Coaches: Beginner Lessons (109) - Back Float Recovery
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- Опубліковано 14 гру 2021
- This week we discuss how your swimmer can get out of a back float comfortably (aka no water up their nose!).
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You have NO IDEA how that first lesson helped me comfortably get up. I watched you explain last night, went to the pool today and tried taking DEEP breath and just bending down, then standing......I was in the pool soooooo comfortable for almost two hours. lol I lost track of time. If you consciously take a deep breath, you worry less about drowning and more of technique of bending hips, and moving head up. THANK YOU.
I am glad you are teaching instructors b/c I paid someone a lot of money yet they never showed me how to easily go from floating to standing.
Thank you for the kind words. I wish you increasing comfort as you continue your swim journey.
I am struggling with standing upright after floating on the back. This is a nicest vdo I have seen till now on recovery. I will try this tomorrow. Thanks.
Update after trying.
I tried this technique for almost an hour. Repeatedly I tried to see my what move is wrong that I can not get upright. My legs would simply not sink in no matter what I do.
Ultimately I found a method to sink my legs through observation. While floating on the back, I would keep my both arms flat touching my hips, and then slowly raise my hands above water surface. My legs starts sinking simultaneously . Eureka.
Back float recovery is really difficult that the front float landing..Thanks coach for explaining this so well
It certainly can be! The higher your legs float, the more challenging the backfloat recovery can be.
I'm an adult learning how to swim and your lessons have helped me so much. A good teacher is worth their weight in gold.
Thank you so much
Thank you for those kind words Theresa. Glad to be a helpful part of your swim journey. I wish you a lifetime of joy in the water.
I'm 65 y o and finally learning to swim through a coach. Your videos are a valuable supplement to the swimming lessons I got. Thanknyoubvery much!
This is the most calm and relaxed instructor I have ever seen, your videos help me a lot to be calm and methodical in water. Good job!
Thank you Bogdan.
I wish my instructor would explain like this to me.she just said float and stand up.i always panic and feel like i'm sinking
Hi ss. I'm glad to the video was helpful. I'm sorry you're not getting something similar from your instructor. If you're not comfortable sinking yet, then you're probably not quite ready for backfloat recovery. This is the 9th video in a series and you might find the previous videos useful as well. You want to make sure you know how your body is going to behave in the water when you do nothing but hold a good breath. Do you sink? Do you float? Do the same while blowing bubbles out. Do you sink or float? Is it a different experience with less air in your lungs? Being comfortable sinking lets you move into backfloat recoveries with far less anxiety. You might consider asking your coach to explain in a bit more detail. If you don't get anything new out of the coach, perhaps he/she has nothing else to offer. There are lots of good instructors around. Don't feel stuck with one who won't help you understand.
You have the best swimming videos! I love how you educate us about the water before showing. Thank you!
I just took my first swimming lesson today and struggled with this. Thank you!
Hi Keyshad9810. I'm just finding some comments I somehow missed this past year. My apologies. I'm hoping you are well on your way to enjoying the water by now. Glad we could be a helpful part of your journey.
Learnt to back float by seeing your videos ..they are the most helpful thank you..
Glad to hear it Seemab. Thank you for the comment. Hope you have a lifetime full of enjoying the water!
I wish you were my instructor. Mine scares the heck out of me which isn’t particularly helpful.
Absolutely brilliant I'm going to ask my swimming teacher to help me learn to do this.
I think it is a part of learning to swim that is neglected.
Thank you Julie. Did your swimming teacher help you learn this?
Thank you for this video because our instructor had the audacity to make us "swim" on our backs without telling us how to return to standing (safely, effective and efficiently).
Thanks for the note Bajan. I'm sorry you were not given this earlier in your class. I'm glad this was helpful and I hope you have a GREAT experience with the water despite teaching mishaps. It's really quite an enjoyable place.
@@perrychristenberry1913Thank you Perry 😊! I am slowly learning to enjoy being in the water and overcoming the fear I've had for many years (thanks to jumping in the deep end as a child - TWICE 🤦🏽♀️)!
Thanks again! All the best 🤗!
I tried your technique and had no problem in recovery. I was struggling before. Thank you
Glad you found it helpful! Thank you for the comment. Wishing you great luck on the rest of your swim journey.
Absolutely love your videos. So calming! No fear at all.
Thank you for the kind words S&E. Much appreciated.
Excellent lesson for beginner!
Wow sounds awesome👌🏻 Thank you😊
I float....TOO well on my back to the point where tucking my chin and pulling in my knees don't work. I'm just floating in a cannonball pose on my back LOL. Im still work-shopping the hand movement. But i need to find a way to make myself sink enough to actually rotate. Might just need to learn to roll into a front float to stand up :P
Update: yeah I had to learn to roll to my stomach to recover. Lol but hey! Learning!
fellow swim teacher here,still have lotts to learn,love the deep breath instruction befor standing as you go under water befor pushing feet to floor.brilliant,gonna try this with my adult learners, my child swimmers seem to be more in tune with their body's but adults at times really struggle. these little details are gold if it only helps a few.thankyou.an adult with a shoulder issue could really benefit from the breath hold first❤
Thank you for the kind words Mel. Thanks for caring about adult learners! BEST of luck for you as you gather the nuggets that make you increasingly helpful!! I recommend Melon Dash’s Conquer you fear of Swimming book for lots of similar nuggets.
@@perrychristenberrybrilliant, il look that up,you clearly know verry well,continuously learning all the time to help others feels so good.humility is a nice quality you have🤩
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Excellent recovery video!
A belated ‘Thank you’ Jaskaran.
👍❤️🏊♂️ so much good
Nice tips coach
Thank you Tondani.
Hi coach. That was a very nice routine. In my case when i move my head up my legs dont go down. If then i bend my legs i start sinking in water. What to do ........ Thanks
Thank you JB. A few people float well enough that moving their chin to their chest doesn't start the sink. Apparently you are in that group. Still, pull your chin to your chest so water doesn't get in your nose. If bending your knees starts your sink, great - get your breath, chin to chest, bend and sink. See if you're legs sink all the way down or at least far enough to stand. If so, stand up and you're done. If not: get your breath, chin to chest, knees to chest, and 'push' your forehead toward your knees. That will increase your legs sinking and make standing easier. The most floaty of floaters may require the use of their hands to help them finish the rotation to standing; if you still need some extra help getting your feet toward the bottom, check the video for using your hands - it's easier to see that than to read about it. 😀 Hope that helps JB.
Hand propulsion help in this situation 6:36
Very well explained
I know this sounds silly but When holding my breath, can I quickly breathe out? If I don’t, won’t the water still end up in my nose during the brief sinking?
Hi Prima. You can blow out your nose when you start going into the water if you'd like. It's not always necessary to blow out however. For example, IF you're standing in the water, looking straight ahead and lower your self into the water, as if you were doing a swat or knee bend, keeping your head looking straight ahead, then there is no need to blow air out of your nose. The same is true if you are looking straight down at the bottom of the pool when you put your face in the water. The physics of the situation keeps water out of your nose (well, out of your sinuses which is the painful part getting water in your nose).
The problem with water in your nose happens when you are looking up or when you turn upside down (or when you breath in with your nose of course). That's when water gets in your sinuses. There are some great videos here on youtube about this: ua-cam.com/video/RnDOjs2AEhw/v-deo.html is one of my favorites. Here's a list of additional videos I like and that student's have found valuable: ua-cam.com/play/PLI0bWjWd83tHZe5KG5NzteTWbWlfyjujQ.html. Good luck on your swim journey.
Great video! Thanks so much. Can you help me do this deep water? For some reason I feel fear about going to and from back float in deep water. I want to be able to tread a bit to see where I am and then go into back float or forward swim.
I struggle so hard to stand up in the water my legs just dont want to go down help
Hi Kellie. Back float recovery, particularly for people whose legs float exceptionally well, is a challenge indeed. Without seeing you, it's hard to know what's happening, so here are a few thoughts. Make sure you take a good breath before trying any of these possible solutions.
One thing that often makes standing from a back float difficult is that the person does not push their head & shoulders forward toward their feet - they just keep laying on their back expecting their arms to push them up, which they can't. Their arms need help. It requires a forceful pull/push to get the shoulders over the hips to be able to stand. A common analogy I hear is that it's like getting up from a recliner - it requires engaging your abs and pulling/pushing your body forward over your hips. You're curling up and pulling your forehead toward you knees.
I've had a few students who found this so difficult that they chose to skip this standing from backfloat step and, instead, roll over from the back float to their front float and then stand, since they had that skill already. For them that's been an effective solution. And the back to front roll is usually relatively easy to learn (see ua-cam.com/video/lZxHQ0I0Qcs/v-deo.htmlsi=T-IIeh3jhYD1tnQG). Another thing some students have found helpful is trying to reverse from their back float to their front float by pushing their arms and shoulders forward and then over their feet (see ua-cam.com/video/NBUgZnYoOP4/v-deo.htmlsi=uyCRRlWHseIDqwMu). For students who can make that work, standing from their back float is 'simply' stopping that reversal half way through the process.
I hope one of these is helpful. Keep me posted.
@perrychristenberry1913 wow thanku so much for the in depth reply really appreciate it will defo be practicing them will let u know how it goes x
Why are my legs higher up when floating
Hi Martina. I'm not sure I quite understand your question, but I'll take a shot and you tell me if I get close to what you're asking.
People (and parts of people) float or sink as a result of the way their body interacts with the water. There are 4 primary factors that decide if you/your body part floats: body fat (floats), bones (don't usually float for adults though some people's bones are 'floatier' than others), muscles (don't float), and air in your lungs (floats). Your specific combination of these factors determine whether or not you float and how you float.
I for example, has muscle legs (far from the old days but still muscled) with no fat on them. My legs sink as a result. My upper body, however, houses some fat. That fat, along with air in my lungs, keeps my upper body afloat. I have a friend with Cerebral Palsy that affects one side of his body, so one side of his body is muscled and the other side is far less muscled. As a result, he floats at an angle, with the muscled side lower in the water. And floats can change over time. When I was a skinny, lean muscled kid, I sank. Not today. One of my students lost 40 lbs last year working on her Peloton. She lost fat on her legs and built some strong muscles. Her legs, which used to float at the top of the water, now float much closer to the bottom of the pool. Similarly, I have a student who used to sink entirely. Just muscle! However, thanks to a marriage with some good home cooking, he now has some fat on his body and now his upper body floats. A body builder may see a change in her float multiple times a year. It's just physics. Helpful?
Struggling with this
Hi Evelyn, you're not alone. This is a challenge for a lot of people, and the best floaters are frequently the most challenged. If you were here, I'd ask what you found difficult as people struggle with different portions of this. Since your not, I'll talk about some common things I see. Before you try this skill, you'll want to be sure you are comfortable with your face underwater and with moving around (wobbling) during your back float. Otherwise this movement and chance of going under can be a bit too much to manage. While this process is simple for some people - especially people who's legs sink normally, it takes a lot of energy for many good floaters - at least initially, to the point that I've had a few students who decided it was so much trouble that they opted to roll over into their front float and stand up from there, since they already have that skill.
The trick here is pulling your chest and shoulders forward over your hips; you can't stay laying in the backfloat and still stand up. The amazing Melon Dash talks about curling up and pulling your head to your knees (not your knees to your head). Many people describe standing from you backfloat as getting up from a recliner, where you have to lean forward and push down at the same time. I usually say, 1. Big Breath, 2. Chin to Chest, 3. Drop your rump and, as you do, push your shoulders forward as if you're trying to get your shoulders over your knees. We have a new video on standing up from floats coming out soon but I hope you have your solution long before our video gets to you. I hope one of those ideas is useful.
Take a deep breath, puĺl you head up and let your legs sink
Hi again. I won't type much since I typed a lot on the other comment. This 'take a deep breath, pull your chin to your chest, let your legs sink' is an easy way for people whose legs sink to recover. It's not quite that simple if your legs don't sink... it's a bit more effort. Wishing you great success!