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.
Swimming always does this...following trends I mean. Which is not necessarily a bad thing. But, teaching a straight arm recovery to everyone will be a mistake the same as trying to teach everyone to do the high elbow recovery was a mistake.
Agreed. First because it won't work for everyone and second because it is VERY stressful on the shoulders.
Quiksilver, I have timed it in workouts up to about 80-85% max effort and found about a .5-.75 second difference for a series of 50's. Hoch noted in another post that he did the swiMetrics testing in Clovis and there was no doubt that the straight arm recovery was more powerful. He also mentioned that a straighter arm undeerwater pull vs. the old "S" pull was more powerful...interesting because I find that when I switch to straight arm recovery the underwater straightarm pull occurs more naturally as well.
Tdrop...please kick geek in the shhin for me next time you see him.
Swimming always does this...following trends I mean. Which is not necessarily a bad thing. But, teaching a straight arm recovery to everyone will be a mistake the same as trying to teach everyone to do the high elbow recovery was a mistake.
Agreed. First because it won't work for everyone and second because it is VERY stressful on the shoulders.
Quiksilver, I have timed it in workouts up to about 80-85% max effort and found about a .5-.75 second difference for a series of 50's. Hoch noted in another post that he did the swiMetrics testing in Clovis and there was no doubt that the straight arm recovery was more powerful. He also mentioned that a straighter arm undeerwater pull vs. the old "S" pull was more powerful...interesting because I find that when I switch to straight arm recovery the underwater straightarm pull occurs more naturally as well.
Tdrop...please kick geek in the shhin for me next time you see him.
