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.
It has always seemed to me that many people in the swimming world use a rather simplistic if not misguided model of swimming physics. It seems like viscosity and drag are more appropriate tools for thinking about swimming than acceleration of mass.
Still it all boils down to F = ma. If you aren't accelerating a mass, you aren't creating force.
It has always seemed to me that many people in the swimming world use a rather simplistic if not misguided model of swimming physics. It seems like viscosity and drag are more appropriate tools for thinking about swimming than acceleration of mass.
Still it all boils down to F = ma. If you aren't accelerating a mass, you aren't creating force.
