When I swim breaststroke, I use the outsweep and insweep type of pull. I don't focus on pulling back at all. I read it somewhere that you should also focus on pulling back. WHen I tried doing that, my hands got stuck and my timing is off. Anyone has any thoughts?
Also, how wide should you pull? I sweep out to 12-15 inches outside my shoulder width, anchor my hands, then start insweep? I am concerned it might be too wide. When I tried anchoring my hands narrower, I don't feel as powerful of an insweep.
Thanks.
Kirk,you are right. The curved air foil is a crude analogy. You are also right that lift isn't the best word to use in these discussions(and it's use contributes to many misconceptions) but it seems to be stuck in the swimming literature. Thanks for helping to set us straight. For a totally different(and at times nearly incomprehensible) theory of swimming propulsion see Cecil Colwin"s book"Swimming into the Twenty First Century"
Kirk,you are right. The curved air foil is a crude analogy. You are also right that lift isn't the best word to use in these discussions(and it's use contributes to many misconceptions) but it seems to be stuck in the swimming literature. Thanks for helping to set us straight. For a totally different(and at times nearly incomprehensible) theory of swimming propulsion see Cecil Colwin"s book"Swimming into the Twenty First Century"
