pssst imagine if you took some of the collective wisdom that is given to you in your swims (even if you have tried it before) and applied it to this improvement. I think that’s why you cause people to bang their head against the wall. You self admit you dont do all the small things with your swim stroke (again read YOUR own comments on it, while professing 15k yards a week volume) and yet constantly complain and push back on any “advice”. I think that’s why people have the reaction they have to you. You constantly complain about stagnant improvements yet deny any advice and you are at best an average swimmer. Like it truly is almost trollish.
You’re like a broken record, you keep saying the opposite of what I do.
I’m like the best student of applying wisdom and keeping at it. I do more drills and technique analysis for sure than over 80%, if not 90% of triathletes, which is why I spend 15k a week swimming. I’ve said this ad nauseum. I’m NOT the guy that just drills it in the pool, I self video, analyze, refine, refine, refine. You’re the one who keeps trying to pigeonhole me into what I’m not. I do this with everything in life, and I know how to learn stuff well, and I absolutely know that details count count count.
But I’m also the one that won’t lie when I say I work a boat-ton hard, and have gotten what seems to me outsizingly small results for it. I mean, your last post makes it sound like everyone should just do one-two insta-fix trick and get 6 sec/100. That’s what I see a lot here, but that NEVER happens for me. I’ve literally done experiments with dolphin kicks and breath holding ad nauseum because I’ve seen that recommended and the overall average is never faster, even if the first 1-2 sets is (more effort).
Even better - let’s forget about ME, and talk about YOU. What one easy fix are YOU going to do that’ll get you 5 sec/100 tomorrow? Yeah, thought so. We’re in the exact same boat in that regards, despite what you say.
What I finally DID find though, is likely a big source of my stagnant improvement, which sounds ridiculous, but was the jammer itself. Whether it be loosening, or material, or whatever, if was THE main limiter.
At this point, with that figured out, it’s time to go back to the drawing board and see if I can squeak out small improvements from here without the complication of an ever-worsening drag suit which will definitely make analysis more difficult.
But you need to give it a rest that you think I don’t care or train about technique. I train it to death - but I’m just the only one here honest about talking about how little results it’s given me. Doesn’t mean I still wont’ do it though, I’m aware that I don’t know everything and that swim experts talk about technique for good reason.