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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Loping ~ ???? What the heck??? EVF is and Early Vertical Forearm or a more precise way of describing what a catch is. SDK is a submerged Dolphin Kick or underwater dolphin kick, DPS is Distance per stroke, Rotory Breathing is breathing to the side, Loping ~ teach loping! Do you tell swimmers to stop intertia that is vital for speed then glide? Is loping a lazy stroke? Is loping a recovery that waits for the other arm/hand to catch-up to the other. Is it like Mohammad Ali's Rope a Dope but Lope a Dope. If you teach someone to stop a propulsive mechanism and hope that gliding will make them faster, you're kidding yourself. Read the "Science of Swimming" by Dr. James Counsilman and tell me where gliding or the loss of inertia makes any sense at all. I swear if Phelps picked his nose while swimming, you'd have some coach or swimmer calling it flicking and encourage everyone to start picking their noses. Come on people!!! No more loping talk. To talk about the lope is to admit to being a dope!!!
I was going to start an Apathy Anonymous group, but why bother.
punstir - NYC
Loping ~ ???? What the heck??? EVF is and Early Vertical Forearm or a more precise way of describing what a catch is. SDK is a submerged Dolphin Kick or underwater dolphin kick, DPS is Distance per stroke, Rotory Breathing is breathing to the side, Loping ~ teach loping! Do you tell swimmers to stop intertia that is vital for speed then glide? Is loping a lazy stroke? Is loping a recovery that waits for the other arm/hand to catch-up to the other. Is it like Mohammad Ali's Rope a Dope but Lope a Dope. If you teach someone to stop a propulsive mechanism and hope that gliding will make them faster, you're kidding yourself. Read the "Science of Swimming" by Dr. James Counsilman and tell me where gliding or the loss of inertia makes any sense at all. I swear if Phelps picked his nose while swimming, you'd have some coach or swimmer calling it flicking and encourage everyone to start picking their noses. Come on people!!! No more loping talk. To talk about the lope is to admit to being a dope!!!
I was going to start an Apathy Anonymous group, but why bother.
punstir - NYC
