tigerpaws wrote:
DC Pattie wrote:
Watch the greatest 1500m swimmer ever (Grant Hacket) and count his stroke rate. Not much over 60 (if I'm counting correctly). Watching Hacket - long glide, perfect form, smooth strokes - reminds me very much of T1 style swimming. Of course Hacket was a tremendous athlete with a huge motor; however, from my view - holding true to many basic T1 concepts.
I guess I just don't see much of a comparison. Grant uses a very shallow and radical EVF catch while Terry enters the water closer to his head and drives straight to his pull through position almost alleviating said catch motion with a very deep arm position during the pull through. Terry has a lazy if almost non-existent 2 beat kick while Grant looks like a thunder thighs convention shot with a taser. Lastly, the pace these two guys swim at is about as similar as my 10K to one of the Brownlees.
But yea other than that I can see how one might confuse Grant Hackett as a TI swimmer.....
Tiger - I'm reading this vintage thread and saw your post; it seems like we haven't heard from you in over a year. What is up with that??? Are you still at least swimming and riding??? We miss your wise-ass commentary. :)
Cheers,
Eric
"Anyone can be who they want to be IF they have the HUNGER and the DRIVE."