Swimming: Effect of a fast‐skin™ ‘body’ suit on drag during front crawl swimming

Sports Biomechanics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-10

  Toussaint, Huub M ^a   Truijens, Martin ^a   Elzinga, Meint‐Jan ^a   de Ven, Ad Van ^a   de best, Henk ^a   Snabel, Bart ^a   de Groot, Gert ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 85008843392     PISSN: 14763141     EISSN: 17526116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14763140208522783     Document Type: Article

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