Your swimming technique SUCKS (and how to fix it) 

So it on a stair master or something it’s much safer and better for Mount Everest.

i've had same with just focusing on the gaze, did help

i second that all starts with your head position. it helps you raise your lower body and makes it easier to reach optimal position when breathing.

The breathing part is bang on. Your mouth is closer to your chin than your forehead. Head straight, eyes looking straight down, and rotate your head to the side to breath. Dig your temple into the water. Mouth comes straight out for the breath

Same with me. I am an intermediate swimmer - I started about 1 year ago and I have made insane progress, huge leaps forward in progress at first and then over time I have plateau'd with my improvements because I have already taken all the low hanging fruit if you will. I know how to do 'everything right' now in theory and whenever I do hit that 'perfect stroke' I can feel a tremendous difference in how easily and smoothly I glide through the water with what feels like 0 effort. The focus now is to master how to hit that perfect stroke consistently.

The butterfly is my nemesis. How often I've hit my thumb against the lines during training, ughhh hurts even thinking about it

@@gasly1018 I have the same thing except I have long hands, arm span being 6'7" and hit the lane lines at practices and meets... Even during the 200 fly 🥲

Is it correct then what he's saying? Or it's very theoretical and doesn't really work like that in practice.

You will have different measurements for each event. For example, I train 1:10 pace on a 1:20 interval, which is close to my 1500 pace.

It’s ok for longer distance swimming, you can see olympians using it in the longer events. However the 2 beat kick is very hard to do if you don’t have good technique. If it feels better for what you’re doing, it probably is.

hallo👋

If you’re kicking from the knee You’re creating drag. People teach to kick from the hip to keep the leg straight and keep a somewhat streamline position. It also incorporates more of the leg. Your hip flexors should be working in flutter kick

@@swimfan752 Well, without a little knee, you will lose most of the 'crack the whip' action that leads to a more powerful kick. It is identical to a football/soccer kick, but not a huge length of the field kick. Foot plant, hip rotation with knee flex, leg follows through. Yes, if the knee comes too far down into the slip stream, you create more drag, which cuts into your propulsion. This is part of why we don't use a totally straight leg for the front side/down kick. There is a subtle difference between the backstroke flutter kick, and the freestyle flutter kick, and I would guess that this is part of why the dolphin kick if you are on your back is a tiny bit faster than if you are on your front. You have to flex at the hip slightly in freestyle to get the lower leg at an angle so you can get some thrust out of your kick. In an extreme example, if you think of the scissor kick used in life guard side stroke, way too much drag created, but lots of thrust. So, for the back stroke, if you try to use the identical flutter kick that you use in freestyle, your knees come up out of the water. You end up flexing more at the knee with backstroke than you do with freestyle. Side note, the lower leg is far more streamlined than your knee and thigh. Another 'funny' thing about differences between freestyle and back stroke flutter kick, and swimming on my side I see everything, many will do the flutter kick with about a 30 degree ankle flex, with 0 degrees being a gymnastic type toe point. These same people have a much better toe point when swimming back stroke. No clue as to why, other than maybe it is "90% mental, and 10% in their heads". The crack the whip is also used in the dolphin kick, but it is linear/body wave action, and flutter kick is rotational spiral action, not linear.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4InLAsnmKhY.html Here is what you should be aiming for. This form is 1+1 freestyle, if you can’t swim this technique you will be guaranteed to make mistakes in the more advanced rythms (offset {Phelps, popovici} or aggressive fast breath {titmus, dressel}.