Sunday, September 21, 2008

Do you streamline like a tiger, a polar bear or a penguin?

I have graduated to "polar bear!" The open mouth with my head up lunging for a piece of meat was just not working!

I don't know if "penguin" will ever be doable but it is the struggle that makes you better don't you think?

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm still trying to improve on my elephant postion let alone tiger or polar bear!

Tony Austin said...

Hahahahaha - If you modify your streamline from the elephant position into more of a hippo, I bet you could take that 24.12 of yours and change into a high 22.00

Tony Austin said...

Chris, if you would have taken up swimming as a kid instead of in "old age" you would been an Olympian. You have have been swimming for what, 2 years only and you are swimming a low 27 for the 50 free LCM and a low 24 for short course. If you start nailing your turns and streamlines, you will be unstoppable!!!

Ahelee said...

This is great!

But I do have to admit that sometimes my stealth penguin streamline changes into that tiger growling looking thing when I am trying to chase down one of the guys at the noon practice on a final 25!

Anonymous said...

Tony thanks for the encouraging and greatly exaggerated opinion on my swimming potential! I can only hope to improve on what I swim in the here and now. All of us have some "shoulda, coulda, woulda's" throughout our lives that don't mean anything ultimately.