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@@parkerkerth8446 I just used them today with one of the pros at the camp. They have a fairly specific purpose and I wouldn’t use them all the time. The mitts and the drag Sox are more versatile in terms of what you can do with them.

@@Swimeasyspeed great thanks! Could you use them as socks as well? And just put one end on and keep the back half off like socks?

@@Swimeasyspeed could you also make a video on when to use sleeves?

@@parkerkerth8446 You could, but they would probably create too much drag for most swimmers. They would be significantly longer than drag Sox.

You're welcome. If you have any questions, let me know.

@@MrJhockley That’ll work. If you have any questions on how to use them let me know.

@@chunyuenlau56 The sensation won’t even be close.

@@timudetimude Thanks for watching and the comment. I appreciate it.

@@chunyuenlau56 For more experienced swimmers, yes that’s the question to ask. But for less experienced swimmers where their feel for the movements they are making might be a little less, then a one arm drill is an excellent way to start to develop improved feel. In fact, the more experienced swimmers who can feel it right away probably did a lot of one arm drill at one point. Thanks for the comment/question.

@@chunyuenlau56 Thanks for tuning in and for the comment. Why do you think kicking in streamline backstroke position is more effective than kicking with a board?

@Swimeasyspeed I got the info from other swimming channels. Also I thought that the kickboard would lift the front end, thereby lowering the lower part of your body thus producing drag?

@@chunyuenlau56 So there’s a couple things to think through. Get long on the water is about proper core engagement, but also about having a feel for balance on the water as your body lengthens out. So do you think lifting in the front would challenge you on how to find balance on the water? The second thing is if you don’t engage your core your lower part of your body would probably drop producing more drag. Do you think that might force you to engage your core a bit more than normal?

@@Swimeasyspeed Yeah I think that would force you to engage the core more. In fact, I started kicking with the board again today. I am only doing 1m50s at the moment, so I think better listen to someone who can do 55s per 100m at his fastest.

@@parkerkerth8446 It’s certainly one of the harder distances to learn to race well. And an important distance for a triathlete to learn how to race.

@@FinMcMurder Swimming can be tough in the beginning, but consistency in the water and focus pay big dividends in the long run. Welcome to swimming and if you have any questions, please let me know.

@@rafiqisaacs8318 Thanks. I’m glad you liked it. If you have any questions, let me know.

Thanks for your comment and like you’ve found out swimming is a great life time sport.

@@ramyg5037 Any time you are doing a “drill” to work on technique, especially ones where you need to slow down the movement, fins can help with keeping your body position up with some easy speed. Also, they will automatically force a little more core engagement which sits at the center of any good swim movement. Thanks for the comment and watching the video. If you have any other questions, please let me know.

@@christopherdoyle4129 They’re similar, but tempo is different and DPS is different.

@@David-wh7rm For me, I felt as much as normal and maybe even a little more. If you are focused on a 50 sprint, you still want to be a little “flat” but the arm is going to recover a lot straighter over the top. Check out the 50m World Record from Jordan Crooks yesterday.

@Swimeasyspeed wow, just watched, under 20 seconds, unreal. It's so hard to see but it looks like a gallop stroke, I assume wide hands, not much rotation, no time really for any of that, pure power

@Swimeasyspeed actually, not wide, but straight, and over the top maybe

@@David-wh7rm Yeah, it’s a straight arm recovery, very high tempo stroke. There’s a couple videos where you can see the stroke head on and the shoulder angle off the water is very open.

@@David-wh7rm Yeah, it’s a straight arm recovery, very high tempo stroke. There’s a couple videos where you can see the stroke head on and the shoulder angle off the water is very open.

Thanks for the comment and checking out the video. When you're at speed it's not that dramatically different. I put together the video to demonstrate the difference so people could see the increase in tempo and the flatter rotation compared to a traditional stroke. I made it easier to see versus the two women I have worked with it took a little longer to have a visible difference. But it is an interesting idea that I'll look at doing. Thanks.

Thanks for checking out the video.

I’m glad you found it helpful.

Yes, but if you are a beginner I would start with fins and drag Sox.

Welcome. If you have any other questions, please let me know.

Like all the strokes, you’ve got to keep the muscles of your “deep core” engaged. It’ll help stabilize your hips and shoulders and your head.

Thanks for checking out the video and for the comment. I appreciate it. Generally speaking, when we are looking at any athlete, it doesn't matter the sport, stability is the fundamental component. The second an athlete starts to lose stability they sacrifice power and efficiency. The core and having an engaged core that is coordinated with the rest of the body is key. Speaking specifically about this athlete, it's obvious that he hasn't done enough training. Nothing is coordinated. His core isn't very engaged or strong enough to compensate for the instability that he's displaying in the water, lack of coordination between his kick and pull and his poor body position. In addition, there's no connection between his hips and his shoulders when he pulls. This all points to a lack of engagement in the core. When we're talking about coordination up and down the movement or through the entire body we are talking the core. Technically, it's the transverse abdominal muscle that allows the brain to coordinate all of the limbs together. If it isn't engaged or the engagement is lacking then muscle recruitment/coordination will be diminished. The 1 paddle and 1 fin drill has been used for a long time by swim coaches and it can effective. But once the fundamentals have been established. I hope this helps and if you have any other questions, please let me know.

Thanks for checking out the video and the comment. I appreciate it. It's just the angle of the camera. Here was a different angle from the same day I filmed. When you do a lot of video work with swimmers you find out that camera angles have to be precise otherwise you can miss things or see things that aren't there. It's important to get the stroke from multiple angles. If you have any other questions, let me know. ua-cam.com/users/shortslDjjaZNMpKI?feature=share

@@Swimeasyspeed Also at around 1:00 in you can see that your hips are dropping. Try engaging the core, kicking with the brick, and drag socks. Hope this helps.

@@NateNewton-z3j Thanks for the comment and checking out the video.

@@NateNewton-z3j Thanks for the comment and checking out the video.

The other way around - the other guy almost bumped into him.. In lanes with more than one swimmer, the usual path is like a anti clockwise loop

Welcome. If you have any questions, please let me know.

Sure. Can you post a video of your backstroke?

@@Swimeasyspeed Thank you so much coach. I am so grateful you reply to my message. No matter how I try to improve my kicking, point my feet, legs closed, won't work. I will have to ask the lifeguard if I could take photos as the sign no photograph permitted. 🙏🙏

@@ramyg5037 Happy to help, if you have any questions.

@@ViníciusPrado-m8o Thanks. I know. My mistake. If it’s bothering turn off the audio and turn on the closed captioning. Again, thanks for the comment and watching the videos. I appreciate it.

They are in high school.

@@Swimeasyspeed im not from america.

I hadn't thought of it in "Goldilocks" terms....😂

@@Swimeasyspeed Ha! I was going to mention Goldilocks, but then decided not! Thank you for all your very informative videos!

@@helendodd7935 You’re welcome. If you have any other questions, please let me know.

Sorry about that. When I was editing I forgot to turn off one of the channels. You can always just mute it and use the closed captioning. But thanks for letting me know.

Thanks for the comment. I don't think there's been a video where I focus on core engagement where I didn't talk about how to get core engagement with at least one example.

@@Swimeasyspeed It's very useful thanks. A lot of coaches say engage your core by saying subjectve things like "you need to make the body taught but remain relaxed" which never makes sense in my brain. Warming up the core and getting my whole body active in the water has always been a challenge for me. It's fine during sprints but i loose the feel for the water during easy efforts.

@ A couple cues that can work are: bring the belly button up into the spine or try to lengthen out the distance from the belly button to the sternum. Ultimately, we are trying to get those “deep core” muscles to engage.

@@Swimeasyspeed This is where i get lost because if i bring my belly button to my spine (pulling the stomach in?) i can't breath. You mean posterior tilt the pelvis?

If you are bringing your belly button up into your spine and you can't breathe then you are trying too hard. Swimming is a sport of being engaged, but relaxed. Another way to think about it would be to "run tall." Anything to get you good posture and long on the water. I hope this helps.

As I get more videos and of different strokes, I'll be sure to them up with this type of analysis.

@@trappstein These videos are all yards. I’ve got some entries coming in that will be in SCM and then I’ll convert.

Thank you, enjoy the videos

@ Welcome. Glad you are enjoying the videos. You should send in a video of a 50 kick. It’s open to anyone. There is glory and some gift cards on the line.

That is appropriate since you did get "chick-ed" again.

A lot of people try to go the UA-cam route to learn how to swim better. I always try to remember that in any given field 90% of the what is produced isn't very valuable. I think that holds true for UA-cam and swimming videos. There are a lot of great resources on UA-cam. The trick for the beginner is figuring out what is good and what isn't.

@@Swimeasyspeed That makes sense, UA-cam is probably for the more experiences swimmer.

@ UA-cam isn’t only for the experienced swimmers. But if you are starting out and have limited experience, how does a new swimmer figure out what is good advice on UA-cam and what isn’t?

His dolphin kick, underwater and break out wasn't great. I think I even mentioned it in the video. The time when a swimmer is fastest is off the blocks and the walls, so the break out or transition from underwater to swimming becomes critically important. You can either keep the speed going or stop yourself dead in the water. Thanks for the comment and if you have any other questions, please let me know.

@@Swimeasyspeed I realize you mentioned the transition but if I recall correctly you said he needed to work on the kick and transition which is true. However, my comment comes from being around younger swimmers who will imitate what top swimmers do. So my comment stems from my thought that you need to transition at that point where you are not going slower than you can swim on top. It seems in the video that his last kick was one too many. What advice do you have for determining when a swimmer should transition to swimming. I really appreciate videos like yours because to me evaluating actual swimmers allows me to understand things better than demonstrations of what you should do. I would have liked for you to have evaluated the speed he was moving perhaps by measuring how far he traveled from one kick to the next and then the speed of his first stroke or two. I know it would not be precise but you could use the lane marker buffers as a measure of sorts and the video editing tool you used allows you to determine the time Thanks for your reply and my message was not my attempt to comment on all that you said as much as saying some of the things that I saw. so yes there was some duplication. Keep making videos like this as I think they are valuable to anyone trying to improve their swimming ability.

@@NateNewton-z3j There’s about 4-5 different cues that can help you get the feel for what engaging the core is like. Two of them are detailed in this video. The Brick will also force core engagement and to a level that you wouldn’t be able to do on your own initially. I hope this helps and if you have any other questions, please let me know.

@@Swimeasyspeed So I've got belly button into the spine and lengthen. Please outline the remaining 3 to dial in what specifically engaging entails. Thank you.

@@NateNewton-z3jbro is ignoring a good question

If you bring the belly button into the spine and lengthen out that's how it should feel. You've got your core engaged the way it needs to engage for swimming at that point. However, at a certain point, a swimmer needs to figure this out for themselves. A coach can only guide an athlete so far. The athlete needs to cross over the threshold themselves, if they really want to improve the swim.

Not ignoring. Just didn't see it until now.

Thanks for the comment. I appreciate you checking out the channel and the videos. The problem usually with only one angle is you can't get the whole picture on the stroke. But, generally speaking, we want to first address foundational issues. Breathing is definitely a "foundational issue." In regards to the timing of this athlete's breathing, she might be off by a "half-beat" occasionally. But timing looks fairly good. The real issue is that her core isn't strong enough or connected enough to the stroke to stabilize her in the water. In this case, I would say that any issue that she does have in the timing of her breathing, which is minimal, is an effect and not a cause. The "falling elbow" is more related to body and the scissor kick in the back which will drive the shoulders a little above the hips and hips a little above the feet. Again, thanks for the comment and I hope to see you back on the channel soon.

@@Swimeasyspeed Thanks for your feedback. I also think that breathing is a minor issue because late breathing doesn't break the stroke. Nevertheless it is a habit that limits potential progress.I think she will be able to adjust her breathing timing rather immediately if she is given a clue what to do (she knows how to breathe, only her timing is off). Fixing that (in particular turning her head into the water before her hand re enters) will help her to improve posture when she applies power with her 'non-breathing' arm and will help her to better connect the arm with her core. Sure this is only the first step and I fully agree that there is still is work on stability and connection ahead.

@@David-wh7rm Thanks. Glad you liked it. Was there anything specific you liked about it?

It'll probably get in the way of your stroke since it's offset to one side. There's a reason you get to look like a "unicorn" with a swim snorkel.

Yes. An efficient stroke in the pool is an efficient stroke in open water.

@@Swimeasyspeed thanks. I thought waves would change dynamics a lot. I would try open water swimming once I get really comfortable in the pool (6-7 months is my guess, by mid next year).

@ Most open water races aren’t in rough conditions and once you get a feel for any chop it’s easy to keep your stroke efficient. Train hard and efficiently in the pool and open water will feel easy.

@@teagreentree Best advice would be to keep some positive pressure on your nose. If you aren’t able to do that and some people aren’t, you can always get a nose clip. And if you can’t, don’t feel bad. There are plenty of Olympic swimmers who use nose clips.

😂. Thanks. Glad you liked it.

If you can manage it, keeping your head above water. Some athletes are fairly limited in mobility so in those cases a snorkel it is.

@@Swimeasyspeed The reason I asked, first keeping your head above water and looking forward is much harder than if you put your head down, but I was told if you wear a snorkel it forces you to kick with your correct body position when swimming freestyle.

@ It is hard to kick with your head out of the water. The reason it’s hard is it forces core engagement. That’s what we want.

@@Swimeasyspeed 👍

Everyone can benefit from seeing their stroke, but as you correctly point out what issue in your stroke should you correct first and what is the best way to correct it. This is where an experienced coach can be invaluable. Without seeing your stroke it would be difficult to say what you should be doing. I don't know what your definition of "slight" is. Generally speaking, if you can get your core to engage more you'll have more precision and control with where your hands enter the water. I hope this helps and if you have any other questions, please let me know.

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@@joeekaps5840 You’re changing your movement patterns. It’s going to feel off until you practice it more. If you didn’t feel off and had tried to change your stroke that would be a problem.

@easyspeed994 👍 Yes I agree my rhythm is probably off. I will try to slow down and concentrate on that.