The latest threads clearly reveal that the vast majority of masters swimmers wish breaststroke did not exist (except Peter, Allen, Aquafeisty, and a possiblely experimenting SCY freestyler). So why does everyone hate breaststroke? :mad:
I'll go first. I hated it when I was young because it was too slow, I never learned how to do it right, and I never learned the wave action because it didn't exist when I was young. I can't seem do get the timing right now. And I have no excuse. Unlike my shoulder, my knees are fully intact. Not sure I have the gumption or time to put in 100,000 yards for a complete overhaul on a stroke I don't swim in meets. But I'd like to be able to fake it in IMs ...
Coach Muppet suggests working on Breaststroke in practice. :thhbbb:
Sometime before SCYnats 05, an inter-team bet was made to crown the "King of the 100 IM." I knew I had no shot, but gave it a try, and that would mean I would need to improve my breaststroke. A lot of it is timing and cadence. Watch the best. Learn from them. I recall swimming most of a workout breaststroke one day (it was a short workout, SCM).
I did/do a lot of breaststroke with dolphin kick (to work on the wavy motion and a strong pull) and a lot of 1pull/2kick breastroke to get the glide and body position down.
It helped tremendously. Dropped a couple seconds (sub 1min), didn't win the bet, but impressed the breastrokers and in my animal swim, didn't lose much ground on the breaststrokers.
Vince coached again tonight (he coached last Tuesday) and would you believe that he made me swim 12 x 50 alt bk/br (by 50)?!! The nerve!! He also gave me feedback which was good. I do workout on it actually, and ask for feedback all the time.
By the way my next set was a "Heather" set of 6 x (50 fr on :45, 50 dolphin kick on back on 1:15 (it was supposed to be 1:10 but the interval just made more sense on 1:15 - I should add that I held these EASILY around :50 so it probably should have been 1:00 but whatever) and finally 50 fly on 1:00)
I thought I was going to puke in the gutter I actually laid in the tiny little gutter for the 1st 100 of the next set (a 300 pull).
Coach Muppet suggests working on Breaststroke in practice. :thhbbb:
Sometime before SCYnats 05, an inter-team bet was made to crown the "King of the 100 IM." I knew I had no shot, but gave it a try, and that would mean I would need to improve my breaststroke. A lot of it is timing and cadence. Watch the best. Learn from them. I recall swimming most of a workout breaststroke one day (it was a short workout, SCM).
I did/do a lot of breaststroke with dolphin kick (to work on the wavy motion and a strong pull) and a lot of 1pull/2kick breastroke to get the glide and body position down.
It helped tremendously. Dropped a couple seconds (sub 1min), didn't win the bet, but impressed the breastrokers and in my animal swim, didn't lose much ground on the breaststrokers.
Vince coached again tonight (he coached last Tuesday) and would you believe that he made me swim 12 x 50 alt bk/br (by 50)?!! The nerve!! He also gave me feedback which was good. I do workout on it actually, and ask for feedback all the time.
By the way my next set was a "Heather" set of 6 x (50 fr on :45, 50 dolphin kick on back on 1:15 (it was supposed to be 1:10 but the interval just made more sense on 1:15 - I should add that I held these EASILY around :50 so it probably should have been 1:00 but whatever) and finally 50 fly on 1:00)
I thought I was going to puke in the gutter I actually laid in the tiny little gutter for the 1st 100 of the next set (a 300 pull).
