How the “Dolphin Kick” changed Swimming forever | On the Line
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- Опубліковано 11 гру 2018
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At the 100m backstroke final in at the Olympic Games 1988 in Seoul, a new underwater technique called "Dolphin Kick" revolutionized the swimming world and brought the victory to Japanese swimmer Daichi Suzuki.
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The international governing body for swimming, FINA, changed the rules in 1991, so now swimmers must surface at or before 15 meters, so you will no longer see races like the one shown from the 1988 Seoul Olympics. The rule applies to all events, not just backstroke.
I've seen swimmers doing breaststroke get past the 15 off their start, most notably caeleb dressel in his 100 breast american record. I know that after that point if they were to surface past the 15 they'd be DQ'd, but would that be an exception to what you said?
Michelle Cong-Bowers i see thanks for clearing that up!
@MrAlex great idea. It should be called freestyle or something.
@@garrysekelli6776 Yes I wonder what would happend if they made a discipline called freestyle !! :D :D :D
I would suggest swimmers are allowed to swim how ever they like. ;)
@@garrysekelli6776 Not everyone knows it...its a secret....but.... there's... a stroke called freestyle already
Phelps : Thank you.
tom shields
caleb dressel 😹
Ryan lochte
Ricky Berens
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
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.
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
Melivin steward's
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).
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.
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😂
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 .
Can't Wait For Tokyo 2020
😀😀😀i know it's gonna be epic
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 a cool story! Thanks for the upload.
Great that you showed all the innovators who developed this techniques.
Nothing innovative about it. It's cheating.
THEY SHOULD JUST HAVE A DOLPHIN KICK EVENT IN THE OLYMPICS
Very well made infographic video !!
What a nice video, thanks
Aaahhhh the good 80's... Love the vibe
Lol does this comment imply there’s also a bad 80’s lol
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 really enjoy this channel.
The editing of this vid is astonishing. I need to know which music have they used.
Great edits and video work
Thank you! We're glad you enjoyed 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.
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.
Really enjoyed that thanks.
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
THANKS. utibbis ruined by wishy washiness
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 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
Geeez, Berkoff had a piano with him the last 25 meters
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.
I remember using the dolphin kick like that and I stopped competing in 1984.
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
amazing video !!!
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this bring back memories from 96 Us trails and 1996 ATL games..DENNYS PRANKATOV,MEL STAWERD
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.
I was there back in 1988, Seoul. It was very interesting to see Dolphin kick backstroke. Time goes really fast uh?
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.
great video, could we get a soundtrack list?
Very nice made video
very aesthetic Olympics UA-cam channel, very cool.
Amazing. Especially that the music matches the time period
Hi I'm Troy McClure you may remember me from commentating the 1988 Olympics.
Ok, Daniel.
nice, daniel.
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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
Beautiful.
You're a Japanese Athlete swimmer and your last name is Suzuki.. imagine the pressure
This is really cool
The person next to me is John Naber (John Neighbor)
They should just do a dolphin kick race
It would be nice to see a swimming event made up solely of kicking.
the dolphins are suing over naming it after them
Yh clever comparing humans suing to dolphins suing says a lot
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.
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.
Maybe one day we will have Dolphin Kick style competition hehehe
서울1988 때 센세이션 바로 돌핀킥 이때 나왔군요 스즈키씨 잘했네 하지만 FINA에서도 규칙바뀐것은 어쩔수가없을듯
how are they doing that effect on the video, i need to know
My best friend's uncle is David Berkoff, this is nuts.
I definitely know Japanese.
imagine when that guy did the first backwards high jump
they laughed at him warming up until they saw how high he jumped. lol
Inventor of dolphin kick Jesse Vasallo!
Fidias is a legend!
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".
"Swimming next to John (Neighbor)"
Wait for me..I will invented a new stroke
You don't give people a medal to make them happy. Just remember their names, and name something after them.
I remember the dolphin kick could only be use with the butterfly stroke.
Just one of the factors allowing faster lap times.
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 would 5 dolphin kicks only get you 5 meters lol
This Jesse guy looks like the Jesse guy in Breaking Bad
Good example, it's not cheating when everybody does it.
lol
lol XD
A friend of mine used to be DISQUALIFIED for doing this
fRom 1987 lmao turn on the captions
1:40 Hello, ¿me escuchas? 😂
No under water cameras at that time
There was this american girl who did the dolphin kick on her side in 1984 and won Gold in the 100 & 200 freestyle
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...
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
how can you constantly blow water out of your nose without losing air???
Win a swimming competition with diving skill, they should be shamed.
Long tracks of this video not in English or subtitled, or closed captioned. Otherwise fascinating. It’s like. Billy Yang video but swimming.
What if somebody did it 15.5 meters?
Diory N he would be Disqualified!
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
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
Why would u put music over someone talking .
The editing is really weird ...
Is there anywhere I can try out for a team. I can swim brestroke with dolphin kick 53. Seconds in 100 meters
Jesse Vasallo?
Hi
Love me some epilepsy!
Russian is 21 year old and half of his hair has already fallen
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
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!
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?
“paTada”, kick=patada, El nacimiento de la patada de delfín”
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
Me thankyou this guy
I thought it's Lawrence from Arabia at the beginning
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.
3:28
Sensored.
lol
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@olympic why not have a dolphin kick event that is short enough for people not do drown? Would be cool?
Freedivers do already swim 200+ meters underwater without drowning or blacking out
Subtitles would have been nice
3:23 did they edit out the russian flag?
It was Soviet not Russian flag in 1988.
now let's call shaks for the competition... we can swim faster