Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Breaststroke side by side comparison - look at the momentum graph!


Swimming is all about not losing momentum:

Comparison of two swimmers side by side doing a breastroke pullout. The performance times for each swimmer is as follows; For the 100 yard breastroke, the swimmer on the left goes 1:00.8 and swimmer on the right goes :57.8. Even though both swimmers have vastly different performance times, the tracing demonstrates that at least for this part of the lap, identical techniques. Arrows at key positions appear in this video to demonstrate the similarities through this phase. With practice, by gliding less from the initial push-off from the wall, the zero velocity artifact can be eliminated.

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