One thing I noticed with the more advanced breaststroke (a beard, e moses, etc) is the swimmer holding the streamline after the kick for 1-2 secs before starting the insweep on each stroke. When watching age groupers I don't see much of this. They tend to not hold their glide much at all and its a continuous reach to insweep.
Is this because the age groupers don't have a strong enough kick yet to get the most of the glide and streamline? I'd love to start having my daughters work on the right way to do the stroke at an early age.
holding the streamline is called RIDE THE GLIDE
there's plenty of great under water breastroke footage on youtube
look for great breastrokers like
cameron Van der burgh, eric shanteau, brendan hansen, kosuke kitajima, jessica hardy, liesel jones
you can find plenty at: http://www.universalsports.com
here's the arm stroke pattern for breastroke
+ Streamline
+ Out Sweep (to pretty wide)
+ In Sweep (legs draw up)
+ Thrust to streamline (legs fire just as swimmer's upper body is streamlined)
+ Streamline
Breastrokers need to pushoff hard, streamline skinny, & RIDE the GLIDE
It takes breath control.
One thing I noticed with the more advanced breaststroke (a beard, e moses, etc) is the swimmer holding the streamline after the kick for 1-2 secs before starting the insweep on each stroke. When watching age groupers I don't see much of this. They tend to not hold their glide much at all and its a continuous reach to insweep.
Is this because the age groupers don't have a strong enough kick yet to get the most of the glide and streamline? I'd love to start having my daughters work on the right way to do the stroke at an early age.
holding the streamline is called RIDE THE GLIDE
there's plenty of great under water breastroke footage on youtube
look for great breastrokers like
cameron Van der burgh, eric shanteau, brendan hansen, kosuke kitajima, jessica hardy, liesel jones
you can find plenty at: http://www.universalsports.com
here's the arm stroke pattern for breastroke
+ Streamline
+ Out Sweep (to pretty wide)
+ In Sweep (legs draw up)
+ Thrust to streamline (legs fire just as swimmer's upper body is streamlined)
+ Streamline
Breastrokers need to pushoff hard, streamline skinny, & RIDE the GLIDE
It takes breath control.
One thing I noticed with the more advanced breaststroke (a beard, e moses, etc) is the swimmer holding the streamline after the kick for 1-2 secs before starting the insweep on each stroke. When watching age groupers I don't see much of this. They tend to not hold their glide much at all and its a continuous reach to insweep.
Is this because the age groupers don't have a strong enough kick yet to get the most of the glide and streamline? I'd love to start having my daughters work on the right way to do the stroke at an early age.
