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
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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.
PFD is the highlight of the annual Cal alumni meet.
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Former Member
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.
PFD is the highlight of the annual Cal alumni meet.
