What's your swim type?

Tri-Tammy · Jan 26, 2011

I just recieved this website in an email from the team and thought I'd pass it along. I'll have to take a look at it when I get a chance.
 
<a href="http://www.swimtypes.com/typesindex.html" target="_blank">http://www.swimtypes.com/typesindex.html</a>

KitKat · Jan 26, 2011

Neat! I did the survey and it totally pegged my type (which I would like to say was smooth but no).

hobey · Jan 26, 2011

Yep me too. And I'm not "Smooth"....

MBannon · Jan 26, 2011

Hmmm. I'm guessing I am somewhere between Overglider and Smooth. I should probably post a video on here to let others decide for me.

KitKat · Jan 26, 2011

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<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by MBannon <a href="/forum/thread/72360/what-s-your-swim-type#post_1979863"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border-bottom:0px solid;border-left:0px solid;border-top:0px solid;border-right:0px solid;"></a> Hmmm. I'm guessing I am somewhere between Overglider and Smooth. I should probably post a video on here to let others decide for me.
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Did you do the survey? It'll tell you what they think you are.

MBannon · Jan 26, 2011

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<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by KitKat <a href="/forum/thread/72360/what-s-your-swim-type#post_1979865"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border-bottom:0px solid;border-left:0px solid;border-top:0px solid;border-right:0px solid;"></a> <div class="quote-container">Quote:
<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by MBannon <a href="/forum/thread/72360/what-s-your-swim-type#post_1979863"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border-bottom:0px solid;border-left:0px solid;border-top:0px solid;border-right:0px solid;"></a> Hmmm. I'm guessing I am somewhere between Overglider and Smooth. I should probably post a video on here to let others decide for me.
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Did you do the survey? It'll tell you what they think you are.
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 Overglider, with just a small possibility of kicktastic, but I'm ruling out the kicktastic. Of course, I'm using guesstimates on the two key input figures of speed and stroke rate, so...garbage in garbage out, as they say. In general, though, overglider seems pretty likely to be accurate.

MBannon · Jan 26, 2011

Hm, reading further on their website and watching more videos, I'm fairly certain they accurately pegged me as an overglider, even to the point of being a "pretty solid swimmer stuck at a plateau." Very interesting....

hobey · Jan 26, 2011

So how many of us are overgliders because that's what they said I was and the description was pretty accurate.

KitKat · Jan 26, 2011

Not an overglider. I am kicktastic with a touch of swinger. Happily though I am working on those areas they say I need to.

TriBob · Jan 26, 2011

I got Overglider too. I imagine most triathletes would land here. Too much TI.

1Topodope · Jan 27, 2011

It didn't totally nail me, but I am a Bambino. I guess I shouldn't be shocked since I have only been swimming for a year. A few things don't fit - like not being able to breathe while swimming. I swim so slow that I have no trouble breathing ; ) And my swim times during the actual triathlon is much better than what I pull out in the pool. 
 
Thanks for the link. It was neat!

xflbk43 · Jan 27, 2011

Overglider here. Though I can bilateral breathe when I want to. Just need to do it more often than my warm ups/cool downs.

mrscoby78 · Jan 27, 2011

Bambino - duh
 
It really nailed a couple things for me...
 
Lacking in confidence but gets a big buzz from overcoming challenges and swimming well. (I was crazy excited last year when I got through OW without completely panicking and stopping to tread water)
 
Due to limited swimming experience, self confidence in the water is lacking. (I've started doing tri's < 2 years ago - and hadn't been in the pool before that since i was a kid)
 
Typically a wide and deep arm pull through, relying heavily on the shoulder muscle groups to pull them through the water. (I have a bum shoulder from a dislocation, and I can feel it catching a lot)
 
Seen pausing at the end of the pool to catch their breath. (I've overcome this pretty well in that I've learned to stop freaking out, which ruins my breathing)
 
A rotary / windmill style of arm stroke which lacks catch and hold at the front end of the stroke. (I'm not even sure wtf this means)

xflbk43 · Jan 27, 2011

Ok, I've been corrected. Had my mom view the videos and then rate me, since we swim together all the time. We both will check each other's form every few weeks. She said that I am most definitely a smooth, with only a few tendencies of the over glider. She said that I look completely effortless, even when I am swimming hard and I do rotate the same on both sides. 
 
Mom is an over glider, who occasionally reverts to her arnette tendencies when she starts getting fatigued.

TriAndStopMe · Feb 6, 2011

I learned freestyle via TI, so another Overglider here.

Dougie Fresh · Feb 8, 2011

I didn't read the article but is "survivor" a category?

Stitcher · Feb 9, 2011

Hah!
Doug....I suspect that you've come a long way from the Wild Fish where I met you!

miles99999 · Feb 9, 2011

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<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by Dougie Fresh <a href="/forum/thread/72360/what-s-your-swim-type#post_1982444"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border-right:0px solid;border-top:0px solid;border-left:0px solid;border-bottom:0px solid;"></a> I didn't read the article but is "survivor" a category?

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I'm with you Dougie...if I make it out of the water alive then it was a good swim. I am definitely an "Arnie" though, pretty much spot on.

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