I bought a Finis snorkel a few years back but I just do not enjoy swimming with it. I find I hold my breath more per 25 than I do in an underwater or hypoxic 25. I haven't even tried doing a flip turn with it yet.
Anyone else go through a similar adjustment phase when they started working with their snorkel? How did you get used to it?
Why in the world would anyone want to use a snorkel. Can it be used in a race?? No, but using one in practice can make you faster in a race.
Will it really help you?? Yes, it really will.
It would help if you are looking for fish. I usually look for fish at my local market. The Dorkel would likely not help much with that experience, but would certainly attract attention.
Snorkles are about as useless as swim paddles, kickboards, or fins. A snorkel is a tool. Like any other tool, used wisely it may help you.
I have a tendency, which I understand to be fairly common, to sweep my left arm across and under my body while I breathe to the right. I lose a lot of pull that way, and dump a lot of the purchase I oh-so-carefully EVF'd on the catch. This tendency is exacerbated when I am tired or sprinting hard. While Dorkeling, I can focus on my entry, catch, EVH, and straight pulls, imprinting how this feels on my muscle memory, without having to roll to breathe. I like to do a couple hundred meters with the Dorkel, then a couple hundred without, trying to achieve that same straight Dorkel-aided pull while breathing. I think it helps. I seem to recall a video from back in the glory days of floswim of Brett Hawke having his Auburn sprinters, including Cesar Cielo, use one. YM, however, MV.
Why in the world would anyone want to use a snorkel. Can it be used in a race?? No, but using one in practice can make you faster in a race.
Will it really help you?? Yes, it really will.
It would help if you are looking for fish. I usually look for fish at my local market. The Dorkel would likely not help much with that experience, but would certainly attract attention.
Snorkles are about as useless as swim paddles, kickboards, or fins. A snorkel is a tool. Like any other tool, used wisely it may help you.
I have a tendency, which I understand to be fairly common, to sweep my left arm across and under my body while I breathe to the right. I lose a lot of pull that way, and dump a lot of the purchase I oh-so-carefully EVF'd on the catch. This tendency is exacerbated when I am tired or sprinting hard. While Dorkeling, I can focus on my entry, catch, EVH, and straight pulls, imprinting how this feels on my muscle memory, without having to roll to breathe. I like to do a couple hundred meters with the Dorkel, then a couple hundred without, trying to achieve that same straight Dorkel-aided pull while breathing. I think it helps. I seem to recall a video from back in the glory days of floswim of Brett Hawke having his Auburn sprinters, including Cesar Cielo, use one. YM, however, MV.
