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
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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
The breaststrokers have hijacked the backstroke lane!! :D
I'm still trying to wrap my brain around what I am certain is to become my new backstroke turn technique. Let me get this straight - it's legal to swim full stroke breaststroke off a backstroke turn, up to 15M, on your back?
Inconceivable!
As long as you are on your back and come up after 15M you are legal.
I don't have a video(yet.)What I do is try to have it as close to regular BR as possible except upside down and underwater ,so I start with a pull down and then do 4 strokes and come up flutterkicking.I think some SDK before the pull down may be a good idea and I am not sure it wouldn't be faster to forget the pulldown.For some I am sure it would be faster to do only pulldown type pulls.It is still a work in progress and YMMV.
Ok, Allen, you lost me on the "4 strokes" part. 4? I thought it was just a push off the wall, pull down, one breaststroke kick, streamline, surface, swim backstroke. :confused: Hey, whatever it is, I'm with Thrashing Slug. This is fun! :D
Ok, Allen, you lost me on the "4 strokes" part. 4? I thought it was just a push off the wall, pull down, one breaststroke kick, streamline, surface, swim backstroke. :confused: Hey, whatever it is, I'm with Thrashing Slug. This is fun! :D
You can go 15M underwater.I don't go that far off a turn on just the pullout so after the pullout I keep swimming BR,on my back underwater.
The breaststrokers have hijacked the backstroke lane!! :D
I'm still trying to wrap my brain around what I am certain is to become my new backstroke turn technique. Let me get this straight - it's legal to swim full stroke breaststroke off a backstroke turn, up to 15M, on your back?
Inconceivable!
Wow, that could have shaved about 30 seconds off my 400 IM at practice this morning.
The prospect of figuring out how to swim breaststroke underwater and upside down seems like a lot more fun than working on backstroke.
You can go 15M underwater.I don't go that far off a turn on just the pullout so after the pullout I keep swimming BR,on my back underwater.
Tomorrow morning's swim should be quite interesting, trying this out... Just when I thought I understood how to do it... I didn't! I should wait until the noodler's get into the pool before I try this out, just to see their reaction. I already get confused stares when I do all the different drills you detailed on The Breaststroke Lane! :bump:
As long as you are on your back and come up after 15M you are legal.
Allen, not one to question a person of your caliber, but don't you mean "before" instead of "after" 15m?
You can go 15M underwater.I don't go that far off a turn on just the pullout so after the pullout I keep swimming BR,on my back underwater.
I tried a hybrid of SDK/ breaststroke off the turn, today, and that seemed to work for me. A couple of dolphin kicks off the wall (on my back, of course), a breaststroke (on back) pulldown, kick, then a few more dolphin kicks.
Next experiment: Sequential u/w *** on back like you are doing, Allen, to see what works better for me.
My coach is advocating that I hold my hands on the gutter instead of the starting block to start.
Yes I've seen it done in masters competition. The starter shouldn't give you any hassle; it is perfectly legal.
I swim in Costa Rica, so I checked the FINA swimming rules and they state "with both hands holding the starting grip". The US Rules specifically state "both hands placed on the gutter or on the starting grips."
Anybody know if the FINA "on the starting grip" rule really gets enforced? The gutter idea sounds like a great option to me because I have serious foot slippage problems on my backstroke starts.
