How I Transformed My High Elbow Catch | Freestyle Technique Tips
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- Опубліковано 22 лип 2024
- There were three things that had the biggest impact on my freestyle catch:
1. Hand height
2. High elbow doesn't mean 'near the surface'
3. It's the 'setup' phase, not the power phase
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Wanted to add something to your point about not pulling/pushing too hard during the catch setup phase. Pushing/pulling hard and fast while your arm is up front will result in a downward force, which is not only wasted effort (it's not pushing you forward) but will additionally lift up your upper body and push your legs deeper into the water (your air-filled lungs act like a pivot), increasing drag on top of it all.
Thanks for your videos! I'm 60 and began lap swimming due to covid 19. Your videos taught me so much I lost 25 lbs since mid-June and the skills I have learned has also improved my golf game as well.
amazing! well done
Same here 61 lost 20 and my golf game is amazing, my flexibility is back and strong.
I swim any where from 3000 to 5000 yards
I didn’t lose the same weight, but I am doing the best times of my life. No effect my my golf game because I don’t golf. 😂
I turn 60 this year - so soon to join the club. I'm not as fast as my earlier years, but thanks to these videos, I'm swimming easier - who knows, maybe some personal pb's still await me!
Love your videos, mate! So helpful and quite honestly have me hooked on swimming again as more than just a way to get fit, but a passion and something I want to get better at :)
This was very helpful. Thank you. I'm a beginner at 42 years old and feel very weak curling my forearm down in the extended position. I've been doing a 1000 in the ocean every day for a month and this made my time go from around 19 minutes to 17
Great teaching. Simply amazing!
Thanks for what you do. 😎
A huge thanks. After watch this. It clicked into place. It all about loading up that catch, to power through under the body. Gives rotation and helps breathing all in one motion for me.
This is very informative and clear. Great correction points you make and making sense of everything helps a lot. I am 43 year old thriatlete new to the sport and trying to improve. You talk of experience which really makes a diference and you really know what you are talking about. Thank for the help!
Thank you for many helpful videos. You are an excellent teacher. My freestyle is finally improving.
As always perfect tips with the most clear explanation.. Thank you,helps alot !
Really terrific advice. Thanks!
Best description of the high elbow catch I've ever seen so far.
Great explanation. Will try this tomorrow.
Wow! This is such a helpful explanation. I was doing some of the things you mentioned attempting to get that "high elbow".
Thank you! I learned a new fact about high elbow catch and now I have to try it in practice.
Very well explained. subbed
thanks, the third advise seems helpful, i will try it today
Fantastic video!! I understand why I’m making my mistake now!! Extremely helpful advice
Thanks this was useful. Especially the tip on holding off the power while setting up the catch!
Cheers brenton - this is your best freestyle video
I’m so glad that this was brought up, and it makes total sense. I’m a beginner swimmer learning the freestyle and I was told to pull really hard and I especially found it difficult and draggy, and just kept wondering if this was really the only way. But I’m glad to know there was a reason behind it!! Thanks!!
Thank you, this helps quite a bit!
Thanks mate, love your videos
Very very helpful. Thank you so much.
Awesome video thanks man!
Excellent videos, thank you
Best swimming coach
Thank you was great and you explained very good what the high elbow is .
Thank you
Excellent tips
Congratulations from Spain. Very usefull. Thanks a lot😊
Great video.
Caught me at what I have been doing and can now correct. thanks!
Awesome coaching :)
Great video again.
thanks for videos Legend!
Great video
GREAT VID GOING TO PRACTICE THAT TONIGHT
Thanks..I like how you explain........
Thanks!
Thanks your video,
Breakthrough on catch. Thanks!
This video alone have so many gems. I necessary, watch it over and over again like me untill you catch all details, it's worth it. 🏊♂🏊♀🏊🌅
Great video Brentan . Personally I prefer the high arm entry as it allows the start of the catch earlier too..
I increased my swim time from 1.50/100 to 1.30/100 just watching your vids, thanks so much for the content! Looking to break under 30 mins in my iron man 70.3 this weekend
Hi I hope you achieved your goal! 🙌
That's already good, anyway this catch trick moved me from 2.45 to 2.22 so far in 2 days
Awesome! That's also my goal for this Fall/Winter. I want to go from a 36min swim to a 30min Half-Iron swim.
Thanks for the videos. My kids are age groupers and we’ve been working through your drills. Can see results already after just a couple of weeks.
eye opening - high elbow being above the arm-hand line and not high=close to the water surface - is a gamechanger
Very informative and practical! I speculated almost all these points while I’m training to swim fast recently, but no one confirms that. your video confirmed my thoughts while there are not so many video talk about these. I find myself trouble to get to the perfect postures illustrated in almost every swim videos and tutorials, like you said, it’s either I managed to get to that correct position, but cannot perform a powerful pull, or I’m in my powerful position, but it’s wrong by the book. And lastly I’m curious, how long does it take for you to make such improvement/transition? I get to know alongside the “information”/“knowledge”, it still needs time to make you able to perform like the image in your mind, understand and knowing things does not mean you can manage to do it properly. So how long does it take? Thank you again for making this video, good stuff!
Dont know much about swimming. But from 00:00 to 00:20 your rythim is hypnotising!
Amazing video. Clear explanation, with a dynamic swim in the demonstration.
I get back in the pool in my 30s just for fun.
Only water gives you this sense:)
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Can you mabye do an episode analyzing fly? Im trying hard to work on my fly stroke and it would help me alot! Understandable if you cant though.
Super off topic but your ankle flexibility is level 1,000,000 i lost some of that during my years away from the sport but am working on getting it back!
What are your thoughts on coaches' advice about "swimming downhill"? I think it is relevant to the topic of figertip entry and depth (i struggle with that and am working on it). I was trying to not let my fingertips float up by attempting to "swim downhill" but for me i ended up burying my head too deep, rounding the shoulders slightly and losing my great "tall and proud" posture a bit, to where i was feeling bogged down (losta resistance I guess). Just recently watched your video on Park and noticed how he looks like he is almost puffing his chest out as he is swimming and remembered an older video of yours explaining the posture. So i have been paying attention to that as well for the past week or so.
Thank you for sharing your journey to your best and most suitable technique!
max ryan
really helpful as this is simply explained
Thanks
OMG I want THAT kick pattern!
Could you review Nathan Adrian’s catch. It looks like he catches only a little bit compared to distance freestyler like sun or Ian
hi, thanks for the clips.
8.11 picture in the right is what I have as high elbow. extremely bent . feels fast. Is it ok? I give the rotation where my shoulder comes close to my chin...
very helpful and accurate, thanks. Can it be said that diamond shape arm is the same as high elbow? I also observed your leg work: long-short-shor-tong, (long on the same side leg as the catch arm), yes?
Is the movement/motion of the catch going to be the same no matter what distance is being swam (like in a 50 sprint vs a triathalon swim)?
What's an effective workout routine in relation to swimming fast?
Thanks for the vid. "High" elbow is a misleading term for some people. "Elbow FORWARD". Form the paddle, THEN use the paddle. Catch-Pull-Push. Or, Catch-Throw. Ive seen people actually pull the elbow up and back as they start the pull, because they said "I was told High Elbow??"
Stay gold.
I notice your elbow slips back (behind your hand) through the pull phase. I've always been told to not let this happen. Thoughts?
Watching these and then getting in the water I feel like I don’t even speak English. I get a little bit each time but there’s a lot going on.
I and 62 and have been lap swimming on and off for years. Which of your videos would you consider best for a beginner to start with. Love your videos but often see them as a bit advanced for me. Any suggestions?
Very informative video.
Can you also talk about the "power phase"? How close to the body should the hand be during the power phase?
what I mean is the "pull-through" phase
Thanks for all the tips, I have a question. When does the water begin to feel like you have "gripped" it and you are starting to pull? I always feel like the Catch is just chasing the water to find that purchase, but when should I feel it?
What are your thoughts on the kick timing. Would you get a stronger catch with kicking the opposite foot as you start the pull?
I'm 67 and I've been trying to do the freestyle for more than 50 years. Could never do it, could never like trying, always drowning after two breaths. I'm determined now. Got fins, a snorkel, a keel, and hand paddles. I'm ready. New info. for me here. Thx.
Please make a vdeo about leg kicking rhythm, ´cause you told about doing the downwards kick when starting your catch. But in this video you did 4 kick every cycle and I don´t understand how that fits. Thx a lot. Your videos are helping me improve immensly. :-)
Hello. I discovered something. I swim since may 2019 and i could keep 1.45 pace but my breathing... I thought what wrong i'm doing and i checked smt. When i stay vertical i exhale and i can feel Perfect moment when i have to inhale but as i keep horizontal position (without swim) i cant feel that and same during swimming.
I exhale air but i dont get that feeling im free of air and i can inhale but only eith horizontal body pos
also with vertical position i feel mich better bubbles.
I completely agree with this. I stumbled on this my self. I haven't been swimming because of COVID-19 pool closures, but I got in the pool. Barely lost speed because it is the form that kept my speed up.
Interesting. You're not talking about this in this video but I can see how you flip your feet in this video. I'll try that.
What's your "every day pace" for 100m over a distance of 1000m? Hiw old are you?
Beautiful stroke dude!
*Chuckling like Beavis and Butt Head. 😄
Seriously, it’s smooth!
Do you coach people in other countries ?
High elbow catch is so important for freestyle
Excellent. You can explain difficult topics in easy way. I improved so much with your tips but still struggling with the legs sinking.
@Guillermo Salceda Pacheco thanks for the suggestion. I'm planning to get some private lessons to try to fix. Maybe I'm a little too much contracted because I don't have a lean body. I'm pretty bulky. I used to play rugby when I was younger
@@SuperTiziani Getting lean won't help your buoyancy. On the contrary. Fat floats on water because it is lighter. I'm lean and I sink like a stone 😀
Are the fingers tight together or slightly separated?
Thankyou😅 just out of pool and my elbow was higher- better
No one:
Brenton: Agzellerate
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For your online course do you need special equipment.
fins are recommended and a snorkel can help
I think my big mistake was pressing downward and not backward, which caused my legs to sink, drastically slowing me down.
The FIRST time I tried 5mm neoprene shorts, I dropped 30 seconds off my 100m. Try those. They helped me identify why I was swimming a 2 minute 100meter.
what ıts pace on 08:00 ?
What's up with the Thorpedo?
Would you be more faster with your head more down?
I am having a hard time engaging my back muscles during the pull phase especially my left arm. Is extension the only way to do it?
the last second in the video when you do 6 kicks, I see your hand crossed middle of your body under water
Brenton is mainly 'catching' attention with those leopard speedos!
mate, my gut causes me some pretty bad drag IMO. What do I do? I can swim 10 x 100m on 1.30 pretty comfortably but I probably need more technique and weight loss to take things to another level... Im 33 btw.
Keep swimming and maybe make a tweak in the diet. I'd say cut out dairy if u havent already.
10 x 100 on the 1.30 is pretty good though. I'm trying to force myself to do 100 sets, but I keep finding myself doing 10 x 50s instead and focusing on cutting my interval time instead.
this is 4 kicks?
How is yours high elbow catch? It doesn't look like it
That a busy little reach
Your comment that the catch should not be used for high propulsive effort has a parallel to some observations of "variable resistance" advocates. You don't put effort where the muscles are less effective (as is done in weight lifting, for example). In this perspective, the mass of water is a 'weight' we're trying to pull down toward our feet.
I tried this and took 8 seconds off my 100m on the first try (cracked 1.30). Tried again and now worse than when I started … what am I doing wrong 😭😭
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Hey! Your body is spectacular! Waooo!!
Copy Ian Thorpes thumb position underwater
Your kick is at the knee, kick from the hips always, the drag is pulling you down you can see this buy how low your back / hips are , you are swimming up hill sorri to be so no it all
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Thanks!
Best description of the high elbow catch I've seen so far. The tip about the front arm depth is very valuable as well. I also thought I have to keep it on the surface of the water. One question regarding the leg stroke: Why do you interrupt the leg kick during the breath?
Thanks