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Therewere a couple of comments on floswimming recently about Michael Phelpspossibly changing his freestyle technique. I decided to google it and . Apparently, at a ribbon cutting for Omega, he said "you will be able to tell exactly what I did as soon as I take my first stroke."
Itis a pretty easy assumption in my mind that Michael might be playingaround with the straight arm free technique that is becoming morecommon in world class sprinting. The French seem to have built anentire system around it. If you have ever seen Fred Bousquet bust outan , you know it can be something really phenomenal.
Jonty Skinner spoke on this at . He made some interesting points about on the world scene, and this type of freestyle was a great example. To quote:

"Afew years ago, I wrote an article about freestyle in which I arguedthat, in terms of broad technique, there are two main options, and thatour infatuation with short-course yards (SCY) racing was leading usdown a path of diminishing returns in long-course (LCM) swimming. Myrationale at the time was the fact that, while swimming with astraight-arm catch versus a high-elbow catch was more powerful, it hada greater metabolic or energy cost. Using this technique in LCM seemed,to me, to limit the swimmer’s options beyond 100m free.
Aswimmer can be very successful with the straight-arm option in SCYbecause the actual time spent swimming as opposed to turning was verysmall (cost issue). That changes dramatically in LCM. Enter the suitsand their effect on metabolic cost—it lowers the cost substantially—andsuddenly swimmers can sustain straight-arm technique easily over a 100mlong course. This past Olympics was a testament to that fact. You usedto see the odd high-elbow swimmer in the thick of the 50; now youdon’t. They used to be in the thick of the 100; now they’re rare. Youused to have 200-meter swimmers competing in the 100m—and in many caseswinning that event—but not anymore. 100m races are dominated bystraight-arm [url=http://www.beatsbydreaudio.co.uk]Dre Beats Cheap[/url]

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, 50-meter guys."

I have to wonder. How manyother changes like this will come about in the next few years as thesport continues to evolve? We have all seen swimmers with crazy frontend speed who never seem to maintain. Haven't there been a few greatshort course swimmers in the past who just couldn't break through onthe world scene because they didn't excel in long course at the samelevel? Are we going to start studying their technique through differentglasses?

I personally can't wait to see Phelps focus on sprints.Even if it doesn't work out to be as spectacular as his 8 goldperformance, or as awesome to watch as his 400 IM in Beijing, it willat least add some spice to the world swimming scene. Everyone wants tobe the one to beat Phelps at a major meet, and the sprints are stillwide open as it stands now. It might take a major change for Phelps torise to the top in the world of the fast-twitch. Fitness won't be theissue for him, nor will be his ability to maintain technique.Generating sprinting power and explosive speed is where he will see hisgreatest advances and it will be fun to see what he is doing to reachthe next level.

Of course, I am making a pretty big assumptionhere about the straight arm thing, and we all know what happens when wedo that. :)

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