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  • Effect of Hand, Foot and Forearm Size on Swim Speed

    From lawsonsdad@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Clive Jones on Thu Feb 14 10:09:50 2019
    On Friday, August 28, 1998 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Clive Jones wrote:
    Are there any references on this topic?
    Does the size of your hands or forearm breadth affect front crawl speed?
    How about foot and lower leg size and width?

    Just searching for biological excuses for my inability to achieve a
    decent pace!

    Hand and foot size are a bit hard to alter without drastic surgery or
    using gloves/fins/paddles etc, but would a bit of forearm iron pumping
    have any benefit?
    --
    ##################### CLIVE JONES #################################
    SWINDON
    UK

    Physics says the size of the paddle does matter, if you think it doesn't then you're probably just uninformed on swimming. This would certainly include the size of the arms. There are many factors important to swimming, since water is about 800 times
    more dense than air, streamline is also at the top of the list.

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  • From Mizuho Inada@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 17 11:06:00 2019
    lawsonsdad@gmail.com:
    On Friday, August 28, 1998 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Clive Jones wrote:
    Are there any references on this topic?
    Does the size of your hands or forearm breadth affect front crawl speed?
    How about foot and lower leg size and width?

    Just searching for biological excuses for my inability to achieve a
    decent pace!

    Hand and foot size are a bit hard to alter without drastic surgery or
    using gloves/fins/paddles etc, but would a bit of forearm iron pumping
    have any benefit?
    --
    ##################### CLIVE JONES #################################
    SWINDON
    UK

    Physics says the size of the paddle does matter, if you think it doesn't then you're probably just uninformed on swimming. This would certainly include the size of the arms. There are many factors important to swimming, since water is about 800 times
    more dense than air, streamline is also at the top of the list.


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