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
Anybody, or does anyone know anybody, that completely dismantled their breaststroke and started over from the beginning? I'm thinking that's what I need to do. If I go slower than 2:40 again in the 200 I'm going to scream! I used to be in the high 2:20's, low 2:30s and now a 2:40 is a good swim! My husband said, "Oh dear, you WERE a breaststroker."
As I write this he says that he'll fix it...
Help I'm being hijac....
ed.
...The other side of the story...by someone who apparently is "Sooooo fast he doesn't even have to swim to make all American..."
When Karen gets on the computer I usually go downstairs or play with the dog but I can't let this go any further. When I start getting slammed in the magazine as well as online well...
I have offered and continue to offer to work on Karen's breastSTROKE. I don't claim to be a great breaststroker. Quite the contrary but I've had a lot of good coaches make chicken salad out of chicken &*^%$ (I was just told I couldn't finish that sentence) and I thought that their input might help. It's simple, effective but not at all flashy. The offer stands....of course with some trepidation. The last time I made a suggestion to her about her swimming it was me telling her to "get tough and swim another set with me." That was about an hour before she ended up in the emergency room with meningitis. Still, maybe things will be better this time....
Fearfully, I return control of this device to her... -Pat Duggan
And now back to our regularly scheduled attacks. This time when Pat "helps" me, I'll probably give birth!
Good night all, and someone, Jeff?, please answer my original question.
Anybody, or does anyone know anybody, that completely dismantled their breaststroke and started over from the beginning? I'm thinking that's what I need to do. If I go slower than 2:40 again in the 200 I'm going to scream! I used to be in the high 2:20's, low 2:30s and now a 2:40 is a good swim! My husband said, "Oh dear, you WERE a breaststroker."
As I write this he says that he'll fix it...
Help I'm being hijac....
ed.
...The other side of the story...by someone who apparently is "Sooooo fast he doesn't even have to swim to make all American..."
When Karen gets on the computer I usually go downstairs or play with the dog but I can't let this go any further. When I start getting slammed in the magazine as well as online well...
I have offered and continue to offer to work on Karen's breastSTROKE. I don't claim to be a great breaststroker. Quite the contrary but I've had a lot of good coaches make chicken salad out of chicken &*^%$ (I was just told I couldn't finish that sentence) and I thought that their input might help. It's simple, effective but not at all flashy. The offer stands....of course with some trepidation. The last time I made a suggestion to her about her swimming it was me telling her to "get tough and swim another set with me." That was about an hour before she ended up in the emergency room with meningitis. Still, maybe things will be better this time....
Fearfully, I return control of this device to her... -Pat Duggan
And now back to our regularly scheduled attacks. This time when Pat "helps" me, I'll probably give birth!
Good night all, and someone, Jeff?, please answer my original question.
