How Far Can You GLIDE?
Here's the Rules for Streamline Gliding:
1) Go Underwater,
2) push off the wall as hard as you can,
(should we have a FROM A DIVE category too?)
3) streamline as skinny as you can like Michael Phelps
4) glide as FAR as you can,
you measure your distance from the wall you started at to the furthest point your body reaches, probably your finger tips
5) but you can't kick or pull, you can only glide, if you kick or pull you are DQed
6) you're done when you stop, breathe, or break your streamline,
and
7) you are only allowed to wear one training suit or a 2011 FINA Approved tech suits, but no wetsuits or full body rubber suits,
you may wear a cap and goggles. pretty much follow the USMS suit rules
Give it a try, See how far you get.
Let us know or better yet make a video and post the link to your streamline glide here in this thread.
RIDE THE GLIDE
Here's a video I made on Friday April 22nd, 2011 of my furthest streamline glide so far.
YouTube - Swimmer Glides FAR from just One Push
Here's a video I made on Friday April 22nd, 2011 of my furthest streamline glide so far.
Don't want to take anything away from what you did because it was pretty cool... looks like a good challenge for the team tomorrow morning. However:
1) Doesn't having a diving well help a lot? Seems like you used bouyancy to build up some speed on the ascent. I think we may only have half that depth at best.
2) Would it be better to count where you break the surface? Otherwise this is an exercise in how long you can hold your breath as much as it is a gliding challenge... maybe that isn't a bad thing.
3) You need a longer pool :).
That was cool!
Is that partly why your so dang fast, duh:doh:
It would be interesting to compare to another attempt. Time in glide to wall would be good, but done in one of the outside lanes. Or even while swimming is going on in other lanes just to see if there is a turbulent effect that will be noticable.
Thanks for the clip
There was an early (1904?) Olympic event called plunge for distance. It starts with a dive and the competitors go as far as possible until any part of the body breaks the surface of the water. We do this all the time at the beginning of pratice. I"ve done it for many years. Always the person with the greatest body mass will go the farthest. It is like a row boat and a super tanker going the same speed (i.e. at the outset of the entry) and seeing which vessel stops first.
There was an early (1904?) Olympic event called plunge for distance. It starts with a dive and the competitors go as far as possible until any part of the body breaks the surface of the water. We do this all the time at the beginning of pratice. I"ve done it for many years. Always the person with the greatest body mass will go the farthest. It is like a row boat and a super tanker going the same speed (i.e. at the outset of the entry) and seeing which vessel stops first.Can't wait to try this out now. I would have thought that mass would provide an initial advantage but chosing the proper angle to surface would have an effect as momentum is lost. More mass can also change your profile through the water but that shouldn't be too big of a deal so long as you are streamlined. What about leg strength (for the intitial push-off)? Dare I mention body hair? Should I finish off all the Easter candy before I lay down a challenge to my teammates? Will they think something is up if I show up in a tech suit shaved down with chocolate smudges on my face?
It'd be worthwhile to put a limit on how deep the pushoff can occur. It seems like one could gain some forward momentum simply from floating upwards at an angle... kinda like when you hold a kickboard at an angle underwater and let it go... it jets forward.
Otherwise this seems like this could be skewed a tiny bit based on pool depth :)
I would think a standard pushoff depth like if you were doing an open turn would be good to use. Not all of us could "cheat" with the upward buoyancy speed increase coming from 1/2 a mile below the surface!!
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How Far Can You GLIDE?
It'd be worthwhile to put a limit on how deep the pushoff can occur. It seems like one could gain some forward momentum simply from floating upwards at an angle... kinda like when you hold a kickboard at an angle underwater and let it go... it jets forward.
Otherwise this seems like this could be skewed a tiny bit based on pool depth :)
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2) Would it be better to count where you break the surface? Otherwise this is an exercise in how long you can hold your breath as much as it is a gliding challenge... maybe that isn't a bad thing.
I tried it this morning in warm-up and came to a complete stop a wee bit before half way point. I did it in a fairly shallow part of the pool (5 feet) and there was some definite friction from the bottom of the pool. I will try it again tomorrow from the diving well part of the pool.
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Ande,
Pretty cool. I agree that the depth of the push off should be limited.
This popped up on YouTube as a suggestion...
YouTube - Perfect Glide (Glide Coach, Swimming)
