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Swimming with One Arm
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 2006-06-12 5:00 PM |
Veteran  186   New York City |  Subject: Swimming with One ArmCompeted in a great race with fellow BTer Rollingbones yesterday! Harriman, NY Tri..Challenging race. After the race my wife tells me that the first guy out of the water during my heat was swimming with one arm?!?! (he had two arms, but chose to swim with just one). I'm thinking, thanks alot hun...I was swimming my little ole heart out with two arms and the first guy out of the water in my heat was using just one arm...oof...I am guessing that he probably swam the first 400 with one arm and the second 400 with the other arm. Has anyone ever seen (or done) such a thing. My wife said she could tell that his strokes were really powerful...I am thinking that maybe it was an optical illusion...But she had a friend there to confirm...How could he go so fast??? |
| 2006-06-12 7:06 PM in reply to: #451789 |
Elite 2915  New City, New York | Subject: RE: Swimming with One Arm I'm thinking you might want to validate those "supposed" fast marathon times your wife says she posts  |
| 2006-06-12 9:58 PM in reply to: #451909 |
Veteran 186 New York City | Subject: RE: Swimming with One Arm Yea, I asked her again, and she started to waiver. Still sticks by it though, says it really looked like it and a friend of ours was looking as well, and he "seemd" to be swimming with one arm. I think they were sleep deprived from camping in the wind for two days straight. |
| 2006-06-13 3:45 PM in reply to: #451789 |
Extreme Veteran 328 Texas | Subject: RE: Swimming with One Arm Sure it possible. We have a training drill we do that is swimming one lap with only one arm. It's a slow drill though. Maybe they had a sore arm or shoulder and could only use one arm. Was there a photographer at the race? If so look up some pictures to verify. |
| 2006-06-13 3:52 PM in reply to: #451789 |
| over a barrier | Subject: RE: Swimming with One Arm It might make sense, if he was injuried and couldn't use an arm. There would be no point in using your left arm for awhile and then just using your right arm for awhile. Would you bike this way? He was injuried and couldn't use it or somebody is pulling your leg, I mean arm. |
| 2006-06-13 4:10 PM in reply to: #451789 |
Veteran 332 Calgary | Subject: RE: Swimming with One Arm Is it possible he was doing some sort of side-stroke? That might look like one-armed swimming from a distance. |
| 2006-06-13 4:27 PM in reply to: #451789 |
| , Texas | Subject: RE: Swimming with One Arm Funny you bring this up. I've been doing some 1 arm'ed drills. Actually, my current warm-up is 4x100 of 25 right only, 25 left only, 25 catch-up, 25 swim. I typically complete the 100 right at 2:00 and my 25 catch-up is the slow leg. I think the first 50 is quite faster than the last 50 but I've never looked. Maybe one day, I'll swim a few 100s only 1 arm to see how well I do. |
| 2006-06-13 4:55 PM in reply to: #451789 |
Master 2629 brummie land | Subject: RE: Swimming with One Arm i swam one armed for a bit when i had a really bad shoulder. was kinda weird but good to have a break from all that b****y kicking! |
| 2006-06-13 5:17 PM in reply to: #451789 |
| Tulsa, Oklahoma | Subject: RE: Swimming with One Arm My first thought is that if he truley was swimming with one arm - then he probably had some physical limitations that was peventing him from swimming with two arms. I would almost say it was something perminent rather than temporary like an injury - only because of your indication that he was so fast....that sounds like he has been swimming like that for awhile. It would be interesting to know for sure. Optical illusion or a little something extra in her coffee that morning...... |
| 2006-06-13 6:05 PM in reply to: #451789 |
| Subject: RE: Swimming with One Arm I'm guessing an optical illusion At the Wildflower HIM this year, there was a woman who swam the relay leg one armed... because she only had one arm. She ROCKED!! May not have been fast, but she sure put things in perspective. Hard to watch someone like that run into T1 and not get veklempt |
| 2006-06-13 8:06 PM in reply to: #451789 |
| Veteran 149 Marietta, GA | Subject: RE: Swimming with One Arm Last tri I did there was a lady with only one arm. She obviously did pretty good on the swim because she passed me on the bike pretty early on the course, and the women started after my wave. |
| 2006-06-13 9:43 PM in reply to: #451789 |
 Master 1324 Rochester, NY | Subject: RE: Swimming with One Arm It could be that the guy was breathing only on one side and the opposite side never got much out of the water to be seen. Dunno |
| 2006-06-14 7:20 AM in reply to: #451789 |
Champion 6742 The Green Between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh | Subject: RE: Swimming with One Arm I'm guessing she's reading this post and laughing her butt off.... |
| 2006-06-14 8:08 AM in reply to: #451789 |
The Original 7834 Raleigh/Durham | Subject: RE: Swimming with One Arm There was a lady in the last tri I went to spectate at who only had one arm. Her one arm was amputated right at the shoulder. She finished the swim (not fast, but not last either). She rode a mountain bike with only one arm and ran. I was amazed! |
| 2006-06-14 8:09 AM in reply to: #453651 |
The Original 7834 Raleigh/Durham | Subject: RE: Swimming with One Arm |
| 2006-06-14 10:19 PM in reply to: #453653 |
Veteran 186 New York City | Subject: RE: Swimming with One Arm Thanks All...I am leaning toward the optical illusion idea. I could see where if the person was breathing only on one side with the oposite arm not coming out of the water too far would appear as though the person was swiming with one arm...My wife even admitted that it could have been an optical illusion... |
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