Freestyle - Relax and Feel

Sometimes we're so caught up in the hard training of swimming, we forget to just experience the water.
Why do it:
We may not think about it, but our senses are constantly bombarded when we train. We HEAR the thrash of what water. We LOOK to see where we're going. We TASTE that lovely water. We SMELL like chlorine, and we FEEL our connection with the water. Shifting the focus to FEEL can help you understand how to swim better.
How to do it:
1 - Take off your goggles and take a deep breath and close your eyes.
2 - Swim, long, smooth freestyle feeling how the water feels against your skin.
3 - How does your arm slice through the water.
4 - How do your toes interact during the kick, the recovery.
How to do it really well (the fine points):
Relax your face. When swimmers are only used to swimming with goggles on, this can initially be an uncomfortable exercise. Relax, loosen your face, feel the tension going out of your shoulders and body.
This isn't an exercise in swimming straight. Take a peek every few strokes to make sure you're going down the right side of the lane.
Taking off the goggles rather than just closing the eyes DOES make a difference. It forces you to feel more.
Start at the fingers, and work your way down to the toes. When something feels out of whack, when you feel too much resistance... experiment with what you need to do to fix it.

[@coconutsnap]

This is absolutely brilliant, in terms of focusing on "feel". What's jarring to me is the assumption that the best part of taking your goggles off is closing your eyes. Try also opening your eyes in the water without goggles: it's fantastic. Competitive swimming, old school :-) nothing quite like it; adds another dimension to the experience. (Downside: your eyes will sting from the chlorine after about 5 hours of that. Bonus: you see rainbows around all the lights at night.)

[@AndrewYudrinkswater]

True true

[@NickSmith-hv9zi]

Probably the lack of reply to your idiotic concept suggests only that you are full of it. Old school? yah.. stupid.. If you don't like to keep your eye for long, yah,, keep doing that shit. Water behaves like a lens, that is the reason when you open your eye, only thing you see is milky crap out of focus. Not to mention the chlorine from the typical pool will make your eyes bloodshot. You could say "nothing quite like it".. If you like it, no one stops you but don't suggest to others.

[@joequillun7790]

@@NickSmith-hv9zi Chill out George. She did mention the chlorine.

[@thaik56]

Good tip, whenever my swimming doesn't feel right, I find myself fighting the water instead of feeling it.

[@TreBlass]

It happened to me today

[@gmseo]

Sanchit Agarwal happens too me all the time during sprints at practice

[@reika542]

Happens to me everytime

[@brettbale9535]

Had a date with the end wall and i've been the hospital all weekend with a concussion thanks to this.

[@joequillun7790]

LOL. Funny stuff.

[@haidernaqvi87]

Swim in a 50m pool not in the underground tank.

[@silentvoicecrew]

I am a new swimmer And inside me fear of water Experimented with what I've learned from this video was fantastic completely. thank you guys

[@bewoxoweb]

Kemiskinan sangat dekat dengan kekafiran...

[@danielcercasgarcia994]

que buen video, hablo poco inglés por eso comento en español, cuando uno quiere mejorar la forma de nadar se apoya en videos para ver cómo nadan los atletas Olímpicos. yo pienso que éste vídeo es muy recomendable para quienes quieren mejorar sus movimientos en el estilo libre porque en base a autores de los libros americanos y de entrenadores estadounidenses se refleja como se deben colocar y mover los brazos con una posición del cuerpo tendida en el agua

[@andyrichardson9981]

Zen swimming. How often do I have to literally pull myself up for not feeling what I`m doing in the water. Great reminder, thanks

[@leesanghwa8175]

자유형 - 힘 빼면서 느끼기 힘들게 하는 수영 훈련에 너무 집착한 나머지 간혹 물 느끼기를 그냥 잊어버리곤 합니다. 왜 할까요: 모를 수도 있지만, 훈련할 때 우리 감각기관들은 엄청난 양의 자극을 끊임없이 받아들이고 있습니다. 물 때리는 소리를 듣습니다. 어디로 가고 있는지 확인하기 위해 봅니다. 그렇게나 좋은 물을 맛봅니다. 염소(鹽素, chlorine) 비슷한 냄새를 맡으며, 물에 걸리는 힘을 느낍니다. 생각을 바꿔 느끼는 데 주의를 기울이면 더 잘 헤엄치는 방법을 이해하는 데 도움될 수 있습니다. 어떻게 할까요: 1 - 수경을 벗고, 깊게 들이쉰 다음, 눈을 감으십시오. 2 - 부드럽고 긴 자유형으로 헤엄치십시오, 피부에 와 닿는 물이 어떻게 느껴지는지 생각하면서. 3 - 어떻게 팔이 물을 썰어 가는지. 4 - 차고 되돌리는 동안 어떻게 발가락들이 물과 대화하는지. 어떻게 하면 진짜로 잘할까요 (요점): 얼굴 힘을 빼십시오. 수경을 쓰고 하는 수영에만 익숙해져 있다면, 맨 얼굴로 하는 수영이 처음에는 불편할 수도 있습니다. 힘 빼고 얼굴 근육들을 느슨하게 하면서, 어깨와 온몸의 긴장이 사라짐을 느끼십시오. 이렇게 헤엄치다 보면 경로가 틀어져 부딪힐 수도 있습니다. 팔 동작 몇 번마다 살짝 눈을 떠 자신이 올바른 편에서 헤엄쳐 가고 있는지 확인하십시오. 수경은 그냥 쓴 채 눈 감고 하는 수영과 수경을 벗고 하는 수영은 아주 큰 차이가 있습니다. 더 많이 느낄 수밖에 없습니다. 손가락에서 시작하여, 쭉 아래로 발가락까지 조금씩 해 나가십시오. 무언가 제대로 안 되고 있다고 느껴지거나, 너무 과도한 저항이 느껴진다면... 가능한 다른 방식 들로 실험하면서 그것을 교정하십시오.

[@KeithHiew]

I'd like to be able to do this, but there is always too many people in the pool.

[@aurelianspodarec2629]

Let them know what you are doing. DOn't be affraid to look like an idiot.

[@phxrsx]

I usually get interrupted by someone wanting to share my lane.

[@cvoque]

Then be the last one leaving the pool, one day.

[@brotherbeardfighter712]

Very very nice movement and motivation

[@zhyfn9773]

length of the pool? His efficiency is amazing!

[@saravanan335]

👍👍👍

[@MrYoumitube]

Yeh I have tasted the water a little too much.....but true when you feel the water, you go faster and are more relaxed.

[@marinavanwoerkom1901]

Thanks for the advies . I Will try to do iT in my swim lessen.

[@uusn2133]

just beautiful

[@wlcsp]

Well.... you can relax when you're not out of breath.

[@emilya6519]

it actually makes me feel stressed out. beacuse I don't know where I'm going.

[@gmseo]

Emily Anaya relax you will not hit your head

[@denyuan4200]

How about taking off swimsuit?

[@joequillun7790]

Absolute freedom,... until the cops put the cuffs on.

[@expsterm1]

I can only do this when there are not a lot of other lap swimmers in the pool. It's hard to do this when too many people causing a lot of waves and turbulence in the pool.

[@Karxar1as]

Do that to the sea no need to that to the pool.For me its ok in the pool even if i swim relaxed and not forcing myself to go faster no need to take out my goggles.Not seeing where i am going in a swimming pool full of people is more stressed than wearing them.

[@theswimclub8582]

without goggles eyes burn if you open them because of the chlorine... also the eyesight gets blurred.. is this a 15 yard pool

[@ollyk22]

This is almost TI technique?

[@zeelacar1469]

Nice 💟

[@jazzmoharana7586]

I will panic without goggles

[@pedrooliveros3085]

Feldenkrais, body awareness, neuromuscular re-ed concepts

[@reika542]

They say learning to swim is like learning how to ride a bike, I say it's more like learning to ride a unicycle which is even harder xD

[@lonelybullet1]

learning to swim is easy, learning to swim well is the hard part

[@victorsetiawan3465]

my eyes to sensitive with chlorine water so i still use my google when i close my eyes to feel my movement.

[@anjarini3549]

bro went bald for the hydrodynamics

[@jiakai7254]

Once i couldn't find my goggles so I swam without them and I just closed my eyes to reduce chlorine exposure, my swim felt a lot better

[@Zeyneplo]

I swim but I can't with my head so down like he does

[@VishwaNathGummaRaju]

When the swimmer enters hand in water there are no bubbles et all! No matter how much i try, there are whole lot of air bubbles trailing my hands. how to do it???

[@andrewmaccallum2953]

They are there at entry but minimized. That's one purpose of continued roll to full extension after entry and before catch is to get to clean water.

[@johnzhang5606]

real niubility

[@moshtaqkasser9414]

thaaaaaaaaaaaaaks

[@caranoya]

I wish I can go for swim .without no body there"! Only me in lad plow soy 95"""

[@burger1113]

wait... people like chlorine water?

[@kwokonfat3990]

i also want to take off my brief to feel real..

[@ProdigalSonAD70]

Boston Lobster ikr lol

[@1houndgal]

Any nudist camp with a pool near you?

[@denyuan4200]

I have done that many times

[@rainbows449]

No the water does not taste lovely 🥴🤭

[@thepikachuoftexas3871]

I wear contacts sooooo no thanks

[@AndrewYudrinkswater]

1+1=2

[@filipvelkov6829]

2+2=4

[@babludp1530]

Minus one that's three,quick maths

[@zakymaa]

Gliding too much

[@goswim]

Too much for what?

[@zakymaa]

+GoSwim feel that at the 1:27 or so that he glides more and it interrupts the rhythm. It may be because to demonstrate the feeling of water.

[@ThatFailedartist]

+GoSwim i think he means to say he's losing inertia with that long glide, but this is a beginner vid so probably good to glide as a first step

[@goswim]

+zakymaa It's a drill. This swimmer swim's the 50 yard free in 19.3. He knows how to turn it on... absolutely NOT the point of this video.

[@andrewmaccallum2953]

Drills are PURPOSELY exaggerated movements to teach your body the feeling associated with the concept the drill is driving. That's the purpose of the drill. It's exactly how you build an efficient stroke.

[@user-ml4ml9hj4i]

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