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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Right - the "S" Stroke is still there but is hidden by the fact that most swimmers of to day are rotating the shoulders and it no longer looks like an "S" Stroke. Now does this fool us into believing we are doing an "I" Stroke??? I happened to see George Breen doing the big cross over stroke that Coucilman called an "S" stroke and was it ever a cross over with George Breen's almost scissor kick.
I was told once that we are really planting our hand in water then vaulting our bodies over our planted hand. Sometimes this image works, sometimes it doesn't. The coach who told me this said that simple human body shape will force you to do a S movement with your stroke.
Right - the "S" Stroke is still there but is hidden by the fact that most swimmers of to day are rotating the shoulders and it no longer looks like an "S" Stroke. Now does this fool us into believing we are doing an "I" Stroke??? I happened to see George Breen doing the big cross over stroke that Coucilman called an "S" stroke and was it ever a cross over with George Breen's almost scissor kick.
I was told once that we are really planting our hand in water then vaulting our bodies over our planted hand. Sometimes this image works, sometimes it doesn't. The coach who told me this said that simple human body shape will force you to do a S movement with your stroke.
