This is like those guys who do IMs on PowerCranks…
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703957604575272680396369848.html?KEYWORDS=swimming
Oh wow.
Wow! Where is tigerchick?
Well. This whole IM thing is getting a little tame. Isn’t it?
One of the guys I used to swim with in UK did a mile every Wed morning fly… I am with most - 100 M fly and I am a wreck…
Funniest part of the article…
Five years ago, Mr. Laughlin says he was studying video footage of Olympics champion Michael Phelps when he noticed that after the young man’s chest hit the water, “he simply held a streamline, for a nanosecond, while allowing himself to sink.” Employing a similar technique, Mr. Laughlin found that it reserved his strength. Accepting that his torso was less flexible than when he was younger, he also began substituting the frog-like kick of the breaststroke for the butterfly’s dolphin kick, even though this movement would be outlawed in college or Olympic competitions. Now, Mr. Laughlin swims butterfly “with no fatigue nor any reason to stop other than a desire to do something else,” he says.
If you’re kicking breaststroke with fly arms, that’s not butterfly - that’s a drill.
Great, you mention PCs and the article has a quote from Terry Laughlin of Total Immersion fame. Can this thread get any better?
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That’s actually legal breaststroke from something like the 40s/early 50s before it was determined that arms recovering out of the water created too much of an advantage and a fly was declared a separate stroke from breaststroke proper.
As for fly, if you aren’t trying to go terribly fast, it’s more about finding a nice rhythm than being particularly strong. I can remember winning a ‘get out’ bet at a high school practice by doing a SCY mile of fly straight and without form break and since I could set my own pace, it was one of my easier practices of the season.
ugh I remember doing 6X500s fly from a dive. not to bad though muscularly it was the underwaters that killed me.
as Jill said, you just have to find a decent and easy rhythm.
wait that’s weird, in the part I saw it was butterfly armstroke with a big knee bend in a “dolphin” kick
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I think Marky V told me once that he did 100X 100SCY fly on the 1;05 interval once… Don’t remember if he made it or not, but definately did most of them…
wait that’s weird, in the part I saw it was butterfly armstroke with a big knee bend in a “dolphin” kick
Very weird, impressive distance he’s done, but it’s ugly as shit.
i saw that article in this morning’s WSJ and just rolled my eyeballs…
peggy
Way back when one of the sets my USS team would do with some frequency during heavy early season training was 20X200’s long course on short intervals. One of the dudes I swam with did them butterfly. . . fast. He was a freaking animal though and did swim the 200 fly at Seoul. It was, to this day, one of the more impressive athletic feats I’ve ever witnessed.
Meh… there have been nutjobs swimming long distance fly for years.
5k would be a mere warmup for this lady:
I think Marky V told me once that he did 100X 100SCY fly on the 1;05 interval once… Don’t remember if he made it or not, but definately did most of them…Did 80x100 during holiday training senior year of high school, but I think the sendoff was 1:20 or 1:25… sad thing about this is I chose to do butterfly. I had the last laugh though, as I finished well before those who chose 150x100 freestyle.
That’s awesome. I freakin’ love fly. I suck at it, but I love it nonetheless.
Meh… there have been nutjobs swimming long distance fly for years.
5k would be a mere warmup for this lady:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicki_Keith
129 consecutive hours in a pool. Talk about boredom.
He certainly has a pretty ugly fly stroke.
When I was a kid sometimes our swim coach would be in a bad mood and set us 1000m fly warm-up. I quickly learnt an efficient stroke.