How to swim faster - Skills N' Talents
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Date: 2022-07-18
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robohippy
Well, still playing with this and have discovered some interesting things. I have always suspected that I don't get enough full extension and body roll with my freestyle, but have never seen myself on camera. While playing with both this and the S shaped pull, these two faults seem to be very high lighted. I am slowly learning to do FULL extension instead of the 95 to 98% extension. Focusing on the catch, the set up which is high elbow and vertical forearm, then the pulling arm and front side kick on that same side are both 'locked and loaded' and then get that power/surge #1 front side kick to go along with the power section of the arm pull, which is in the 45 to 135 degree part of the arm pull arc. Not worrying about the S curve, though a little extra bend at the elbow when passing my belly button seems to happen at the same time as I roll from one side to the other. This does seem to make my stroke count less per length of the pool. Lots more Arrow freestyle in the future, and more of my over arm side stroke which enables me to focus on one arm at a time. Lots of work to do, but I think I like it. I am not competent enough with the fly to really 'feel' this, yet. I am starting to get the 'feel' of it with freestyle and my side stroke. Many more miles to swim.
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Well, still playing with this and have discovered some interesting things. I have always suspected that I don't get enough full extension and body roll with my freestyle, but have never seen myself on camera. While playing with both this and the S shaped pull, these two faults seem to be very high lighted. I am slowly learning to do FULL extension instead of the 95 to 98% extension. Focusing on the catch, the set up which is high elbow and vertical forearm, then the pulling arm and front side kick on that same side are both 'locked and loaded' and then get that power/surge #1 front side kick to go along with the power section of the arm pull, which is in the 45 to 135 degree part of the arm pull arc. Not worrying about the S curve, though a little extra bend at the elbow when passing my belly button seems to happen at the same time as I roll from one side to the other. This does seem to make my stroke count less per length of the pool. Lots more Arrow freestyle in the future, and more of my over arm side stroke which enables me to focus on one arm at a time. Lots of work to do, but I think I like it. I am not competent enough with the fly to really 'feel' this, yet. I am starting to get the 'feel' of it with freestyle and my side stroke. Many more miles to swim.
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robohippy
Never heard of the shoulder shrug as part of swimming, so, today in the pool I played around with it. I think it is the Effortless Swimming guy who talked about the catch, set up, power phase, and finish of the stroke/arm pull. In experimenting with this, I don't shrug my shoulders down until I get to the power phase, which is at about 45 degrees of the way through that 180 degree arc that our arms make in freestyle and the fly. I did notice that when I am getting tired, my high elbow tends to get ahead of my hand a bit, so not a true vertical forearm, and when I do this, I tend to shrug my shoulder down too early. Now, some thing to add to the list of things to pay attention to when swimming.
I am still playing with the S curve arm pull. Haven't made my mind up about it yet. It does not come naturally after years of pulling more straight through, rather than in the S.
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Never heard of the shoulder shrug as part of swimming, so, today in the pool I played around with it. I think it is the Effortless Swimming guy who talked about the catch, set up, power phase, and finish of the stroke/arm pull. In experimenting with this, I don't shrug my shoulders down until I get to the power phase, which is at about 45 degrees of the way through that 180 degree arc that our arms make in freestyle and the fly. I did notice that when I am getting tired, my high elbow tends to get ahead of my hand a bit, so not a true vertical forearm, and when I do this, I tend to shrug my shoulder down too early. Now, some thing to add to the list of things to pay attention to when swimming.
I am still playing with the S curve arm pull. Haven't made my mind up about it yet. It does not come naturally after years of pulling more straight through, rather than in the S.
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Fernando
I have a question about evf: does the forearm needs to be vertical like 90 degrees with the bottom of the pool or is it ok to be diagonally pointed? Ive heard a lot of different theories but any explanation. The majority of them tells us to do a completely straight forearm, doing 90 degrees with the bottom of the pool, but if we see ian thorpe, or tae park, they are doing a diagonally evf. Why?
Can anyone help me please?
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I have a question about evf: does the forearm needs to be vertical like 90 degrees with the bottom of the pool or is it ok to be diagonally pointed? Ive heard a lot of different theories but any explanation. The majority of them tells us to do a completely straight forearm, doing 90 degrees with the bottom of the pool, but if we see ian thorpe, or tae park, they are doing a diagonally evf. Why?
Can anyone help me please?
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Joel
Hey! I love the content, but is there a way you could do a diving video? Ive been trying to improve my entry but I keep getting way too much splash. I always get the furthest out from the blocks and Im always the first off because my reaction time is good, but I always have the most splash and it gets a little embarrassing at times lol. Is there any way you could make a vid about how to improve dive entry? Thanks!
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Hey! I love the content, but is there a way you could do a diving video? Ive been trying to improve my entry but I keep getting way too much splash. I always get the furthest out from the blocks and Im always the first off because my reaction time is good, but I always have the most splash and it gets a little embarrassing at times lol. Is there any way you could make a vid about how to improve dive entry? Thanks!
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Catherine
Oh my goodness. this popped up just at the right time on my newsfeed randomly. Have been getting really frustrated with swimming. What a game changer this has been for me, thank you! Explains things really well, things I have really been struggling with. Am actually feeling excited about swimming!
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Oh my goodness. this popped up just at the right time on my newsfeed randomly. Have been getting really frustrated with swimming. What a game changer this has been for me, thank you! Explains things really well, things I have really been struggling with. Am actually feeling excited about swimming!
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Vo
This is absolutely magically improvement. My pace changes impressively from 2: 27/100m to 2: 17/100m for 5km swimming. Thank you so much indeed for your explanation, and your passion in finding the best way to share useful information to everyone by visual and examples. All the best to you.
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This is absolutely magically improvement. My pace changes impressively from 2: 27/100m to 2: 17/100m for 5km swimming. Thank you so much indeed for your explanation, and your passion in finding the best way to share useful information to everyone by visual and examples. All the best to you.
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Brigitte
I primarily swim backstroke. Would the shoulder shrug suggestion also apply to initiate early vertical? Thinking about backstroke as freestyle in reverse. Thanks for your help. (BTW: I'm an older swimmer) I tried, and it does seem to work. But I'm not sure why or how.
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I primarily swim backstroke. Would the shoulder shrug suggestion also apply to initiate early vertical? Thinking about backstroke as freestyle in reverse. Thanks for your help. (BTW: I'm an older swimmer) I tried, and it does seem to work. But I'm not sure why or how.
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wordupmybrotha
I wonder if you could explain further on the point you made at the 3: 05 mark: If the core is not tight, your body will wrap around the pivot point. I don't think I'm using my core enough to rotate. Not sure if that's why my ribs have been hurting.
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I wonder if you could explain further on the point you made at the 3: 05 mark: If the core is not tight, your body will wrap around the pivot point. I don't think I'm using my core enough to rotate. Not sure if that's why my ribs have been hurting.
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Cathleen
I have been following all of your amazing videos and they are helping me improve my stroke greatly. In this video Aaron is not rotating his hips with his shoulders as you instruct on other videos; can you explain this more. thank you!
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I have been following all of your amazing videos and they are helping me improve my stroke greatly. In this video Aaron is not rotating his hips with his shoulders as you instruct on other videos; can you explain this more. thank you!
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Andrew
Hi, I'm a coach and Im working on the swimmers breaststroke, the problem is that she is lopsided with one shoulder higher than the other, his is now causing injuries in her breaststroke. Hoe can I fix this
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Hi, I'm a coach and Im working on the swimmers breaststroke, the problem is that she is lopsided with one shoulder higher than the other, his is now causing injuries in her breaststroke. Hoe can I fix this
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Jailson
I'm sorry to ask this kind of question: How do I know if everything you taught is true? I'm Brazilian and I really liked the format of your video, but I wanted to be sure, do you understand?
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I'm sorry to ask this kind of question: How do I know if everything you taught is true? I'm Brazilian and I really liked the format of your video, but I wanted to be sure, do you understand?
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79devo
When I was 12 I thought I was a good and fast swimmer. Im now 58 and training for triathlons. My swimming is shit! I only have one speed it seems. time to focus on technique as shown here
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When I was 12 I thought I was a good and fast swimmer. Im now 58 and training for triathlons. My swimming is shit! I only have one speed it seems. time to focus on technique as shown here
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Elbert
I've been struggling to become more efficient through the water and could not figure it out after watching a million videos. THIS VIDEO was the magic sauce for me. Thank you so very much!
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I've been struggling to become more efficient through the water and could not figure it out after watching a million videos. THIS VIDEO was the magic sauce for me. Thank you so very much!
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wordupmybrotha
Would appreciate it if you could explain further what you mean at the 3: 40 mark: Remember that they do rotate on the X axis, but they should not move from one side to the other.
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Would appreciate it if you could explain further what you mean at the 3: 40 mark: Remember that they do rotate on the X axis, but they should not move from one side to the other.
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Alan
This series of swimming videos is probably the most educational resource swimming tool I've seen in the last 4-5 years of swimming. Could you do some videos on open water swimming?
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This series of swimming videos is probably the most educational resource swimming tool I've seen in the last 4-5 years of swimming. Could you do some videos on open water swimming?
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