This is a strange one so bear with me...
I have become addicted to swimming as a result of my son taking to the sport. So, I asked him a breathing question today and I found out that he exhales/inhales with his head out for *** and free, and inhales/exhales out on butterfly. His form is right on and I never would have known (I haven't had a chance to tell the coach yet).
On his *** - head comes out every stroke
On free - head out every 3rd (alternate breathing)
On fly - head out every other
ok...my questions are:
How can he be swimming faster consistently at each meet and maintaining his form (sprint and longer events) while breathing this way? He is one of the fastest on his year-round team in his age group. What is he losing by doing this? Or, the better question might be, what could he gain by learning the traditional breathing out under water method? He is very good at staying under water after the turn and can do a proper breakout and he doesn't typically look winded like the other kids.
And, if this were a drill, would there be any benefits?
Thanks!
Parents
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"This line of reasoning seemed perfectly understandable to me. I have adopted this style of breathing for free, fly and *** and find it works for me. However, I generally don't discuss this with any of my own coaches because all I get is frowns and comments about not knowing how to swim."
Cool...that sounds like what my son does and the logic behind it seems to work.
We have all come down hard on you.
Have you found out for sure how your son breathes?
Have you watched him swim?
Is his breathing what he described or is it something else?
I hope his coach is doing something about it?
"This line of reasoning seemed perfectly understandable to me. I have adopted this style of breathing for free, fly and *** and find it works for me. However, I generally don't discuss this with any of my own coaches because all I get is frowns and comments about not knowing how to swim."
Cool...that sounds like what my son does and the logic behind it seems to work.
We have all come down hard on you.
Have you found out for sure how your son breathes?
Have you watched him swim?
Is his breathing what he described or is it something else?
I hope his coach is doing something about it?
