Tom Shields swims for the Cal Golden Bears under Coach David Durden. Shields broke the 200 yard butterfly NCAA record at the 2013 Men’s DI Swimming and Diving Championships.
Tom Shields 200 yard butterfly breakdown:
1st 25: 7 dolphin kicks – 5 strokes
2nd 25: 8 dolphin kicks – 5 strokes
50: 22.27
1st 25: 8 dolphin kicks – 5 strokes
2nd 25: 8 dolphin kicks – 5 strokes
100: 48.04 (25.77)
1st 25: 8 dolphin kicks – 5 strokes
2nd 25: 8 dolphin kicks – 5 strokes (but a long floating reach at the end)
150: 1:13.79 (25.75)
1st 25: 7 dolphin kicks – 6 strokes (finishing perfectly on the wall)
2nd 25: 8 dolphin kicks – 6 strokes (and a slight reach at the end, a little glide, to reach the finish)
200: 1:39.65 (25.86)
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hello, I was just wondering where the video went for the underwater shots of Tom shields, it isn’t coming up?
J.M. He finaled at US Trials last year, safe to say he’s capable of long course speed. Training for a 200fly short course doesn’t guarantee it, but would think there is some transferance/a good chance his LC 100fly will be fast. 50s a crapshoot with Any number of 50 guys who will try their hand at it.
great stats, really shows the importance of the underwaters in scy
I am truly interested to see what he can do at trials on 50 and 100 butterfly …even though he didn’t really train for Long course races . He is gifted for butterfly . Very good videos and comments guys . Very interesting topic
This is like the epitome of what I want to see. Please find as many of these kinds of videos as you can
Don’t think it’s fair to compare the underwater kick on a suited 50 fly to a 200fly kick/strategy. Shields was 21.7 on his first 50 of the 100, 19.6 on the 1st 50 in the 400 medley relay, 19.7 on the 200med finals. Even at .7 that’s 20.3 flat start. Pretty sure those are equally proficient to your example…
Good point.
Shields’ underwaters are great, but for even better underwaters see video below; Matt Jaukovic’ world record on 50 SCM.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66BwpFf4xnM
Crazy simple and easy looking. You watch Tom Shields and start to wonder what the big deal is to go 1:39 in 200 fly. His whole race was just as a matter of fact elementary looking. Then you realize…