Brooke Bennet-A weak kicker?

Yeah.

"I noticed that in another thread, there are comments suggesting that
Brooke Bennet is a weak kicker with high turnover armstroke rates. She
does have high stroke rates. However, I am wondering why she is
considered a weak kicker. I had seen her swim and her kick is pretty
strong. Is the weak kicker comments originated from Larry?"

Y'all seem to be missing the point 🙂

Nobody gives a damn how well Brooke Bennett kicks, probably not even
Brooke herself. The point is this: if she was an age-group swimmer
now, born 15 years later than she was, would the World ever hear of
her?

That is, in the current paradigm of usa-swimming, would she be allowed
by her coach to gravitate to the short stroke, ultra high turnover rate
style that made her strike Olympic Gold? Or would she instead be
drilled in the importance of swimming tall, balance, distance per
stroke, glide, and head position - all notions which lead her in the
wrong direction from the whirling dervish style that made her great.
Would she be so over par while doing "swim golf" that her coach would
relegate her when in reality he held a diamond in his hand?

TI drills at an early age would have turned her into a different
swimmer - once she started to compete using a long, smooth stroke, the
only way to keep up would be to kick. She might have wound up swimming
like a Kaitlin Sandeno, instead of the way she did. She probably would
have been good, but if you "googled" her name, would you get even a
single hit?

Is there a Brooke Bennett age-grouper out there now being beat down by
the flawed system? That is the concern of our patriotic friend, Larry,
who would like to see the good 'ole USA stay on top of the swimming
world.

Eric

well her stroke worked for her, just like Janet Evans' stroke worked
for her. In the US, you see almost all swimmers with the cookie
cutter strokes. Not the case so much in Europe and Australia (inge de
bruin, michael klim to name a couple).

you see the same with other sports......tennis for example. American
players have well coached strokes, while europeans have unorthadox
ones......some players more successful, some not.

-brian

Quoted message said:

"I noticed that in another thread, there are comments suggesting that
Brooke Bennet is a weak kicker with high turnover armstroke rates. She
does have high stroke rates. However, I am wondering why she is
considered a weak kicker. I had seen her swim and her kick is pretty
strong. Is the weak kicker comments originated from Larry?"

Y'all seem to be missing the point 🙂

Nobody gives a damn how well Brooke Bennett kicks, probably not even
Brooke herself. The point is this: if she was an age-group swimmer
now, born 15 years later than she was, would the World ever hear of
her?

That is, in the current paradigm of usa-swimming, would she be allowed
by her coach to gravitate to the short stroke, ultra high turnover rate
style that made her strike Olympic Gold? Or would she instead be
drilled in the importance of swimming tall, balance, distance per
stroke, glide, and head position - all notions which lead her in the
wrong direction from the whirling dervish style that made her great.
Would she be so over par while doing "swim golf" that her coach would
relegate her when in reality he held a diamond in his hand?

TI drills at an early age would have turned her into a different
swimmer - once she started to compete using a long, smooth stroke, the
only way to keep up would be to kick. She might have wound up swimming
like a Kaitlin Sandeno, instead of the way she did. She probably would
have been good, but if you "googled" her name, would you get even a
single hit?

Is there a Brooke Bennett age-grouper out there now being beat down by
the flawed system? That is the concern of our patriotic friend, Larry,
who would like to see the good 'ole USA stay on top of the swimming
world.

Eric

It's in the trees!
It's coming!
- Night of the Demon

More alarmist crapola. Maybe you and Larry should do a Reefer
Madness-type movie. Or maybe on Lost, the monster we never see will be
a giant Terry Laughlin, stalking around the island, looking for
short-strokers to chomp on.

Man o' Tea said:

It's in the trees!
It's coming!
- Night of the Demon

More alarmist crapola. Maybe you and Larry should do a Reefer
Madness-type movie. Or maybe on Lost, the monster we never see will be
a giant Terry Laughlin, stalking around the island, looking for
short-strokers to chomp on.

It would help if you set up whatever it is you use to write this stuff
to include some identification of what you are talking about and who you
are talking to.

Most American players have hard court strokes; many Europeans and South
Americans have clay court strokes. Of course, all the decent players
come here for NCAA scholarships anyway.

Duke Kanahamanahnamamanamoku said:

It would help if you set up whatever it is you use
to write this stuff to include some identification of
what you are talking about and who you are
talking to.

Sorry, Google doesn't have the features that Agent and most news
readers have. It all looks very clear in their interface.

Man o' Tea said:

Duke Kanahamanahnamamanamoku said:

It would help if you set up whatever it is you use
to write this stuff to include some identification of
what you are talking about and who you are
talking to.

Sorry, Google doesn't have the features that Agent and most news
readers have. It all looks very clear in their interface.

I have no trouble (as shown above) quoting via google; you need to look
a little deeper.

So Master Po, should I sweep up the courtyard, or are you gonna tell me
how Google quoting works?

Man o' Tea said:

So Master Po, should I sweep up the courtyard, or are you gonna tell

me

Quoted message said:

how Google quoting works?

Actually it is not hard at all. Simply click on the option on the
right of the poster, then click on the "reply" option at the bottom of
the post. A winodw will then pop up and the original texts appears in
quote :-).

Man o' Tea said:

So Master Po, should I sweep up the courtyard, or are you gonna tell

me

Quoted message said:

how Google quoting works?

Actually it is not hard at all. Simply click on the option on the
right of the poster, then click on the "reply" option at the bottom of
the post. A winodw will then pop up and the original texts appears in
quote :-).

Man o' Tea said:

So Master Po, should I sweep up the courtyard, or are you gonna tell

me

Quoted message said:

how Google quoting works?

Actually it is not hard at all. Simply click on the option on the
right of the poster, then click on the "reply" option at the bottom of
the post. A winodw will then pop up and the original texts appears in
quote :-).

fz said:

Man o' Tea said:

So Master Po, should I sweep up the courtyard, or are you gonna

tell

Quoted message said:

me

Quoted message said:

how Google quoting works?

Actually it is not hard at all. Simply click on the option on the
right of the poster, then click on the "reply" option at the bottom

of

Quoted message said:

the post. A winodw will then pop up and the original texts appears

in

Quoted message said:

quote :-).

Yeahh, I figured this out, but it took me a while. They recently
changed.

Andres