They had a good set-up - indoors in a 25 yards pool. Looked like they did pack the place.
The training - Bowman helped Shaq out a little bit. His stroke was actually not too bad. What bothers me about the show was how little training and preparation Shaq did for this - in this one and all his other shows, it seemed like he only worked out one or two times. A few more workouts and he could have done MUCH better. for example, he never learned a good push off the wall - with a little practice and effort, he would have dropped a second or more right there.
The races:
Race 1: Phelps did a 50 from a push with a 5 second head start to Shaq doing a 25. Shaq won -- but Phelps only did a 24.0. His ankle was not good - he could barely dolphin kick at all.
Race 2: Relay 200 IM for Phelps against Dana Vollmer FLy / Kukors Back / Soni *** and Shaq Free. The girls got a huge lead for Shaq, but Phelps got him on the Free. Again - Phelps went a 1:54 or so - that is about 10 seconds slower than even an average race for him. No *** kick and barely any underwaters - he was up at the flags in the backstroke ...
Race 3: From a push - they took off the LZR for this one. SHaq did a 50 and phelps did a 75. Phelps won by a 1/10th or so - but 38.7 is very slow.
It was a pretty good show overall - does anybody know what on earth SHAQ has tatooed on his chest that they have to cover it for TV ???
They had a good set-up - indoors in a 25 yards pool. Looked like they did pack the place.
The training - Bowman helped Shaq out a little bit. His stroke was actually not too bad. What bothers me about the show was how little training and preparation Shaq did for this - in this one and all his other shows, it seemed like he only worked out one or two times. A few more workouts and he could have done MUCH better. for example, he never learned a good push off the wall - with a little practice and effort, he would have dropped a second or more right there.
The races:
Race 1: Phelps did a 50 from a push with a 5 second head start to Shaq doing a 25. Shaq won -- but Phelps only did a 24.0. His ankle was not good - he could barely dolphin kick at all.
Race 2: Relay 200 IM for Phelps against Dana Vollmer FLy / Kukors Back / Soni *** and Shaq Free. The girls got a huge lead for Shaq, but Phelps got him on the Free. Again - Phelps went a 1:54 or so - that is about 10 seconds slower than even an average race for him. No *** kick and barely any underwaters - he was up at the flags in the backstroke ...
Race 3: From a push - they took off the LZR for this one. SHaq did a 50 and phelps did a 75. Phelps won by a 1/10th or so - but 38.7 is very slow.
It was a pretty good show overall - does anybody know what on earth SHAQ has tatooed on his chest that they have to cover it for TV ???
