As quoted in the AP article:
"You'll all have to see. I'm not saying anything until we unveil it," Phelps said with a grin when asked how he's tweaked the stroke. "It's a significant change. You'll be able to tell exactly what I did as soon as I take my first stroke."
He's on tap to swim the 100- and 200-meter free and the 100 butterfly at the Charlotte UltraSwim in NC. Should be interesting to see.
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What else could it be besides straight-arm / windmill recovery? I can't think of anything technique-wise that we'd notice on the first stroke, as he says...unless it's something totally new that no one's seen before...which would be so awesome.
Presuming he'll still use his "normal" technique for a 200, can anyone think of an elite swimmer that employed fundamentally different techniques in the same stroke depending on the nature or distance of the race? Does this happen a lot and I'm just naive?
I'm not talking about different breathing patterns or stroke rates or anything similarly subtle -- but something legitimately different that looks like two different swimmers.
I've seen the Race Club's "Three Styles of Freestyle," but those styles don't seem as drastically different as a possible Phelps lope vs. windmill. (maybe I was just caught up in the trippy cinematography).
What else could it be besides straight-arm / windmill recovery? I can't think of anything technique-wise that we'd notice on the first stroke, as he says...unless it's something totally new that no one's seen before...which would be so awesome.
Presuming he'll still use his "normal" technique for a 200, can anyone think of an elite swimmer that employed fundamentally different techniques in the same stroke depending on the nature or distance of the race? Does this happen a lot and I'm just naive?
I'm not talking about different breathing patterns or stroke rates or anything similarly subtle -- but something legitimately different that looks like two different swimmers.
I've seen the Race Club's "Three Styles of Freestyle," but those styles don't seem as drastically different as a possible Phelps lope vs. windmill. (maybe I was just caught up in the trippy cinematography).
