I am not impressed. The stroke creates a huge wake behind you and looks pitifully slow. Also the lead shoulder appears to be subjected to a lot of stress.
Glenn Mills or the Total Immersion guys should go down to Camp Pendleton and give clinic.
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I imagine the stroke is meant to solve the problem of swimming with a pack on. So it's basically a modified side-stroke, which lets you get air, and also keeps you from having to shift the weight of the pack too much. Maybe there's a better way to do it, but it doesn't seem obvious to me.
That is a very good and obvious observation. One that I didn't think of.
Hence, I went looking for what a Navy seal carries on their back when in land combat. It ranged from amazing small to a ridiculous large.
Apparently SEALs have several areas of expertise from water, to desert, to tropics, to snow. I was thinking this is how they educate them how to swim when conducting water operations when you would primarily into shore to estabish a beach head.
Maybe I've seen too many combat movies, but it also looks to me like the stroke is designed to create as little surface disturbance as possible. I don't see a huge wake in that video; the vast majority of the stroke is underwater.
I agree with Trevr. It appears to me the intent behind this stroke is to minimize the swimmer's out-of-water exposure and thus possible detection. Stealth, not speed, is their objective.
The stroke is meant for stealth and silence, hence the reason for no hand entry like modern freestyle. Too much noise is created with modern swimming techniques. This is suited for military use where silence saves your life.
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I imagine the stroke is meant to solve the problem of swimming with a pack on. So it's basically a modified side-stroke, which lets you get air, and also keeps you from having to shift the weight of the pack too much. Maybe there's a better way to do it, but it doesn't seem obvious to me.
That is a very good and obvious observation. One that I didn't think of.
Hence, I went looking for what a Navy seal carries on their back when in land combat. It ranged from amazing small to a ridiculous large.
Apparently SEALs have several areas of expertise from water, to desert, to tropics, to snow. I was thinking this is how they educate them how to swim when conducting water operations when you would primarily into shore to estabish a beach head.
Maybe I've seen too many combat movies, but it also looks to me like the stroke is designed to create as little surface disturbance as possible. I don't see a huge wake in that video; the vast majority of the stroke is underwater.
I agree with Trevr. It appears to me the intent behind this stroke is to minimize the swimmer's out-of-water exposure and thus possible detection. Stealth, not speed, is their objective.
The stroke is meant for stealth and silence, hence the reason for no hand entry like modern freestyle. Too much noise is created with modern swimming techniques. This is suited for military use where silence saves your life.
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