I love LCM and dislike SCY. 50 SCY *** it'shard for me to get into a rhythm before the wall gets in the way. Also in *** the taller swimmer has an advantage on the turns. You get one pulldown,one dolphin kick and one whip kick underwater so long arms and legs can be an advantage,not to mention that with long arms they don't have to swim as far. In free the underwater phase is relatively less important than in back and fly as underwater dolphin is not significantly faster than surface free for many freestylers,therefor they take about 3 dolphins off the wall to hold the push-off speed before breaking the surface. Since the underwater part is less important,a taller freestyler will have an advantage SCY as the just don't have to swim as far,an advantage that is magnified by flip turns. The shorter swimmer can mitigate this by going further underwater and pushing off harder,but is still playing catch-up.
I love LCM and dislike SCY. 50 SCY *** it'shard for me to get into a rhythm before the wall gets in the way. Also in *** the taller swimmer has an advantage on the turns. You get one pulldown,one dolphin kick and one whip kick underwater so long arms and legs can be an advantage,not to mention that with long arms they don't have to swim as far. In free the underwater phase is relatively less important than in back and fly as underwater dolphin is not significantly faster than surface free for many freestylers,therefor they take about 3 dolphins off the wall to hold the push-off speed before breaking the surface. Since the underwater part is less important,a taller freestyler will have an advantage SCY as the just don't have to swim as far,an advantage that is magnified by flip turns. The shorter swimmer can mitigate this by going further underwater and pushing off harder,but is still playing catch-up.
