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
The plunge is part of the maryland masters winter series. It is held at the severna park, MD meet every year.
I have done it twice and won it twice. Good fun. As I recall the distance was a yard or so short of the flags. The pool there has deep end where you dive but it comes up to three feet deep, making the last 10 meters hard to get more distance on!
The prize for the winners is a plunger on a ribbon that you get placed around your neck while standing on the blocks and there is raucous applause.
I think you need good, long streamlines - which I can get being 6'5"
And lots of momentum helps too, at 245 I also have that in abundance.
The plunge is part of the maryland masters winter series. It is held at the severna park, MD meet every year.
I have done it twice and won it twice. Good fun. As I recall the distance was a yard or so short of the flags. The pool there has deep end where you dive but it comes up to three feet deep, making the last 10 meters hard to get more distance on!
The prize for the winners is a plunger on a ribbon that you get placed around your neck while standing on the blocks and there is raucous applause.
I think you need good, long streamlines - which I can get being 6'5"
And lots of momentum helps too, at 245 I also have that in abundance.
