I'm looking to gain more knowledge about sprint freestyle swimming. As an long retired distance freestyler I don't have a great deal of personal knowledge of how to swim the 50 or 100 freestyle. I've coached many sprint freestylers and I know that many of the best sprinters have what I would say an amazing strategy to their sprint swims. I am currently giving private lessons to many age groupers and high school swimmers and I've been explaining to them that some of the best sprinters in the world swim their 50 or 100 with more strategy than just the plain old thought of swimming "FAST".
I would very much appreciate any of you sprinters out there who would like to share your strategies for swimming these two events. I would love to be able to pass on some of this information, but I think many of us in the masters community could learn from some of you as well. I look forward to seeing some of the responses. Maybe I will try sprinting one day (LOL):rofl: .
I'm a firm believer in "Don't think, just sprint" for the 50 free. The problem (for me) is to keep my stroke from becoming a thrash-fest. Only way to do that is to practice practice practice sprinting... with thought... at practice so you don't have to think in a race.
As for the 100, my goal is to split it exactly like Ande says... and maybe break a minute! :D Want to be able to come off that 3rd wall with a great underwater dolphin. Did anyone see Phelps kicking off the wall into the last lap of the 200 IM when he was racing Lochte at Pan Pacifics? Wow!!!
I'm a firm believer in "Don't think, just sprint" for the 50 free. The problem (for me) is to keep my stroke from becoming a thrash-fest. Only way to do that is to practice practice practice sprinting... with thought... at practice so you don't have to think in a race.
As for the 100, my goal is to split it exactly like Ande says... and maybe break a minute! :D Want to be able to come off that 3rd wall with a great underwater dolphin. Did anyone see Phelps kicking off the wall into the last lap of the 200 IM when he was racing Lochte at Pan Pacifics? Wow!!!
