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 ***.
Also, I thought you had to come up before 15 meters on the underwater pull. From what I understood, that was a blanket rule for all strokes.
jeff, i thought the same thing. so i just checked my 2007 rules and regs (just got it in the mail and i was excited. does that make me a total geek? :D ) there is actually no rule about 15 meters in ***. it's listed in every other stroke... which is weird, cause i was definitely under the impression that the 15 meter thing was for all 4 strokes...
Also, I thought you had to come up before 15 meters on the underwater pull. From what I understood, that was a blanket rule for all strokes.
jeff, i thought the same thing. so i just checked my 2007 rules and regs (just got it in the mail and i was excited. does that make me a total geek? :D ) there is actually no rule about 15 meters in ***. it's listed in every other stroke... which is weird, cause i was definitely under the impression that the 15 meter thing was for all 4 strokes...
