BEST Front Crawl Swim Tips that no one tells you!!!!!

[@Sonofserbia]

Thanks man. Iam doing my first 2.4 km swim. You have helped me with the little techniques.

[@timobrien256]

Timely as I sit here scanning KZbin while recovering from shoulder surgery where my surgeon detached and reattached my bicep tendon to the humerus because it was week and ready to rupture. Long time swimmer starting at the age of 10 and now a 67 year old triathlete, I will give this method a go next February when I am cleared to swim again….thanks!

[@adamwalker32]

Yeh I had a similar issue. The stroke was a game changer. vimeo.com/ondemand/oceanwalkertechnique

[@videofan792]

You are a brave swimmer! A good example of not giving up! 👏👏👏

[@sumitagarwal3788]

Hi adam Respect and regards to you for teaching your revolutionary technique on front crawl swimming. I am a beginner and i have been following your youtube vidoes for 15 days now, and try to practice it out in the pool everyday. Yesterday for the 1st time , i was able to connect the pull action of "hips initiated ", instead of pulling from shoulders. However i am still struggling a lot with legs spiral action and two beat kick I am feeling quite happy. Cant thank you enough .

[@adamwalker32]

Thank you that’s great. If you want to follow my system with more drills this is my official online programme vimeo.com/ondemand/oceanwalkertechnique

[@sumitagarwal3788]

@@adamwalker32 can you give lower price for Vimeo

[@Nutty_Professor]

Fantastic. I will try in the pool tonight

[@georgebernhard4941]

Outstanding. Thank you for your knowledge & theory

[@baligo3760]

Using your low intensity style as guide I was able to advance from 20m (and being out of breath) to 200-300m atm . Probably could do more but I am still getting tired fast. Thanks & Cheers!

[@dorishamilton30]

Perfect technique 👍🏼

[@adamwalker32]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@oscardelatorre2325]

thank you for this training

[@tonuraudsepp1304]

You saved my day...great thanks

[@mooripo]

It's insane how the legs are so high without kicking almost as if you have z pullbuoy, how do you do that???? Amazing really. I still cant make that downhill feeling:(

[@Uhmm485]

Keeping the head low :-)

[@bigcatlove5192]

@@Uhmm485 that’s not always the case. Natural buoyancy of a person plays a factor.

[@kuriyamacho]

@@bigcatlove5192 What is meant by natural buoyancy? Is it amount %fat (buoyant) versus %muscle (heavy)? Or is it something else?

[@catvideis]

@@Uhmm485and also arms submerge lower which keeps the hips up. If you keep your arms high, your hips are going to go down.

[@Uhmm485]

@@bigcatlove5192 Shure, that is right. I never been able to float, always sank like a brick even with moderate amounts of air in my lungs. But keeping my head low (and as @catvideis mentioned, shoulders and leading arm) stabilizes my body in the water and prevents my lower legs from sinking. Plus it has the added benefit of my head naturally, slightly bobbing up for breaths of air.

[@MegaFarkh]

Greetings from Morocco , that was beneficial .

[@adamwalker32]

Thank you 🙏

[@MX-fo2nu]

Great Sport achievements with great technic and cool describtion, a question is your kick the same as the beatkick

[@MaDiViL696]

I just discovered your videos and thank you so much for sharing all this! You just made my day I have been swimming for about a year now. 4 times a weeks, 8 to 12km per week. Mostly training for Ironman Distance. Did my first IM few months ago and doing my second one in a few months. My swimming went bad to okayish (Managing to hit 1:35min/100m in the pool). Still not fantastic in openWater (Did my 3800m in 1h17min, which is roughly a 2min/100m pace, not great). My open water swim is less good than my pool swimming. But most of all I constantly have tight shoulders. And the wetsuit makes it worse ... Some days I feel I can't get a proper catch because it just puts too much pressure on my shoulders. I have been working with a coach to reinforce my supra/infra/teres majors/Delt ect ... as well as my mobility. Hoping that it might go somewhere one day. But what I discovered watching your videos is just amazing. And it just changes everything! Thank you again for sharing your technique.

[@adamwalker32]

My pleasure happy to help. If you want to learn step by step here is the link: vimeo.com/ondemand/oceanwalkertechnique

[@MaDiViL696]

@@adamwalker32 Thank you, I did! I have 14 weeks until IM New Zealand. Hope I can put this technique in place by then.

[@MaDiViL696]

@@adamwalker32 After just 2 swimming session I can already say it : 100% worth it. 1 year of swimming with an inneficient left hand catch. Few drills, awarness of what to do and when to do it. And BOOM 10 seconds drop every 100m and an instant release of the shoulder. Thank you so much for that!

[@allandaquiz]

​@@MaDiViL696 ❤❤

[@jorgedomenichini2812]

Muy buena tu técnica me funciona. Hago mucho este ejercicio. Saludos desde Madrid.

[@josephmazurie8191]

I am convinced with almost every point of your method (thanks !). 2 small doubts (1)- why pull the arm as far as possible backward instead of just at the hip level ? And (2). I find the 2 beat kick a bit inelegant (I am 72 y old, and still trying to improve -sent this message from France)

[@billgardyne7328]

Mass can’t be changed, it is a reduction in profile that comes from rotating.

[@johnnybutler523]

Love it:).

[@arenuzzle6282]

Interesting pull on my side

[@yurykuyan8101]

What do you mean when you start rotation by rolling your feet being on a side?

[@adamwalker32]

@@yurykuyan8101 feet turn from the side to the middle to take front arm into the water

[@yurykuyan8101]

@@adamwalker32 turn feet by engaging ankles? thnaks Adam.

[@adamwalker32]

@@yurykuyan8101 you can turn from the ankles or toes does the same thing

[@علیکوثری-ن1ص]

I practice from your videos. Now I do the walker technique well when I breathe right. But when I breathe from the left side, I cannot perform the technique as well as the other side. Is it the same for you?

[@adamwalker32]

No I am even both sides so it doesn’t matter which side you breathe. You must be rotating more one side. You need to learn the system with the drills. See link to learn it: vimeo.com/ondemand/oceanwalkertechnique

[@mohamaddashti2283]

سلام علی شما ایران هستی ؟ من چند وقتی هست با تکنیک واکر شنا می کنم یا بهتر بگم تمرین می کنم متاسفانه سرعت خیلی کنده ،، استیل دست های بیرون آب رو تونستم درست کنم مثل واک اما سرعت نه نمی دونم گیر کار کجاست شما می تونید به من کمک کنید متشکرم

[@speedo1105]

this technique is fine, especially for people who float but i can tell you after 60 years of aquatics, if yu are a sinker, which i am in the worst way, this doesn't work well and if you are not kicking, forget about smoothness, streamlining, rotation,etc. it simply does not work well. i can't tell you how many coaches, teachers, clinics, workshops,etc. tried to get me to be somewhat buoyant. my signature in the water is vertical,literally. i am a usms competitor and h ave done very well on the national scene but i can say that my specific gravity has always been a problem and i've utilized the various tricks, adjustments to be the best i can.

[@fransur1386]

I’m also a massive sinker. What technique has worked for you?

[@speedo1105]

@@fransur1386 KICKING is the best way to alleviate the sinking but it will always be a problem. folks who suggest moving your center of mass toward your center of buoyancy is rather pointless also but it does work for some. your body composition and secific gravity determine buoyancy so that doesn't change much until your days of activity lessen. but again, my suggestion is kicking and trying to be long and streamlined. AND RELAX!!!

[@fransur1386]

Thank you, that’s very helpful and makes perfect sense!

[@adamwalker32]

Try on your side with arm 45 degrees with neutral head looking down initially and feeling like your going over a cliff, then kick your legs. When your flat much easier to sink. Just coached someone 60 years old who’s feet were on the bottom flat but put him on his side in The correct position I wanted him and his feet came up but needs some guidance from me. I need to look at how you are swimming and position you accordingly. So far in 12 years Ive always managed to help correct the sinkers.

[@speedo1105]

@@adamwalker32 thank you

[@paulodasilvalima6735]

Preciso muito do seu treinamento 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽, como conseguir???

[@adamwalker32]

Here is the link: vimeo.com/ondemand/oceanwalkertechnique

[@nicholasmasi9699]

I am subscribed to your Vimeo thanks for your videos. Really using this time to nail your technique. I'm a bit confused about the leg flick I also think I am pulling way too deep but I am rotating better and better but adding the breath is challenging ☺️

[@adamwalker32]

If you want a 1-1 via Skype for 1 hour so I can see what your doing, that’s possible. It’s hard to know what you are doing. Make sure you pull to a bent elbow and remember it’s roll, kick and pull in that order. Checkout oceanwalkeruk.com

[@nicholasmasi9699]

@@adamwalker32 Great point, and thanks! I've improved since this comment which is so exciting. Thanks again!

[@donalmahon]

Great video but is your frontal body mass not the same regardless of whether you are on your side or flat?

[@adamwalker32]

The drag is less. More efficient

[@kevinabalo]

A Mackerel is faster than a Sole.

[@k1mfor]

less body mass goes through water when sideways because shoulder is out of the water

[@verminr]

I get the less frontal mass thing, but you said that's why olympic swimmers kick off the wall sideways, however, with a racing turn they're completely underwater when they kick so surely it makes no difference if you're flat or sideways?

[@kenvysmiguel8817]

Can i use front snorkle for this drill?

[@adamwalker32]

I never have done

[@pablojimenez5736]

Well, your next challenge is cross Río de la Plata, from Colonia, Uruguay to Argentina….on breath stroke. As the first English lady did

[@bretzky9261]

Here's my resume....now here's the drill!

[@videofan792]

This makes a lot of sense to me because I could be at risk for injury and then I would not be able to swim at all.

[@adamwalker32]

Yeh that’s why it’s important to take pressure off the shoulders 👍 vimeo.com/ondemand/oceanwalkertechnique

[@kevinabalo]

Me again. I've got `roll, kick, pull` perfect on my left side now - but right side is `roll, straight leg, pull` no kick. Considerable improvement over random kicking though. It'll come. Thanks again.

[@TheVukhuc6176]

Swim 60km on the sea at 1:40 pace, amazing!

[@eberger02]

“Still head”: do you not hit yourself in the head with the deltoid muscle from the reaching arm? I have to move my head a little bit & I don’t think I have particularly big deltoid muscles. Just normal 6ft 3 bloke ones.Even if I sit here doing it I hit myself. Have you trained yourself not to raise your scapula when reaching?

[@adamwalker32]

No I swim around the head.

[@adamwalker32]

I don’t raise the scapula as I do a semi circle sweep recovery arm

[@peterlockitt6771]

Plus it looks like the hand enters the water in line with your shoulders 👍👍👍

[@Stcoadrdfo]

can we see it underwater as your spectators do?

[@adamwalker32]

Yes I have lots of under water with instruction on my online coaching here :) vimeo.com/ondemand/oceanwalkertechnique

[@liveandlearn3069]

Sir your technique is good but i could pleased try to extend your arm under the water try to reach something and tell me after thank you in advance

[@mylivingsky]

Wait till this vid blow up in #

[@andys2856]

And you should use this if you don't have injuries?

[@adamwalker32]

With or without injuries. It protects your body from injuries

[@pocketcharts12]

I am noticing there is no kick- shouldn’t you at lease point and give a FLICK KICK every 2nd stroke?

[@Maryohagan7]

I'm a rather rotund 45 yr old, am thinking it won't matter what shape I turn in water, flat or sideways..lol

[@barryschuurman9164]

impossible for me to keep the head still when rotating....any tips for that to manage?

[@adamwalker32]

I’m guessing you are driving your hand and arm into the water which is moving your head. It needs to be from the feet to disconnect the head and chest. You should follow my online system to help with that. vimeo.com/ondemand/oceanwalkertechnique

[@emmyin]

Isn't he kicking at all?

[@adamwalker32]

One kick to help the rotation and glide

[@muckimuck733]

Not in the rolling drill 🎉

[@billreppas]

Harder than it looks...i keep trying.

[@iangraham9050]

I don’t know why your surgeon would tell you not to swim with a snapped biceps tendon. I snapped mine about 5 years ago and my consultant said I can live without it as the lower biceps muscle does the majority of the workload.

[@adamwalker32]

It was advice on not swimming for long distances like 17 hours non stop to prevent further damage 🏊‍♂️

[@iangraham9050]

@@adamwalker32 17 hours - bloody hell mate? 2 hours and I'm done. Thanks for posting all your videos, they are greatly appreciated.

[@silbermannsgold1]

11 strokes for 25 meters......o Jesus!!

[@pocketcharts12]

6 ft 5 in. Helps

[@speedo1105]

and also remember, slow moving limbs invite gravity in and if you are a sinker, get used to swimming underwater a lot.

[@farce_knight9548]

I don't understand how you're "pulling less mass through the water" when you rotate side-to-side. Doesn't your mass stay constant, no matter how your body is oriented...?

[@adamwalker32]

You pull a smaller surface area on your side so therefore less drag

[@bastogne315]

Lots of weirdos starin at u in dat pool pal!

[@kqjxwzpl]

This british accent makes me cry😢😢😢

[@videofan792]

Why? I would like to know. 😊😊

[@kqjxwzpl]

@@videofan792 british english sounds differently.

[@videofan792]

I am British but people don’t cry when I speak, they usually laugh, lol.🙄🙄

[@janisbruce6692]

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