Shinji Takeuchi, head coach of TIJapan, has posted a 2:00 video on youtube showing surface and underwater, frontand side, slow-motion and normal speed views of his stroke. Before long it’slikely that Shinji’s freestyle stroke will have received a million or moreviews. There are two reasons for this: (1) It displays what people instantly recognizeas a “fishlike” grace, flow and ease rarely seen among human swimmers; and (2) Theysense instinctively the [...]
Published on July 17, 2009 16:00