Nice! I'll take a look later...

Now, how can you help me to grow 6"??

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Just some comments I'd like to hear your (expert) opinion on.

1) you seem to go deep off the walls and execute the breakouts really well and I think it is . How much did you work on that specifically?

2) your hands move fastest the last part of the stroke. are you trying to a. pull hard or b. finish the stroke as quickly as possible?

3) did you have a best stroke?

4) ankle flexion is ridiculous. can your toes touch the floor if you are sitting on the ground with your legs straight in front of you?

5) 4 beat or 6 beat kick in a 400 IM (did you even do that event?)

6) do you consider the 200 free time an under performance?

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5) 4 beat or 6 beat kick in a 400 IM (did you even do that event?)
6 beat kick for everything - I was an All American 400imer in college (6th at NCAA's), but long course I was better suited to the 200IM for some reason (mental?).

You may have seen it but there is a video somewhere out in the youtube universe which shows Dolan's kicking patterns during the 400 IM at the '96 Oly. The thing that stuck with me was that he only did a 1-beat kick during his first 100 fly, presumably of course to save energy for rest of race. I thought this was pretty interesting given that he was the WR holder at the time, back in the dark ages of the pre-Phelps era. :)

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1 beat kick in fly? you still do that?

I've swum the 2 fly twice as a masters swimmer. first time the piano came down HARD. last time I went with a 1 beat for as long as I could to try and save my legs. didn't work, piano still fell, but I did improve my time by 9 seconds or so...

2 fly sucks...

I liked seeing the breaststroke timing, that's what I need to work on. that, and breast kick in general, I don't have the range of motion. although not sure I should use you as an example, seeing how you got outsplit by 3 guys I've never heard of at Trials. Some dudes named Phelps, Lochte, and Shanteau? Who the hell are they? ;-)

Seriously, thanks for posting these. nice to see...

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1 Beat Fly? No way - I need 2 just to keep rhythm. Dolan was a beast and a half to do what he did. Shit, yesterday was the first time anyone's taken a significant step forward off his 500fr record in 22 years! Yes, they've been chipping away, but not a big step til yesterday (4:07.25 FTW)

Order of Death:
400IM
200 Fly
200 Breast
200 Back

Funny story - I took my sweet ass time leaving the pool deck in '08, so I was behind all 3 of them walking down the steps to the tunnel. I only had a brief flash of pushing them down the stairs and calling it an 'accident', but somethingsomthingTonyaHarding.

Also, I realized when posting this thread, the audience was going to be narrow, and I specifically thought of you, AJThomas and EricMulk as the most likely respondents, haha.

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Funny story - I took my sweet ass time leaving the pool deck in '08, so I was behind all 3 of them walking down the steps to the tunnel. I only had a brief flash of pushing them down the stairs and calling it an 'accident', but somethingsomthingTonyaHarding.

LOL. too funny....


I guess when I say I went with a 1 beat fly, it's technically still a 2 beat but not a lot of force on the "pull" beat. I usually have a lot of legs in my fly stroke...

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Dolan's efforts were sadly forgotten in the age of Phelps. Dolan was a beast. If I recall correctly, that was the same time as Potts at Michigan too. Wasn't Potts 3-4th at trials in the 400 IM going into the Atlanta games?

Grothe descended that swim after the first 100 which is equally as impressive as the time I think.

great stuff
what take aways did you get from the swim with the velocity device ?

One big thing that becomes very apparent is if you have a stall in your stroke, which commonly occurs during the breath. So learning how to continue to maintain speed (more accurately not decelerate) during that phase.

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Did you ever re measure it?

Yeah, looking back at the last video there, I think it's out of sequence. You can see a marked difference in the velocity curve.
"Before" is at the end of the video (around 1:00)

"After" is near the beginnning (20-30 seconds) and has a much smoother profile, without the drastic lows

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I would agree it was a bit out of sequence
i should have been clearer was this the only time ( day ) you used that device ?

cheers

Gotcha - yeah that was the last time I was at the OTC.

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Yep, Potts was 4th in the 400 IM, in 4:22, at the '96 Trials.

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Americans go 1-2 at that Olympics & Potts was 4th at trials. I don't think most here can wrap their heads around how fast Potts was as a competitive swimmer.

I like how they synched the cable readings to the video... We did testing with that type of gear about 10-12 years prior and the filming was VHS 👎

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Summer Sanders was known for 1 beat in Fly as is Laslo Czeh

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Seems to me that you are not a high elbow catch club member. Nevertheless, you are pretty fast, and I think most of your propulsion is pushing water back, like it is suppose to be. Perhaps it's just the small differences unique to each person.

Sure he is. He isn't as extreme as some, but that's the definition of high elbow.

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You are hitting the nail here TS. Potts would've finished 9th or 10th at the Oly, as the console final winner went 4:22.5. Of more interest to the tri crowd who mostly swim freestyle, Potts went 3:58 for the 400 m free and 15:39 for the 1500, and did not come close to making the finals in either event at the Trials. He was indeed a very fast swimmer, though one never really appreciates this level of speed until you swim in same or adjacent lane to this caliber swimmer, and then they're just like "whoosh" when they go by you. :)

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Really? I mean I tried to move to a pretty straight pull, unlearning the "s" pull of my youth, but just look at the cover image of the last 2 videos, seem pretty high to me. Now I wasn't as fast as some others, but I think I got the job done.

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