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
Hard to argue with the world record holder, but it seems to me like skimming the water would create resistance... Why not keep them just below the surface? What am I missing?
Water creates much more resistance than air. Recovering your hands over the water will slow you down much less than recovering them underwater. The fact at least part of the arm must remain underwater at all times during breaststroke is the primary reason it is the slowest competitive swimming stroke.
Hard to argue with the world record holder, but it seems to me like skimming the water would create resistance... Why not keep them just below the surface? What am I missing?
Water creates much more resistance than air. Recovering your hands over the water will slow you down much less than recovering them underwater. The fact at least part of the arm must remain underwater at all times during breaststroke is the primary reason it is the slowest competitive swimming stroke.
