Weekly Blog by Swim Smooth

Weekly Blog by Swim Smooth

Overgliding, Inefficiency And The Overgliderometer

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Paul Newsome, Swim Smooth
Mar 09, 2012
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You might have noticed on some of our recent videos how we've included a 'time between strokes' measurement in seconds. This is the time delay between one stroke finishing at the back and the next one starting at the front:


It turns out that this is a very interesting measurement because it's a good indication of how much someone glides within their stro…

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