Any old dogs out there trying new tricks? Any younger generation masters swimmers swimming this way?
www.goswim.tv/.../freestyle---loper-drill.html
"In watching the Olympics, we can't help but notice the impact that "lopers" are having in freestyle. While high-rate freestylers and straight-arm freestylers have been getting the most attention this year for the speeds they've achieved, lopers are certainly making a HUGE impact."
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Alternate breathing and loping don't appear to work very well together...for me anyway. It's an early obervation.
I noticed that the lope feels more rhythmic and natural when it's done to only one side.
Usually the side that you breathe on is the one in which the arm initiates the downward lope (as in the Go-Swim video).
I'm also experimenting with doing it in backstroke.
It seems as if the arms can be used as weights to throw momentum forward.
Alternate breathing and loping don't appear to work very well together...for me anyway. It's an early obervation.
I noticed that the lope feels more rhythmic and natural when it's done to only one side.
Usually the side that you breathe on is the one in which the arm initiates the downward lope (as in the Go-Swim video).
I'm also experimenting with doing it in backstroke.
It seems as if the arms can be used as weights to throw momentum forward.
