Noticing more frequent use of grab starts in Beijing...
Former Member
Notably by the Chinese female swimmer, and it's combined with tremendous water entries and SDK's ... I'd say almost Coughlin caliber underwaters and theyr'e coming up on the fielkd, but no one is talking about it.
Look at their entries in the 200 free. In the 100, Pang jumped so take her slight reaction time out of it and she still is well up after the SDK's.
Notice also that Lenton of Australia used the conventional grab start, as do several other of her country women.
In one particular Chinese sprinter (Le?), she squats with her but down quite low for her stance, which would seem very slow off the block. At 15 meters though she is ahead.
Any thoughts?
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Former Member
Can someone describe the difference? I thought basically everyone was grabbing the blocks and had one foot behind the other. Wouldn't that be a grab track start? I must be missing something very obvious.
S
In the grab start both feet are at the front of the block, in the track start one is at the front, one at the back.
Track: www.youtube.com/watch
Grab: www.youtube.com/watch
Can someone describe the difference? I thought basically everyone was grabbing the blocks and had one foot behind the other. Wouldn't that be a grab track start? I must be missing something very obvious.
S
In the grab start both feet are at the front of the block, in the track start one is at the front, one at the back.
Track: www.youtube.com/watch
Grab: www.youtube.com/watch
