So swimming is obviously waaaaaay bigger in the US (& Canada) than in the UK and perhaps we don't find out about this stuff in day to day sporting life.
But people talk about times on here (particularly top end speed, 50's & 100s) that genuinely seem to be on another planet to a MOP AOS (okay, I can do sub 60mins in a sea/wetsuit IM but have never swum faster than 1.25 100s (that's short course M (in the UK we don't even have to mention it, almost without exception it will be 25m pool here).
Maybe if I am doing a 25 or 50 I might be a smidge faster but no more.
I can sort of get my head around a tall long limbed big engined Phelps swimming at a speed I can't comprehend but when kids do it I start to get lost.
How do they do it? What are they really doing differently that means they can move through the water at almost twice the speed of a fit moderately coordinated adult with a broadly reasonably stroke (nothing glaring wrong)
But people talk about times on here (particularly top end speed, 50's & 100s) that genuinely seem to be on another planet to a MOP AOS (okay, I can do sub 60mins in a sea/wetsuit IM but have never swum faster than 1.25 100s (that's short course M (in the UK we don't even have to mention it, almost without exception it will be 25m pool here).
Maybe if I am doing a 25 or 50 I might be a smidge faster but no more.
I can sort of get my head around a tall long limbed big engined Phelps swimming at a speed I can't comprehend but when kids do it I start to get lost.
How do they do it? What are they really doing differently that means they can move through the water at almost twice the speed of a fit moderately coordinated adult with a broadly reasonably stroke (nothing glaring wrong)