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Originally Posted by Mullins
Bending at the footpockets often isn't apparent until you slow down a video. I thought my leaderfins mono was bending pretty well, but it turns out the blade itself hardly flexes and it's all coming from the footpockets. I
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Now the question is - is that automatically a bad thing? I mean weren't world records broken with that fin?
Benny - personal observations about lactics (I also seem to be "resistent"):
Most important factors are:
-The amount of ventilation pre-dive
-Warmups
-Speed and kicking style.
Quite simply the biggest lactics I get with no-warmup, no breathup, fast speed. On heavy warmup, slight hyperventilation and slow speed I get nothing.
My personal feeling is also that this has to do with the magnitude of the dive response - ie. some of us simply don't get a really good one in the pool (with max packing especially). I won't get into the whole aerobic vs. anaerobic metabolism thing, but in a nut shell not getting lactics indicates you're not very well vasoconstricted and are probably burning a lot of oxygen to swim. This would make sense since I get pretty good lactics even on a pretty shallow CW dive, which I'd like to think is because the pressure magnifies my response. My personal gut feeling is that this has to do with me being in general more of the "endurance type" physiologically. Mostly just speculation, but that's how I explain my self for sucking at dynamic
All the best dyn dives I've done I felt really strong lactic burn, but on average I just "don't get that". This is especially present in bouts of aerobic training, which for me is 95% of the season. When I taper down I start to get lactics and better dynamics too...
Bit of off topic, but still...
