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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(as I side note: I'd love to have a 25 or 50 sprint from a running start event,
with electronic timing on both sides. Both for freestyle & underwater / SDK, give swimmers a 75 foot non slip runway & a take off block that's 18 inches to 2 feet above the water. What fun!)
Side note to your note, We used to do exactly this to practice turns. Run down the side of the pool and dive in at about the 15y mark at full running speed. You glide for about 2 yards, take 1 or 2 strokes and try to flip turn fast. Really helps to get used to turning at speeds faster than you can swim, especially at taper time when you're going to go faster than you have all year. Running divestart turns make a 50 turn feel like slow motion. :)
(as I side note: I'd love to have a 25 or 50 sprint from a running start event,
with electronic timing on both sides. Both for freestyle & underwater / SDK, give swimmers a 75 foot non slip runway & a take off block that's 18 inches to 2 feet above the water. What fun!)
Side note to your note, We used to do exactly this to practice turns. Run down the side of the pool and dive in at about the 15y mark at full running speed. You glide for about 2 yards, take 1 or 2 strokes and try to flip turn fast. Really helps to get used to turning at speeds faster than you can swim, especially at taper time when you're going to go faster than you have all year. Running divestart turns make a 50 turn feel like slow motion. :)
