I have been studying videos of swimmers and find what was once called the "S" stroke has almost disappeard.
I have noticed that flyers use it. But crawl swimmers have modified it so much that it is almost gone.
Has it been replaced completely or was it an optical illusion? Did underwater film show us it did not exist.
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Do we have any quite water?
When the body moves through the water where does the water go. Some goes forward then it goes out, then it comes back and fills the void made by the body.
Once the shoulders pass through the water its starts roaring in to fill the void. We are not built like a boat pointed at the front end and wide at the middle and back end. The arms are our paddles and are not the pointed end of our vessel. Our width is from the head to the stomach where it is narrow again, wide again at the hips and then narrow at the back end. Then what some call the second wave really pours in to fill the void made at the middle and the back end. Now that water is moving towards the front. Now this is where the stroke starts to press on water going in the opposite direction. Firby always talked about this second wave with me we differred on what it was doing and how we could use it to our benifit. The so called second wave is the reason most sprint swimmers kick hard to use the second wave.
I think I like to use the water that is moving in the oppsite direction. This is why I mention the bow wave water. This is not the water that sets up that pretty "V" going out to the sides. I am talking about the water that is moving forward.
I don't need to listen to biomechanics. I can feel that water.
Do we have any quite water?
When the body moves through the water where does the water go. Some goes forward then it goes out, then it comes back and fills the void made by the body.
Once the shoulders pass through the water its starts roaring in to fill the void. We are not built like a boat pointed at the front end and wide at the middle and back end. The arms are our paddles and are not the pointed end of our vessel. Our width is from the head to the stomach where it is narrow again, wide again at the hips and then narrow at the back end. Then what some call the second wave really pours in to fill the void made at the middle and the back end. Now that water is moving towards the front. Now this is where the stroke starts to press on water going in the opposite direction. Firby always talked about this second wave with me we differred on what it was doing and how we could use it to our benifit. The so called second wave is the reason most sprint swimmers kick hard to use the second wave.
I think I like to use the water that is moving in the oppsite direction. This is why I mention the bow wave water. This is not the water that sets up that pretty "V" going out to the sides. I am talking about the water that is moving forward.
I don't need to listen to biomechanics. I can feel that water.
