Freestyle Swimming Technique | Stroke
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- Опубліковано 3 лип 2013
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literally just started swimming. quite possibly the hardest thing I've ever experienced in my life; coordination of both decent form and breathing. Other than looking like a complete idiot in the water, I almost passed out in the shower.
you made me laugh hard lol haha
+Gino Bretana you should try sepak man
+tomaramudarurls how old r u? and thats quite good
that was me when I first started! good for you for searching up these videos! you'll get to varsity soon!
I've started swimming when I was 6 and now I have a pretty good freestyle tehnique and I'm kinda fast lol
But I'm hoping to join college swimming club soon so hopefully I'll improve!
To whomever might be reading this, do take swimming seriously, it does work out your whole body, it does tone your mucles, it does strengthens your heart, lungs, etc.
Wish I had started swimming many years ago.
Thank you
I'm a tired old footy player, 40yo. I'm starting swimming as a low impact alternative to running.
It gives you cardiac arrest.
I've been learning to swim freestyle now for about a month and can only now swim a full length of the pool. The most challenging thing in the beginning is that you become exhausted very quickly, and need to take breaths at least every 2nd stroke, and very quickly your form collapses as you need to take breathes. Just keep in mind that it will take time to learn it
Try breathing every stroke until your stamina improves.
How are you doing now at it if you are still doing it? Also I’ve been swimming for 8-9 years and I still breath 2’s. Breathing 3’s is most likely the best for most swimmers for stability over long distance. Breathing 2’s or 4’s is on one side and can leave you unbalanced after multiple strokes of it.
@@berrianazrubel795can replay based on my similar experience. When I started freestyle I couldnt swim half pool without going down like russian axe... I could easily swimm two kilometers with breaststroke at the same time! Month later I could do two pool lengths of freestyle. Year later I could go finnaly 500m with freestyle. After that it was purely mental overcoming because once I reached freestyle 500m swimming it was my brain that was limiting me. Once I overcame mental barier I could do 2km of freestyle swimming. That took something like a month for my surprise...
I started with breathing every two. Skipped every three and went to breathing every four. How I got there? I started swimming pool length under water. That is 25m lenght without breath and breathing between pool lenghts. Went further by going to olympic size pool and doing same excercise there too. Personal record so far 40m on single breath under water. Hopefully someday I will reach 50m on single breath... One day.... Even more so, I was swimming at the depths of 4,5 meters. Thats how I went from two to four strokes between breaths swimming freestyle - mental barier and underwater swimming excercise.
Yeah it does take time but apparently, our teacher wants us to learn it in a DAY. Plus with only one demonstration.
Thanks I just broke the world record for 50m freestyle with this video
show me a movie then
TheFTAGuy no he is straight
Are you mad
It is not true
Yeah right , and then you woke up from your dream .
I learned more about freestyle in the past 2 minutes, then in the past 2 years... Gotta love youtube ^_^
ive been swimming for 15 years wrongly lol
Tip for people who can’t seem to do the side turn when breathing!!:
-Try looking at your shoulder when you reach out
-try breathing on the side when your dominant arm is out of the water/pulled back
-i suggest people who have recently learned swimming to breath through their mouth and exhale underwater until you decide to get air
-relax!! If you’re confident in the water you’ll do it just fine
A tip for people who are stiff:
-literally just look down completely to the bottom of the pool, your legs automatically float up and make you flat in water
Thanks
the most important thing is swim frequently, the more frequent you swim the better your swim
I have swimming tomorrow so we'll see if it works da?
Man thanks
ok
I swim like a broken umbrella
😂 😂 😂 omg this made my day
+Whatever do you speak tamil
Dragon Master no, why?
XD
same, I'm like a Swimming Exercise Noodle, forgetting how to use my limbs. I'll never make it, I can say I'm a professional floater.
Gameplay too complicated but physic and graphic were good
7/10~ IGN
No no no if it was ign they would either say everything's shit and give it at least 7 or it is very nice and give it less than 7
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A little something for everyone
Holy fucking shit I will never learn anything like this without bringing my laptop to the pool.
***** Why would you take your laptop to the pool? Cover it up man
Lol hahaha!
***** Also my WiFI
***** you don't need to bring laptop, what about bring smartphone?
+Gigatless had to record it on my phone lol
I recently resumed my swimming after 20 years out of the water. I can say all of these videos have been helpful. After 3 months I have improved my technique.
I've been trying to refine my technique more each time I swim and all these points in the video are important for fatigue. Today I achieved my PB of 1,566m ocean swim. I'm happy with 1,500m as my endurance and 800m as my minimal
I wanted a breakdown of stroke fundamentals and arm positioning and this video delivered. Nice!
I had a great swim today similar to the above. It's just the way it is...the way I was coached. When I catch water, float, propel forward, glide, extend, feel, kick marginally and recover with each stroke I touch on beauty and light grows within. It feels like an art, which can indeed be mastered. Superb video and swimmer. Peace. Mark.
Wye Explorer what the hell are you on about?
Bondhi What don't you understand?
Wye Explorer no the way you said it just sounds kinda dumb
Bondhi That's no answer...your not a swimmer...
...yes i am...
I didn't realize I make so many mistakes while swimming. Very inspiring video. The swimmer is very fluid
8 years later.. this still works. Thanks! This gave me more confidence because i get embarrassed easily since i dont know how to swim properly.
😂😂😂 bro why would it not work. It's like saying centuries later
.oxygen is still used by humans
this is a great video....first i was so slow at freestyle and i used to have so much difficulty in this stroke but this video has made my stroke much more efficient and faster....his hand movement is amazing...you are supposed to extend your arms in that manner whilst you also have to move your legs fast.....but however it takes time to learn like this...i have seen Michael phelps videos and somewhat he too extends his arms like this....this is a perfect technique...but you will have to watch this video many times ...you can also download this offline....thanks a ton speedo
Very detailed video tutorial. This video would be a great help for beginners to master the techniques quickly. Keep sharing videos like this. More power!
I went so fast that i lost my shorts :O
lol
I’m going to do that today in swimming lesson and I’m nervous :c we are going to do it in the deep too and I’m short T^T
@@Sara-wq1lj you can always hold on to the wall
Icey how are you now?
That's what you need Speedo.
I always enjoy myself while swimming 🏊♀️ free style and do floating for relaxing if too tired while listening to my favorite song during swimming sessions!! No stress!
This was really helpful for my bio-mechanics assignment in Health and Physical Education. Thank you
Beatiful Only thing i miss here is an earlier catch with verical elbow.
Harder to do with straighter arm recovery but should be higher.
Thanks, this video saved me from drowning. My boat sank and luckily, I was able to pull up this video real quick!
LMAOO
Iam very much inspired by this videos and Iam now learning these techniques to improve my speed thanks to all.
Omg, finally a video taught me the correct way to swim, Thanks! Thumbs up
i loveeee swimming !!!!!! i could live in a pool lol
Good luck breathing 😂
same
Give me some skill :(
Totally...
Pablo Lopez I like your doggyyyyyyy
I learnt a lot from this awesome video. Thanks for sharing!
Smooth...and a lot to keep in mind while swimmin I just might have to watch this video a few more times...
Shit, way too many mechanics to keep in mind.
simple, swim as best as u can. and keep breathing
Breathe, it's ok :). You focus on one or two techniques at a time until they are mastered and begin to become muscle memory. It takes even just good swimmers practice to master these. Great swimmers have spent years learning and training outside the pool to become great.
+Franky Acosta put your belly on something high off the ground with your legs and arms off
***** Training outside the pool is fitness training. Sorry.
hahaha
"All right, let's do this!"
*proceeds to get in the water and start stroking*
*moves 1 inch per minute*
hey Speedo your videos are so informative , thanks for this
I'm trying to get faster at swimming so this is helpful, thank you.
I also Love these videos getting back into swimming and this is exactly what I needed to properly do the strokes!
Cool cool cool, thinking of getting back into swimming. It sure is hard but this really helped thank you very much! :)
It's so worth it, hope you did.
Thanks a lot 4 this Speedo ! You have no idea how are these lessons helping me. Especially cuz like others here, I'm learning by myself. ;)
Swimming freestyle technique- the arm cycle (best UA-cam explanation ever)
I LOOOOVE these videos... short and very informative with great visual aid. can you please do some videos on flip turning and starts?
Thanks for the feedback Marko, we'll keep those ideas in mind for our future videos. Speedo
+SpeedoInternational Hey I just wanna know that a swimming cap increases speed or not.
+Mohammed Masood not too much, better go to the trainings
+franck malottky Not too much but does it have some effect???
Mohammed Masood yes it does have an effect
When I try to swim correctly like that, the others say: "You are swimming insanely wrong."
I'm a lane swimmer . Been swimming 12 years now. Still trying to swim smoothly. Fantastic to swim 😀😀. Great feeling
Professional Teachings Indeed ! thank you.
This is so helpful I have a swim meet today wish me good luck!!!!!🏅👍🏊
How did it go
I found this extremely confusing
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Same
Don't worry, It's really poorly communicated. There are dozens of better videos on front crawl than this.
it was confusing for me at first too (I first just watched the video without pausing or anything), but I'm only watching this bc my coach made the swimmers do online assignments for the swim team lmao. and he made us take notes on the techniques he's describing, and honestly now it makes a lot more sense lmao I just broke everything down :)
Going swimming today 04/04/2018: Back: This helped me alot!
mükemmel kamera açıları ve mukkem bir egitmen ! yüzmek konusu bu kadar güzel ve profosyonel anlatılamzdı..
I LIKE THIS ALOT.
i don't like swimming with paddles because when I go back to swimming with just my hands, it feels like my hands are full of holes.
Jon Manilenio lol
Jon Manilenio same here! Lol
thanks for these helpful tips !!!! iam loving swimming !!!!! swimming might be my career !!!! :)
The water in this is beautiful!
Thanks speedo!!!!!! already knocked 4secs of my 200 free - now onto my favourite stroke butterfly ;)
Brilliant! Well done. Speedo
I'm Javièr Gomez
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME 4 MINUTES NOT SECONDS LOL STUPID Also 4 MINUTES ISNT THAT GOOD EITHER XD
+momen osama . You're an idiot.. He meant that he knocked 4 seconds off from his quickest time.
You'd have to admit, knocking 4 minutes off his time if his original time was 4 minutes, would be pretty good though, right?
The comments are killing me af😂
they are "killing you as fuck"
???
yea lol
Thanks now I swimming more better because of this 💕💕
great quality of the video and slow motion, thanks
Thank you speedo for your technique swim,It improves my swim now from philippines
I'm an olympic baby. I was inspired to swim from watching the 2016 Rio games. lol
Thanks, i didnt know completely what to do when swimming freestyle so i learned by you and knocked my time with 30 sek on 200m
Thank you for this extremely helpful video
Having watched the clip, if I don’t win Gold at the next Olympics, I’ll be amazed.
It's one thing to watch this video while I sit on my toilet. But it's so hard to practition this when I get to the pool. It's so hard to remember to coordinate hands, feet, proper technique, remember to breathe lol. It's hard for me
Vincent2wice Big mood
Remember to practice to remember the proper position and to generate speed. If you swim enough, you might just get enough endurance to not pass out after a 50. I should know because I am in swim team and always want breath.
Wtf !!! Im in toilet too while im watching this
My coach said l should watch UA-cam lol
Easy way to confuse things and poop in the pool.
Ah sweet! Thanks, I have to do this in my swim class at my high school!
nice tips..my swimmers won in 800 meters freestyle using freestyle technique during the 1st Dinagat Islands Provincial Athletic Meet (DIPAM) last August 26-30, 2014.....thank you very much SPEEDO FIT....
Really cool and helpful! Can you please elaborate a bit more on the breathing technique? I find that part the most difficult since when i surface my head to take breath sometimes slight amount of water pours in my mouth hehe and that discourages me a bit since its not a pleasant feeling. Im teaching myself to swim properly but this video helped a lot so thanks a bunch!
Make sure you're exhaling as your mouth broaches the surface to help clear some of the water. Just after your mouth broaches, breath in through the side of your mouth away from the water and begin exhaling just as your mouth begins to enter the water again. This technique works pretty well for me. If you suck up a bit of water, which is expected to happen time to time, don't freak out, just breath out. You'll spit the water out as you exhale.
There is nothing more beautiful than a swimming athletic male
I have started to improve on my stroke but it wouldn't be better if I had watch the COLLECTION lets say of this video. IT WAS SO MUCH HELP AND IT WOULD BE SAMA 2 U! Thanks 😎👍😂.FEEL THE FREEDOMS
Thank you and God Bless
Very detailed with diagrams included but the one thing you missed that I’m not to sure about. What do I do with my legs? 😣
Kick bruh
@@yashpanjrath3807 🤣
I just started swimming. Im 12 years old btw, and my pool has both a shallow and deep side. I actually like to stay on the deep side because of two reasons:
1 - I absolutely LOVE swimming in deep water.
2: I love to go underwater. So the deep side gives me more space to do my thing.
hows the swimming progress going? been 3 years
This is the best video I have seen.
Perfect❣️ yes for me also breathing is not easy... Very challenging 😊
the track used kinda sounds like the background music used sometimes in stranger things
What about your leg position? My legs tend to go down as I'm swimming. How do you (calmly) keep them up?
Keep your head down and neck down and keep core muscles pulled in. Break water with the crown of your head and hold your body straight all the way from crown to tailbone. Legs are quite floppy for a long set. The high elbow technique and breathing to the side will help you not to raise your head/shoulders which it what sinks your legs. The body rotation is important for that too, try to have your hands close to your body so you aren't wasting energy and you kick on the water you've pulled.
Breath to the side every third stroke, keep the water line at your hairline (assuming you don't have a receding hairline). Head position determines whether or not your legs sink. It is surprising but true.
thanks this will help i will practice my swimming skills in summer
Woooooo....the work of the video is outstanding!!!
great video, just one part of freestyle I struggle with is incorporating breathing techniques or coming up for air?
+Evan Saunders Start breathing at the shallow poll endl. Place your head in the water move your arms as if you were swimming but keep your legs on the pool floor... when you feel you can move your arms well pull through the water while breathing, than now you are ready to swim. float in the water and start the motion without touching the ground. Good Luck!
the anime "Free!" brought me here.
+sophia yay oh no nonononononononononoono, I just remembered the greatest swimmer of all time... HARUUUUUU
+_ InfernalHeir _ yes yes yes yes yessss
SAME 😂😂
My friend made me watch that since she knows I lve to swim and fish's my favorite food. XD
same my mom made me watch it for the swimming lessons I was forced to go even though I know how to swim I have to watch it every day
Quality video!! love the slow motion
brilliant video,how can anyone not like this?
Cool, but this is not for beginners or hobby swimmers. Today I tried to use this technique of arms straight making a half circle under water, I felt it extremely exhausting and the lifeguard guy saw my pathetic effort and told me that for beginners it is recommended to have the arm bent after the stroke, move it only to the hip and then make the stroke from this position... much easier
Bend your arms during the pull and straighten when you push them forward again
I stared taking lessons and I am 12. I want to be professional. And I can swim a little bit. Am I to late for it? Cause I love swimming so much! 🤔🤔
okaygn started at 30 and able to swim a bit with the help of such videos in just few tries already.
Ha I'm learning at 14. Its never 2 late. My issue is with breathing. I know my strokes but I never intake enough air, mostly pool water. And that causes me to panic and stop swimming to normalise my breath. Its also really frustrating when you're learning with a 10 year old who is so much better than you. I want to excel in my class, I just get nervous once I'm in the water
So much for explaining how to do proper breathing while swimming
Swimming can be hard for some people but if u try hard and don’t give up u can get better. The whole secrets about swimming well in water is that u have to be confident. For example me I used to really scared of water and going in but then my mum put me in swimming I wasn’t the greatest but as I went on I built up confidence and started getting better and after a lot of hard work I started doing races.
I would be at pool everyday doing laps when i learn to freestyle.
Pretty sure this isn't meant for competitive swimmers more for the casual kind. Many changes should be done if he wants to swim faster. Like after the entry the guy just pushes his arm down instead of getting into catch and pulling the water back. You don't want to push your arm down because that will just make you move upward towards the surface and and not move forward towards the wall. Also his arm is too straight when he recovers, looks like he's swimming straight arm freestyle the whole time. Straight arm should only be used by experienced swimmers when ending a sprint not when swimming warm up speed.
I agree this is not for competition. This style is more like front-quadrant swimming that Thorpe used to do which is hard for short distance sprinting. I think straight arm recovery depends on shoulder structure and swimmers choice. Some fast sprinters don't bend their arm much to get a quicker catch i.e., not having to extend arm in water to save fraction of time I guess.
Thanks for the advice
daym speedos you've done it again
I’m literally starting my neighborhood’s swim team and know none of the strokes and this is me preparing for *practice tomorrow with my period*
Lol how did it go?
OMG WHO ELSE GOT A STRANGER THINGS VIBE FROM THE BACKGROUND MUSIC!?!?!?!?! It sounds so similar!
Jasjit Kaur i like the music hihihi
Explains a lot, I'll practice tommorow.
Very helpful, thank you.
😍👂🏽👍🏽👌🏽
Why do I have to rotate my body. why can't I just swim flat???
Because swimming flat, can lead to serious injuries later on, and medical problems
Like what?
Chuck Norris Shoulder issues. Also you will go faster on your side. A physics thing. lol
when you swim flat, your arm has to reach behind your back as you pull, straining your shoulder (it can lead to injuries.) if you rotate as you pull, your arm doesn't have to go past your body. you can also reach farther forward with your body rotated.
because you might fall in drown
Excelente explicación didáctica.
Ese sonido al entrar al agua es realmente exquisito....amo nadar!
i swim 2 kilometers a day
45min of swimming is enough for a day
45min of swimming is enough for a day
You only swim to kilometers? At 12 I was swimming three to four miles and for two hours. Don't come on UA-cam videos to brag about something like that for future reference
Holy sheeet, dude. That's great! Was it exhausting?
+Sean Thompson
Exactly
i was in a swimming lesson and i almost drowned I think i'll never learn to swim!! after 10 seconds i get tired and drown ❌ I hate THIS
Practice makes perfect don't give up! Nobody taught me how to swim when I was a child, I doggy prattled for the longest time before I started competition swim, keep trying! Or try a different teacher :) best of luck
Same for me but after a little time i Learned it just hope and dont get scared i was scared first i Wouldnt learn anything but now i belive if you are about to drown just stand and take you're head up and you're good
Thanks for the advice for freestyle swimming because I kinda messed up.
this video is extremely helpful
Speedo should do better.
Im noticing some questionable demos too.
I am a professional swimmer, swum for 16 years and currently swimming for Harvard. In those 16 years of swimming never have I ever seen a technique as AWFUL as this, and to know this is the type of thing that Speedo a well known swimming advocate is displaying such poor technique to the world is not only upsetting but a disgrace to the ASA.
I totally agree.
is it really? Im looking for a proper freestyle technique intro video. Could you recommend one on youtube?
I see so may things wrong in this video: "overgliding": right hand goes above wrist when fully extending the arm, resulting in putting the breaks on and potential shoulder injuries. Also virtually "no catch", both arms go down almost fully streched, a high elbow should be maintained and the hand should be pointed down as soon as the backward motion is set in. both to ensure a maximum amount of water is pushed backward, not downward. When pulling the arms over the water , again the elbow should be higher than the wrist, the wrist should be higher than the hand: you'll point your hands into the water horizontally and in line with your shoulder, not sidewards as is demonstrated here. The demonstrated technique again results in shoulder injuries, plus it easily allows you to place your hands into the water "over the middle line", i.e. to far inwards, resulting in a sideways push of water, where we need a foreward push only. This video, presented as a demo video, should be taken offline a.s.a.p.
Irving Henriquez have a look at swimsmooth.com. They have excellent videos, free tips plus they a have an animated free style swimmer that you can fully control to see the motions from every possible angle and at every possible speed, including paused. And if you're serious about improving your technique, I recommend you get either their dvd (set), their book or both. Which to get depends on your level and ambitions.
How much is Harvard paying it's swimmers these days?
Speedo? Rei would love this
Gotta love having to watch this for a school assignment
this video is completely wrong!
Freddy Rodriguez how do you know that
Every phase is wrong. Recovery - keeping the wrist above the elbow. Catch with straight arm. You'd just get a rotation cuff injury. Catch is awful, a lot of power wasted on down move. An extreme overgliding. You will never get past 2 minutes pace...
talk to michael phelps, not us