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
I haven't had a breaststroke since, I think, 1999. I had hurt my knee skiing (last run of the day!) in 1997 and I couldn't do br, so I switched to back. That year (97) I went 1:03 and 2:16 for the backs :) I was happy, I didn't know I could do a decent backstroke.
Anyway, when I went back to swimming br "it" wasn't there. My arms were NEVER tired, even after a 200, and suddenly they were exhausted. I've always had the stronger kick part of my stroke- gone! I just have no feel. Roque Santos tried to help me do the wave, and then I was caught with some half-bred wave/flat stroke!!!!
WWAAAHHHHHH- I know, but it's frustrating because I don't know how to go about getting something back that 1) was natural, and 2) I took for granted (so I didn't really pay too much attention!)
I haven't had a breaststroke since, I think, 1999. I had hurt my knee skiing (last run of the day!) in 1997 and I couldn't do br, so I switched to back. That year (97) I went 1:03 and 2:16 for the backs :) I was happy, I didn't know I could do a decent backstroke.
Anyway, when I went back to swimming br "it" wasn't there. My arms were NEVER tired, even after a 200, and suddenly they were exhausted. I've always had the stronger kick part of my stroke- gone! I just have no feel. Roque Santos tried to help me do the wave, and then I was caught with some half-bred wave/flat stroke!!!!
WWAAAHHHHHH- I know, but it's frustrating because I don't know how to go about getting something back that 1) was natural, and 2) I took for granted (so I didn't really pay too much attention!)
