You should have seen the pictures that were in the regular magazine version of that article. Pretty gross looking stuff! Too bad there were no triathletes amongst that group, otherwise they could have added wetsuits into the mix too!

Any chance you can get some of those pics posted?

Sorry, don't have that issue around anymore. It was from quite awhile ago...

Not sure what blew you away? I did not see a thing that dismantled existing swimming theory.

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"The best swimmers should have the body of a snake and the arms of a gorilla," he concludes. "The fact that elite swimmers are not all shaped like this is a wonderful reminder that fluid mechanics is not the only factor in swimming fast." -Professor Cussler.

The take away lesson in my view, unless you plan on swimming in guar. :)

-Robert

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"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." ~Anne Frank

>>>"In The New Science of Swimming Counsilman [talks about] the 'theoretical square law,' which states that 'resistance [to a swimmer's motion] varies with the square of his velocity,'" explains Cussler. "In other words, to go twice as fast [a swimmer] has to pull four times as hard. That just jumped out at me when I read his book." <<<<

I think this has huge implications on the way we teach/coach swimming. I don't know that it will change what a WR holder does. But, I'm not sure anybody knows why two swimmers with similar physilogy can differ so much in speed. In other words, why does someone like Michael Phelps go as fast as he does? And somone built similar, training similar, and has similar Max VO2, etc. - why can't this dude go as fast?

I just think it shows us that we know a lot less about this stuff than we think we do.

Not to get into that too much, but that's the whole concept behind Total Immersion.

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