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| Pat... |
 Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 10:27 am |
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Yesterday, while swimming, I noticed a guy who seemed to be doing it
differently, so I took some time to watch.
When I breathe on the left side, my left arm is back. His left elbow was
going past his nose when he turned his head to breathe. I first noticed
this because his right arm was moving normally, but to do the breathing, he
brought his left arm up straight overhead so that his arm was vertical while
he took a breath.
What I was wondering is, is this a new way to time the taking of a breath?
Am I doing it old-fashioned or something?
Pat in TX |
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| Duncan Heenan... |
| Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 1:07 am |
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"Pat" <newintown at (no spam) home.com> wrote in message
news:7h4kslF2qpna9U1 at (no spam) mid.individual.net...
Quote: Yesterday, while swimming, I noticed a guy who seemed to be doing it
differently, so I took some time to watch.
When I breathe on the left side, my left arm is back. His left elbow was
going past his nose when he turned his head to breathe. I first noticed
this because his right arm was moving normally, but to do the breathing,
he brought his left arm up straight overhead so that his arm was vertical
while he took a breath.
What I was wondering is, is this a new way to time the taking of a breath?
Am I doing it old-fashioned or something?
Pat in TX
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| Steve Freides... |
| Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:23 am |
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"Pat" <newintown at (no spam) home.com> wrote in message
news:7h4kslF2qpna9U1 at (no spam) mid.individual.net...
Quote: Yesterday, while swimming, I noticed a guy who seemed to be doing it
differently, so I took some time to watch.
When I breathe on the left side, my left arm is back. His left elbow
was going past his nose when he turned his head to breathe. I first
noticed this because his right arm was moving normally, but to do the
breathing, he brought his left arm up straight overhead so that his
arm was vertical while he took a breath.
What I was wondering is, is this a new way to time the taking of a
breath? Am I doing it old-fashioned or something?
Pat in TX
When kids are first taught front crawl at my Y, it's called "big arms
and side breathing" and the "big arms" part means they're supposed to
get their hands way out of the water. Sometimes you see arms straight
up as a result.
I couldn't tell you where my hand/arm was when I breath - I roll my body
in one smooth motion, so that as I'm pulling left, I'm reaching forward
right and rotating to my left. As I then reach forward left, the
process runs more or less in reverse - I roll my body back to center, I
bring my left arm forward, and my face rolls back into the water.
Unless I'm in a hurry, there is no moment when I feel like I'm taking a
breath - I'm just relaxing and opening up to that side. Inhalation in
swimming, at least in non-competition swimming, ought to be a pretty
easy, unhurried thing. We teach the kids to blow bubbles under water
and that this obviously takes a little bit of muscular effort, and then
just to relax their bellies and let the air come in without trying to do
any more than that.
Not sure if that addresses what you saw or not.
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| MW Smith... |
| Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 11:37 pm |
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On Sep 13, 6:27 pm, "Pat" <newint... at (no spam) home.com> wrote:
Quote: Yesterday, while swimming, I noticed a guy who seemed to be doing it
differently, so I took some time to watch.
When I breathe on the left side, my left arm is back. His left elbow was
going past his nose when he turned his head to breathe. I first noticed
this because his right arm was moving normally, but to do the breathing, he
brought his left arm up straight overhead so that his arm was vertical while
he took a breath.
What I was wondering is, is this a new way to time the taking of a breath?
Am I doing it old-fashioned or something?
Pat in TX
You're both doing it wrong. |
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| Pat... |
| Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 9:47 am |
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MW Smith wrote:
Quote: On Sep 13, 6:27 pm, "Pat" <newint... at (no spam) home.com> wrote:
Yesterday, while swimming, I noticed a guy who seemed to be doing it
differently, so I took some time to watch.
When I breathe on the left side, my left arm is back. His left elbow
was going past his nose when he turned his head to breathe. I first
noticed this because his right arm was moving normally, but to do
the breathing, he brought his left arm up straight overhead so that
his arm was vertical while he took a breath.
What I was wondering is, is this a new way to time the taking of a
breath? Am I doing it old-fashioned or something?
Pat in TX
You're both doing it wrong.
I have to say that my way, when I turn to the left as my left arm comes out
of the water, seems natural and lets me breathe without raising my head at
all. I just swivel it to the left to take a breath.
Pat in TX |
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| Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 12:40 pm |
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On 17 Sep,
"Pat" <newintown at (no spam) home.com> wrote:
Quote: MW Smith wrote:
On Sep 13, 6:27 pm, "Pat" <newint... at (no spam) home.com> wrote:
Yesterday, while swimming, I noticed a guy who seemed to be doing it
differently, so I took some time to watch.
When I breathe on the left side, my left arm is back. His left elbow
was going past his nose when he turned his head to breathe. I first
noticed this because his right arm was moving normally, but to do
the breathing, he brought his left arm up straight overhead so that
his arm was vertical while he took a breath.
What I was wondering is, is this a new way to time the taking of a
breath? Am I doing it old-fashioned or something?
Pat in TX
You're both doing it wrong.
I have to say that my way, when I turn to the left as my left arm comes out
of the water, seems natural and lets me breathe without raising my head at
all. I just swivel it to the left to take a breath.
That's exactly the timing I use to the right, which is my preferred side. To
the left I try to do the same, but often (attempt to) breath late due to lack
of confidence. If I mimic the right side breathing I'm much better, starting
the breath as my hand lifts from the water at the end of the stroke.
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BD
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