Congratulations to Voni Oreman age 41 for swimming the English Channel!!! 10 hours and 59 minutes! Voni also placed 4th in the USA swimming 10K Championship in Newport Beach, CA with a time 2:31:39. www.usa-swimming.org/fast_ti...lts&eventid=508
Voni is a University of Denver Masters Swimmer and a Age Group Swim Coach for the Greenwood Athletic Club in Colorado.:cool:
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Effi -
From what I have read, it was a "standard" breaststoke kick. Think breaststroke as it was taught 20 or 30 years or more ago. What I believe they used to call a "frog kick." From what I have read of Webb's Channel crossing, I suspect that the focus of his style was actually the pull since there is commentary about the frequency and strength/weakness of the arm action and little of the kick. Of course, that may be the case since water opacity may have prevented seeing much of the kick.
Also, keep in mind that the crawl wasn't really in use and the butterfly hadn't been invented yet. Other strokes, such as sidearm and Trudgeon (sp?) would come into vogue and fade, during and after the time of Webb, but they had little sway on the "standard" breaststroke style of the period.
-LBJ
Effi -
From what I have read, it was a "standard" breaststoke kick. Think breaststroke as it was taught 20 or 30 years or more ago. What I believe they used to call a "frog kick." From what I have read of Webb's Channel crossing, I suspect that the focus of his style was actually the pull since there is commentary about the frequency and strength/weakness of the arm action and little of the kick. Of course, that may be the case since water opacity may have prevented seeing much of the kick.
Also, keep in mind that the crawl wasn't really in use and the butterfly hadn't been invented yet. Other strokes, such as sidearm and Trudgeon (sp?) would come into vogue and fade, during and after the time of Webb, but they had little sway on the "standard" breaststroke style of the period.
-LBJ
