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
Allen Stark has improved my stroke significantly in the past 3 years. I am down to 1:05 and 2:25 in yards starting from 1:13 and 2:48 in 2008.
Wow! Incredible improvement.:applaud:
You just reminded me...when are you, me and That Guy going to give our breaststroke clinic? Hansen, Kitajima and Soni are getting very anxious to attend. :D
I already put on my breaststroke clinic. It was very successful, not a dry eye in the house.
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14 yd for the push off for distance today.I think I could have gone further if I had gone deeper.I won't try it again until after Nats,but then I'll be shaved too.A drill I recommend is the BR pullout for distance,either from a dive or a pushoff.I can't quite make 25 yd from a dive yet,but I am nearly there(ran out of air at 73.5 ft today.)This is an especially good drill for people who aren't good BR swimmers as the further you glide the less you have to swim.
My underwater *** pullout is the ONLY thing I do well in an evilstroke event.
My results are about the same as Allen's on both glide drills. Gliding *** pullout from a dive off the side today was 21 yards.
I just tried this and I must say I'm very impressed with Ande after doing it myself. I ended up tending to just cork up to the surface with no forward momentum and barely got past the halfway point of the (25 yard) pool. I'm sure I could have milked it for a little more on the surface, but no way I could cover the whole pool. I think Ande is right that you need to work on the angle so you're able to use buoyancy to help push you forward.
From a hydrodynamic standpoint, I think you will glide farther underwater if you expel air in a controlled way to surface slower and hold some of that underwater speed longer. As you slow down, the upward bouyancy force can start overcoming the forward momentum force and start changing your velocity vector off of your bodyline axis. Did I just say that?
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work on the angle so you're able to use buoyancy to help push you forward.
Exactly. If one were to push off at only six to eight feet deep, the results will vary.
Upward lift from buoyancy combined with the correct angle results in forward momentum (as in a wing). And that's part of the reason why this is more difficult to achieve in a shallow pool. Less lift.
Still, that was pretty cool. :applaud:
After about 8 attempts, the best I could do was 12.5 yds in a 3.5ft deep pool.
I'll have to make a trip to a deep pool and see if I can do any better.
It was an eye-opener.
You've told everyone my secret on how I swim my breaststroke. My strength is in my pulldowns, the kick almost makes me go backwards. :)
You just reminded me...when are you, me and That Guy going to give our breaststroke clinic? Hansen, Kitajima and Soni are getting very anxious to attend. :D
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From a hydrodynamic standpoint, I think you will glide farther underwater if you expel air in a controlled way to surface slower and hold some of that underwater speed longer. As you slow down, the upward bouyancy force can start overcoming the forward momentum force and start changing your velocity vector off of your bodyline axis. Did I just say that?
Have you ever considered a guest appearance on the Myth Busters? :)
