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.
2 sec is too long except in drills,1 sec max(drills up to 3 sec.).Kitajima holds it the longest.How long you should hold your glide is totally a function of how good your kick is.As one coach said"only a few kids,blessed by God,are allowed to glide.".As to the speed of the outsweep,it starts relatively slowly as your hands should accelerate throughout the pull and in to the recovery.I think the hands should move about the same speed regardless of the distance,the main difference between a 50 and a 200 is the glide(or lack of glide in the 50,but just because there is no glide in the 50 don't rush the pull and overlap the pull and kick.Finish each stroke in full streamline even in a 50 unless you have a very weak kick.)
Start the kick as the arms are going forward,but by the power phase of the kick the arms should be streamlined.
2 sec is too long except in drills,1 sec max(drills up to 3 sec.).Kitajima holds it the longest.How long you should hold your glide is totally a function of how good your kick is.As one coach said"only a few kids,blessed by God,are allowed to glide.".As to the speed of the outsweep,it starts relatively slowly as your hands should accelerate throughout the pull and in to the recovery.I think the hands should move about the same speed regardless of the distance,the main difference between a 50 and a 200 is the glide(or lack of glide in the 50,but just because there is no glide in the 50 don't rush the pull and overlap the pull and kick.Finish each stroke in full streamline even in a 50 unless you have a very weak kick.)
Start the kick as the arms are going forward,but by the power phase of the kick the arms should be streamlined.
