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
I now note that it's a dead heat: if you add left-left and right-right, it totals 40 percent--same as the discordant left-right and right-left tally.
In terms of switching the rotation of the flip turn, I think this would be even harder to do than becoming completely comfortable with bilateral breathing.
Swimming seems like such a simple sport in many ways, but there are an awful lot of physiological quirks and complexities, eh?
I now note that it's a dead heat: if you add left-left and right-right, it totals 40 percent--same as the discordant left-right and right-left tally.
In terms of switching the rotation of the flip turn, I think this would be even harder to do than becoming completely comfortable with bilateral breathing.
Swimming seems like such a simple sport in many ways, but there are an awful lot of physiological quirks and complexities, eh?
