Ugly & Fast

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? www.floswimming.org/.../89677 I listened to Mike Bottom speak about the "threestyle freestyle". It talks about three different types of freestyle that he teaches all his swimmers. I believe he said Nathan Adrian is one of the swimmers that can switch freely and effectively during a race. He purposely changes over to a straight arm freestyle at the end of his race. I can't remember why...I guess its faster for him. you can purchase the talk from the ASCA site for 99 cents.

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? www.floswimming.org/.../89677 I listened to Mike Bottom speak about the "threestyle freestyle". It talks about three different types of freestyle that he teaches all his swimmers. I believe he said Nathan Adrian is one of the swimmers that can switch freely and effectively during a race. He purposely changes over to a straight arm freestyle at the end of his race. I can't remember why...I guess its faster for him. you can purchase the talk from the ASCA site for 99 cents.