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Gretchen Walsh is now world famous for her underwater swimming, having broken a number of world records at the short course world championships last week. After one of her races, Walsh admitted that even though she does want to push her underwater swimming off each wall to the 15m mark, she gets nervous about getting DQed and even cuts her kick count short if she thinks she’s cutting it too close.
Perhaps the 15m line should be painted on the bottom of the pool. Not sure how useful it would be though. Presumably most people train a specific number of kicks but I guess when the adrenaline is really pumping it might be possible to go slightly further on the same number of kicks.
In a short (25 yd) pool it is easy for a swimmer of Gretchen’s caliber to go wall to wall underwater so it is something that she and others have to know where they are. As a NFHS official I have seen violations even at the high school level. But also as an official I have seen subpar markings on deck for us to watch.
that’s the only thing she’s good at. can’t even crack 24 seconds or 53 in the lcm freestyle events
Laughing, is that all you have? Her fly is a preview of coming attractions.
Her best times are 24.0 and 53.0 so are you concerned that she didn’t swim a tenth faster? She’s only 21 and long course season hasn’t even started yet. She’s been improving in every meet and her trajectory looks very promising.
I honestly have a hard time fathoming how much of a loser you have to be to take shots at an athlete right after they set 11 world records in a single meet. Truly mind boggling.
10 individual lcm/scm world records (not to mention many scy/american records) in the past year, also not including any relays, would suggest otherwise, but go off
i agree with you wholeheartedly but saying scm/lcm is a little deceptive l
She literally has a long course world record lol
“yet”
Show me your world records.
anyone that plays connections: sports edition might want to check out december 19ths one
Yes! I played this morning. Made me laugh and smile.
During short course worlds they had a good underwater camera angle of wide eyed Gretchen as she approached the surface. I was thinking she goes so deep on freestyle underwaters it gives her a great view of the markers as she angles upward.
Backstroke I have no idea how they don’t screw up more frequently. Of course, when they do screw up it’s seldom penalized anyway.
It is just the head that has to break the surface
100% of good UW kickers have a certain number of kicks they take. No one looks for the 15m marker on the lane rope. They practice their kicks and know how many will get them to just before 15m.
She can count the number of dolphin kicks it takes for her to get to 15 meters
Adrenaline can cause many swimmers to kick harder and go farther on the same number of kicks then in practice. I would count to see how many it takes me to get to the 12.5 or 13 yard mark at practice so at a meet you don’t go too far. Better safe than sorry.
The article literally states “and even cuts her kick count short if she thinks she’s cutting it too close.” She obviously counts her kicks but is also aware enough of where she in the pool to make adjustments if needed.
Must be a nice problem to have