Freestylers !

[thorpey_luva]

Hey !

Hi everyone out there who is a freestyler, what is your times in da 50m, 100m, and 200m free events i do them and hopefully will compete in the games or olympics some day, whats your names and what club are you at bye !

:devil:

[Katie]

I'm a freestyler! But do you mean long course or short course!?

[thorpey_luva]

im a short course freestyler

[Dreama]

apparently i'm a natural freestyler or so I'm told, but I'm much better at breaststroke...prefer short course freestyle cos I love tumbles

[Hef]

I am a Breastroker, and Freestyle is one of my worst strokes. My best time for a long course 50 m Free is 27.6. I haven't raced a 100 or 200 for years.

[swimusa]

Sure, make it biased. Bring in the all meters discussion to exclude us Yanks who have no choice in the matter. We cannot help it if the US government won't ratify the Metric system over the Imperial system. :p

[Meiri]

I'm not a freestyler, but i'll put my times in...

50 free - 25.8
100 free - 57.3
200 free - I have no idea... i haven't swam that for a very long time.

[Taz]

hey im taz im a 12 year old freestyler here are my times

50 free- 30.00

100 free- 1.07

200 free-2.25

[thorpey_luva]

Hey im a 14 year old freestyler from da 1 and only Ireland mah times are

50m free : 28.24

100m free : 1.05.89

200m free : 2.13.67

[super_fish88]

I'm not really a freestyler but my favourite freestyle event is the 100m short course.

[swimlynn]

hey i am 14 and frae Scotland i am not very good at shorter distance free i prefer longer distance, but here are my times,

50-30.03
100-1.03.63
200-2.14.57

[swimchick152]

i am 14 and from MN and here r my times
50: 28.96 (but i have been getting 29's for a while)
100: 1:02.73
200: 2:15

[nsswimmer]

swimchick, are urs in meters or yards?

[super_fish88]

All of you are making me look so bad!

[Bogbloke]

mine are
50 free - 26.1
100 free - 57.1
200 free - 2.03

[swimlynn]

These times are pretty fast makin mine look pretty slow!! LOL!!

[Bogbloke]

sorry lol

[swimchick152]

Originally posted by nsswimmer
swimchick, are urs in meters or yards?

short course 25 meter pool i think :idea:

[Bazza]

OK thought I would join in so everyone who doesn't have a partner can still enjoy themselves this fine day!

50 - 25.6
100 - 58.0
200 - 2.09.0

[splash]

i am a breaststroker and am not very good at freestyle sprints better at longer distances but here r my times. Warn u i have not done frestyle for such a long time so they r old times.

50 - 28.69
100 - 1.04 58
200 - not swam it for 3 years

[Steve]

OK, my slightly bizarre collection of Freestyle PB's are:

50 - 26.84
100 - 57.72
200 - 2.11.11 :eek:

[Bogbloke]

oh yeah im 18

[swimusa]

I elect not to swim freestyle events. the only meters freestyle event I know my time for is my SCM relay split of 26.21 and I am quite happy with that.

[Bazza]

Originally posted by Steve Buckley
OK, my slightly bizarre collection of Freestyle PB's are:

50 - 26.84
100 - 57.72
200 - 2.11.11 :eek:

So mine aren't bizarre? How many people you know can go 25 but only 58?! :o

[rogant stard]

Originally posted by bazzaroodoo
So mine aren't bizarre? How many people you know can go 25 but only 58?! :o

I know a lot of very soft sprinters who are like this.

From what I can remember mine go something like 25, 55, 1.55 but I wasn't blessed with an abundance of fast twitch fibres.

[Bazza]

It's not always a blessing. I seem to have 'an abundance' of the buggers and all I get is stick for not being able to do 200s! :rolleyes:

[rogant stard]

Originally posted by bazzaroodoo
It's not always a blessing. I seem to have 'an abundance' of the buggers and all I get is stick for not being able to do 200s! :rolleyes:

Or 100's seemingly ;)

[Bazza]

Well I wasn't going to say anything....

I have been 55 in a relay, and that was an electronic split so accurate. On the basis that my rolling start couldn't have been worth 2.5 seconds maybe one day I can do a 56 at least!

[GettingFaster]

I think I'll log off now (sniff) you lot are great!
Slow wrinkly swimmer (aged group D, other Masters will understand)
My 50 (yes, fifty) time used to be about 45s, and my pb is now 41.05, and I'm proud of it. 100m is 1:40 or thereabouts but I haven't done it for a while, roll on Bracknell Masters next week.
Like the name says, GettingFaster, but I've got a LONG way to go before I could ever say I've got there!

[Bazza]

No shame in that, GF. This sport is all about the clock, about beating yourself. It will come... :D

[swimmer]

exactly, go GF, its all about beating yourself, your biggest opponent (sorry for the spelling mistake) should be yourself

[tinie]

dont worie super_fish88 ill make u look brileant
:(
50 free- 34.44 <<very old time
100 free 1.13.37
200 free 2.40.54
see rather slow there in a short corse pool
club ...... witney and distric swimming club

[DangerMouse]

freestyle, erm don't go there i don't like it!

[swimmer]

i hate hate hate hate hate free but my crap times are
50: 30.6
100: 1.06
200: 2.21
400: 4.59.0

200free time is rather old now, as is the 400, i really dont like free!

[swimmer]

*needless to say im not a freestyler!*

[Bogbloke]

swimmer they are not too bad times, but does depend how old u r

[swimmer]

hehe i'm 16/f! *embarassed face!* must admit free is not my no1 so not toooooo bad a crisis!

[sub24]

I think if I put on a bathing suit it would be an alternative way for the swimmers of my team to do abdominal exercises, laughing really hard tends to hurt if you laugh long enough (especially if it was one of the old 26 'paper-suits'; if you go back that far). But as one gets older, they say, the better they used to be...What's wrong with the 400?:confused:

50m 24.50
100m 50.60
200m 1:46.47

[swimusa]

Paper suits? OMG! I haven't worn one is years! Not since Aquablade was the big thing in 1996!

[Bazza]

Originally posted by sub24
...What's wrong with the 400?:confused:

What's a 400? :confused:

[Bootie]

I usually do 400 free in the International Masters meet here in Guernsey. The timetable of events doesn't really change from year to year and the 400 is always the last event on the Saturday night. I can usually squeeze into the last heat, its dark outside and most competitors have gone home. The atmosphere is very quiet and very calm making for a great environment to race in. After the days racing its a great way to unwind and I usually end up with a PB.

[nsswimmer]

Originally posted by sub24
'paper-suits'

what's a paper suit?

[Bogbloke]

I usually swim better with loads of people there, i usually switch off without noice, in racing and training

[DangerMouse]

Originally posted by nsswimmer
what's a paper suit?

they are what used to get warn for races before aquablades came out

[swimusa]

They were extremely tight suits that did not stretch. You wore them smaller so they would cause less drag, hence you only wore them at championships. But they could easily rip, and only lasted 2 or three meets. Speedo first addressed this issue with the popular S2000 suits that were the craze in time for the 1992 Olympics, then advanced on that with Aquablade for the 1996 Olympics, and then FastSkin for the 2000 Olympics.

[Katie]

What's next???

[super_fish88]

I can't wait to see the next swimsuits, i bet they'll come up with a really cool design. It'll probably be far too expensive for me thoygh! :(

[swimmer]

the new sharksuits are going to be silver apparantly.

[super_fish88]

Sharksuits? I like that name :) Do you when they're being put on sale?

[sub24]

what's a paper suit?

An evil device also known as a racing suit introduced in the early eighties as the next technologically superior material to the lycra. The material was 'crinkley' like paper when you would touch it, and earned the label 'paper-suit'. Like Swimusa has noted, it didn't stretch, and was painful to pull on, especially over shaved legs! I believe the material was a hybrid of nylon and lycra.

[sub24]

What's next? I think they will develop suits which will 'fill-in' the small bumps and dents on your body. This will act similiarily to the current top-of-the-line suits which squash much of the natural bumps on a body. If you notice a male's body, when very fit, has many muscle ridges on their body, and I think a suit that is custom made to make them more 'tubular' will increase the maximum speed significantly.

I also think a swim cap that is more streamlined, like the helmut's of the cyclists, may be in the cards for sprinting. Or smoothing down the head-hair like the synchro swimmers do with Jello could be more naturally stream-lined to a poorly fitting cap. However the cap with the goggles in them look so ridiculus that I am not sure if this will take off for some time.

[swimusa]

I think they're still in the planning process. What would be nice would be to have these high tech suits last longer than 2 meets.

[swimmer]

not too sure when they will be on sale superfish, probably a lil while after the current limited edition has run out

[sisclub]

Mine are really bad for my age. (15)

Free - 29.95
Fly - 32.34

[super_fish88]

LC or SC, sisclub?

[sisclub]

Hey, soz, didn't relise there was a 4th page!!!

[DangerMouse]

swimmer, the current limited edition ones you can get in the UK you can't get in the US as far as I know but they have to other colours, they have the royal blue with red stiching and navy with royal stitching and the black with grey stitching which you can get here

[swimmer]

yeh i kno, i was talking about the uk:). you can get the navy with yelloe stitching in selfridges in london aswell

[super_fish88]

They sound really cool but there was an article about them on the BBC Sports website saying is it just 'technology gone mad?'

[swimmer]

well what do they know??!! stoopid journalists, i don't see them critising the athletes spikes, or footballers boots GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

[super_fish88]

Erm, actually they were saying that the technology used in athletics is going over-board. The article was saying that in the 80's people won medals by running races in their bare feet!

[swimmer]

opppsssss! *embarrasses* plz excuse my lil outburst then! but still things have changed a lot since the 80's

[swimusa]

Originally posted by super_fish88
Erm, actually they were saying that the technology used in athletics is going over-board. The article was saying that in the 80's people won medals by running races in their bare feet!

Marathon runners from Ethiopia & Kenya and that dates back to the 1960's.

[swimusa]

Where can you get the different colored fastskins? is there a website?

[Steve]

Most US swimming websites sell them - I got my blue legskins from www.swim2000.com (based in las vegas) and I know others who have bought coloured fastskins from www.djsports.com (based in Austin, Texas I think)

[DangerMouse]

www.ultimateswimshop.com was the cheapest I could find em (looks cheaper at a quick look at that above site) and the postage is $25 - £16 so get a few mates together and it brings down the postage