NYAC Performance Update
November 2006

The Harvest meet was a great oportunity to put into practice our three main objectives for this time of year.

Technique
- emphasized were NCAA turns, high elbow catches on all strokes, dolphin kicks off walls.

Rhythm
- stroke modifications that made swimmers appear smoother and less jerky in their individual styles. Additionally, we wanted no stroke breakdown at the end of races.

Power
- I wanted proper splitting (ie, under 2 seconds in the 100 Free) in all the events with emphasis on stroke rates - For example we are looking at 40 rpm’s on average for 200 events – no scrambling and strong legs at the end.
The 200 events should reflect consistency in the last 3 50 splits.

Some good swims at the Harvest Meet (look at the splits for room to improve)

Marius Hattingh
makes National time in 200 Fly – Congrats! Look at the splits
28.4 31.6 32.7 33.5 - room to improve as we want the last three splits the same

Nick Karpov
800 Free - 38 seconds faster in this event & was almost a Grand Prix time
Out in 4:16:72 back in 4:20:5 is well done at less than 5 seconds.

Samantha Hu
200 Breast - improved by 4.5 seconds (40.9 45.0 44.8 44.5)

Kelly Lui
200 Breast - improved by 2.5 seconds (40.1 45.1 46.7 46.9)

Kyle Lui
200 Fly - improves 4.3 (32.2 37.7 40.1 41.9) oh boy !

Kyle Resnick
800 Free - improves 47.5 seconds out in 4:33:1 4:37:0

Andy Townsend
200 Fly - improves 4 seconds (29.4 33.7 33.7 35.5)

Neta Yokev
200 Free - improves 2.2 seconds (28.3 30.9 30.6 29.9) First time under 2 minutes

 

Oustanding swims at the Brantford International

Nathalin Moy swims to four first place finishes and all with best times. The Brantford International has teams from the U.S and Quebec and is considered one of the fastest meets for this time of year.

200 Fly 2:37:75 (1st) 35.0 38.5 41.0 43.2
200 Breast 2:54:50 (1st) 40.6 44.5 44.4 44.8
100 Fly 1:08:67 (1st) 32.8 35.8 (+3.0)
100 Breast 1:21:56 (1st) 39.5 42.0 (+2.5)