How Far Can You GLIDE?

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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  • thanks, I don't think the wave from jumping in helped at all. The swim center has flowover gutters, I'm sure the wave travelled faster and washed over before I even got 1/2 the way across. Plus, can you really surf a wave in open ocean or just when it starts breaking. I made it the whole way the day before & started in the water, jumping in just got me down to my starting point faster with less effort and it made the video shorter. Very cool Ande. Try it again without jumping in- I think the wave from you jumping in helped significantly in the last 10m.
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  • thanks, I don't think the wave from jumping in helped at all. The swim center has flowover gutters, I'm sure the wave travelled faster and washed over before I even got 1/2 the way across. Plus, can you really surf a wave in open ocean or just when it starts breaking. I made it the whole way the day before & started in the water, jumping in just got me down to my starting point faster with less effort and it made the video shorter. Very cool Ande. Try it again without jumping in- I think the wave from you jumping in helped significantly in the last 10m.
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