I'm back at school now and it feels so much better swimming at my schools pool than at my local Y becasuse my school pool has a 13 feet deep end. the Y is shallow, its 3 feet on one end.
Deep water is so much better than shallow water.
...he was talking to us the other day about how when you do dolphin kick off the walls/starts you create these things like little eddy's in the water that project from your kicks radius upward and downward...the farther you project these eddy's (aka the more powerful and whip like your dolphin kick is) the faster you will move...however in the shallow water, those swirls can only go as far as the bottom of the pool--which is obviously very close...so you do not get as much momentum and speed from your efforts....
According to our age group club coach, that's why they want their swimmers to dolphin on their side rather than flat on the back or belly. The only problem with this would be the possibility of rotating past vertical and getting DQ'd.
...he was talking to us the other day about how when you do dolphin kick off the walls/starts you create these things like little eddy's in the water that project from your kicks radius upward and downward...the farther you project these eddy's (aka the more powerful and whip like your dolphin kick is) the faster you will move...however in the shallow water, those swirls can only go as far as the bottom of the pool--which is obviously very close...so you do not get as much momentum and speed from your efforts....
According to our age group club coach, that's why they want their swimmers to dolphin on their side rather than flat on the back or belly. The only problem with this would be the possibility of rotating past vertical and getting DQ'd.
