Hi all, I'm new back into swimming after taking the last 14 or so years "off". When I was last swimming, the wave style breaststroke was really just coming into its own and I never fully got it down. I'm trying to train it now but I have a question--are people still pulling their hands out of the water with each stroke? These seems like a terrible waste of effort if you're just going to push back down into a streamline... Thanks for your thoughts!
Keith
It depends on how high you come up when you breath.You want to shoot your hands forward right below your head. If you come way up like Amanda Beard your hands will be out of the water. Hansen is lower and his hands skim the surface. Liesel Jones is much lower and her hands are below the surface.The important thing is to lunge into streamline ASAP.Fort,are you accelerating your hands through out the pull.Many people accelerate the outsweep and slow at the insweep which will cause them to lose the water. A good drill is to swim breaststroke with paddles without using the loops so that only the pressure of the water holds them in place.
It depends on how high you come up when you breath.You want to shoot your hands forward right below your head. If you come way up like Amanda Beard your hands will be out of the water. Hansen is lower and his hands skim the surface. Liesel Jones is much lower and her hands are below the surface.The important thing is to lunge into streamline ASAP.Fort,are you accelerating your hands through out the pull.Many people accelerate the outsweep and slow at the insweep which will cause them to lose the water. A good drill is to swim breaststroke with paddles without using the loops so that only the pressure of the water holds them in place.
