Anyone experimenting with this? It seems like maybe Chris Stevenson does some undulation in his stroke, but I can't tell if it's an intentional effort to continue the body dolphin.
www.floswimming.org/.../124868-backstroke-breakout
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What?! lol I think The Little Devil made that video. Actually, I've always thought your breakout was extremely powerful and explosive, albeit unconventional and counter-intuitive. But some things that are unconventional are nonetheless successful, no? I've never thought there was one "correct" way to swim.
This approach seems in total contrast to the advice Eddie Reese recently gave Ande about pressing your head and shoulders back on the breakout. I even recall Lefty remarking that this was one of the single best pieces of advice he'd read on the forum recently ... For myself, I feel (and have been told) that I start decelerating right before the breakout and thus am not going at top speed when I start stroking. Frankly, I'm inclined to try this approach (despite the unconventional popping up) to attempt to counteract this problem.
I have to agree with you here! One thing that we work on time and time again are the breakouts for all of our strokes and I cannot tell you how frustrating it is to see swimmers pop at their breakout. I think I've lost my voice a couple of times this year trying to correct that! That being said, I don't believe there is one "be all, end all" for breakout...
What?! lol I think The Little Devil made that video. Actually, I've always thought your breakout was extremely powerful and explosive, albeit unconventional and counter-intuitive. But some things that are unconventional are nonetheless successful, no? I've never thought there was one "correct" way to swim.
This approach seems in total contrast to the advice Eddie Reese recently gave Ande about pressing your head and shoulders back on the breakout. I even recall Lefty remarking that this was one of the single best pieces of advice he'd read on the forum recently ... For myself, I feel (and have been told) that I start decelerating right before the breakout and thus am not going at top speed when I start stroking. Frankly, I'm inclined to try this approach (despite the unconventional popping up) to attempt to counteract this problem.
I have to agree with you here! One thing that we work on time and time again are the breakouts for all of our strokes and I cannot tell you how frustrating it is to see swimmers pop at their breakout. I think I've lost my voice a couple of times this year trying to correct that! That being said, I don't believe there is one "be all, end all" for breakout...
