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
Interesting, what I did was like a plunge for distance from a push then coasted after surfacing till I ran out of pool
Let's do a Tshirt
PFD: It's a BFD
OK I read the Plunge for Distance rules,
Let's include Plunge for distance in this thread too
Let's mark our plunge distance from the starting area to the furthest point
we reach, when we either:
1) touch the bottom, or
2) break the surface, or
3) stop, or
4) 1 minute goes by or
5) when you move your hands or feet
for starts:
plungers can dive in when they choose,
the clock starts when their feet leave the block
they don't have to do a "take your mark" racing start
(as I side note: I'd love to have a 25 or 50 "from a running start" sprint event
electronic timing on both sides.
we could contest freestyle & underwater / SDK,
give swimmers a 75 foot non slip takeoff runway,
an 8 foot x 4 foot wide take off zone, &
a take off block that's 18 inches above the water.
What fun! Probably need to have no flags at the starting end for the great runner jumpers)
Look forward to seeing how far I get in my PFD attempts,
Yep big people, breastrokers, & good jumpers are likely to have an advantage.
This thread can include PUSH for Distance and Plunge for Distance.
Like the Cal alums, we call it PFD.
We do it all kinds of ways as long as everyone is doing it the same way.
E.g., we do it off blocks, with proper racing dive form, with a big arm swing, from the side, with a running start, etc. It's just a fun way to get in the water at the beginning of practice.
I totally agree that superior form will allow a smaller person to sometimes beat a larger person. However, all things being equal, big people rule. And breaststrokers do particularly well. Our local champ is Big Wave Dave Gray: 6'4" and 250 lbs. who has held masters *** stroke records.
Breath control is also tricky. You have to start letting air out or you'll surface too quickly. In my pool avoiding the pool bottom at the trasition from the diving area is critical. BTW, I can only go around 50' before I either sink to the bottom (too much air let out) or break the surface.
Interesting, what I did was like a plunge for distance from a push then coasted after surfacing till I ran out of pool
Let's do a Tshirt
PFD: It's a BFD
OK I read the Plunge for Distance rules,
Let's include Plunge for distance in this thread too
Let's mark our plunge distance from the starting area to the furthest point
we reach, when we either:
1) touch the bottom, or
2) break the surface, or
3) stop, or
4) 1 minute goes by or
5) when you move your hands or feet
for starts:
plungers can dive in when they choose,
the clock starts when their feet leave the block
they don't have to do a "take your mark" racing start
(as I side note: I'd love to have a 25 or 50 "from a running start" sprint event
electronic timing on both sides.
we could contest freestyle & underwater / SDK,
give swimmers a 75 foot non slip takeoff runway,
an 8 foot x 4 foot wide take off zone, &
a take off block that's 18 inches above the water.
What fun! Probably need to have no flags at the starting end for the great runner jumpers)
Look forward to seeing how far I get in my PFD attempts,
Yep big people, breastrokers, & good jumpers are likely to have an advantage.
This thread can include PUSH for Distance and Plunge for Distance.
Like the Cal alums, we call it PFD.
We do it all kinds of ways as long as everyone is doing it the same way.
E.g., we do it off blocks, with proper racing dive form, with a big arm swing, from the side, with a running start, etc. It's just a fun way to get in the water at the beginning of practice.
I totally agree that superior form will allow a smaller person to sometimes beat a larger person. However, all things being equal, big people rule. And breaststrokers do particularly well. Our local champ is Big Wave Dave Gray: 6'4" and 250 lbs. who has held masters *** stroke records.
Breath control is also tricky. You have to start letting air out or you'll surface too quickly. In my pool avoiding the pool bottom at the trasition from the diving area is critical. BTW, I can only go around 50' before I either sink to the bottom (too much air let out) or break the surface.
