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
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Anybody, or does anyone know anybody, that completely dismantled their breaststroke and started over from the beginning?
Karen,
I did that very thing beginning in 1999 when I got a stroke coach who I had seen teaching BR the way I thought I wanted to swim. This year, eight years later, I finally finished the conversion. My 100 BR is now 2.5 seconds faster than my fastest college time and 1.25 seconds faster than my best-ever master's swim. In other words, it really is a lifetime best, at age 65.
On the way out to my 100 BR at nationals, I also got a lifetime best in the 50.
I would recommend making changes but be prepared to take years to find the right groove. One thing you may notice is that once you begin to tinker with the stroke your endurance will go down the tubes. That will take some time to regain, so shorter distances will get there before longer ones.
Anybody, or does anyone know anybody, that completely dismantled their breaststroke and started over from the beginning?
Karen,
I did that very thing beginning in 1999 when I got a stroke coach who I had seen teaching BR the way I thought I wanted to swim. This year, eight years later, I finally finished the conversion. My 100 BR is now 2.5 seconds faster than my fastest college time and 1.25 seconds faster than my best-ever master's swim. In other words, it really is a lifetime best, at age 65.
On the way out to my 100 BR at nationals, I also got a lifetime best in the 50.
I would recommend making changes but be prepared to take years to find the right groove. One thing you may notice is that once you begin to tinker with the stroke your endurance will go down the tubes. That will take some time to regain, so shorter distances will get there before longer ones.
