I made that video! :)
www.youtube.com/watch
Note that it is the same short clip, first at regular speed, then at half, then at quarter speed, so the three breaths were just one.
WAAAHHHHAAA funny.... as the clip is slower moooodddddde the voices are llloooonnnggger
Great footage though! That is the new sprint freestyle, apparently... I've never swam that way before... hmmmm....
Thank you Lindsay and George...
Just looking at his stroke, it looks to me that he is doing the "I" stroke, the hand following the line on the bottom of the pool? An "S" but it is an "S" if you count his body rotation.
Sure, but his forearm quickly goes parralel to his body. That is unusual. In the past, the forearm would be perpendicular to the bottom of the pool, but this is sideways and much shallower. He still gets the full extension at the top of the stroke and finishes strong, but in the middle it appears to be just like Nystrand.
,unfortunately due to the suit situation we can't know if we are comparing apples to apples.
As snug as these suits are, it is real easy to compare apples to apples.;):o
I think he and Nystrand(and Inkie and Klim to a lesser degree) have made an important technical advancement,unfortunately due to the suit situation we can't know if we are comparing apples to apples.
Has anyone compared Sullivan and Nystrand to Klim? Have they made any major adjustments to his stroke? Klim and Popov were contemporaries and given their respective histories if the "new" stroke is the same as the Klim stroke then the new stroke might be suited to some people while the Popov stroke might be suited to others, rather than everyone changing to the "new" stroke.
Has anyone compared Sullivan and Nystrand to Klim? Have they made any major adjustments to his stroke? Klim and Popov were contemporaries and given their respective histories if the "new" stroke is the same as the Klim stroke then the new stroke might be suited to some people while the Popov stroke might be suited to others, rather than everyone changing to the "new" stroke.
Lindsay,
You know that's funny, I was wondering the same thing... I've not seen underwater footage of Klim... Anyone have links? You know, the other thing is this forum and U-tube... that combination allows us to analyse a WR in a very short amount of time...
It would be interesting to see Klim underwater... and compare the differences.
Could it be that the arm insweep achieves an "Early Diagonal Forearm" position more quickly than one can get to an EVF, but yields the same increased surface area?
Plus EDF puts the arm is in a more powerful position when close to the body?
