We're proud to announce the
unofficial USMS Postal Feet First 25 scy Sprint Swimming Championships
Rules:
+ you have to jump in feet first and remain feet first for the entire length
NO DIVING IN and TURNING AROUND
+ you may do a feet first start from the side in the water
Hands on wall
feet extended and pointed at the other end
swimmer may be on belly back or side
push off wall with arms after starter says go
+ clock starts
when the starter says go or the beeper beeps
you have to react to the starter's prompt,
no false starts
+ clock stops
when your feet touch the wall on the opposite end of the pool
+ can't push off the bottom
Submit Your
Name, team, age, sex,
time, technique, witnesses, & timer
This should be fun.
Better yet, make a video and put it on youtube
Do you think anyone could break 15 seconds?
What's the fastest way to swim FEET FIRST?
Try it out,
Submit your times
we look forward to reading your results
any one gonna do this?Last night from an in-water start with a hand push-off and toes on wall finish; I went 26.4, doing a reverse crawl. When trying feet first sculling I wasn’t able to crack 35 seconds. Albeit both attempts were at the end of practice and not at full speed.
very interesting
we swam LCM this morning
so I wasn't able to take a crack yet
part of the puzzle is figuring out how to get a good reverse streamline glide off the start jump
racers have to enter feet first on their starts
maybe we'll go SCY tomorrow
reverse free on the belly might be a good way to go
I don't see how kicking will help maybe some sort of crazy reverse dolphin
look forward to reading more results
Rob, describe the reverse crawl. Were you on your stomach, or your back?
Anna LeaWell it wouldn’t be much of a reverse crawl on your back, now would it? Think of watching a freestyle race in reverse. The hand enters at the hip and pulls (pushes?) past the head and recovers back (forward?) to the hips. You can actually get a pretty good EVF (LVF?) in reverse.
As for starting, back in the day when we used to race feet first, corkscrew, synchrostyle (backstroke with one leg straight up out of the water, you got a time bonus for best toe point) we found the best start from the blocks was a ¾ flip. It starts out like a normal dive, but in air you tuck, flip and land feet first at an angle similar to a regular start. NOTE: this works best if you are an invulnerable teen age boy, not a creaky adult who should know better. And besides, didn’t we say in water starts?
This should be added to the Olympics. It would be very exciting. We could have reverse freestyle, reverse fly, reverse breaststroke and backstroke. May be even reverse butterfrog.
Last night from an in-water start with a hand push-off and toes on wall finish; I went 26.4, doing a reverse crawl.
Rob, describe the reverse crawl. Were you on your stomach, or your back?
Anna Lea
if swimmers choose to race on their belly's
i think it would be a very bad idea to jump off a block facing backwards
swimmers can jump facing forward then
do the half twist in the air or in the water after they land
Well it wouldn’t be much of a reverse crawl on your back, now would it? Think of watching a freestyle race in reverse. The hand enters at the hip and pulls (pushes?) past the head and recovers back (forward?) to the hips.
And do you think that this can be fast enough to finish and jump backwards onto the starting block?:bow:
