The Backstroke Lane

Athens and Greenville:)

Now how did you drop 6-7s? I'd sure like to do that. By "this season" what do you mean? Drop since your first meet of the season? How out-of-condition were you at the swim you consider the start point for that time drop? How close are you to your rested and tapered time from last season? I only swam the 200 back twice last season (fall 2011-spring 2012) and did pretty poorly both times. I was only training for fly that season, so my backstroke was a distant second priority. Starting in June, I've spent my time primarily training for back and spent a good chunk of time over the summer working one-on-one with one of my coaches on my technique. I've dropped a shade over 6 seconds from my best from last season so far. I figure with a bit more technique work and a good deal more conditioning (I'm going to hammer the practices from now through mid April, as I've been very off and on in my training to date), I should be able to drop another ~1.5 seconds per 50. I mean, come on, just shaving The Beard has to be worth at least a couple seconds, right? :D I haven't swum the 200 shaved/tapered yet, so I'm really looking forward to Nationals!

All right, here are my 50 and 100 back videos. The 50 was a decent race, besides going too deep on the start and kicking the rather shallow bottom...twice...on the turn. The 100 was horrible--ridiculously terrible and deep on the start and I died at the end, but my time was only .3 off my MPB. On a side note, the pads in this pool weren't attached at the bottom, and curved out from the wall, so every time I pushed off of them in warmup and during the races, I'd have to push them back to the wall before I'd start to move away from the wall, sapping a good deal of energy and momentum from my turns! I was really, really not a fan of this pool! I'm the tattooed dude with The Beard doing the wall start in both. 50 back gR1cMh71O2M 100 back t43Sw5cO8Ng And for reference, here's a head on shot of my 100 IM. Other problems with the race aside, you can see my arm position on back in the video. dbwxtS0uHj8

Nice swims habu387O o, what distance, 50, 100? Ummmm, before I open my big fat :D , I better ask this: What is your PB (yards) for the 50 and 100? Mine is :40.45 and 1:32.79. I don't yet know which events I will race; it will depend on the line-up and whether my leg is healthy to race all three breaststroke events. Let's meet back here when the race info. comes out. But, meanwhile, which would you rather gridge? We'll have to make sure to enter the same seed time to at least get in the same heat, and, hopefully, in neighboring lanes. :banana:

Nice swims habu387 I will see you at Athens! Backstroke gridge? :DO o, what distance, 50, 100?

Today I was just swimming along at practice and my coach goes "Try to get rid of that scissor kick thing you do on backstroke." I was like...huh? I didn't know I did a scissor kick thing! I tried to focus on it but to me it just feels like I'm rotating, not scissoring my feet. Does anyone have any tips for dealing with this?

My LCM 50bk is 43.10, which places us close in seed, but my recent SCY is 36.something for the 50, I will convert that one to LCM and use that as seed (If I do the 50bk). However, I never completed a 100 back before, and Athens (if I can make it there, 80% sure) seems like a good time to try a new event, so long it does not interfere with target events. I can seed whatever for that one. You're SCY is 36+ and mine is 40+. :dunno: And, I'm challenging you to a gridge? :afraid: How's that going to work?:notworking:

Might work for a 100. I have a steep drop in pace for anything above a 50 But unfortunatley I already submitted the gridge paperwork and it's final:joker: just kidding

Might work for a 100. I have a steep drop in pace for anything above a 50 www.usms.org/.../indresults.php But unfortunatley I already submitted the gridge paperwork and it's final:joker: just kidding Yikes! You're way faster than me in everything! Gridge is on: If I beat you, I get bragging rights on this thread. :D But, if you beat me, you owe me a :bighug:, unless I break 1:43.09 which would be a PB (My Auburn time of 1:32.79 converted to LC, using the Swimming World Time Conversion Utility.). :bolt:

I think it will be close race You would destroy me in any breaststroke event though