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Episode: Biomechanics by Ernie Maglischo | ASCA Talk #024
Description: This week’s ASCA Talk comes from renowned swimming coach and researcher Ernie Maglischo from the 1998 World Clinic.
He provided some fascinating new insights into the mechanics of swimming propulsion. Having long been a proponent of lift-based theories, Coach Maglischo admitted he may have been wrong in his understanding and presented compelling evidence that drag forces likely play a much larger role than previously thought.
Coach Maglischo walks you through the history of research in this area, from Schleihauf’s early plaster hand studies showing lift dominance, to more recent work calling those results into ques...