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The Backstroke Lane

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over 14 years ago
Backstrokers unite. We know every detail of the ceilings where we train unless it's the sky which is ever changing. We SDK every day. It's breath taking. We go forwards in reverse. We get to flip over on turns. We gotta stay on our back. We swim back. We kick back. Aaron's the man YouTube- Aaron Peirsol gets title and new record, from Universal Sports YouTube- Aaron Peirsol Late Night Appearance/Interview (8.28.08) What did you do in practice today? the breastroke lane The Middle Distance Lane The Backstroke Lane The Butterfly Lane The SDK Lane The Taper Lane The Distance Lane The IM Lane The Sprint Free Lane The Pool Deck
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  • over 13 years ago
    Bear with me... all the recent posting on freestyle EVF and "S-pulls" got me to pondering... I spent some time watching videos of Lochte, Phelps and Piersol doing backstroke (here's one of Phelps I hope works)... YouTube - Michael Phelps backstroke ... and made the following two observations: All three seem to establish an "early horizontal forearm" EHF which I see equivalent to EVF in freestyle, with a bent elbow relevant to the shoulder and hand, engaging a larger set of muscles. All three seem to use an "S" shape in the pull. The hand starts lower near the shoulder, moves higher through the thorax, and finishes deeper near/below the waist before recovery. (Most noticable with Phelps.) So my question is, would backstrokers see an increase in power/speed if we established the EHF, but then tried to maintain the depth of the pull and dropped the "S"? I hope to experiment with this myself, but wondered if any of you fellow backstrokers have already done this work and figured out it was not going to work. Anyone care to respond?
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  • over 13 years ago
    Bear with me... all the recent posting on freestyle EVF and "S-pulls" got me to pondering... I spent some time watching videos of Lochte, Phelps and Piersol doing backstroke (here's one of Phelps I hope works)... YouTube - Michael Phelps backstroke ... and made the following two observations: All three seem to establish an "early horizontal forearm" EHF which I see equivalent to EVF in freestyle, with a bent elbow relevant to the shoulder and hand, engaging a larger set of muscles. All three seem to use an "S" shape in the pull. The hand starts lower near the shoulder, moves higher through the thorax, and finishes deeper near/below the waist before recovery. (Most noticable with Phelps.) So my question is, would backstrokers see an increase in power/speed if we established the EHF, but then tried to maintain the depth of the pull and dropped the "S"? I hope to experiment with this myself, but wondered if any of you fellow backstrokers have already done this work and figured out it was not going to work. Anyone care to respond?
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