Adam Ocean Walker Record Breaking Ocean Swimmer. Explains how you can swim faster with less effort for longer and shorter distances. Checkout the online coaching series. Subscribe and follow the drills!! vimeo.com/onde...
Hi Adam, I did everything you said and went from 2/30 to 2/12 in one week. My glide went from 1m86cm to 2m14cm. It just feels so much smoother and easier. Not bad for learning to front crawl in Feb this year, 64 years young, snapped left bicep, golfer's elbows, and scoliosis. Many thanks for making my swimming enjoyable.
Hey Adam, just wanted to say big THANK YOU for your method! I've been struggling for two years, paid for "stroke analysis", coaches, etc with no significant improvement. I was following all those advised, they measured my "catch angle", "hand entry distance", "core strengthening exercises", "arm recovery angle", "hand below the elbow" and all of those nonsenses without pointing to the mayor problem which was the hip rotation. I had those "good weeks" every 3-4 months when I felt "swimming right, easy and fast", but then I would go back to "struggling through the water" and I could not realized what I was doing differently. It was so frustrating. I just felt not catching the water at all and wanted to quit so many times. I could not understand why I have those "good days" and then months of "bad days". Maybe I do no recover enough? Maybe my joints are not flexible enough? But then why would I swim so easily and effortlessly on those "good days"? I just could not realize what I was doing differently on subconscious level! Once I watched your video, I decided to give it a try. I was trying to rotate my feet as you suggested, but this did not work very well. I think it might be because my feet where swaying and creating a drag. Maybe I was just not able to keep them in a streamline. Then I focused on rotating my hip first and drive the entire freestyle by my HIPS, not by my chest and arms, as you suggested, and BOOM!, here you go! Everything has changed SOOOO dramatically! Swimming became, fast ,easy and enjoyable, my head position became right, my catch got better, by hand position and hand entry aromatically improved, my body position improved as well. Needles to say my speed became better too. Sighting became much easier. So, you CAN'T achieve good catch, head position or body position unless you properly rotate your hip first and drive your stroke from the hips! Everything became so clear to me and I am looking forward to work on other details of my stroke, but now at least everything makes sense to me! I just wonder why so called "coaches" don't emphasize hip rotation so much? Thanks again!
That's great! So pleased you feel that benefit. Awesome isn't it?! It's a game changer! Check out Ocean Walker Vimeo and follow my system you will get better and better!!! vimeo.com/ondemand/oceanwalkertechnique
@@adamwalker32 Yes, I subscribed already. Your sighting technique is amazing too. I have watched other open water swimmers explaining this technique, including top triathletes and open water swimmers, but could not understand it well. You explained it so well, I was able to do after few laps in the pool. Not ideally, but it needs practice as everything else. But I think hip rotation is the key to everything If you do it wrong, it does not make sense to work on head position, arm recover or catch, it is not going to work. Some great swimmers just cannot coach very well, they do some swimming elements subconsciously, but you are really great coach! Keep doing what you are doing!
Thanks :) if coaches don't know how to teach balance with still head and all the other elements then people will over rotate at 90 degrees. This is why I have learnt and teach specific drills that allow 90 degree rotation. Its easier to teach flatter swimming if you don't know how as you require less stability. However, the flatter the swim more drag and resistence and more pressure on the shoulders. 👍
It was extremely noticeable in the 'before' footage how much his chest and shoulders were rotating whilst his hips and buttocks were comparatively static. In stark contrast, in the 'after' footage, his hips are very animated and rotating. Excellent analysis. Thanks.
Great video instruction. I use the term "rear wheel drive stroke" to help swimmers improve their stroke timing. So many swimmers are trying to do all the work with "front wheel drive" which is weaker and has little weight on the hands to anchor in the water. Front wheel drive swimming also results in weaker stroke follow through because the hands move through the stroke so quick they do not have time for the core body to help power the stoke. Sprinting may be more of an "all wheel drive" with very careful hand pressure out front.
On the clip belowit is also to recognize , that the head is more down ..means in streamline position after ...so the legs will be more near the surface also closer to a top streamline position to avoid resistance ..what cost speed and energy ! Main mistakes of beginners in my eyes are , they try to swim on the surface ...but i recognize more and more that top swimmers are swimming IN the water ..not trying to swim on the surface ! What i have seen in some clips , that top swimmer also has a special technic ( what i call to surf on the Bow wave ..but i am not able to explain that more ..it looks the way like a part of the shoulder would be in the water ..like a sufboard ...is surfing of a bow wave and the lower body in the wave valley is free and has nearly no resistance .( aeria of belly ...i can only describe that from my memory because at the moment i have no clip to show this situation to describe it more accurate ...i am affraid so ! Maybe it is dependent of the swimming speed to arrive this special situation i had have recognized by top swimmers in a pool ? Maybe Adam is able to say somthing abaut that ?
Please be aware that having a high overhead hand recovery is essential in some types of freestyle and shouldn’t be considered undesirable. In sprint freestyle or high octane freestyle your arms go in a windmill propeller like motion with less body rotation and a high overhand recovery.
I live in India and I guess Maldives will be the closest among all your locations. When is your next coaching workshop in Maldives? Would most certainly be interested!
How's the swimmer managing to keep salt water out of his mouth with his face being that low in the water and head resting against the water during the turn?
The "before" swimmer looks like zig-zag a little bit. If your body doesn't rotate so much and still you want to do early vertical arm stroking, very likely you would stroke across the middle line and/or twist your body, thus cause the snaking. Rotating before pulling makes everything easy, as long as you don't pursue super-fast stroke rate.
Roll right kick, right pull roll left kick left pull. You should subscribe to my online coaching system I show under water and on top with lots of tips. vimeo.com/ondemand/oceanwalkertechnique
Isn’t it a bit dangerous open water swimming looking straight down? I would have swim into some big jellyfish over the years if I hadn’t had an eye forward
