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I have long wondered about the comment that kicking helps elevate the hips. I guess that is partly true, but as near as I can tell, having good posture in the water is more reliant on head position and proper core engagement. For most swimmers, the frontside kick (down kick in freestyle, up kick in back stroke) is stronger than the back side kick, but not by a huge degree. I guess that can help elevate the hips at least a little. For me, I do not like the kick board, and use a snorkel since that puts me in a better body position.

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It seems the trend is to bring your foot out of the water. Actually up to shin even. It used to be taught to just break the surface . I could image two things would make your faster. A foot out of the water eliminates the drag of the foot in the water for a fraction of a second that would add up. Also the foot speed coming down would be faster and harder than if it would have started under the water.

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How long does it take to build a really good ankle flexibility in your experience for someone, who doesn't have a swimming background? Not suprisingly for me as a runner, my ankles aren't very flexibel. To change that I'm streching/rolling my ankles daily for 5-15 minutes. I'm also working on my hip flexibility and there's constant progess, yet I'm asking myself if there is a rough guess how much time it takes to get them really flexibel. : ) Thank forward to any opinions, answers!!!

Wow! Everything that I did not know about the kick. Thanks for the clear and concise explanations. I see now why my kick has not been effective.

If I understand what you are saying, the thigh moves towards the head at the start of the down kick and this induces a bend at the knee? I should not be actively bending my knee and then starting to push the leg down?

In order to get the feet facing to the rear, I have to bend my knees significantly. Is this okay? Also, should the legs be relaxed and whipped about as if there are no bones in the leg? I currently move my legs up and down like scissors. I don't have a very effective kick. Lol!

Hey coach, can you elaborate on the upkick in the context of this video's topic? If ankles should be relaxed on the downkick to create that final flick, how can they hold water tension on the upkick while being simultaneously relaxed? I feel great water resistance on my soles on the upkick when keeping feet pointed and tense. As soon as I get tired or sloppy, resistance goes away and so is the speed. Another question on the ankle stretching: do you think increased ankle mobility = better flick or main factor should still be relaxed ankle?

So, now I am wondering, I always considered that with the 50 meter sprint, the stroke rate is higher, and stroke length is shorter, and so is body rotation. With the 1500, stroke rate is lower, and stroke length is longer, and so is rotation. True? Or is this a whole different topic?

Awesome content. I always demand "length in speed" in practice via stroke count and time keeping. Keep up the great work, coach.

Allthough I'm not commenting very often I watch nearly every video learning always something. Due to your helpful advice I improved the way I see drills, which ones are usefull and how to implement them in my workouts to get most out of them. I feel we're all on a big journey improving day by day. Thanks Coach Andrew. 🙏🏊‍♂🏆

This was super insightful! Especially that last backstroke drill, love your content

As I say, "practice may not make you perfect, but you won't get better without it." Of course, part of the learning curve is figuring out what you are doing wrong and then fixing it. Video, specifically underwater video, is essential.

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I've seen so many videos about this but it feels like you finally explained clearly what I actually need to do to kick effectively. So thank you!

Andrew, will any type of tube socks work? Maybe add some more materials inside them for more resistance.

Looking forward to working on this tomorrow in the pool. Thank you, Andrew!

One of Newton's laws of motion, " For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction" really applies here. The difference between dolphin kick and flutter kick are two fold. Dolphin kick is more powerful because of 2 legs working together will create more thrust than the legs working independently. The other difference is that while both kicks are a "crack the whip" action, dolphin kick is a body wave crack the whip, and flutter kick is a rotational crack the whip. So take a steel ruler and hang it off the end of a table or bench and twang it. Note that it goes both up and down. To make it effective, you need to keep tension in your core/abs to maintain that spring steel action and reaction. With the flutter kick since you are adding in rotation, think of a trampoline spring. Anchor one end on the table and put a stick cross ways/at a 90 degree angle to the length of the spring. Twang one end of the spring and it moves up and down on both sides. Again, this action/reaction requires core engagement. I will never forget seeing Gary Hall Sr. on his channel using his velocimeter on some swimmers. One woman actually generated more thrust on her up/down side kick than on the down kick. "Totally and in all ways inconceivable!" Hope you have watched the Princess Bride!

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I have seen a few people swimming with one paddle. I always figured it was to strengthen their weak side since most are far stronger on one side than the other. I seem to be alone with this opinion, but I feel that having the hand slightly cupped/concave increases pull strength. I discovered it by sticking my arm out the window driving down the freeway. I think there are a number of reasons why the oars for paddle boards and the racing row boats/skulls are concave. Close to the cup shape if you are palming a basketball.

Thanks for the analysis. What doesn't add up in term of efficiency is that in sprit, the "opposite hand" style is accompanied with no breathing however, in galloping this come on the breath side. Haven't tries it, but maybe it's worth exploring pulling "sprint style" without breathing and breathing on the "front quadrant" side.

Andrew is another big difference between shoulder driven and hips driven that the hips stay much flatter with shoulder driven than hips driven? The rotation comes more from the upper body than the entire body length? Great video Sir.

This is hands down the best swimming technique channel I’ve found. The Race Club is excellent too but the detail on this channel is amazing and has answered questions I’ve had for years and also corrected advice I’ve had in the past. Wish I had this resource 50 years ago😂

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Well, some stuff not included here about the gallop style. I am not sure if that is Sun Yang as the distance swimmer, but he did a gallop style swim as well, but maybe not as much gallop as Katie Ledecky. The footage with Katie, that is Ariarne Titmus in the back ground, with Katie swimming gallop style, and Ariarne swimming an even cadence stroke breathing on a 2, 2, 3 or 4 pattern. I don't think anyone has done a side by side comparison of their strokes. Ariarne can beat Katie in the 200 and 400, but not in the 800 and 1500. My guess is that Ariarne is running out of O2 with that 3 or 4 breath pause. Need to put one of those O2 level sensors on her finger when she gets done with a race. As you said, with the gallop style, it is an uneven cacence. The breathing side arm stays extended for just a short bit and then a quick 1, 2 pull. Also, the swimmer is porpoising a bit, a slight up and down motion with the body. This results in the upper body being slightly under water for a bit, and the head coming up more out of the water than some one like Ariarne does. Maybe half of the lower goggle comes out of the water where with even cadence, only the top side goggle lens comes out of the water. I don't know for sure, but I have heard that the going under water reduces drag from no surface tension and/or the bow wave is greatly reduced. I am figuring that the diving down a slight bit under the water also adds some "drive" to the stroke, maybe similar to the lunge in breast stroke. Possibly, and I would need Gary Hall at Race Club to confirm with his velocimeter, the pull power makes for a sine wave which with Ariarne's style would be a pretty even curve, peaking in the middle of the arm pull, and troughing at before the next arm engages. I would expect this curve to flatten out a bit with the uneven cadence of the gallop style or at least have a different curve. The two quick pulls making for maybe more pulling power, and the slight extension maybe being a bit more of a dip, but don't know. No one has really tested this part out yet.

Thanks, Andrew, as always... a creative, brand new approach to the swim training.

Excellent video thanks for sharing!

My front crawl has always been really inefficient... my breast stroke is almost as fast, and I can do it 10x longer.

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Which Drill is Flipper Kick again?

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This makes me think of the catch up drill for freestyle. I have now seen 2 coaches who say it is a terrible drill, and both favored the 1 arm drill. Just don't get it, and will admit it might be just me since the catch up drill worked very well for me. Swimming is bilateral, and swimming with one arm makes no sense to me....

This video is focused on freestyle, but the head/hip dynamic is fundamental to swimming and important for all the strokes! Great work Andrew, keep it up.

Would you say that paddles could be used as a way to increase aerobic base? My coach really likes using paddles a lot, mostly as a way to get through more swimming while maintaining a focus on the upperbody. I honestly think its helped me with my longer events, but Ive also never had an issue with my techique. Ive also started to watch more of your videos to better understand how to swim more efficiently. Thanks a lot!

Well, I learned correct posture in my days as a gymnast. If your body is not perfectly straight when doing spin/twisting movements, there is no way to predict where you will end up. We would stand with our backs, heels, and shoulders against the wall. Next, take our hand with just the fingers at the base of our spine and try to pin our fingers to the wall. This is mostly lower abdomen engagement, from the belly button down. This pulls the spine into the perfect straight line. As a Speedo coach said, "suck in your gut like you are trying to put your belly button on your spine". Again, this is the lower ab engagement.

Who is the female swimmer? She has interesting pull, more like EVF applied on breaststroke

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i have been enlightened. i had no idea about this idea. So should i try to pull and and see which place i finish my pull will lead to the best body position?

is the lunge similar to the butterfly undulation? should i try to press my chest down?

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I’ve realized that I splash significantly more than others when sprinting breaststroke. it comes from my hands shooting forward. what causes this? and do i need to change it?

hopefully this helps because i really struggle with spinning

Nice video Andrew, thank you so much. Greetings from Spain!