We took a trip to Cambridge, Massachusetts to go film a couple of Harvard practices. At this men’s workout, they started off doing a few fun relays with teams of 3. On this relay, 2x NCAA champion Dean Farris swam the middle leg, a 75 with fins. He not only gave his team a whopping lead but split 28.7.
For reference, if he would have kept going and swam another 25, there’s a very real chance he could have swum under 40 seconds for a 100 free. I know it’s with fins…. but come on. That’s fast. Full practice video coming soon 👀
Reminds me of that Ashton Kutcher movie where he is training for the coast guard and breaks records wearing wearing fins and some other gear.
“He’s fast!”
Max Jones did it four times yesterday #recognize #dartmouthontherise
Those didn’t look like big fins either. Yikes.
@Coleman Hodges what fins was he wearing?? It matters.
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Joe Schooling went 28.6 in army fatigues at boot camp
After going 50.6 in practice in a speedo
After he broke 20 seconds in the scm pool and moved the bulkhead with the pins still in
Not sure schooling could go a 50.6 75 with fins right now
Underwater swimming 😁👍🏼. 13 strokes total.
At first I wasn’t impressed at all, but those are really tiny fins, way smaller the ones I am used to using / seeing at practice
Not sure if this will be a popular opinion but I feel this is less impressive than the article seems to imply. My experience is that people can swim about a second faster per 25 with that kind of fin than they can without. Making that rough conversion would equate that to a 32.high 75 off a push, which is definitely really impressive, but not necessarily lights out. I kinda feel like the swim is just reminding us that Dean Farris is still really fast, but the second paragraph of the article seems to blow things out of proportion.
I would respectfully disagree that implying he could have swum under 40 in a 100 and saying “that’s fast” is blowing things out of proportion. I would argue that this statement is in proportion.
the fins definitely take away from the impressiveness. Give Ryan Hoffer some fins and he could probably go 37 for 100. It’s still really cool seeing how easy he made it look but practice times with fins is like having a million dollars in monopoly money, it’s neat in specific scenarios but not worth very much in reality