Five Fast Facts: 50 *** is the title of an article in the latest January 2007 USMS Swimmer magazine, page 10. This is under training and technique.
I normally like the USMS Swimmer magazine, but has anyone else but me been truly upset by such garbage!
They wasted 35 words saying that you have to surface before 15 meters!!!!!
Obviously the writer knew NOTHING about breaststroke, NO SUCH RULE exists for breaststroke.
Then they waste more space with " a scissor kick is illegal in competition.
And "the best *** swimmers spend more than half the race underwater is also JUST WRONG. That may be true in the 200 sc yards or meters, but not the 50 ***.
I am sorry to offend anyone, including the writer, but you should have checked your sources, there are many that could have put together MUCH better tips. It would have taken 10 seconds to email a masters breaststroker to confirn the information.:dedhorse:
I invite people like Allen Stark, Jeff Commings, Seth Van Neerden, Roque J Santos, David M Guthrie, Jack Groselle etc. to come up with 5 fast facts and tips for the 50 ***.
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Also I believe that a sprint breaststroker should use the 2 handed grab start, not the track start. That is what Oleg uses, as well as most European breaststrokers.Ed Moses set the long course WR in the 50 meter *** with a 27.39 from the U.S. nationals in March 2001. It is now over a second faster!
Is there anyway to download videos from youtube?
He still get his head in very good position for some streamlining, has a fast turn, and even though others may touch with him at the 25 meters, he comes up after the underwater first by over a foot.
I grab...the track feels odd to me. I wish I could turn like Oleg though.
So Wayne you think some head movement is not a bad thing in the 50? Is that because of the speed. I've been trying to get my 50 stroke to be like my 100 and 200. Should I be more muscle on the 50?
Why are neither you or Allen on the East coast...damn....if I didn't hate flying I'd invest in a trip for some pool time.
Rich
Also I believe that a sprint breaststroker should use the 2 handed grab start, not the track start. That is what Oleg uses, as well as most European breaststrokers.Ed Moses set the long course WR in the 50 meter *** with a 27.39 from the U.S. nationals in March 2001. It is now over a second faster!
Is there anyway to download videos from youtube?
He still get his head in very good position for some streamlining, has a fast turn, and even though others may touch with him at the 25 meters, he comes up after the underwater first by over a foot.
I grab...the track feels odd to me. I wish I could turn like Oleg though.
So Wayne you think some head movement is not a bad thing in the 50? Is that because of the speed. I've been trying to get my 50 stroke to be like my 100 and 200. Should I be more muscle on the 50?
Why are neither you or Allen on the East coast...damn....if I didn't hate flying I'd invest in a trip for some pool time.
Rich
