I didn’t get into watching college swimming until a year after Dressel graduated. The regret actually pains me when I think that I could’ve watched glorious moments like this live as it happened, and it hurts me more to know that we may not see another NCAA superstar like Dressel for a /very/ long time.
To go the SECOND 50 in 20.99 is simply awesome. It manifests great ankles, which we focus on in making the Fankle and in encouraging every coach to use a simple protractor each week to measure (Dressels’ coach, Gregg Troy, even bought Fankles from me back when Lochte was with him). That second 50 manifests great endurance - If you know Gregg, you know he’s not a fan of taking short cuts and having swimmers train in one dimention (USRPT). He trains progressively in distance, mid distance, and sprints and his swimmers are always as fit as any swimmer on the planet. If you missed Lochte CATCHING and then BEATING Phelps in his underwaters after years of getting smoked by Phelps, don’t miss the philosphy of coaching that gets Dressel to a second split of 20.99. God gave Dressel great speed, but coaching got him what, for example, Nathan Adrian is missing. Nathan looks like a great kicker from the top with all that white water, but he bends his knees on the up kick because his long levers are too much for his hip extensors. Such is not the case for Lochte and Dressel. I encourage coaches to learn from Coach Troy as well as Dressel, including, but not limited to, Michael Andrew. My site is Competitiveswimmer.com. Feel free to disagree, but let's keep the discussion going. :)
dont worry everyone starts somewhere, im a pretty advanced swimmer and I only go a 22.8 for my 50 free at 17, these guys are just on a different level!
this is short course YARDS (SCY). The "world records" are all 25m or 50m courses (SCM/LCM) since the US (and our college teams) are the only ones that train/compete in the 25yrd course competitively/at a high level.
