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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This test, does not only evaluate your potential for streamlining, but also your natural buoyancy.
On the clip where you manage 25y worth of gliding, you start at the bottom of the pool. You're exceptional buoyancy allows you to maintain a streamline position without kicking at all. You're body is surfacing gradually, without loosing the balance.
Several males swimmers would see their legs dropping as soon as the forward momentum stops providing enough support. As soon as the legs start dropping, drag resistance grows and they fall in a vicious circle (ie, legs drop so does the speed, since the speed drops then legs drop even more).
They're not necessarily less streamline than you are, they just float less.
Buoyancy is affected by a bunch of factor, some of which we have control over (ie, how to use the core muscles to try and spread the buoyancy potential from the upper body region down to the lower body region), and obviously also affected by other factors over which we have less control, ie the distribution of the body fat over the entire body, etc...
This test, does not only evaluate your potential for streamlining, but also your natural buoyancy.
On the clip where you manage 25y worth of gliding, you start at the bottom of the pool. You're exceptional buoyancy allows you to maintain a streamline position without kicking at all. You're body is surfacing gradually, without loosing the balance.
Several males swimmers would see their legs dropping as soon as the forward momentum stops providing enough support. As soon as the legs start dropping, drag resistance grows and they fall in a vicious circle (ie, legs drop so does the speed, since the speed drops then legs drop even more).
They're not necessarily less streamline than you are, they just float less.
Buoyancy is affected by a bunch of factor, some of which we have control over (ie, how to use the core muscles to try and spread the buoyancy potential from the upper body region down to the lower body region), and obviously also affected by other factors over which we have less control, ie the distribution of the body fat over the entire body, etc...
