Your analysis is always so helpful! But here you're analyzing the best breaststoke specialist ever. Ever. And I think your theory needs to be updated based on the scientific fact that Peaty is the best ever. Specifically, his low head position. I suspect (and I'm an engineer), that his low head position is lower drag! There's less of a chin-gap, and the water will flow smoothly over the top of his head and his neck. Really brilliant. Then, him holding his hands slightly off his body. It seems less streamlined, but I'm not so sure. Aligators swim like that, where it would be easy for them to clasp their hands to their sides. One thing to think about: on aircraft, they often put tabs sticking out on the wings. Those should cause much more drag! But they don't. They are called "vortex generators," and they make little tonadoes that actually reduce overall drag. More importantly, they reduce flow separation. So, as your videos so beautifully express, it's not perfectly simple. By the way, I swam in the same swim league as Kaye Hall. Swimming has advanced so very far since then!!
I think one of the best parts of his technique is the way he attacks the water with his arms. He really allows his head to fit tight into a nice pocket through his arms and cut through the water which allows him to keep his momentum.
I've started doing triathlons. I can only breaststroke. I've had some input from experienced swimmers/triathletes. This video is useful. I'm now a faster swimmer open water in a wetsuit than in a pool. I will be applying some of this video to my next training swim. Think it will help
I’m new to the channel so maybe it’s already been done. But if not, could you do an analysis of Katinka Housszou “the iron lady”, specifically her backstroke.
Hi Samukele! Here's our video on Katinka Hosszu's IM, which includes a backstroke analysis: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sqrhQQSbFuc.html
@@FaresKsebati I believe imperfection is what that makes life interesting. Peaty swims good enough to be the best in the breaststroke. The best result is not only about perfect technique 😉
My breaststroke is stupidly slow even though I try to do all the right things. I keep kind of coming to a halt half way through the stroke. It has to be the hardest stroke to do properly
It's a very technical stroke! Try making your pull a little smaller and envision your pull in three parts: the outsweep, the pull back, and the shoot forward. The shoot forward back into streamline should be the fastest part!
There's nothing to analyze other than the metaphysics. Consider how any amateur can swim with the same technique as Dressel but still remain slower. Swimming is the sport of propulsion from qi -- just because newtonian science hasn't come up with a formal proof doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. It's like saying that Mr. Everest isn't the tallest mountain when Europeans haven't discovered it yet.
Your analysis and breakdown of his breaststroke helped me. I put this into practice yesterday and finally had a breakthrough - I was able to swim laps of breaststroke for the first time ever! I’m rewatching this to refine my technique. Would love to see one for freestyle.
There's nothing to analyze other than the metaphysics. Consider how any amateur can swim with the same technique as Dressel but still remain slower. Swimming is the sport of propulsion from qi -- just because newtonian science hasn't come up with a formal proof doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. It's like saying that Mr. Everest isn't the tallest mountain when Europeans haven't discovered it yet.
@@paulzeng6211 when you said "amateur", doesn't that mean that he/she doesn't have the same strength or physical capabilities as Caeleb? I agree with everything else you said though.
Great video as always! As a fellow breastroker, I can really appreciate this. What about some 200m br analysis? Someone like Anton Chupkov or Kirill Prigoda, they both have unique styles(:
His head angle means his fairly pointy head is more streamlined, you are ignoring the shape of his head when you say he could do better, if you put him in a wind tunnel doing what he does not following your advice it would be come clear.
Every great coach I swam for didn't tell me what I was doing wrong, but how to do it right with mindfulness. Great analysis, Peaty is a beast! Would love to see his dryland routine. Thanks
About the head position during push-off, he keeps the head a little bit low in order to keep the body underwater. Otherwise, he will float up too fast.
I am sorry but most of your analysis is incorrect, and is so because you seem to not have done a true stroke analysis so are focusing on the superficial aspects rather than the real mechanical principles. I agree his pull out isn't the best but not for the reason you spent so much time laboring on. Firstly the hands should be close but not any closer than he has them on the uw recovery, this is because the flow is already disrupted by the head and shoulders creating disturbed water in the body line that all you have to keep the recovery movement in. He does that. The reason his head is slightly tilted down is caused by a different aspect altogether that disrupts his line through the water. The head is a symptom of that issue, and that issue alone is what causes him to be less effective underwater. You completely missed it. You stop the video at different times in the stroke action which is why you thought the kick was narrow when infact its not as narrow as you were trying to say it was, which you had to correct later. And finally you talk a but a glide.... there is no glide, you can clearly see that on the video but you keep referring to the glide. Streamline maybe, flat position in a shoulder neutral position, yes but not glide and not stretch. I work with a number of high performance coaches and swimmers including swimmers you review, please don't mis-lead people with incorrect analysis. If your going to do it do it correctly having watched and analyzed it correctly before, not making assumptions when the angle of video doesn't allow you to see the stroke correctly, and make sweeping incorrect Comments. Happy to help you improve this if you want too in the mean time
Given the shape of the top of the head, perhaps the 90 degree recommended position of his head is not as streamlined as tilting slightly more. A flatter part of his head would be exposed to the water if he was at 90 degree
Make sure to understand your head is heavy and use it to abuse your center of mass to get a better burst during stream line. This might explain why his head sinks deep. Could be to go further in every stroke
Ryosuke iries backstroke technique slips under the radar and he's crazy - he swam an unofficial world record at 2009 duel in the pool in 1:52, at 5 feet 7 weighing 62 kilos that's insane. trained a lot using water bottles on his head for that one. would be mad for analysis
Surely Peaty's got his head tucked in against his chest to allow a smoother flow along his body,Team GB track and time trial cycling squad spend a lot of time on wind tunnel testing,it wouldn't surprise me to find the swimmers have an equivalent.
good evening...., I'm from Indonesia, I want to ask..., to go fast in breaststroke swimming, which is more important between hand movements and foot movements? Thanks.....,
Amazing analysis, what app are you using on your phone to draw on the video? I am a coach who feels that this would be an effective and engaging way to give my swimmers feedback.
Ryosuke Irie his backstroke technique is just on point and create little splash also his hand entry is very clean, would love to see ur analyzation on his stroke. and did u check ISL back skins of him and ryan murphy? insane!!!
Do you think that by looking slightly backwards rather than straight down his top line (i.e. his neck) is flatter and therefore offers less resistance? In looking down there may be a slight cavity between the base of the skull and his shoulders/back which creates turbulence instead of smooth streamlined flow. If he looked straight down his face which is flatter than his dome shaped skull offers more resistance. Has anyone done analysis of this in a wind tunnel with smoke stream in the same way as they analyse planes and car streamlining?
