No Swimmer Has Ever Done This Before (i think)

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Gretchen Walsh just went OFF on night one of the Women's NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships. Fastest 50 backstroke in history in 22.10, but it's even crazier than that. So watch the video. For real watch it. Come onnnnn watch it ya fool.
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[@willdorazio6146]

Dang, I think this is the fastest I've ever found a Kyle Sockwell video

[@BlossomyPen6275]

1v1 me

[@Sockwell]

Proud of you, Will 🫶

[@willdorazio6146]

@@Sockwell Thank you, I did my best

[@Hbecksfish]

0.05 away from your 50 free without a block start 💀💀

[@Sockwell]

YEAH YEAH YEAH….I KNOW!! 🤬

[@SquiggyWigginz]

Rofl oh snap! 😂

[@Jivvi]

Dive in off the block normally, and turn over before you come up, and then just swim backstroke.

[@rycaruth8856]

@@Sockwell u gotta do a breaking 22 series

[@Sockwell]

LET'S HAVE A WEEK, Y'ALL!!!

[@CAST-wq6bm]

Dude Kyle’s the best Swimming KZbinr ever ngl

[@generallogics3643]

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[@eamontyson8252]

Yeah well when your competing against Cody miller there’s not much competition ☠️

[@ronnybest6]

@@eamontyson8252you hating his vids are fire

[@eamontyson8252]

@@ronnybest6 there is a reason my reply has more likes, let the people speak for themselves ☠️

[@CAST-wq6bm]

@@eamontyson8252There both good and I think Cody Miller also might be the best

[@CAST-wq6bm]

Gretchen CAN NOT BE STOPPED

[@thomasnewton7168]

Yet, Kaylee Mckeown is the Olympic and World champ, and the WR holder. Hmmmmm.

[@andrewcaruso4515]

“i think” 😭😭😭

[@a.p.w.1aski644]

Sockwell is the man!🙏

[@StanJones-ww8th]

The 4 basic strokes are Backstroke, Breaststroke, Butterfly, Front Crawl. Front Crawl is the fastest stroke so by default, any team will enter their best swimmer in each stroke which for "FREE STYLE" will be a swimmer doing the "Front Crawl". Hence, we will always see a "Free" event swimmer doing the "Front Crawl" stroke. That is until this event where the fastest swimmer Gretchen can do Fly faster than other swimmers can do Crawl and she can do Fly faster than she can do Crawl; hence what you just saw happen. Happy for her and makes for a great show and establishes an uniqueness for journalists to talk about in promoting the sport of swimming.

[@LilTurkeyFN]

I LOVE THIS CHANNEL SOOOO MUCH

[@person5894]

Omg I love Gretchen so much

[@katharine1229]

Thank you for all the context :) great video! 10/10

[@orangedude000]

In terms of beating a 50 time by .41 it’s kinda been done before. Going into 2018 NCAAs the men’s 50 free stood at 18.20 by dressel which he beat by .39 to 17.81 leading off the 200 free relay. Then he lowered it to 17.63 which is .57 lower than the previous record and I believe .84 lower than the next performer at the time (Cielo 18.47). I have no answer for qualifying for the 50 free backstroke though that’s just insane.

[@1FontaineCreaturae]

Not even to mention that in the prelims of that same meet, Dressel cruised an 18.11 before throwing down the double-17

[@davidwhelchel109]

You’re welcome on the 50 back v 50 free comparison. 💥

[@patrickmaldonado7999]

Kyle posted best part of my day 😊😊😊

[@willdorazio6146]

Hi Patty

[@patrickmaldonado7999]

WILL HI PRACTICE WAS SO FUN 🗣️🗣️🆙🆙🆙🤯🤯🤯😻😻😻😻

[@willdorazio6146]

Agreed, the dryland to swim ratio was absolutely amazing today​@@patrickmaldonado7999

[@Janexovibes]

Hey Kyle can you make a video about NCSAs in Orlando! It seemed like it was a crazy meet

[@XDF745]

Short course 50 back is basically a dolphin kickers discipline.

[@RayWon13]

I love your videos

[@razrgaming8996]

this is gonna be the best (two) week(s) ever

[@gavinbuettner5745]

love seeing those yellow high tech results sheets 😎

[@mateofoodreview]

i love how a gretchen walsh video just randomly turned into a rant about caps

[@Sockwell]

My brain is a scary (and sometimes fun 🥰) place 😰

[@PeteStevens-us3hw]

How do you feel about high level meet including swimmer chosen walk out songs?

[@montexic5201]

I LOVE KYLE

[@G0TTAB3FR3SH]

Thank you for pointing out that she was long on the turn... I figured that was how she executed her race because she's so damn tall haha. If her turn was timed right she would have easily gone under 22!

[@Sockwell]

Almost didn’t say anything because a 22.1 should just be looked at as incredible and nothing else, but after some deep thinking I really think there’s .11 in that turn 😳

[@G0TTAB3FR3SH]

@@Sockwell absolutely! 22.1 is unreal, but it's even crazier to see that it's possible to dip under 22 with that one adjustment. Keep it up with the content the next two weeks 👍

[@user-rg9oi4xp1p]

Can you possibly look at the 14 and under NASA. Championships! They are nationals for us younlings

[@GooberGuz]

@sockwell we need a roast bro !!!

[@Sockwell]

Roast #5 is in the works 🙏

[@urfav2024-e8z]

that’s crazy- her 50 backstroke is faster than my 50 free by 6 seconds 😭

[@darvicon]

😮😮😮😮 That’s a lead like Ledecky

[@mal2ksc]

It would truly be interesting if one of the "disciplines" also was the fastest way to swim freestyle. Would there effectively be twice as many events open to backstroke specialists, if they can compete without cross-training?

[@toadlguy]

How will this translate to Olympic distances? Anyone know?

[@sethaldrich6902]

That is simply insane, my best 50 free beat her but it was only by a second, so take the blocks start out and who knows? I’m really surprised that they didn’t put her on the 800 free relay, dropped them down to 4th.

[@patrickfry7742]

Why won’t they post the official races on KZbin?

[@Sockwell]

Good question, usually they’re on top of it with the NCAA YT account but this year they’re big time slacking

[@charlietexastraildog9830]

Regarding qualifying for the 50 free. Is she a good freestyler? How fast would she be if she swam the 50 free finishing with back?

[@Sockwell]

She's the fastest 50 freestyler in history by a wide, WIDE margin. Broke the NCAA record (fastest in history) twice in one day this week.

[@charlietexastraildog9830]

So…she could have finished the second 25 with back and still won easily- that’s crazy!

[@865bricks]

Did dressel break the 50 free record by .5? I couldve sworn it was like 18.11 before that swim

[@BlossomyPen6275]

“with 100% accuracy” Womp womp

[@Sockwell]

🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

[@BlossomyPen6275]

@@Sockwellsuck it up buttercup

[@Skard01]

Didn't Dressel break the 50 free record by 0.6s in 2018 (counting the fastest swim of the day vs previous record)

[@Sockwell]

Yepp - he’s probably the only comparable here but he broke the 50 free record about 162 times over a 4 year period

[@dallinborneman7939]

yooooo

[@annemac8707]

Yards oof, long course is real swimming

[@azatsultanbek1]

Where can I watch NCAA ?

[@Sockwell]

ESPN+ 🙏

[@azatsultanbek1]

@@Sockwell thanks mate

[@sarawawa99]

There's underwaters and there's underwater teleportation.

[@montexic5201]

💋💋💋

[@BlossomyPen6275]

Wassup bik boi

[@SquiggyWigginz]

Boggles the mind.

[@alastairbates161]

in the 50 free she could start off the blocks and flip and do backstroke.....

[@gianpolignano2632]

Are you surprised they didn't put her in the 800 Free relay?

[@thecjdiazshow]

are you commentating for the men’s champs? I assume so because you haven’t predicted men’s winners.

[@Sockwell]

I am not, but I wish I was. The Men’s video predicting event winners will drop after Women’s NCAAs concludes (probably on Monday)

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No Views...

[@elle81861]

bro i’m crying my favorite coach just switched teams that little rat

[@dandelion432]

XX or XXY? dna testing for ALL athletes, ALL sports please. .lol