This may be controversial but is SDK really mandatory for fast freestyle?
Don't see much of it here, it looks like they wan't to surface ASAP:
www.youtube.com/watch
I know proponents will link to Phelps' 200 WR, but other than that, I don't see many people exploiting it.
Will we see huge SDK in freestyle at the upcoming Olympics?
I don't fly because of my back, so my SDK in freestyle is minimal. I'd like to think I don't need it.
I'm keen to watch for it in elite freestyle races and it is a mixed bag. Many are fast without a big prolonged SDK.
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To each his own. It looks as if the majority of top sprinters still burst off of each turn with a flutter kick.
The new record at last years NCAA championships by Cesar Cielo shows him using maybe one dolphin kick... and then transitioned right into a rapid fire flutter.
www.youtube.com/watch
On the other hand...Ian Crocker has mastered the ninja dolphin kick.
He stayed under with a huge series of SDK in this race...and he went 41 seconds as well! Same results different approach.
www.youtube.com/watch
Quicksilver, both of those links are the same. I think you meant this one: www.youtube.com/watch
His SDK is HUGE! He SDK's for almost a third of the pool on each length. He is moving so quickly it is as if he is wearing fins!
And just watch Crocker in th 100 Fly here. He whups the rest of the field with more MASSIVE SDK's!
www.youtube.com/watch
But as you pointed out: same results, different approach.
Syd
To each his own. It looks as if the majority of top sprinters still burst off of each turn with a flutter kick.
The new record at last years NCAA championships by Cesar Cielo shows him using maybe one dolphin kick... and then transitioned right into a rapid fire flutter.
www.youtube.com/watch
On the other hand...Ian Crocker has mastered the ninja dolphin kick.
He stayed under with a huge series of SDK in this race...and he went 41 seconds as well! Same results different approach.
www.youtube.com/watch
Quicksilver, both of those links are the same. I think you meant this one: www.youtube.com/watch
His SDK is HUGE! He SDK's for almost a third of the pool on each length. He is moving so quickly it is as if he is wearing fins!
And just watch Crocker in th 100 Fly here. He whups the rest of the field with more MASSIVE SDK's!
www.youtube.com/watch
But as you pointed out: same results, different approach.
Syd
