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This is profound! For three months I have tried to practice Tracey Baumann’s Swim Mastery where the outside arm is an “outrigger” doing fingertip drag (old school as you call it). I noticed my speed suffered! I am going to adopt your technique. Thank you so much!
After swimming 2k in the ocean I feel the pain in my lower back. I just did the standing and demonstrating the posture you explained in the video a couple times. I will be doing a 3km swim tomorrow and will post another comment post the swim. I think i know now how to keep my posture(at least I hope I know lol). I hope this will work, and thanks for the tips and hopefully this lower back pain will stop
I’ve just started to train myself to breathe bi-laterally. I’m very “right-sided” and always breathe on the right but have ended up with a muscle strain in my neck, which has motivated me to re-learn my stroke but this time to breathe on the left as well. Most of my swimming is done off a beach in Spain and I quickly found another benefit of being able to breathe bi-laterally. If there is a swell or waves and I’m doing a loop parallel to the beach, being able to breathe on the opposite side to the direction the waves are going means I’m reducing the risk of my head being swamped by a wave as I breathe and drinking the Mediterranean as a result!
Thank you for sharing the tips. What about breathing? I usually do 1 breath every 2 stokes. I found that even I try to slow down, I still get that chest pain, your body signal telling you to breath. I can't do laps because of this, as I would be too out of breath, some how. I've been swimming for 3months now. Do I need to practice holding my breath to build endurance with the lungs?
There's another extreme where i sometimes find myself exposing the palm of one hand to oncoming water when breathing on the other side. Any suggestions?
How do you kick quickly, i.e., like a six-beat kick, while maintaining the effortless form? I can two-beat kick with low effort, but as soon as I increase the frequency I feel exhausted and I actually swim slower.
Perfect! My swim coach here once told me: "your swimming should be as natural as walking across the street or pushing the grocery cart." I'm still working on achieving this level of skill & relaxation in the pool. Again, great video & perfectly explained & demonstrated! Peace.
Well I've gone through a bunch of videos and so far yours comes closest to my problem. So.... I am a snorkeler. In lake Michigan and have been for oh, 50 years now. Ish. BUT for the past week I've gone every day straight and spent hours out there each day. WAY more than usual. Now most of the time I am very relaxed, basically just floating and kicking with my flippers on. Sometimes kicking and sometimes more like a frog, both legs out then together. (slower, easier to hoover over stuff I want to see that way.) BUT for the past week, I've done a ton of surface diving, then I sort of swim like a dolphin, feet together and bending at the waist to get to the bottom in about 15' of water. BUT lately to make time back to where I started I have done a bunch of free style swimming too, mainly because my arms don't get much of a work out. Now I'm using a snorkel so don't really have to turn to breath. Not really in a hurry, slow goes it. And sometimes I lay on my side, lower arm forward and scissor kick which is very fast and relaxed but kind of twists my back. Perhaps I did too much of that? Never bothered me before, BUT after about 4 days straight, my lower back is sore. Taking today off. (And building a fire out back so again lots of bending, not much of a day off really.) SO.... WHAT can you do about it now? I see your points on core and balance, I really don't think that's my issue. Just a ton of exercise all of a sudden, and a whole ton of bending, and mind you when using fins most of your thrust is on the up stroke, meaning like a sit up. Great for stomach muscles but clearly that's done something to my back. Any suggestions on dealing with this before I do damage? (Hopefully not stay out of the water, this is Sept and the lake being snorkel warm this late in the year is rare. I'm taking advantage while I can. Probably all next week at least.)
I need to rest every 25 m. I feel like i have been running not swimming! The most i did nonstop was 50 m without fins and 100 with fins. Do ypu happen to have a video with drills to make my kicks more efficient? Slower, 1 kick per stroke?
Thank you so much. Bringing my knees to my chest is the mistake that i was making and I had no idea why I can not even get my head underwater to start the flip. Thanks a lot ❤
I just learned today, that I am trying to gasp too much air when I inhale -> I am out of breath in 25m swim. I have watched about 25-30 ”Freestyle breathing” -videos and none of them talks about this. Today my pool session was so much better, I just sipped less air when inhaling. I love your videos. Thank you.
Thanks Coach Mandy. I grew up Body Surfing and Surfing in Santa Cruz County. These are great techniques that are useful to learn. I've surfed big waves in the past and these are helpful if we ever need to swim home. A full wetsuit gives you lots of extra bouyancy plus the salt water helps you float more.
Perfect. Maybe to add for those who struggle to keep one eye under the water when breathing like me before this Summer, rotating the shoulders a bit more towards vertical (not the head) does the job
out of interest how long have you been swimming, the reason I ask is roughly how long before a new swimmer can achieve anything like the smothness of your swim, I know this depends on the individual but any ideas?
Better explanation than my coach who I paid 500 bucks for the swimming lesson. He kept pushing me to adopt to having water inside my nose which is the worst.
