the workout, when I'm fresh.
I was amazed by how slowly, calmly, and deliberately this guy moved.
So I tried it today at the end of the workout. Took a few deep breaths, and concentrated on going slowly and easily, working the glide. Result: No problem doing 25's, even when dog-tired.
I have no idea what this means for my swimming, but it was kind of a cool swimdown.
Our coach had us swim under water during water polo practices, our pool was 15 yards across and we did 15 of these trying to do it with one full pull underwater stroke.
