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
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.
Unfortunately, I think I might be doing what you suggest, Allen. I'm also not lunging into the streamline that well due to a poor kick. Having read Nadine's comments, I think I need a narrower pull. I was experimenting with that yesterday and it seemed to help my forward momentum. The Amanda style is definitely not for me.
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.
Unfortunately, I think I might be doing what you suggest, Allen. I'm also not lunging into the streamline that well due to a poor kick. Having read Nadine's comments, I think I need a narrower pull. I was experimenting with that yesterday and it seemed to help my forward momentum. The Amanda style is definitely not for me.
