What's your opinion on best swim of all time ?
It probably won’t be a swim prior to the 70's.
I use to think that the best swim of all time would be a medley however I'm starting to change my tune on this.
For me now I think the truly finest swim would be a freestyle event...i.e Freestyle is more important than the strokes because it's unique.
Matt:
What I meant to say was the % of time drop that Michael would have to do compared to Gary Hall way back when. I believe as you get lower in minutes and seconds that time drops of like 8 to 10 seconds are much more impressive and harder because you are going lower and there is not that much time left in comparrison to the total time.
An example is if someone went 3:33.00 or 3:30 or under in the 400 Meter Free breaking Ian Thorpe's record by 10 seconds or under that would be incredible and similar to what your saying about the 400 IM. If you look at the history of the 400 Meter Free World Record there has not been a drop like that since Johnny Weissmuller from the 1920's. Tim Shaw dropped 5 seconds from the record in the 1970's and that is the biggest drop in that event in a long time. I think has records get harder in the future big time drops will be harder to get and if they come they will be more impressive that the drops done in the past.
That is why this year at the 2066 NCAA Championships everyone was impressed by Simon Burnett's time in the 200 Free of 1:31 because he broke the record by a full second and no one has done that in a long time and the % is greater because it has a base of 92 seconds.
Matt:
What I meant to say was the % of time drop that Michael would have to do compared to Gary Hall way back when. I believe as you get lower in minutes and seconds that time drops of like 8 to 10 seconds are much more impressive and harder because you are going lower and there is not that much time left in comparrison to the total time.
An example is if someone went 3:33.00 or 3:30 or under in the 400 Meter Free breaking Ian Thorpe's record by 10 seconds or under that would be incredible and similar to what your saying about the 400 IM. If you look at the history of the 400 Meter Free World Record there has not been a drop like that since Johnny Weissmuller from the 1920's. Tim Shaw dropped 5 seconds from the record in the 1970's and that is the biggest drop in that event in a long time. I think has records get harder in the future big time drops will be harder to get and if they come they will be more impressive that the drops done in the past.
That is why this year at the 2066 NCAA Championships everyone was impressed by Simon Burnett's time in the 200 Free of 1:31 because he broke the record by a full second and no one has done that in a long time and the % is greater because it has a base of 92 seconds.
