Salmon Steve wrote:
I apologise if you mis-read my post...I was commenting about your stroke not you. Just so we're quite clear.
To add a little more to what I posted, I've seen so many people with beautiful pool strokes just like yours (you do have lovely glide, rotation...list goes on) but a lot of those same people struggle in open water as they're unable to deconstruct their stroke and put it back together to suit the conditions
on the day which aren't following a black line up and down in a pool. As some have mentioned, the most obvious is that lingering glide & slow turnover, you'd get knocked all over the show in chop.
I don't have a video here at work of what a good OW stroke looks like, lots at home but not back there until the weekend now.
Try searching Gerry Rodrigues out on the interweb - he has some of the best knowledge there is on OW. If you can find footage of Cory Hutchings from down these parts he was pretty spectacular too.
Again apologies for offending you.
I'm sorry Steve, it is understood.
It's been a miss understanding by my side, I know my English is so and so... I'm still improving it.
You have to know that I've been swimming all my live, now I'm 37.
I'm from Spain, and I've been also at my national team (not Olympic) many times, so I think that I know swimming and its tips a bit.
Knowadays I swim OW and I do triathlons, IM, etc.
I know by hart how to adapt swimming stroke in OW.
By the other hand I did this video because know I have friends from many different places, and they are beginners (ages from 30-40) so the need clear messages to begin to have a certain safety while swimming, so I just want to help them with some simple topics to make them feel more confortable.( first in the pool, and later in OW)
This is the goal of my video, and I put it here because if anybody else can take any profit from it, I'd be happy.
Thanks you all for comments .
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