I guess its not always about swimming "pretty" when you can throw down a 41.8 100 free...Nathan Adrian's in lane 5, check out the slow start, horrible/short break-outs where he hits the wave on the 2nd & 3rd turns (granted, when you're that far ahead you would have to stay under for at least 12yds to miss it)...and explain to me the change to staright-arm/windmill the last 5 strokes?
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Hadn't noticed the switch to a windmill stroke at the end, but it sure is obvious now that you mention it! Maybe he's found that stroke works better when he really starts to tighten up at the end of his races?
Interesting thing about Adrian: he's about 6'6" despite being ethnically half Chinese! His mom is Chinese and grew up in Hong Kong. His brother is big, too. Maybe mom has some of that Yao Ming DNA :)
Hadn't noticed the switch to a windmill stroke at the end, but it sure is obvious now that you mention it! Maybe he's found that stroke works better when he really starts to tighten up at the end of his races?
Interesting thing about Adrian: he's about 6'6" despite being ethnically half Chinese! His mom is Chinese and grew up in Hong Kong. His brother is big, too. Maybe mom has some of that Yao Ming DNA :)
