As a water polo player, you know that you are doing good eggbeater when your upper body isn't moving so much. Even better is when it doesn't move at all. When you are eggbeatering, your lower body should be moving independently from your upper body. best way to practice is to sit in a chair or the side of the pool and work on alternating breastroke kicks. When you get in the water, back should be straight, legs underneath, seated position like you were when you practice in a chair or on the side of the pool, and little upper body movement. If you want to build endurance and leg strength, work on eggbeatering with elbows out of water for 2 minutes, rest. Then streamline position for 1-2 minutes. Really great exercise for building leg strength and endurance
This video is great help to get a better understanding of what type of swimming will be done for most combat diving courses...thank you for your time and putting this together
I can float in the ocean or a pool for hours, pretty much until I get bored or thirsty. I can't do an eggbeater worth anything though. Any time I try it feels like I'm just making myself sink faster, and it really seems to stress out ligaments in the hips.
+aluisious -- I'm exactly the same way. I just don't have the hip flexibility to get my legs way out to the side, which is needed with the eggbeater so your legs coming in are generating some lift. For me it's easier to just do slow flutter kicks and accept that it's not as efficient. Perfect arm sculling and breath control (big chest = better buoyancy) makes up for the lost leg efficiency.
Maybe I'm old....maybe this is some new 'idea' from after I retired...but BEING retired from the Marine Corps after 21 years, and having been MCWSSI swim-qual'd (as well as SWET qual'd, which is a whole other fun project), I'm trying to figure out where the 'drownproofing' started. I mean, there wasn't anything about half-breaths, or preparing your trousers for flotation, or, well, anything...this looks like some YMCA half-training (after they quit using constraints and cinder blocks as starting points)...
People don't really understand this has literally nothing to do with actual drown proofing. It's entirely (or almost entirely) about water confidence and weeding out people that shouldn't be there. If you try doing a lot of this stuff even as a good swimmer you will notice it's kinda difficult, and this is the stuff no on is harassing you with. So if you can't do this, you probably won't be able to do the future evolutions.
When you are negative in water, your body naturally drops slightly below the surface in water when you do nothing, when you are positive, keep a straight enough posture and limbs slightly apart from your body and you ll float naturally. In a nutshell, positive in water means you are less dense and you ll float easily, Negative is vice-versa
That drown proofing is dumb as fuck. If your hands are tied behind your back the first thing you do in any situation would be to slide them under you and in front. Then assume the dead at sea position face down in the water arms crossed bellow you and hanging legs. You can bob up and down using the buoyancy from your lungs and only need to use neck to gain breaths of air.
As a water polo player, you know that you are doing good eggbeater when your upper body isn't moving so much. Even better is when it doesn't move at all. When you are eggbeatering, your lower body should be moving independently from your upper body. best way to practice is to sit in a chair or the side of the pool and work on alternating breastroke kicks. When you get in the water, back should be straight, legs underneath, seated position like you were when you practice in a chair or on the side of the pool, and little upper body movement. If you want to build endurance and leg strength, work on eggbeatering with elbows out of water for 2 minutes, rest. Then streamline position for 1-2 minutes. Really great exercise for building leg strength and endurance
I can't maintain balance whenever I try egg beater kick
This video is great help to get a better understanding of what type of swimming will be done for most combat diving courses...thank you for your time and putting this together
Really good. I'll experiment with some of this, for curiosity and possible survival use. Thanks, Bruce Thomson in New Zealand.
I'm currently training to become a Seal 17, and this is great advice helped me a lot! Thank you
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The ability to read lips helps while watching this video. Throw back to the silent film era. Embrace the cold.
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I can float in the ocean or a pool for hours, pretty much until I get bored or thirsty. I can't do an eggbeater worth anything though. Any time I try it feels like I'm just making myself sink faster, and it really seems to stress out ligaments in the hips.
+aluisious -- I'm exactly the same way. I just don't have the hip flexibility to get my legs way out to the side, which is needed with the eggbeater so your legs coming in are generating some lift. For me it's easier to just do slow flutter kicks and accept that it's not as efficient. Perfect arm sculling and breath control (big chest = better buoyancy) makes up for the lost leg efficiency.
i find the key to eggbeater is almost feeling like ur sitting down in the water
He was on fight science and was in the drown proof navy seal part of it.
Maybe I'm old....maybe this is some new 'idea' from after I retired...but BEING retired from the Marine Corps after 21 years, and having been MCWSSI swim-qual'd (as well as SWET qual'd, which is a whole other fun project), I'm trying to figure out where the 'drownproofing' started. I mean, there wasn't anything about half-breaths, or preparing your trousers for flotation, or, well, anything...this looks like some YMCA half-training (after they quit using constraints and cinder blocks as starting points)...
It's really about 2 things. Teaching water confidence and weeding out those who don't have it. What it's called is irrelevant, the basis is water con.
although we say hoorahh!! good shit mate. hoorah!
Do Seals swim with fins? How long are the fins if they do?
Yes seals use fins.
the bobbing is more fun in 16ft
Will I panicked once when I was moving from 9 ft to ~15ft bobbing. Not recommended.
Has drownproofing ever been used in actual combat to survive?
People don't really understand this has literally nothing to do with actual drown proofing. It's entirely (or almost entirely) about water confidence and weeding out people that shouldn't be there. If you try doing a lot of this stuff even as a good swimmer you will notice it's kinda difficult, and this is the stuff no on is harassing you with. So if you can't do this, you probably won't be able to do the future evolutions.
Bending his legs a bit to much for the travel swim, but that’s just me I don’t know.
Wait, is the guy treading water Stewart Smith?
Yep lol 😆
after this viedo he did more right after he made this video and he drowed i miss him
+Rehtaeh Mettler i miss him to he was a good guy my dad said
What is negative /positive in water mean?
When you are negative in water, your body naturally drops slightly below the surface in water when you do nothing, when you are positive, keep a straight enough posture and limbs slightly apart from your body and you ll float naturally.
In a nutshell, positive in water means you are less dense and you ll float easily,
Negative is vice-versa
@@hafizpreciouskwakye5046 thanks
Where could I go to practice?
Loving all the half ass Reps. :D
Leaky Assassin I know right. all the way up, all the way down. been there done this
HOOOYAHH!!
That drown proofing is dumb as fuck. If your hands are tied behind your back the first thing you do in any situation would be to slide them under you and in front. Then assume the dead at sea position face down in the water arms crossed bellow you and hanging legs. You can bob up and down using the buoyancy from your lungs and only need to use neck to gain breaths of air.
all i feel bad for him and i knew this guy i was a navy seal with him he was my freind i was the one that found him drowing and hes didt make it
+Rehtaeh Mettler do you know matt buettner and my dad dennis buettner?
?
+Rehtaeh Mettler my dad said you where his friend right?
Yes
Yes I was
+Rehtaeh Mettler What class did you graduate with?
lol i do the ground stuff that he does in track
wtf is up with the random sound level changes in the vid...really annoying
They look out of shape.
Clover Clover ur not born in shape. u have to "get" in shape.
weird