World Record holder Adam Ocean Walker gives his top tips on how to swim better using this drill. To learn The World’s Most Best Open Water Swim Technique click here to subscribe: vimeo.com/ondemand/oceanwalke...
Timely as I sit here scanning RU-vid while recovering from shoulder surgery where my surgeon detached and reattached my bicep tendon to the humerus because it was week and ready to rupture. Long time swimmer starting at the age of 10 and now a 67 year old triathlete, I will give this method a go next February when I am cleared to swim again….thanks!
It's insane how the legs are so high without kicking almost as if you have z pullbuoy, how do you do that???? Amazing really. I still cant make that downhill feeling:(
I just discovered your videos and thank you so much for sharing all this! You just made my day I have been swimming for about a year now. 4 times a weeks, 8 to 12km per week. Mostly training for Ironman Distance. Did my first IM few months ago and doing my second one in a few months. My swimming went bad to okayish (Managing to hit 1:35min/100m in the pool). Still not fantastic in openWater (Did my 3800m in 1h17min, which is roughly a 2min/100m pace, not great). My open water swim is less good than my pool swimming. But most of all I constantly have tight shoulders. And the wetsuit makes it worse ... Some days I feel I can't get a proper catch because it just puts too much pressure on my shoulders. I have been working with a coach to reinforce my supra/infra/teres majors/Delt ect ... as well as my mobility. Hoping that it might go somewhere one day. But what I discovered watching your videos is just amazing. And it just changes everything! Thank you again for sharing your technique.
@@adamwalker32 After just 2 swimming session I can already say it : 100% worth it. 1 year of swimming with an inneficient left hand catch. Few drills, awarness of what to do and when to do it. And BOOM 10 seconds drop every 100m and an instant release of the shoulder. Thank you so much for that!
I am subscribed to your Vimeo thanks for your videos. Really using this time to nail your technique. I'm a bit confused about the leg flick I also think I am pulling way too deep but I am rotating better and better but adding the breath is challenging ☺️
If you want a 1-1 via Skype for 1 hour so I can see what your doing, that’s possible. It’s hard to know what you are doing. Make sure you pull to a bent elbow and remember it’s roll, kick and pull in that order. Checkout oceanwalkeruk.com
Hi adam Respect and regards to you for teaching your revolutionary technique on front crawl swimming. I am a beginner and i have been following your youtube vidoes for 15 days now, and try to practice it out in the pool everyday. Yesterday for the 1st time , i was able to connect the pull action of "hips initiated ", instead of pulling from shoulders. However i am still struggling a lot with legs spiral action and two beat kick I am feeling quite happy. Cant thank you enough .
Using your low intensity style as guide I was able to advance from 20m (and being out of breath) to 200-300m atm . Probably could do more but I am still getting tired fast. Thanks & Cheers!
I practice from your videos. Now I do the walker technique well when I breathe right. But when I breathe from the left side, I cannot perform the technique as well as the other side. Is it the same for you?
No I am even both sides so it doesn’t matter which side you breathe. You must be rotating more one side. You need to learn the system with the drills. See link to learn it: vimeo.com/ondemand/oceanwalkertechnique
سلام علی شما ایران هستی ؟ من چند وقتی هست با تکنیک واکر شنا می کنم یا بهتر بگم تمرین می کنم متاسفانه سرعت خیلی کنده ،، استیل دست های بیرون آب رو تونستم درست کنم مثل واک اما سرعت نه نمی دونم گیر کار کجاست شما می تونید به من کمک کنید متشکرم
Me again. I've got `roll, kick, pull` perfect on my left side now - but right side is `roll, straight leg, pull` no kick. Considerable improvement over random kicking though. It'll come. Thanks again.
I get the less frontal mass thing, but you said that's why olympic swimmers kick off the wall sideways, however, with a racing turn they're completely underwater when they kick so surely it makes no difference if you're flat or sideways?
“Still head”: do you not hit yourself in the head with the deltoid muscle from the reaching arm? I have to move my head a little bit & I don’t think I have particularly big deltoid muscles. Just normal 6ft 3 bloke ones.Even if I sit here doing it I hit myself. Have you trained yourself not to raise your scapula when reaching?
I’m guessing you are driving your hand and arm into the water which is moving your head. It needs to be from the feet to disconnect the head and chest. You should follow my online system to help with that. vimeo.com/ondemand/oceanwalkertechnique
this technique is fine, especially for people who float but i can tell you after 60 years of aquatics, if yu are a sinker, which i am in the worst way, this doesn't work well and if you are not kicking, forget about smoothness, streamlining, rotation,etc. it simply does not work well. i can't tell you how many coaches, teachers, clinics, workshops,etc. tried to get me to be somewhat buoyant. my signature in the water is vertical,literally. i am a usms competitor and h ave done very well on the national scene but i can say that my specific gravity has always been a problem and i've utilized the various tricks, adjustments to be the best i can.
@@fransur1386 KICKING is the best way to alleviate the sinking but it will always be a problem. folks who suggest moving your center of mass toward your center of buoyancy is rather pointless also but it does work for some. your body composition and secific gravity determine buoyancy so that doesn't change much until your days of activity lessen. but again, my suggestion is kicking and trying to be long and streamlined. AND RELAX!!!
Try on your side with arm 45 degrees with neutral head looking down initially and feeling like your going over a cliff, then kick your legs. When your flat much easier to sink. Just coached someone 60 years old who’s feet were on the bottom flat but put him on his side in The correct position I wanted him and his feet came up but needs some guidance from me. I need to look at how you are swimming and position you accordingly. So far in 12 years Ive always managed to help correct the sinkers.
I don’t know why your surgeon would tell you not to swim with a snapped biceps tendon. I snapped mine about 5 years ago and my consultant said I can live without it as the lower biceps muscle does the majority of the workload.
I don't understand how you're "pulling less mass through the water" when you rotate side-to-side. Doesn't your mass stay constant, no matter how your body is oriented...?
