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: .
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I completely agree with this. When we were kids, I think survival mode kicked in... and sooner or later you figured out a way to swim more efficiently in an effort to minimize the suffering.
originally posted by Quicksilver
I like the way you mentioned the suffering aspect there...LOL!! You are absolutely right about that....We were forced to develop better technique and energy efficiency in our strokes just to survive the daily onslaught of grueling workouts! It was an interesting philosophy of our agegroup coaches back then.....Survival of the fittest kind of approach (very Darwinistic ...LOL!). Kind of a cruel way of accomplishing a goal though IMO!
Newmastersswimmer
I completely agree with this. When we were kids, I think survival mode kicked in... and sooner or later you figured out a way to swim more efficiently in an effort to minimize the suffering.
originally posted by Quicksilver
I like the way you mentioned the suffering aspect there...LOL!! You are absolutely right about that....We were forced to develop better technique and energy efficiency in our strokes just to survive the daily onslaught of grueling workouts! It was an interesting philosophy of our agegroup coaches back then.....Survival of the fittest kind of approach (very Darwinistic ...LOL!). Kind of a cruel way of accomplishing a goal though IMO!
Newmastersswimmer
