Happens all the time! I had the pleasure of watching Nathan Adrian warm up at an age-group swim meet and it was hilarious to watch him get stuck behind 10 year olds
🤣🤣 It happens sometimes. I practiced a lot 12 years ago, and this happened to me. Unfortunately, now it doesn't happened at all. I hope I can recover some of that old form, but working and life hits hard 😕
@@djkleb7645 i actually want to cry now that i read your comment... the truth hurts so much. This is life! I used to swim competitively for years... i stopped when i finished university... the years that i miss the most are when i was a teenager. Going to school. Waking up before everyone and going to the morning practice at 6am in the morning then at school. Then again after school at 4pm-6pm... god do i miss those days. With all my buddies, my teammates and our coach! Such a wonderful team! 😔 how i miss those years...
I was training on an Athletics track in Manchester when I was a kid and ran into some guy by accident. He laughed and said I would run better if I kept my head up. Then he sprinted off. Turned out to be Linford Christie (Olympic gold medallist.) It's awesome when the pros train with us common folk! 😋
I swam competitively at a national level for 10 years, and what he does is alien to me. I obviously understand _what_ he’s doing, but it’s the fact he’s doing it so efficiently with so much power that is mind boggling. The amount of force he’s generating with a single dolphin kick is likely more than the average swimmer can generate by pushing off the pool wall. Basically, what I’m trying to say is that even among people like myself that did it at a professional level, he is another animal. The gap between him and me at my prime would be like me versus a 10 year old just starting to learn how to swim properly.
The crazy thing is that the other people in the pool aren't "average." This is the Mesa Grand Prix, a national level event. Those other swimmers are easily in the top 1%.
Fun fact: Butterfly technically isn't really a swimming technique, but was actually derived from breast stroke swimmers developing a new "meta" that ended up being much faster than breast stroke. In order to preserve the sport, a rule was made in breast stroke saying you can't use the butterfly technique, and butterfly stroke became it's own race [1933 i believe]
I used to train swimming and waterpolo after that. This isn't butterfly stroke(it's called that in English,however the legs do not move similar to the breaststroke technique)this is what we used to call in my country the dolphin because your legs do that and in official competitions your legs have to move like that. When you are moving the legs like in the breaststroke technique along with the armstroke seen here that is what we actually call the Butterfly and this technique is sometimes practiced on training but I haven't seen it being allowed in official competitions.
As someone who used to swim at a National level, swimmers like Phelps, Thorpe, etc are just truly gifted + talented. I've tried to break down their swimming so many times, watching their techniques in super slow mo, but in the end, having a 190cm+ height with huge wingspan is something no matter how hard I train I can never overcome. As much as they're my swimming heroes, one just can't help but get a little bit jealous of the advantages they're born with.
@@kazakh-interista okay, name one Japanese male swimmer that can stand up to the likes of Thorpe, Phelps, Lochte, Popov, Sullivan, etc Although Japan has won a few golds in Breaststroke, however again all the greatest Breaststroke world record holders have been tall swimmers, ie: Sludnov, Peaty, Van Der Burgh, etc.
@@mistrace Kosuke Kitajima won 2 gold medals back to back at two olympics. he is 178 cm tall only and competed against 190+ guys like Brenton Rickard and Hugues Duboscq.
You dont see videos like this often. Raw and uncut. Up closez Idk about you but home video sometimes impacts me more than seeing it on tv. The way he travels underwater is unreal. What a lunatic.
Love this video, such a star doing warm-up so casually in a tiny, crowded pool. Hope to see the ban on the dolphin kick lifted one day and freestyle records smashed!
@@urbro2 You go faster completely submerged if you’re doing dolphin kicks but it’s not really swimming if you’re just holding your breath and kicking, it eliminates so much nuance so I see why they’d limit it
Holy crap. It‘s always awesome to see the difference between good and very good athletes and then professional ones of that kind like him. It‘s like normal people might be a very fast Ferrari street car, but then someone comes around who is a Formula 1 race car
I used to be a swimmer in my teens. Even my coaches put me in local tournaments. I can tell you I never reached the level where you can cover half the pool in seconds. Really makes you realize why they are called olympians.
@@ZER-cr4dm every swimmer I’ve known . It’s a different use to the muscle. They can kick really damn hard but jumping ? They usually can’t jump very well at all.
He really should have his own lane reserved for him. Same goes for Ian Thorpe in his prime. A pleasure to watch their effortlessness in the pool they're that good.
Bro I swear to God Phelps must be a descendant of some ancient shark God or somethin he literally covered half the godamn pool with only 2 freaking kicks
