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."
This post is ****ing up my stroke!
I have a symmetrical stroke, I have been always trying to swim like Thorpe, but I also tried sometime the Phelpesian stroke.
Now, every time I'm swimming, I'm like, one lap symmetric, and the next one loping,
I timed both ways swimming 400s with enough rest, And is very much the same speed. (a little faster with symmetrical cause I’m more used to)
symmetrical you don't have that much air, and loping my left arm gets more tired that the right.
What I'm saying is, I don't know what to do now. I like both, very similar speed, but I can't keep swimming with this thought of doing this or that.
Any thought's?
Even though I lope, I still don't quite understand why someone would change their stroke to adopt it.
My advice: let your need for oxygen decide your breathing pattern, and go from there. Probably loping is a natural result of breathing every other stroke (ie, always to one side). I can see why that breathing pattern would give the fastest times for certain distances. Try it both ways (eg every other and every third) and see which works best.
This post is ****ing up my stroke!
I have a symmetrical stroke, I have been always trying to swim like Thorpe, but I also tried sometime the Phelpesian stroke.
Now, every time I'm swimming, I'm like, one lap symmetric, and the next one loping,
I timed both ways swimming 400s with enough rest, And is very much the same speed. (a little faster with symmetrical cause I’m more used to)
symmetrical you don't have that much air, and loping my left arm gets more tired that the right.
What I'm saying is, I don't know what to do now. I like both, very similar speed, but I can't keep swimming with this thought of doing this or that.
Any thought's?
Even though I lope, I still don't quite understand why someone would change their stroke to adopt it.
My advice: let your need for oxygen decide your breathing pattern, and go from there. Probably loping is a natural result of breathing every other stroke (ie, always to one side). I can see why that breathing pattern would give the fastest times for certain distances. Try it both ways (eg every other and every third) and see which works best.
