My SENSORY TRAINING WEEK for an EFFECTIVE freestyle stroke (from coaching over 3000 people): www.thefrenchswimcoach.com/ (including the MAGIC PALM exercise in video)
i do 25-27 strokes per 50, but i am doing 42 secs. (i can't even finish 200m, so i am doing sets of 50m and 100m.) i just started to swim though, i will get much better. my swolf score is 58-60. but i'm not kicking properly. my goal is to be able to do 500m to 1000m at 1:10 to 1:20 pace by next summer. i'm going to join the masters swim team here over the fall and winter. i've only been maybe 4 or 5 times so far, but i'm improving a lot quickly. i have weird super long arms but i'm not strong at all.
He has one of the most beautiful and efficient strokes I've ever seen, absolutely perfect for a distance swimmer. The sheer number of fewer strokes he takes per length of pool than other swimmers alongside him shows how powerful and efficient his stroke is
@@aidangeorge7012 damn, lowlifes will always think like lowlifes I guess. Making up stuff without evidence is your specialty? He wasn't even found to have tested positive for anything during the clearly provocative vial incident. Maybe you can practice getting your brain more beautiful and efficient
Reasons for his being as fast as he is for a race like the 1500m free. He is well balanced. His head and feet are on the same plane. He has what we call wide tracks. His hands and arm are straight off his shoulder keeping his "vessel" (body) streamlined. He is tall, 6'7" and any nautical engineer will tell you the longer the vessel the easier it goes through the water. He has a patient hand. In other words, he doesn't catch until his opposite hand is ready to enter the water, again he maintains his streamline longer than the other swimmers. His propulsion is a matter of his body rotation not so much his pull. Because his length per stroke is long, less exergy expended, his streamline, he takes fewer strokes therefore he can go faster, longer than the other swimmers. However, notice that for a world class swimmer, when he breathes his body bends and is no longer straight. If he stayed straight he would go even farther on that side. Notice also that he tends to scoop his hands up some. That actually causes drag. If he let his hands go palm back and down a bit again, he would lengthen his stroke a little farther which would be to his advantage. His limited kick is valuable and it is used to help rotate his body but he is using less energy than the other swimmers. Swimming is all about balance, streamline (both active and passive). And he uses his whole body on one side then those muscles turn off while the other side is recovering to spear the water again. Huge energy savers. To swim like that check out Total Immersion. They teach this.
If he completed his arm extension, he would tire the triceps quickly so it would not be faster in the long term... and yes, I have often been told in France that our methods at IT and mine (sensory method) are resembled in the principles taught!
Thanks for sharing your video & the analysis. 191cm, 58 Yrs, started swimming at 7, 25m in 13 strokes. I will give a shot at "downhill" tomorrow, and try the submerged glide.
Pierre, you are "The Best" swim analyst on RU-vid. Nobody else even comes close to your abilities. I started studying Sun Yang's perfect distance freestyle in the hopes of making some improvements to the top speed at my local pool. I started by taking photos of Sun Yang in a stop motion capture off of his London Olympic 1500 world record. For you Master's Swimmers out there, copying his stroke will only make you faster, rather than practicing endless intervals for year after year after year with ZERO stroke improvements and ZERO reduction in interval times. Key #1: YOU can't make all of the changes in one workout. Key #2: Sun Yang uses muscles that quite frankly, you don't use. One of the first things that you'll notice is that you'll be terribly sore in swimming muscles that you'd have bet a hundred dollars, that you had been using those muscles. You'd be dead wrong. So, slowly allow your newly discovered lower back muscles to strengthen. Then, allow your shoulder muscles to learn how to stretch. Then, feel the soreness of your upper back and lat muscles, and allow them to adapt. Key #3: Timing. What's the 1st Rule of Comedy? Well, it applies here too. What is timing? Timing is learning how to apply the Principles of Leverage to the rotation of a line traveling through your 2 shoulders. Watch Sun Yang. His entire stroke is based upon the leverage of the timing that he rotates his body like a needle through the water. Key #4: Exercise for the student in the pool. Sit at the pool's edge and place one foot into the water. Push or pull the water with your foot, either direction works to PROVE THIS PRINCIPLE. What happens? Duh, you say! Of course, the water gets pushed by the foot, what the heck? Any person would know this? Why did I ask you to do this. Now, push or pull the water with a less attacking angle of the foot. Duh! The same thing happens. Why? Ask yourself, why does the smallest foot angle cause large water movements? OK, Master Luke, understand that MAY FORCE BE WITH YOU! Huh? "Every tiny, little, insignificant motion of a body part that interferes with your streamlines, as you move forward in the water, will create a negative force (just like your foot from the edge of the pool) TO SLOW YOU DOWN!!! Pierre, you're the best. Continue your creation of super-insightful RU-vid videos. You are a GOLD MEDAL COACH?
I remember the commentator said in 2012 olympics that by the look of his casual strokes., this champion looks to set to stay on the podium for some time but he didnt quite replicate 2012. It would be good to see him face off Paltrineiri at the latter's peak. It would be a battle of the styles
Amazing Pierre 😀 I am improving my english so, it's perfect ! And thank you for your coaching. I trust you to help me progress. See you soon Nathalie (a french swimmer in training)
I’ve watched this video so many times now. It’s one of my favourites. He and Mack Horton, though rivals, are two of my favourite swimmers. Mack submerges and ultra glides too, but with a 2 beat kick at times. In 2019 400 fr Mack swam about 250m with a 2 beat kick and still came second around 343. Thanks for your videos good sir.
I am a swim coach too and especially enjoyed this analysis. The unequal kicks 1 and 3 are an interesting feature, but a lot of top swimmers have a favoured side or an imbalance, which can often be the thing that gives them the edge. Michael Phelps had a similar thing where his left arm pull is a more aggressive and shorter pull to a longer and more gliding right side.
M Phelps had what they call a"loping" swim which asymmetrical. Sun Y, actually breathes on bot sides during races which means his swim is almost symetrical.
Incredible video... I wonder how much of this technique was intuitive vs. being taught. I've been improving my glide and dps 20 years removed from my competitive era and most of it is just "feel". But maybe with proper instruction or seeing this video in 2002 I would've been way faster.
Definitely intuitive. I have noticed some time ago, that strangely when I swim there is a moment when I unintentionaly start to swim in this manner - with body and head fully submerged under water during the glide. And this was the moment of best relaxation, effortlessness and (maybe) efficiency. I was wandering if it is okay, because I do not see anyone elese doing that, so I concluded that this could be a false feeling and maybe I'm slower than I think. Like totally nobody around was swimming like that. I clicked this video a bit accidently (because of the "glide" word in the title) and finally I can see that I am not as mistaken as I thought. It sometimes good to procrastinate on youtube xD
@@PierreCoachingNatation you are welcome my friend. Also, going to add the drill where you rotate palm up for an instant before continuing with the usual catch and pull to accentuate the glide in freestyle. You will be there with us in spirit at practice today in about two hours.
3 kicks when left arm strokes and 1 kick when right arm strokes. That is because his right arm is stronger. He wants to balance the two strokes, so that the speed doesn't fluctuate too much. Less variation of speed means less waste of energy.
Merci pour la vidéo, et tes explications très enrichissantes sur l’intérêt de l'immersion et sa difficulté technique. Au meilleure de ma forme, je nage encore en11/12 coups de bras par 25m en petit bain, en grand bain je passe à 27, sur 400m maximum, après ça remonte. La dépense énergétique et quand même importante ! 50 ans, nageur depuis mes 11 ans, pratique intermittente de nos jours....
Great video, thanks. Concerning his hybrid kick, at 7.15 mark you outline 2 hypotheses as to the utility of it. I offer a 3rd hypothesis. In terms of how the kicks form his full body swim movement, Sun Yung differentiates, not all kicks are equal. Always on the side he takes a breath, he takes a single, especially powerful kick. Why? Because it starts and amplifies lateral rotation through the hips to set up the hand entry on the opposite side of the powerful kick. With great respect you missed the power benefits of lateral rotation in your explanation.
Well, he is swimming 2 different styles here. I do remember watching him at the Olympics some years back, and noticed that he was swimming what is now called 'gallop' style freestyle, which when I first saw it, I described it to a coach and we both noticed the swimmers were 'loping'. This is an uneven beat/cadence with the breathing side arm staying extended a bit longer than the non breathing side arm. Almost all male swimmers do this, and some like Katie Ledecky and Summer Macintosh do it, but Ariarne Titmus swims an even cadence 2, 2, 3 breathing pattern. The exception to this is with the male 50 meter sprint where the arms move pretty much opposite of each other similar to back stroke, and they don't breathe. The other style he is swimming has him breathing on every 3rd arm stroke, which I did not see him do at the Olympics. Part of the difference between these With the gallop style, this uneven cadence has you go slightly under the surface of the water, and you actually porpoise a bit. If a coach who is unfamiliar with it sees it they will say that the swimmer's head is coming up too far out of the water. If you watch Katie in the 1500, she starts with not kicking at all. Then she goes to 1 kick per cycle, then 2 kicks per cycle, and for the final lap or so, she goes to a 6 beat kick pattern. Of note here also, is that he and Katie both bend their elbows to 90 degrees or maybe even a little more. In the 50 meter sprint, the men swim with straight arm pull and recover. Lots of differences between sprinters and distance swimmers.
" The exception to this is with the male 50 meter sprint where the arms move pretty much opposite of each other similar to back stroke, and they don't breathe" : Yes, it's because they don't breathe that they are more in opposition and not in gallop. You can swim submerge, under the surface, with this sprinter style or the gallop style.
Hmm, I don't think it is possible to go underwater with the 'windmill style of freestyle that is used in the 50 meter spring. Part of why you can do this with the gallop style is because of how the swimmer porpoises as the swim, and that uneven cadence to the stroke. You don't do any porpoising with the windmill style.
Well, I had come to the conclusion that being under water was less drag. I had thought most of that was due to 'surface tension'. I had not considered the bow wave to generate extra drag. Interesting video. My favorite stroke is the old school over arm side stroke. Only record was set in 1895 by a swimmer from the UK. He swam 100 yards in 1:02.5.
I do 10 strokes after a strong push and 1 dolphin kick. Normally I do between 15 and 18 strokes per 25m. Funny note: using the magic hand, I find it easier to get the 10 strokes/25 m than using my regular catch.
I think he masters the arrow position (stream line) and breath control and then the rotation, all that with training and personal physical characteristics to achieve outstanding relaxed technique He stetch and tension in the right time and in a relaxed way to achieve efficiency without exaustion
A lot of coaches and textbook get it wrong that both arms needs to be at the same timing to achieve good propulsion. But at sprint level, having one arm slower than the other can compensate and smoothen the recovery. So remember, do not rush ur stroke in a sprint or race. The aim is to be very efficient.
Excellent analysis and explanation of this swimmer’s great technique. Many swimmers will get more leverage with a slightly deeper pull than Sun Yang’s quick and fairly shallow pull.
Great analysis. This is swimming porn. What can't be emphasised enough is the swimmer's ability to 'feel' the water. You cannot mimic a swimmer of this calibre. The timings of each movement alone come down to milliseconds. Follow the general principles expertly highlighted in this video. Have the confidence and faith to then develop your own inimitable style. Listen, and work with your mind and body together to optimise your swimming efficiency. I would add that it is advantageous to return the head to the streamline head down position as soon as the hand exits the water into the recovery phase.
Tengo 51 años, mido 1,68m y hago 25m con 18 brazadas, puedo mantener este ritmo por 1000m, luego bajo a 20 o 21 brazadas. Sun Yang es el mejor, ninguna ayuda extra te corrige la técnica.
Also helps that he is 6"6 apparently. For most swimmers i think 6"4 is the ideal height. Phelps was that height. Only negative is that swimmers who are taller like yang are more prone to injuries.
@@TheFRENCHSwimCoach And why did he come to the Gold Coast and kept returning until he was suspended ?? To swim with the distance freestyle coach in the world. Ok 🏊♂️🏊♂️🇦🇺🇦🇺💪
Tôi cũng dùng kỹ thuật lao dốc với cánh tay phải vươn dài phía trước và lướt trong 3 nhịp đá chân giống như Sun Yang. Tôi có thể bơi với 32 hoặc 33 sải/ 50m dài của bể. Nhưng tôi chỉ cao 1,65m. Sải tay ngắn hơn Sun Yang gần 40cm
There is an old saying in Chinese, tall trees catch the wind, in other words, a person in a high position is liable to be attacked. and we are here to admire his swim😃
Excellent video with a detailed breakdown of world class swimming. The three beat kick on on side whilst the right arm is extended is fascinating. I take from your video he did that to keep the head submerged? The mobility in his shoulders is incredible. I began swimming as a student to tx from rowing to triathlon. I followed Terry McGlaughlins Total Immersion Swimming. I got down to 5m 15 secs for 400m and 2:27 secs for 200m in an aquathon. I did 16 stokes for 25m and when delaying catch 32-33 in a 50m pool. When normal it was more like 18/25m pool. All I recall was the coach telling me my ankle mobility was poor so my kick was ineffective. I asked how to improve. His view was tryI spend hours and 1000’s drill trying to get position/balance/catch better. This RU-vid content was not available 20tears ago but this video on particular with a breakdown is excellent. I’d be interested in a similar video for a far shorter athlete who is great swimmer. Someone like Henri Schoeman…
Its not jealousy. He’s a cheater period. Just like any other Olympians who got caught cheating after winning gold medals. Don’t be playing innocent that elites are natural stupid 😂
As far as physics go, this is impossible for people 5’8” with 5’6” wingspan and 32.5” inseam for example. At least I NEVER see that type of swimmer getting shown for good form and fast swimming
Your loss. It might surprise you but technique has nothing to do with doping. This is like refusing to learn from Barry Bonds plate approach and plate discipline because he doped. You really think any player is like man he doped, so now his batting knowledge is dirty, so I can't learn from it.
@@AndrewWebber66or you can simply read his wiki to find out what actually happened. You know, do actual research instead of believing in slandering rumours.
As a chinese i know he's on medication for heart problems😂 which increases blood supply by 3% Besides, he's got a terrible personality, very immature. Otherwise he's great.
Such a sour comment ! Check to see how many American and Australian swimmers are also on medications that would give them advantages in swimming. And I was told this info of mediation is not transparent to the public. As to personality, I found Sun bold and daring and outspoken, something many Chinese are lacking - thus are often cowardly, quiet, nerd, etc. BTW, in a recent interview on Pan's winning of 100m Free, he is humble and very articulate.
there is no doubt that he had a good catch technique, but in my opinion we should not glorify this swimmer taking in account he cheated and many swimmers condamned that.
If you read the files, it’s not as bad as it seems. Yes he shouldn’t have smashed the vial but the people taking his blood never presented proper credentials to do so. If someone random came to your house to take ur blood, wouldn’t you be suspicious and refuse a sample?
I'm sorry, you might want to watch the video again. Where does he glorify Sun Yang? This is a purely educational video to analyse swimming techique to help swimmers. Are we all banned from learning this technique just because of a doping controversy. That makes no sense. Technique is irrelevant to doping. You are far off the mark here. All you're doing to trying to deny education based on an irrelevant subject.
While CAS has now banned Sun, the tribunal also found there was no evidence the Chinese swimmer had engaged in doping activity and should, therefore, keep his world titles and gold medals.. PS. I bet he can beat you at any distance.
Brain dead comment. This is an educational swimming video. You make it sound like it's just a Sun Yang fan video. Doping is a serious issue but technique is irrelevant to doping. Notices how this video didn't offer any opinion on his accomplishments or his performances. That's because it's a teaching video meant only to help swimmers. So please delete your useless virtue signaling comment which ironically only tries to deny education.
If everyone drug that could swim like him, then it would be so easy to be a top swimmer and break world records. Isn't? I've never know swimming is that kind of easy thing until you told me that. It's "fascinating". Isn't?
I wonder what effect the amount of performance enhancing drugs coursing through his veins at any given time has on his in water efficiency with his stroke?
