74,4km/h max speed 😳 Imagine you're a police officer, you're checking the photos of a speed camera, and you find a picture with just an inline skater on it 😄
Wow what a great technician Bart is, how filigrane and precise his strides look, as if it is so easy. Absolutely blown away. A real master of his sport!
Rampampulin well that’s not insane, he’s Bart Swings, he is considered the fastest speed skater in the world, he has several world records and have broken his Berlin marathon record several times year after year after year (he runs 42km under 57 minutes! THAT is insane!). His nickname is “The Machine”, I think it says it all 😂
Awesome. I watch it again and again. I think two things: one that Bart is awesome and music is a perfect match, second that it must take tons of work and infinite patience to learn to skate like that. Respect. Whenever I watch speed skating videos with best of the best guys, Bart technic seems to be superior and best looking.
Up front - I know zero about skating. So - is this a full-on one-lap all-out sprint for a record, or does he just keep rolling on at this pace all day? I did the 24 Hours Velo as a solo and didn't break 8 minutes!! The velo lap record is only 18 seconds faster!
No, he was with Powerblade team (6 members) and they are in relay race, you can see baton in his hand. They can change many times as they want (my team did it after each lap), but profesionals change shift after at least 3-4 laps during the day, and 5-6 during the night.
This was probably for the record, since they have to skate for a 24hrs relay they need to save energy for the whole race. So I’d say they’re usually between 6min & 7min.
Anybody any idea where i can get suit of the belgian team? Am starting to long distance inline skate, am belgian but living in norway and want to show off that i am from Belgium/ show suppert for the belgian team here... Tried to look online, but didnt find any web sites..
I like how they try to advertise the skate as if that's what's making him fast. Sure, having the right skate definitely takes off a couple seconds for your time, but the difference a skate makes is nothing compared to the practice he's put into his skating technique and his strength.
It makes a small difference indeed, but the fact that the best skater in the world keeps the same brand for so many years still shows that they are great ;)
@@mirage2nr771 it's not like there's a massive choice out there as compared to bikes. I find it strange how Belgium can produce such a monster athlete while the country literally fucks the sport over. I went back to cycling due to lack of any tracks & clubs.
I want the current bartswings to film a video here again. Over the past six years, he has made a lot of progress and wants to see that great performance again.
If you think this guy is talented.... ...what about the cameraman skating at the same speed while HOLDING A CAMERA TO HIS SIDE? That's what I'd like to say but turns out the guy was on a moped/scooter.
It gives stability, a rotating point, more surface on the ground (so better push), and without any middle support, with such a long frame, the skate would just bend in the middle at every stride, losing power again, and eventually breaking it probably
Astonishing! They're actually using the recovering bent knee to execute a secondary push before the feet of the said knee contacts the ground for a primary push. And the cycle repeats itself.
To answer my own question, I think it might have something to do with his training for speed skating on ice, where you only turn to the left. Possibly another artifact of his ice speed skating training, I noticed that he tends to do crossovers on left turns but instead does little shuffles on right turns.
the right leg land more strongly on the ground on each stride compared to the left. I think he is right handed....i just came back from 4hours night skating.
I'd say both ice skating left turns, and the fact that most of this track's right turns (like the first downhill one and the next double right), are super fast and tight :) But yeah probably left-turn-oriented practice and work outs
