These 5 Drills Will Take Your Freestyle Swimming Technique To The Next Level!

[@gtn]

What do you struggle with most on the front crawl swim stroke? 🤔

[@pierce9128]

Rotation

[@gtn]

@@pierce9128 That's a very common one, have you checked out our video on this? Let us know if you have any further questions, happy to help 🙂👉kzbin.info/www/bejne/jpqpYqiOq7aHeq8

[@Aeronwor]

Being out of breath after 150m. Also not drowning. Working on both.

[@marend836]

Could you do a video for how to get prepared for a 100x100m swimming event? Or in general how to do long distance swimming?

[@videofan792]

I struggle with everything! I have limited range of motion in my shoulders but I try to keep the movement smooth and as straight as possible. I also try to prevent my legs from sinking by keeping my head under the water except when breathing. I swim every day and will persevere. I am 79 years old and I have to keep stopping to catch my breath. Thanks for reading all this and any tips would be appreciated. 😊😊

[@trbeyond]

I’m a life long swimmer and used to be pretty fast back in college. Some good drills here ! Not sure I’ve ever seen that “mid scull” one before! Would also add the one arm (w one arm at side) is a good one.

[@coucolota]

especially if you breathe on the opposite side to the rotating arm

[@MR-AK]

He seem to be over-rotating over 60degrees. Not necessary.

[@2805robin]

I followed it, and it was amazing, thanks. Anyway u r great

[@jamiefuhrman403]

Torpedo, mid-scull, and back-scull are new to me, thanks GTN!

[@lordge01]

God bless you! I've been watching tons of videos, join swim clinics etc. and I've been stuck for quite some time. This video has been game changing for my catch and rotation. Many many thanks 🙏🏻

[@matiasmarceca9997]

Great video and very helpful, Thanks GTN ! Happy Swimming !

[@WorkPerk-dg1nu]

It would be beneficial to do a summary/recap at the end with some visuals

[@santiagoaponte2648]

I’ve been waiting for a video with this specific content , good stuff !

[@evamiaozkan]

Cool TV screen sunglasses

[@suttonfarms2343]

Great advice! Thank you!

[@gtn]

You're welcome!

[@matthewb21]

I can easily swim 2500-3000m but I'm struggling with speed. I used to swim below 2min/100m easily, but after longer break can't go below 2:15 while maintaining endurance :/

[@GuillermoOposwim]

That's your training plan failing. Let me know if you need help with it.

[@justsumtriduuude]

We call it the Tarzan drill

[@KamalSharma-xm4pz]

While breathing onright side in front crawl my left hand drops

[@robohippy]

I think we differ on what the catch is. For me, the catch begins after you get full arm extension. You bend your wrist to about 20 to 30 degrees before moving to the 'power' part of the pull, which is at about 45 degrees. If you keep the wrist straight, that actually puts some 'lift' into the 'set up' phase of the pull, which is how you get your arm into the power position of the pull, and is also where you need to get the high elbow/early vertical forearm going, before you start the power part of the pull. Under the 'practice like you swim' concept, I don't understand the 'torpedo' part. When swimming, the body does not rotate as one unit, head, shoulders, and hips all at once. The rotation is a spiral from shoulders down through hips and to the feet/toes. To me, and I do all of my kicking laps this way, I am in 'superman' position, arms extended. Low side shoulder rotates up just slightly before the foot on the same side kicks down. This follows the 'spiral' idea. If I am missing some thing, please explain some more.

[@markthrelfall3577]

Hi. With regards to the catch, it sounds like we are discussing the same thing. It’s the very first part, as the hand first enters the water, and arm is extended out. As you say, the part of the stroke that gives you lift. Also explained in many other videos of ours. With regards to the kick/rotation, I would fully recommend you move everything in sync. Of course this is entirely up to you, but this is standard practice by all top level swimmers. A spiral breaks the chain, and power you can deliver to each part of the stroke. It can also result in a snaking motion down the pool, amongst other things. Thanks for the message

[@robohippy]

Well, first the catch. When you are in the water, you do not flex your wrist. In the part from about 1:00 to 1:20 where you are on land and demonstrating the catch, you flex your wrist before moving to the high elbow part of the pull. This does not create as much lift as the straight wrist. For open water swimming, the lift may be handy for sighting. I do swim the 'gallop' style used by just about all male swimmers and a few of the female swimmers, most notably Katie Ledecky. There is a bit of porpoising in this stroke variation. Now, for the rotation as a unit. Out of the hundreds of swimming videos I have watched, this is the ONLY one I have seen that tells you to rotate your body as a unit. You don't have to watch very closely to notice that your rotation you use in the Torpedo drill is not the same rotation you use when you swim. Any sport that uses rotational energy involves a spiral from one end of the body to the other. Land based sports go from the feet, through the hips, through the shoulders, and out the fingers. You pretty much coil up a spring and then unwind it for maximum energy out the arms/fingers. Essential for throwing, hitting or punching. Only debate I have heard with swimming is some say the lower body drives the shoulder rotation, and others, including me, say the shoulders drive the lower body/kick rotation. So, back to the coiled spring idea and how it applies to long axis swimming strokes. Take a wide board on a table, and flip it over from one side to the other. Zero coil spring. Take a string or piece of yarn, and use your palm to roll it. Almost no spring action. Take a 1 inch diameter piece of rope and roll it under your palm. You get some spring action. Take a strong steel spring like one used on a competition level trampoline. Secure both ends. Twist one end 90 degrees, then release the other end, and there is a bunch of coiled reaction. This coil action is what gives us more power in the arm pull and kick. Any swimmer who has properly timed/linked arm pull and kick, the pulling arm will engage to about 25 or so degrees, then the down kick (for freestyle) engages. This is true for the windmill freestyle that the 50 meter sprinters do, and for the more average swimmer does. Easiest to see with slow motion 2 beat kick freestyle.

[@robohippy]

Mark, If you have any video clips around where you are doing the one arm pull drill, or catch up drill, watch them. Probably don't even have to watch in slow motion. You will see that you rotate from one end to the other, not as a block. Let me know.

[@markthrelfall3577]

@@robohippy it’s fine man, we’re all entitled to our opinions. I’ve enjoyed your input and have found your points interesting. Every coach will have different takes. I am sticking to mine though. It’s worked for me and many others that I have coached over the years. I’m sure you have had lots of success with your coil method too, and that’s great. All the best

[@robohippy]

Well, when you swim, your body does not rotate as a unit from shoulders to hips, and for sure not like you do in your torpedo drill. My question would be why?

[@MR-AK]

Seem like the swimmer is over-rotating over 60degrees. I presume that is not necessary? His arm while breathing is almost flat infront pointing down. hmm.

[@DeepDeepEast]

It looks like there is no catch in your stroke. Just pushing down with a straight arm.

[@vits-swimtrainingevolution9886]

🤣 nice try, nice try, and actually not too bad. But a lot more is to consider, and to exercise precisestly, but the good message is, this is not as difficult to master than the common methods yet shows. But it takes a kind of a little trick - practice with newest insights and full body visualising instructions, and exercise with steady realtime full human body senses and controll, visualising everything. Sounds tricky and mysterious, but actually it is a no brainer, because the possibility of learning/study with 1:1 super slowmotion practice first, watching every little move, full body positioning, and get familiar as a habit with in maybe 10 Minutes, than practice several days and weeks, get better abilities double or three times quicker. There about 20 things have to be setted one time, palms to feet, fingertips to toes, everything between, but all together logical and understandable, in a quick understandable way, like nowhere no one never had teached yet in this way. ( ... but me 😁 ) The past: Freestyle swimming, yes it is one of the very special "mystical" complex movement sequence, but at the end, once you can master it after usual several years of practice practice practice, and if you arel lucky, as difficult as building a nice paper plane. Then, once you've learned the precise correct movement, you can practice on, repeat and repeat only the right full body movement sequences, takes only a few years more, - time doesn't matter ...? The future - has started, coming up soon ... 😁 ... rejoice, rejoice ... 😂😂😂🏊‍♀🏊‍♀🏊‍♀ Best Peter, from Frankfurt Germany ...

[@alpayakhun2251]

Useless 😅