Keep ’em coming. After NCAA champion Dean Farris dropped a 28.7 75 free with fins in practice, we saw 2021 Olympian Brooks Curry fire back with a 28.6 75 of his own.
Now DII record-holder (and one of the fastest men in NCAA history in any division) Karol Ostrowski has joined the party, throwing down a 28.6 from Drury’s training trip in Honolulu.
We had our women’s team try it today at Northern Arizona University and our fastest was 34.81. Can some other women’s team accept the challenge? Rachel Lytle 34.81
Hot and fresh: https://staging.swimswam.com/18-second-freestyler-karol-ostrowski-will-finish-year-with-drury-then-transfer/
At this point just post videos of everyone who CAN’T do a 75 with fins in under 29 seconds.
I could do that. In a speedboat
I still lobby for swimswam having a “Practice Records” section. Any distance. I could see allowing kickboard (one stroke into walls), fins or fins/paddles category. I think pulling might be protested often if people are sneaking in kicks. Full video must be submitted. If touch pads aren’t used for timing, the average stopwatch time of 3 swimswam contributors will be used.
Let’s get serious about practice records and see who can through a kick board the farthest.
Tomorrow: Dressel blasts 20.5 75 without fins
Based on his 17.6 and his 39.9, he probably could have been in the 28.5-29.0 range without fins at that time. But in fairness, these other guys aren’t rested or suited.
It would pretty much end the discussion if Dressel threw down a 28.5 in a brief without fins, though, and I don’t think that’s out of the realm of possibility.
That’s not possible from a push. His best 100 back half is 20.8, even if he replicated that, which isn’t happening in a brief, his first 25 he would need to flip a 7.7. Use your brain.
/whoosh
It’s his middle 50 that you should be looking at for comparison to a 75, and he doesn’t have to save anything for the last 25.
With that said, it’s been a couple days since I watched the Dean Farris video, and I was thinking (incorrectly) it was a relay start, so yeah, 28.5 from a push might be optimistic, but not by much.
Somebody get Shane Casas to do this backstroke.
This is great. We are not too far away from SwimSwam having to add a “75 w/Fins” header/section on their home page!
That’s actually what I asked Santa for this year