Yeah its soothing to watch these open water swims and especially his. Whenever I do open water swims (amateur stuff, 2 km sea swim every year etc.) I am basically constantly trying not to get ambushed by a wave from my right side. The coast is on the left. Wish we could get a really calm sea one year.
Thanks for this - ive kind of naturally found that this galloping/2nd stroke stride style to be faster for me but battled with weather or not it was an acceptable thing to be doing after seeing so many smooth, cyclical swimmers and being told thats how to swim
Agree I try and do this in the pool. I feel like it's just way more aero through the water. You kind of just glide through the water bc your head I just below the surface.
I really love how you explain steps. But the most important thing I think you forgot to tell everyone based on my experience is that you really need to push your entire body forward in relax feet and arms. I guess the lengthen maybe your way to say push.
I need to find goggles that help me see better. I usually cannot see the next bouy. I wear glasses normally and the goggles are not cutting it. My neck also hurts after a long swim, from sighting.
Is anyone interested in swimming in the surf? I thought about asking about swimming through the break in surf and then around cans and then back to shore but I don’t think anyone else would be interested. I have do my run-swim-run proficiency soon. Due to lockdown, most of winter has been been a bit surfing or surf ski paddling. Swam to shark nets and back in a (surfers) wetsuit on Sunday and the water was still freezing.
That sucks, our government have said they aren’t opening pools until 80% vaccinations which isn’t expected until the end of November. So still another 2 months… will need to binge a lot of effortless swimming videos when that rolls around!
Oh...I remember ...someone lost their swim caps...but strong cores to sustatin these strokes and its a good example...Brenton R U still racing in Mel 70.3 ?
