Boost Your Swim Performance: Dive into The Race Club's No-Glide Technique
Vložit
- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- As we countdown 100 days to the Olympics, we're thrilled to unveil something special: weekly videos from our subscription library until the games begin! 🎥 Plus, we're extending our free trial from 7 to 30 days! 🙌 Sign up for more exclusive content on our website:
theraceclub.com
In teaching swimming technique at The Race Club, we often see swimmers gliding off the walls on their turns. The glide-off-turn technique is what many swimming coaches teach their swimmers to do. It is not the fastest way to do a freestyle, backstroke or butterfly turn. At our swim camps, we no longer teach swimmers to glide off walls. Instead, we have them start to kick right away.
In this featured video, Olympic champion Maggie MacNeil becomes the seventh swimmer we have tested at The Race Club using Velocity Meter technology, comparing a glide-off-wall with no-glide swimming techniques. All seven swimmers have achieved nearly identical results.
In this video, you will see unique side-by-side comparative videos of Maggie using both techniques, with and without the VM technology. You will come to understand why the no-glide technique is the fastest way to leave the wall in swimming.
Watch the detailed breakdown of this 'no glide vs glide' velocity meter with Maggie's coach Rick Bishop here:
theraceclub.co...
When pushing off the wall, she was more horizontal in the case she did the glide. Would this affect the speed, if yes then the speed difference could be greater? Assume you used much more data samples for this study, and these two were chosen for illustration.
Possibly, but each time we have repeated this test with different athletes, we have always seen the same result: .1 faster with no glide compared to short glide and .2 seconds faster with no glide compared to long glide, when testing to 5 meters.
Yeah there’s drag factors at play here Gary, I’m not 100% sold.
Who has a larger foot size - Seebohm, Mckeown or Mcneil?
That is data we do not have sadly
When she glides, her first down kick ends below her body line, whereas when she doesn't glide, the first down kick ends within her body line.
Yes, but more important, the longer the glide, the more the knees bend for the first kick, causing excessive drag and deceleration.
My understanding of a glide off the wall is to break through your wake coming back at you from the previous lap. Test that
Interesting point! We will look into that
No glide….no rest. She must suffer at least somewhat for the rest of the length when she kicks right off the wall. Time from wall to wall would be more illustrative of the advantage, if there is one. Ledecky goes faster (measured in m/sec) when she kicks, and yet she doesn’t kick in the 1500 because she completes the race quicker without kicking. Even the most elite athletes have physiological limits. In any case it’s all very interesting 😅