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Stefan Woehrmann Date: Mon Apr 17, 2000 9:01 pm Subject: Re: Questions About Writing Depth | ||||||||
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Hi Angus, Hi Bill and hi to all other experts in breast strokes - I was so amazed to read your detailed descriptions. I went down to the cellar. - You know - the spider with his push- ups He told me, that both of you did an excellent job on this. Maybe that our sport students get misinformed if they are asked to practice a different position of the head - facing the bottom, the palms while the arms strech forward - parallel palms down - Would be great to see some gifs - can you arange that ? Great - fun - too nice ! All the best !! Stefan :-) >From: Bill Reese >Reply-To: SignWriting List >To: SignWriting List >Subject: Re: Questions About Writing Depth >Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 11:14:46 -0400 > >If I recall correctly. Correct me Angus if I'm wrong. :-) > >But doesn't the breast stroke involve revolutions of the wrist? The hands >start out palms facing each other, touching or almost touching. Then you >extend both arms in a forward stroke, keeping the hands flat, fingers tight >together to minimize friction through the water. Just as you extend your >arms as far as you can, you turn both palms outward and start to move them >in >the outward circle to get back to the original position - imagine pushing >something outward with your palms. As you go through the circle, the >wrists >and hands rotate in a more complex movement. The hands bend slightly at >the >wrist and stay that way for most of the circle. Then, just as you get to >the >point where you need to bring the hands back together for the next stroke, >you bend the hand further while rotating the wrists. What results is the >fingers of the hands point towards each other while the palms are facing >the >body. You move the hands towards each other and just as they almost meet, >you change them to point forward, palms facing each other. > >While they are doing this, your elbows are bending to bring the hands back >towards your body. The elbows also tend to be brought together when they >are >in the start position, again to minimize the friction through the water >when >extending your arms. And, of course, while the arms are doing this, the >legs >are going through a frog-like motion. > >If it is all done correctly, the head and shoulders are lifted slightly out >of the water on the backstroke of the arms and legs (which move together in >coordination). Usually the head is kept up and facing forward during the >whole stroke. The back is arched back to allow this. The shoulders are >usually kept back instead of moving forward when extending the arms. > >Did I remember right, Angus? :-) > >Bill Reese > > >"Angus B. Grieve-Smith" wrote: > > > On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Valerie Sutton wrote: > > > > > What is a breast stroke? > > > > The way I learned it, your hands start down near the bottom of > > your ribs and brush the body as they extend forward as far as they can > > go. They then move out to the sides and back down, pushing you > > forward through the water and completing the circle. The elbows are >bent > > when moving the hands forward past the body, and extended for the rest >of > > the stroke. > > > > > 1. Do the circles for the arms occur that far from the chest? - Are > > > they very very far from the chest when the circles happen? > > > > I didn't learn it with any circling movement at the end of the > > extension; the movement is a single, smooth circle repeated until you >get > > to the end of the pool. Is that the way that Danny is describing it, > > Stefan? > > > > > 2. Do both arms move at the same time in a breast stroke? > > > > Yes. > > > > -- > > -Angus B. Grieve-Smith > > Linguistics Department > > University of New Mexico > > | ||||||||
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