The dolphin kick was used by almost all butterfly swimmers in 1958 when I swam, and one of our backstrokers did the back butterfly with the dolphin kick both underwater and on the surface for the whole 100 yard race in 1958. Our best breast stroker swam most of the race under water in the 100 yard breast stroke in 1958, before it was outlawed. When we played underwater tag, the fastest stoke was the dolphin kick without using one's arms.
That's how I always swam around the pool as a kid. With flippers on you can go really quick. Definitely the most natural way we're supposed to swim I think.
This was oddly satisfying ....the way these great athletes spoke of the sport, recognition & respect they had about their opponents , and the background music 👌 This is one of the best videos in youtube .
This is cool but I wish they also would have talked about how swimmers used the dolphin kick in other strokes. I remember in 1996 Olympics, Denis Pankratov of Russia swam maybe 30, 35 meters of the 100 butterfly doing the dolphin stroke underwater. He did it in the 200, too, but not quite as far. He won gold in both and set a world record in the 100. I seem to recall they changed the rule after that. In a lot of ways the dolphin kick has been really controversial throughout swimming history so there’s more of this story to be told
Of course there is. Many swimmers use it in different ways, with different power which lead to getting a head start against competition. Would love to here more about other's experiences.
@@GunsNRoses1123, it wasn't "cheating" because it wasn't against rules as long as the swimmer stayed on their back. The international governing body then regulated it so that their heads had to break the surface by 10, then 15 meters and actually swim the stroke. Now it's a standard element of the turn cycle except in breaststroke, where the rules limit it to one dolphin kick (though some swimmers succeed in getting away with 2 or 3).
@Mary Antonio I assume someone somewhere did, just not widespread or recognized. Most probably just pushed off like you do before you are taught dolphin
@Mary Antonio Yes, but it wasn't used strategically to min-max the system. Like people kicked twice or thrice out of habit before surfacing, until that one guy realized that going underwater is faster than above water, then its intentionally "im never going to surface because i can win".
Dolphin kick is both legs kicking together essentially. When done underwater you can put your whole body into it and it's very fast. Normal backstroke uses a flutter kick (legs alternate) because of how your arms alternate in backstroke.
To be so fit that you can go so far on a breath and then continue is crazy to me. If I have to run 10 metres for a train, I'm puffing to catch my breath, these guys can't even stop and take a breath away from the water, so impressive.
Ikr the whole video confused me. Never explained the dolphin kick, explain when it was first done and that video. Bunch of random people in different languages talking about random races where they used it
The new rules for the under water dolphin kick and the 15 meter limit applied to all the races meant that I will get DQ'd if I don't remind myself to only do one dolphin kick off a turn in a race. This happens to me if I lose concentration and lapse back to trying to push for more speed. I was afraid my niece would get DQ'd in a race when you don't surface by the flag lines in the Olympic trials. It did happen to her in the nationals and that was disappointing because she won the race.
all FINA ever does is ban stuff to follow the protocol they want. Why didnt they think of adding a race for dolphin kick technique. That would have been the best stroke of the 5 to watch underwater.I loved when some swimmers turned sideways underwater to do their kick. I tried it once.
@@sween13377 yeah I'm talking about more his achievements, not development of the technique. Sounds almost like a random good swimmer. He was on the cover of sports illustrated with Muhammad Ali and Wilt as the greatest athletes ...should mean something
@@vrokhlenko lol ok. He won a gold medal at the US version of the Olympics paralleling the boycotted Soviet ones with much better times than all the competitors at the boycotted ones. Happy? Greetings from Mother Russia, Vadim... Na kaleni Suka.
Amazing! What an amazing contribution To the world of swimming. The dolphin kick is now used with all swimming technics associated to the turn so it is in fact one of the most used technic in pool racing as it is the fastest technic to use.
As someone said, they put the limit After Pankratov... but even with the limit, it simply ‘depends’: during Rome 2009’s 200 free final when Phelps was playing the lullaby game underwater Biedermann ‘open the water’ à la Moses (disclaimer: i don’t like Biedermann @ all and 200 and 400 WR should have bene given to Agnel and (back to) Thorpie)
Why not have this as a new race, with the underwater dolphin kick as primary, allowing competitors to come up for air as often as needed? For a 50m race, most may probably not need to come up at all.
The freestyle should be 100% free as a discipline on its own in the olympics where the athletes are able to swim in and outside the water as they wish, whereas crawl could be a separate discipline as it is today.
Totally agree. It's be interesting to have the crawl and freestyle as separate events. Everything goes in freestyle - underwater, dolphin kick, switch strokes whatever you want. The first person to touch the end wins kind of race. Lol
A technique they do is "humming" which gradually releases air at a constant rate creating air bubbles that prevent water from going in and by the time they resurface they just breathe in.
w23857980 but if you make the minimum times, you might swim at the world master swimming championships. I went to Montreal 2014 and to Budapest 2017. Go for it!
They should start a new race. Underwater dolphin kick, 50, 100, 400, etc. I swim leisurely and can do it for 35 meters, so an olympian can do 50 and 100 easily but 400 will be for the free divers
I'm so very confused that I feel like I missed something. The title mentions "dolphin kick" but it seems like everyone said something about a "butterfly kick" and finally a "Vassallo" kick, so I feel like I missed something since no one said "dolphin".
VASALLO: From Puerto Rico. 🇵🇷😎👍🏽 Even thou PR is a colony of the USA, we got our own olympic representation. He competed for USA because swimming here was very difficult. I do not applaud his decision, but still he was one of the greatest!
I was going to post the same thing but decided to scroll the comments first. Was he privately coaching one of the other athletes? Googling "laurie lawrence 1988 olympics backstroke" draws a blank - just articles about Duncan Armstrong
I don't think technique should require rule changes. Advantages gained by gear, or other forms of performance enhancements should have rules to restrict them for sure, but not outright better technique.
But it's a race for that particular stroke. It's not better technique it's a totally different motion. It would be like allowing freestyle in breaststroke because it's faster.
imagine some guy who is really good at the dolphin kick, so much so that he can get enough edge on people to win every stroke competition. I think FIDA was trying to prevent that scenario.
i think people would hyperventilate before a race to trick their mind into thinking they don't need oxygen so they could stay underwater longer and some people died as a result
strange. some1 developes a better technique for high jump. that can stay. this dolphin technique can't. although both techniques brought huge changes into their sports. strange, indeed
@Colin Daniels well. it is callet BACKstroke for a reason. you should do BACK stroke for the majority of the distance, yeah. and that's exactly what they did. Even if they dolphin swim 40-45 meters, - they are still on their backs - the majority of the 100m (especially that of the 200m) is on the surface, in the original, traditional back stroke besides, race walking is a poor example. no1 will "invent" running there because it is already crystall clear in the rules that running is not allowed. they made it clear and prevented any chaos and confusion. there was no prevention for dolphin stroke in swimming rules. I guess, it was not even mentioned, because it was not even invented yet
Not all better techniques for high jump can stay lol. In the past, a bunch of gymnasts would do a bunch of back handsprings and flip at the end to get really high off the ground, and this strategy was quickly put to a stop. A part of me wishes all techniques were allowed in these sports. How fast can a human actually swim? How fast can a human actually jump? Edit: the high jump flips I am mentioning are the reasoning behind the high jump rule that you need to take off of one foot (instead of two). Another flip technique was also banned for the long jump as well.
because in one sport you have to jump by yourself over something but there is not only one way allowed just one more effective, in the other you have to you a distance but in a certain way so if you do a third of the distance by swimming in another way it's logical that they have change the rule or at the end you will have people you didn't swim backstroke for the 50 first meters.
They should never have allowed dolphin kicks in backstroke or any other stroke other than butterfly. They even allow one kick in breaststroke. Ridiculous. It's an insult to the people who paved the way for the sport.
I'm not a swimmer. But I don't think the dolphin kick should be banned or have any restrictions. As long as you're touching all the walls and not using PED's, then I think everything is fine. Isn't the point to finish first? The elite swimmers spend so much time in the pool that they should be able to perfect the dolphin kick, if they think it will get them a faster time. In running, not every running gait is the same... Then again, I'm not a swimmer, so there may be a good reason to restrict the dolphin kick.
because Dolphin kick is easily faster than the other strokes, so everyone would do it forever, making the stroke part useless and the underwater Dolphin kick more important
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The dolphin kick was used by almost all butterfly swimmers in 1958 when I swam, and one of our backstrokers did the back butterfly with the dolphin kick both underwater and on the surface for the whole 100 yard race in 1958. Our best breast stroker swam most of the race under water in the 100 yard breast stroke in 1958, before it was outlawed. When we played underwater tag, the fastest stoke was the dolphin kick without using one's arms.
That's impossible.
Dolphin kick with light arms is how we help train little ones in survival techniques with roll over with belly up..
Shaves head, keeps mustache. lolz
It's his turbo. Improves breathing
The bristles help trap air which the swimmer uses for breathing when fully submerged. xD
It was the 80's man. No explanation needed
@@guillermojrboy3292 Exactly like how gills work.
its cool though
That's how I always swam around the pool as a kid. With flippers on you can go really quick. Definitely the most natural way we're supposed to swim I think.
This was oddly satisfying ....the way these great athletes spoke of the sport, recognition & respect they had about their opponents , and the background music 👌
This is one of the best videos in youtube .
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Rio was so boring
Asians now to bring the world together..
Just look at Beijing.
Sorry to tell you but...
its been postponed
This is cool but I wish they also would have talked about how swimmers used the dolphin kick in other strokes. I remember in 1996 Olympics, Denis Pankratov of Russia swam maybe 30, 35 meters of the 100 butterfly doing the dolphin stroke underwater. He did it in the 200, too, but not quite as far. He won gold in both and set a world record in the 100. I seem to recall they changed the rule after that. In a lot of ways the dolphin kick has been really controversial throughout swimming history so there’s more of this story to be told
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Of course there is. Many swimmers use it in different ways, with different power which lead to getting a head start against competition.
Would love to here more about other's experiences.
That sounds like getting away with cheating as this one said it was chanced 88.
You swim faster underwater - that’s why swimmers did this and FINA created the 15m rule.
@@GunsNRoses1123, it wasn't "cheating" because it wasn't against rules as long as the swimmer stayed on their back. The international governing body then regulated it so that their heads had to break the surface by 10, then 15 meters and actually swim the stroke. Now it's a standard element of the turn cycle except in breaststroke, where the rules limit it to one dolphin kick (though some swimmers succeed in getting away with 2 or 3).
So when do they explain what the dolphin kick is and how it differed from standard technique
dud621 it’s when starting or turning you kick with both legs together off the wall or start while in streamline position
I guess this video is for swimmers who already know what a dolphin kick is? You can simply search for "what is a dolphin kick" if you want.
@Mary Antonio I assume someone somewhere did, just not widespread or recognized. Most probably just pushed off like you do before you are taught dolphin
@Mary Antonio Yes, but it wasn't used strategically to min-max the system. Like people kicked twice or thrice out of habit before surfacing, until that one guy realized that going underwater is faster than above water, then its intentionally "im never going to surface because i can win".
Dolphin kick is both legs kicking together essentially. When done underwater you can put your whole body into it and it's very fast. Normal backstroke uses a flutter kick (legs alternate) because of how your arms alternate in backstroke.
Aaahhhh the good 80's... Love the vibe
Lol does this comment imply there’s also a bad 80’s lol
To be so fit that you can go so far on a breath and then continue is crazy to me. If I have to run 10 metres for a train, I'm puffing to catch my breath, these guys can't even stop and take a breath away from the water, so impressive.
THEY SHOULD JUST HAVE A DOLPHIN KICK EVENT IN THE OLYMPICS
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Cameron Van Der Burg invented Dolphin Kick in the 100m Breaststroke in 2012.
u mean cody miller in 2016
@@billybob6604 It couldn't be in 2016 because i knew it *_wayyy_* before 2016
Actually I invented it yesterday
Diana Owusu no he’s talking about when Cameron dove in he did 2 dolphin kicks. It’s a joke
@@junsib9829 Ow ok😂
These are awful to watch. Such a confused mess I don't even think we actually got to see the guy do it the first time it was done.
Ted Cameron it was done first by him off camera
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Ikr the whole video confused me. Never explained the dolphin kick, explain when it was first done and that video. Bunch of random people in different languages talking about random races where they used it
@@johncitrowske9922 I mean, dolphin kick is pretty well known so it’s kinda on you if you don’t know
The new rules for the under water dolphin kick and the 15 meter limit applied to all the races meant that I will get DQ'd if I don't remind myself to only do one dolphin kick off a turn in a race. This happens to me if I lose concentration and lapse back to trying to push for more speed. I was afraid my niece would get DQ'd in a race when you don't surface by the flag lines in the Olympic trials. It did happen to her in the nationals and that was disappointing because she won the race.
Reagan Smith almost got DQ'd in the Olympics since she takes advantage of all 15m underwater and was literally inches away from going over 15.
This is a cool story! Thanks for the upload.
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all FINA ever does is ban stuff to follow the protocol they want. Why didnt they think of adding a race for dolphin kick technique. That would have been the best stroke of the 5 to watch underwater.I loved when some swimmers turned sideways underwater to do their kick. I tried it once.
I’m really enjoying watching these Olympic swimming sports because I have never learned how to swim but you know I am really happy for these people!!!
Try to swim.. you will learn
That was stupid dope. I want it to be brought back to competition.
Jesse Vassallo was an olympic gold medalist and world record holder. Sad they didn't even mention that.
MTV Cribs around 9:00 in the recognize that Vassallo technique
@@sween13377 yeah I'm talking about more his achievements, not development of the technique. Sounds almost like a random good swimmer. He was on the cover of sports illustrated with Muhammad Ali and Wilt as the greatest athletes ...should mean something
MTV Cribs some amazing athletes that want nothing else then that gold but even if you win any medal at any Olympics that still is an accomplishment
"Jesse Vassallo was an olympic gold medalist" No, he was not! Check your stats! He was a World Champion and a world record holder.
@@vrokhlenko lol ok. He won a gold medal at the US version of the Olympics paralleling the boycotted Soviet ones with much better times than all the competitors at the boycotted ones. Happy? Greetings from Mother Russia, Vadim... Na kaleni Suka.
I was there back in 1988, Seoul. It was very interesting to see Dolphin kick backstroke. Time goes really fast uh?
Great edits and video work
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Very well made infographic video !!
Maybe they should consider having a exclusive dolphin stroke event or events?
this bring back memories from 96 Us trails and 1996 ATL games..DENNYS PRANKATOV,MEL STAWERD
Amazing! What an amazing contribution To the world of swimming. The dolphin kick is now used with all swimming technics associated to the turn so it is in fact one of the most used technic in pool racing as it is the fastest technic to use.
I really enjoy this channel.
The editing of this vid is astonishing. I need to know which music have they used.
I remember using the dolphin kick like that and I stopped competing in 1984.
They should just do a dolphin kick race
Hi I'm Troy McClure you may remember me from commentating the 1988 Olympics.
Ok, Daniel.
nice, daniel.
As someone said, they put the limit After Pankratov... but even with the limit, it simply ‘depends’: during Rome 2009’s 200 free final when Phelps was playing the lullaby game underwater Biedermann ‘open the water’ à la Moses (disclaimer: i don’t like Biedermann @ all and 200 and 400 WR should have bene given to Agnel and (back to) Thorpie)
Why not have this as a new race, with the underwater dolphin kick as primary, allowing competitors to come up for air as often as needed? For a 50m race, most may probably not need to come up at all.
very aesthetic Olympics UA-cam channel, very cool.
Amazing. Especially that the music matches the time period
The person next to me is John Naber (John Neighbor)
It would be nice to see a swimming event made up solely of kicking.
You're a Japanese Athlete swimmer and your last name is Suzuki.. imagine the pressure
Geeez, Berkoff had a piano with him the last 25 meters
I definitely know Japanese.
My best friend's uncle is David Berkoff, this is nuts.
the dolphins are suing over naming it after them
Yh clever comparing humans suing to dolphins suing says a lot
Fidias is a legend!
What a nice video, thanks
This Jesse guy looks like the Jesse guy in Breaking Bad
The freestyle should be 100% free as a discipline on its own in the olympics where the athletes are able to swim in and outside the water as they wish, whereas crawl could be a separate discipline as it is today.
Totally agree. It's be interesting to have the crawl and freestyle as separate events.
Everything goes in freestyle - underwater, dolphin kick, switch strokes whatever you want. The first person to touch the end wins kind of race. Lol
I think water would go in my nose if I tried this.
Try using a nose clip, at least while you are learning the underwater dolphin kick on your back.
Blowing bubbles out of your nose while you do this helps. Otherwise get a nose clip.
It’s worse going down your nose and through your throat
If you strong enough.
A technique they do is "humming" which gradually releases air at a constant rate creating air bubbles that prevent water from going in and by the time they resurface they just breathe in.
서울1988 때 센세이션 바로 돌핀킥 이때 나왔군요 스즈키씨 잘했네 하지만 FINA에서도 규칙바뀐것은 어쩔수가없을듯
Is there anywhere I can try out for a team. I can swim brestroke with dolphin kick 53. Seconds in 100 meters
Inventor of dolphin kick Jesse Vasallo!
Why am I watching this? I will never swim in the Olympic.
Never stop dreaming and keep going. You can do it!
Improvement in life.
Lmao, time to dolphin kick underwater in the backyard pool. Dont hit your head though
w23857980 but if you make the minimum times, you might swim at the world master swimming championships. I went to Montreal 2014 and to Budapest 2017. Go for it!
I believe in you
You don't give people a medal to make them happy. Just remember their names, and name something after them.
So they had Suzuki speaking but didn't bother to put up a translation? Maybe I'm the only dunce who can't speak Japanese...
Win a swimming competition with diving skill, they should be shamed.
how are they doing that effect on the video, i need to know
A friend of mine used to be DISQUALIFIED for doing this
Good example, it's not cheating when everybody does it.
lol
lol XD
Maybe one day we will have Dolphin Kick style competition hehehe
Really enjoyed that thanks.
They should start a new race. Underwater dolphin kick, 50, 100, 400, etc. I swim leisurely and can do it for 35 meters, so an olympian can do 50 and 100 easily but 400 will be for the free divers
No subtitles for Suzuki's part in Japanese??
you can turn on closed captions for that. i'm not sure why they didn't add it in to the in-video subtitles
I'm so very confused that I feel like I missed something. The title mentions "dolphin kick" but it seems like everyone said something about a "butterfly kick" and finally a "Vassallo" kick, so I feel like I missed something since no one said "dolphin".
What if somebody did it 15.5 meters?
Diory N he would be Disqualified!
VASALLO: From Puerto Rico.
🇵🇷😎👍🏽
Even thou PR is a colony of the USA, we got our own olympic representation. He competed for USA because swimming here was very difficult. I do not applaud his decision, but still he was one of the greatest!
No under water cameras at that time
great video, could we get a soundtrack list?
imagine when that guy did the first backwards high jump
they laughed at him warming up until they saw how high he jumped. lol
Laurie Lawrence at 5:20. No Australians in final. Why??
I was going to post the same thing but decided to scroll the comments first. Was he privately coaching one of the other athletes? Googling "laurie lawrence 1988 olympics backstroke" draws a blank - just articles about Duncan Armstrong
Wait for me..I will invented a new stroke
amazing video !!!
I remember the dolphin kick could only be use with the butterfly stroke.
Just one of the factors allowing faster lap times.
There was this american girl who did the dolphin kick on her side in 1984 and won Gold in the 100 & 200 freestyle
I don't think technique should require rule changes. Advantages gained by gear, or other forms of performance enhancements should have rules to restrict them for sure, but not outright better technique.
But it's a race for that particular stroke. It's not better technique it's a totally different motion. It would be like allowing freestyle in breaststroke because it's faster.
imagine some guy who is really good at the dolphin kick, so much so that he can get enough edge on people to win every stroke competition. I think FIDA was trying to prevent that scenario.
i think people would hyperventilate before a race to trick their mind into thinking they don't need oxygen so they could stay underwater longer and some people died as a result
@Shank C Its because of loss of hypoxic drive to the brain stem I believe.
"Swimming next to John (Neighbor)"
how can you constantly blow water out of your nose without losing air???
Why would 5 dolphin kicks only get you 5 meters lol
Beautiful.
Berkoff with an awful reaction time at start, freeze at 5:00, he has barely moved an inch and other guys are already arching back
So, if the Dolphin Kick is so great, why are other kicks still used? Why isn't it the only kick that is taught and used?
This is really cool
1:40 Hello, ¿me escuchas? 😂
3:23 did they edit out the russian flag?
It was Soviet not Russian flag in 1988.
Why would u put music over someone talking .
Very nice made video
Luckily they changed the rules after that
what if ryan lochte would have born in that era.
strange. some1 developes a better technique for high jump. that can stay. this dolphin technique can't. although both techniques brought huge changes into their sports. strange, indeed
@Colin Daniels well. it is callet BACKstroke for a reason. you should do BACK stroke for the majority of the distance, yeah. and that's exactly what they did. Even if they dolphin swim 40-45 meters,
- they are still on their backs
- the majority of the 100m (especially that of the 200m) is on the surface, in the original, traditional back stroke
besides, race walking is a poor example. no1 will "invent" running there because it is already crystall clear in the rules that running is not allowed. they made it clear and prevented any chaos and confusion. there was no prevention for dolphin stroke in swimming rules. I guess, it was not even mentioned, because it was not even invented yet
István Sipos oh, you can use it, but later you have to swim the style. No one start a race today without it!
Not all better techniques for high jump can stay lol. In the past, a bunch of gymnasts would do a bunch of back handsprings and flip at the end to get really high off the ground, and this strategy was quickly put to a stop. A part of me wishes all techniques were allowed in these sports. How fast can a human actually swim? How fast can a human actually jump?
Edit: the high jump flips I am mentioning are the reasoning behind the high jump rule that you need to take off of one foot (instead of two). Another flip technique was also banned for the long jump as well.
because in one sport you have to jump by yourself over something but there is not only one way allowed just one more effective, in the other you have to you a distance but in a certain way so if you do a third of the distance by swimming in another way it's logical that they have change the rule or at the end you will have people you didn't swim backstroke for the 50 first meters.
Jesse Vasallo?
They should never have allowed dolphin kicks in backstroke or any other stroke other than butterfly.
They even allow one kick in breaststroke. Ridiculous. It's an insult to the people who paved the way for the sport.
3:28
Sensored.
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The editing is really weird ...
I thought it's Lawrence from Arabia at the beginning
I did 25m dolphin kick at school during interhouse competitiom and got dqed i was first though
Remember the 15m limit! They exist for a reason :D
I remember watching this race live on TV and Berkhoff's start was horrible. It probably lost him the race.
“paTada”, kick=patada, El nacimiento de la patada de delfín”
I'm not a swimmer. But I don't think the dolphin kick should be banned or have any restrictions. As long as you're touching all the walls and not using PED's, then I think everything is fine. Isn't the point to finish first? The elite swimmers spend so much time in the pool that they should be able to perfect the dolphin kick, if they think it will get them a faster time. In running, not every running gait is the same... Then again, I'm not a swimmer, so there may be a good reason to restrict the dolphin kick.
because Dolphin kick is easily faster than the other strokes, so everyone would do it forever, making the stroke part useless and the underwater Dolphin kick more important
now let's call shaks for the competition... we can swim faster
What's the song?
I disliked the video because it shows what a swimmer experienced not what happened in a way a layman could understand.
Now they’re all sneaking it into breaststroke lol