Breastroke Work, Frank Busch and Whitney Meyers : Speakers & Interviews

yeah look at jones and soni, the wr holders in the 100 and 200, respectively. their strokes are completely different than one another. ed moses had a great stroke that doesnt look a whole lot like brendan hansens. thats the cool thing about breaststroke, its different for everyone. its all about playing with the stroke and finding out what works for you, like frank is doing here.

Nike dropped all of their swimmers. Rumor has it Cullen Jones is still under contract for outside stuff, but that's it.

i thought nike gave up on swim suits? arent they out of the game?

i really want her to win the 200 im a world champs, i'm not sure if she's in though

I think what he means by letting go of the water is to just try and get the hands to recover quicker and therefore get back into streamline quicker. I think many times, swimmers let their hands get in the way of their breaststroke. Since Breast is a primarily leg driven stroke, you just want to do enough pulling to keep moving forward and to set up the hips and body for a powerful leg drive.

That being said, the insweep in breast is also a propulsive movement when done correctly, but that's the beauty of breast. Two swimmers can have two polar opposite styles and still go the exact same time.

ya i'm pretty sure that nike's got her...last time I checked. Not even Arizona is a sponsored team

I don't really agree with this concept. I see that he is really trying to perfect the timing but it seems like there isn't much pull to his technique. Watch Rebecca Soni and her pull is pretty powerful, short, and quick. I also don't agree with his droping the elbows all the way to the obliques. It just seems inefficient to me. Timing is important but I think pull is better.

her freestlye pull is slightly deep, but what busch is saying to "regenerate more pull from the lower body" is a great comment.

interesting. breast is all about timing the kick in relation to the pull. Kick is everything...look at Liesel

I don't undertsand the comment about letting go of the water early either. I have always believed that you should try to hold onto the water as long as possible in breaststroke. I also agree that there are many ways for someone to swim breaststroke fast. I guess that it has everything to do with body types and strength.

Whit has always been trying to get her breaststroke better. Gotta get those elbows a little more together in my eye.

Very good stuff though Garrett, glad to see she is willing to work on it with other people checking it out as well.

enough with the petty suit critique.

Frank, whitney, thanks for sharing. I think its interesting how even someone as good of a swimmer as whitney is, still seems to struggle (at least it appeared to me) with going against her muscle memory to make changes to her stroke and how you know its not going to be something that is changed overnight. Gives me some re-assurance when I am being coached and can't seem to make a simple correction easily. Just got to work at it.

Interesting advice. There are obviously 30 ways to skin the breastroke cat but to have her let go of the water out on the corner is something I don't quite understand.

Hmm I wasn't aware she was sponsored by Speedo...

The nice thing about being a PRO and Sponsored swimmer is that you can just get another suit for your next meet.

Probably should take your $500 suit off when you're done racing or I suppose warming down. Definitely before laying on a lane line and simulating breast stroke pull.

If you read the description you'll see that it's at the end of the meet.

Any particular reason why she was doing this in a LZR? Must be nice to swim at U of A seeing as they have they money to use full body LZRs as practice suits...