I passed an instructor at our pool today who was saying to some kids learning freestyle that if they are right handed, they will most likely breathe on the right side, and left handed people breathe on the left side. I don't know if I agree, so I want to get your poll results:
I'm right handed and I breathe most naturally on my right side.
I'm left handed and I breathe most naturally on my left side.
My handedness and my most natural breathing side are opposite
I am truly ambidextrous and breathe with equal comfort on both sides
I am one side dominant, but have trained my self to be a comfortable bilateral breather
Naturally right/right, but comfortable bilateral breather now.
This whole breathing business and handedness also seem to influence directions of flip turns. I am trying to remember which direction my body angles off the wall at (left or right tilted downwards) but for some reason can't recall this. I do know that I take my first stroke wrong--you should probably use whatever arm is deeper, but I tend not to do so.
I took some lessons from a woman who swam for Wisconsin. She mentioned that her coach had changed her flip turn rotation to better match up with her first arm stroke, so there is evidently some school of thought about this. She didn't elaborate, and I didn't follow-up.
Naturally right/right, but comfortable bilateral breather now.
This whole breathing business and handedness also seem to influence directions of flip turns. I am trying to remember which direction my body angles off the wall at (left or right tilted downwards) but for some reason can't recall this. I do know that I take my first stroke wrong--you should probably use whatever arm is deeper, but I tend not to do so.
I took some lessons from a woman who swam for Wisconsin. She mentioned that her coach had changed her flip turn rotation to better match up with her first arm stroke, so there is evidently some school of thought about this. She didn't elaborate, and I didn't follow-up.
