When I swam in HS 27yrs ago, girls my age were swimming 100yd free in just under 59.0. Now I look at HS times and I'm blown away on how fast they are swimming and at younger ages.
What has changed?
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Technique wins out in comparison to what we were doing thirty years ago.
Have a look at this clip of Mark Spitz for example. (His start is nearly a perfect belly flop.) The whole bunch of them for that matter create a mini tsunami in unison.
We don't teach any of our kids stuff that was promoted back in the 70's. Lots of underwater "swimming"....hand over hand...squeeze the ears with the biceps.
Big difference. I've high school got kids who can darn near kick a 100 yds dolphin in a minute.
video.google.com/videoplay
Technique wins out in comparison to what we were doing thirty years ago.
Have a look at this clip of Mark Spitz for example. (His start is nearly a perfect belly flop.) The whole bunch of them for that matter create a mini tsunami in unison.
We don't teach any of our kids stuff that was promoted back in the 70's. Lots of underwater "swimming"....hand over hand...squeeze the ears with the biceps.
Big difference. I've high school got kids who can darn near kick a 100 yds dolphin in a minute.
video.google.com/videoplay
