You see high school boys with little competitive experience who are able to swim 22 second 50 yard freestyles all the time more or less on pure athleticism. Now whether or not you want to call it "muscling through" is merely a question of semantics, but basically we're saying their technique is not great. I don't see these same guys able to swim a fast 200 or 500, though.
I think we can all agree that to be a great sprinter you need great technique, but we're not talking about greatness here.
edit: I like Al's analogy of a rough diamond in the next post.
You see high school boys with little competitive experience who are able to swim 22 second 50 yard freestyles all the time more or less on pure athleticism. Now whether or not you want to call it "muscling through" is merely a question of semantics, but basically we're saying their technique is not great. I don't see these same guys able to swim a fast 200 or 500, though.
I think we can all agree that to be a great sprinter you need great technique, but we're not talking about greatness here.
edit: I like Al's analogy of a rough diamond in the next post.
