There is a short clip of his underwater in the link George provided. (THANK YOU SIR) Yes, he has the same sharp in-sweep at the top of the stroke, and tight pull close to his body, just like Nystrand. Incredible!!
That was a good little bit of underwater swimming. There is supposed to be some great video shots of the race but his coach is not letting it be released. Secrets for the upcoming Olympics???
Allan in a 50 or a 100 you do what you have to do. The was not much wrong there. Power all the way clean exit and a powerfull hand entry. Did anyone notice the second wave, it was a big wave that he was kicking into. It seemed to me it was pushing him forward.
I don't think he was stroke counting. I think he did 42 or 44 strokes + 21 or 22 sec gives him a score of 63 or up to 66. I am going to down load it and make it slow motion and get an accurate count.
Yes, and it was hard to see from above the water, but it looks as though he was doing the sharp in-sweep right from the top of the stroke, tight to his body, just like Nystrand has been doing. Remember the straight-on underwater video of Nystrand?
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Yes the film was taken by one of the Australian Olympic Team officials. I will get his name from a contact of mine and will post it right here when I get the info. I may also be able to get the video.
It was a very bad video, maybe some new ones coming up.
Here is another video that is in a news broacast cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/.../
In the other video I saw him breath on the left side. I think I saw him breathe on the right side also in the news video..
I think you are right, I don't think he trimmed his toenails either. Do you think the foot flick controlled his body roll???
What I did notice is his fingers were not held together in the underwater sequence.
I thought I saw long womens finger nails on his right hand as it crashed into the pad.
As far as I know the study was published but not picked up on by the swimming media...I'm going to try and track brian down and see if I can find it.
I talked to Bryan about this, too, and I recall the Arena suit "won" the competition at the time. He was coaching at Valpo, but I just looked at their website and see he resigned. Not sure where he's at now.
There's no question in my mind that these suits improve performance. I've worn a Fastskin at enough meets now to know that I swim faster with it on.
I am not sure that a bunch of sprint free records will mean it's the suit.I think it is possible that this straight arm,ballistic entry style may be a real breakthrough.(But I agree with John,if everyone was in standard suits we'd know which was natural speed and which was fabric.)
Fastskins are definitely faster.
I noticed in Eamon's race that he really pulled away the second 25. I wonder if that's due to the momentum generated by the straight arm style? How close was his hand to his body on the insweep and pull?
might have just been an illusion due to the filming angle
to go that fast
he had to have been leading from the start
Fastskins are definitely faster.
I noticed in Eamon's race that he really pulled away the second 25. I wonder if that's due to the momentum generated by the straight arm style? How close was his hand to his body on the insweep and pull?
