so that's why he keeps his head up and front - he purposely keeps his lower body and legs tilted down a bit to engage his strong kicks. If I did that, I'd be just creating more drag for myself.
did you see Olympic Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004? And remember this, he swims a long-distance, Phelps sprints so you can't compare them together. Moreover, at that time swimmer didn't have the technology as good as now. However, he was and always a champion in the heart of swimming-fans. What did you do? Did you have his success? If not, so don't talk like that, ok.
If Sun Yang or Phelps don't use the thorpe stroke, it's because they don't have his powerfull legs. Very few persons even among the top swimmers could adopt thorpe stroke, because of that.
His best 100m freestyle was bronze in '04 at Athens and bronze in '03 Barcelona. He wasn't the fastest in the 100m freestyle, thus his techniques wasn't the best for that distance.
No mention of the obvious, visible, conspicuous early vertical forearm. This is a cheap video of an extraordinary swimmer, whose great style deserved a better, more truthful narration.
Are you missing chromosomes? You realize Thorpe's 400m freestyle time is still the world record by textile suit standards which ideally are the real records. He also did that as a 20 year old 3-5years before the peak age of swimming it was also just prior to the new age training methods. Where was he at the Olympics you say? Every other swimmer had been training for several years straight without breaks, he'd come off a 5 year break out of optimal age and still made semi's at a national level.
Ian's such legend. Watching his strokes makes me happy. He's born to be a swimmer.
so that's why he keeps his head up and front - he purposely keeps his lower body and legs tilted down a bit to engage his strong kicks. If I did that, I'd be just creating more drag for myself.
did you see Olympic Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004? And remember this, he swims a long-distance, Phelps sprints so you can't compare them together. Moreover, at that time swimmer didn't have the technology as good as now. However, he was and always a champion in the heart of swimming-fans. What did you do? Did you have his success? If not, so don't talk like that, ok.
If Sun Yang or Phelps don't use the thorpe stroke, it's because they don't have his powerfull legs.
Very few persons even among the top swimmers could adopt thorpe stroke, because of that.
Smooth stroke...beautiful technique
Thorpe is a swimmer thinking outside the box
great video ~ :)
Nice. Thanks for the video! :D
His best 100m freestyle was bronze in '04 at Athens and bronze in '03 Barcelona. He wasn't the fastest in the 100m freestyle, thus his techniques wasn't the best for that distance.
I hope I could swim just a bit neatly to this technique some day..it shoudl be tough but I will work hard to master it
I agree.
its looks like index finger first not thumbs and if he did he wouldnt have that gliding extention
wow... fuck!!! my body position is totally wrong... nice video man...
Does Ian enter thumbs first having his shoulders internally rotated? I cant tell.
Very acute observation teg.
I don't think that's Thorpe. It's probably someone else
imagine him teaching his son how to swim :)
they put him on a platform infront of a green screen lol
The annotated cut-aways are poor, the stroke demonstrated there is very different, and abridged, from his stroke in the water.
No mention of the obvious, visible, conspicuous early vertical forearm. This is a cheap video of an extraordinary swimmer, whose great style deserved a better, more truthful narration.
Are you missing chromosomes? You realize Thorpe's 400m freestyle time is still the world record by textile suit standards which ideally are the real records. He also did that as a 20 year old 3-5years before the peak age of swimming it was also just prior to the new age training methods. Where was he at the Olympics you say? Every other swimmer had been training for several years straight without breaks, he'd come off a 5 year break out of optimal age and still made semi's at a national level.