Why do elite 100 freestylers use a loping stroke?

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James Gibson MBE · Answer

Why do we late hundred freestylers? Use a low ping stroke? Not all of them, some do. And they're more, the Senate 100-200, guys, that breathe every stroke. You know, more than 100 200, guys, we use the lope In freestyle and more the Sprint baseball, where use more of a straighter arm, kind of technique there. The fifty hundred guys, they will use them or Sprint technique. So, yeah, there's two different types of techniques lope and stroke more straight arms. Print, based technique lope in stroke is characterized by breathing every stroke and the reason why I do it. The reason why they do it is because they got they can if they're going to feel better in their back end. So the hundred two hundred guys, using the low pinstripe will do all their damage and the second 50, like our Charmers, he'll eat up everyone going down that second 50. Debbie Popovich e will go everything on that second 50. So that's that. Two different sort of two different styles, it's also less demanding on power, you know, the loping stroke breathing every stroke. You got option coming in less oxygen debt and it's also less aggressive for the muscle system. Um so that's why they use this so they get less fatigued at the end. So if you're more of a hundred 200 swimmer and you're trying to use the Sprint style, you're going to blow up at the end because it's too much muscle in there too much power.

Roland Schoeman · Answer

Ahmed, I that's a great question it to me. I started my loping stroke, you know, quite some time ago because I watched somebody like Alex pop off, have this beautiful, just rythmical stroke and and for me, I really wanted to copy what he was doing. So it was, it was based on that. I imagine that there are other athletes out there that have seen that low and they have decided. It's implemented and implemented well into their stroke, what I feel like it afforded me was a sense of relaxation, a benefit in my timing at allowed me the opportunity to get my breath and be relaxed as opposed to you know some athletes out there have that continuous stroke going and they Rush the breath and make it really quick for me. I just felt like it, it's synced everything up and that's what I love. About it. I tried it points to swim with more of that continuous stroke, but ultimately have always just gravitated, especially in that hundred and above to war, you know, way more of a loping stroke, it just worked for me.

Joshua Watson · Answer

Hi I'm Ed. Why do Elite hundred freestylers use a loping stroke? I think that's an awesome question because I don't have the answer. I don't think they should. I think eloping strop is stroke is evidence that there's an imbalance in the stroke. And one side of the stroke is longer than the other. One side of the stroke is stronger than the other and I just think I don't know why it happens it maybe it's got something to do with the breath and trying to fit more into One side of the stroke, but I think this is one of the real things that freestyle needs to work on. As a, as a holistic technique, is to start to understand how to swim balanced without a Gallop without a lope. Because at some point in the stroke you missing water and that's obviously not what we want to do.

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