Working with a RECORD HOLDER freediver to improve her NO FINS technique

Improving no fins freediving technique. A session with Thai record holder May Leethanachai. From 6 to 3 arm strokes in less than 10 mins. A no fins freediving (CNF) training session.
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This channel is all about helping you master freediving. Here you will find freediving tips, techniques & training, as well as breathing techniques & breath-holding for freedivers and non-freedivers.
Gert Leroy is a certified freediving instructor, 1x national record holder, and a freediving KZbinr. His passion is to bring you the experience of peace through the practising of freediving. Gert helps you master freediving.
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[@gertleroy]

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[@felizenfamilia3673]

Yes! Cool to see how the glide can be extended ❤

[@gertleroy]

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[@hhazhar1]

Hello Gert and May... Great that you share the CNF training.

[@gertleroy]

Azhar! Thanks man cu soon ✌️

[@chadcaso]

You’re the man! All of your content it top tier! Thank you!

[@gertleroy]

welcome 🙏

[@oldnboldfreedivingadvent-DK68]

Yes. Recently did a workshop with the current DNF World record holder Zhang Yi in Melbourne, Australia. I'm not quite as good as May. Would take about eight or nine strokes to do same distance so still have a lot to learn. I'm 68 and have been freediving for over 35 years now. And still only just learning how to do DNF properly.

[@gertleroy]

great! still have time to develop skills! 👌

[@slgarrett]

Yes! I’m just a beginner and when people better than me go as far as my best dynamic swims but with no fins it always makes me say, “Wow!”

[@gertleroy]

people like to compare their selves to others. the ultimate form of peaceful being is to not do that. 😁🙏

[@slgarrett]

@@gertleroy maybe but it’s not a bad thing to aspire to be better. I have some ambition, maybe not a lot, but some.

[@CorneliaRockhammar]

Great Gert👍Ill try it on tuesday!

[@gertleroy]

Have fun!

[@CorneliaRockhammar]

It was quite hard. I was thinking to much. Did not relax enough. Pushed myself, instead of relaxing. Will get better next time.

[@gertleroy]

@@CorneliaRockhammar peace in every breath 🙏

[@thesailingsiren]

Nice video! Been training CNF for the first time here in Israel and I'm pretty into it. Definitely going to be practicing DNF when I go back home and back to pool training. :)

[@gertleroy]

Hi Rachel! Aharon will definitely mold you into an elite cnf diver! 😉 All the best! 👍👍

[@SindreEide93]

MY longest swim was 75m (3laps in a 25m pool) many years ago. It been years and years since I was in a pool. When I did this I remember I started to swim faster to get to the wall before I ran out of air. I think this actually messed me up and if I did like this and whent slow and glided more I be able to do a longer distance. I'm actually super pumped to go try in a pool again. My city just got a huge new swimingpool place I wanna check out so.

[@gertleroy]

Great. always dive with a buddy. the first and second lap you go slow. the 3rd lap you can do a bit faster.

[@francescolusiani6475]

Yes

[@gertleroy]

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[@noralestari6078]

Very nice! From 6 to 3 is very impressive!

[@gertleroy]

Yes May did an awesome job! How is your no fins Nora?

[@noralestari6078]

Gert Leroy - Master Freediving i do 3 kicks and 1 arm stroke, not one arm stroke one kick. For that distance on my lucky (and not lazy oppssss! 🙊) day I can cover with more or less 3 kicks and one arm. Any tips to improve it?

[@gertleroy]

@@noralestari6078 is there a specific reason you use 3 kicks and only 1 arm stroke? maybe your legs are stronger than your arms? and why would you want to improve what you do? you feel it's not efficient enough?

[@martini1094]

I used to swim 25 meters with around 9 armstrokes. However, thanks to the tips I found in your dynamic no-fins technique videos I reduced them to only 5!

[@gertleroy]

That's great! Are you using a wetsuit and neckweight or just swimming trunks?

[@martini1094]

@@gertleroy I'm just using swimming trunks, a cap and goggles.

[@gertleroy]

@@martini1094 ok. Then 5 is good! With some small tweaks and more glide you might make it 4 🙏

[@martini1094]

@@gertleroy thanks! I will try it today!

[@Stevens737]

It's ALL about GLIDE! And correct weighting! Plus STA! And you are there! DNF - is my favorite! BTW :Great Job, Gert!

[@gertleroy]

Thanks Garry! I think if you're good at dnf/cnf you're good at anything haha

[@charlesghannoumlb2959]

Yes i sometimes put the fins asidevwhile spearfishing in the shallows

[@gertleroy]

Awesome. It's like the original tribes who dived for fish. They didn't have fins either. 🙏

[@FreediveNomad]

Proper weighting with neck and waist weights helped me. When are you coming to Chiang Mai?

[@gertleroy]

you're right. proper weighting can do a lot! also give it a try without weights! it's a good hack to improve technique. For now unfortunately i'm not going to Thailand. I'm in Panglao till at least mid January. How's the training?

[@paullee4417]

Can you also do video on proper technique when doing CNF vertically?

[@gertleroy]

Thanks Paul for reaching out! It's on my todo list 😊 just dont know yet when the video will be out. Keep on following my channel 👍

[@NicolasDerudder]

Hey Gert, could you make a video explaining different disciplines in freediving? like a nice overview? differtent disciplines in the pool & in ocean? dive safe,

[@gertleroy]

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[@RubenImpang]

wow what a nice technique...

[@gertleroy]

indeed buddy! looking gooooood :-) How is your underwater breaststroke?

[@RubenImpang]

I need to practice more, need a coach like u in order to learn a strong kick like free diving.

[@gertleroy]

@@RubenImpang we'll be at the pool during the month of January cu there 😉

[@RubenImpang]

Thats great try my best to be dr...c u

[@gertleroy]

@@RubenImpang 👍

[@tukuleonsisimo]

Hello Gert, it’s always essential to make (one arm stroke & one kick) or can be (one arm stroke & two kicks)? Regards

[@gertleroy]

The standard is alternating. Please watch my video on NO FINS FREEDIVING TECHNIQUE.

[@derekcheunglew]

Thank you so much Gert! I’m a novice but this helped so much! Yesterday DNF barely 25m ~20+ strokes Today DNF 35m+ & 10-11 strokes! Glide, tricep extension and last hand / arm ‘flick’ made huge differences.... so much more to still learn / practise and really need to work on leg stroke now. Really love the breathing / mindfulness vids too - helping with my depression, thank you.

[@gertleroy]

Thank you Derek for the kind words and I hope freediving will give you a space, a way to relax and enjoy life more! All the best ✌️

[@derekcheunglew]

Gert Leroy - Master Freediving Update: 25M DNF now down to 5 arm strokes and 4 leg strokes! Thanks Gert

[@gertleroy]

@@derekcheunglew awesome Derek! keep going :-)

[@derekcheunglew]

Hi Gert, quick update. Just completed my basic and advanced PADI at Y-40, was amazing experience and my instructor was impressed at my DNF and asked if I was an ex swimmer! 😀 So thanks so much again for the tips and I’m down to 3 arm strokes and 2 leg strokes for 25m

[@gertleroy]

@@derekcheunglew that's awesome Derek! 3 arm strokes is really good! well done :-)

[@ezfischerman]

can you order these cool nose clips you mention on line? is there a link? I want to work on my DNF technique i have the most trouble with the rhythm of kicking and bringing my arms back overhead

[@gertleroy]

Take a look here : kit.co/gertleroy/freediving-nose-clips Yeah coordination is key. Start bringing your feet towards your ass when you start bringing the hands fromin front of you. It's something you have to feel.

[@ergacaesarpangesi4235]

Really like dnf! I just try to make my turning more effortless

[@gertleroy]

awesome man! yeah you can save a lot of energy optimizing your turns! good luck!

[@alexandernilsson8536]

Hi Gert, see you in the water soon 👊🐬

[@gertleroy]

Without fins I hope 😉

[@vicparedes23]

YES...🐟🏊😀

[@erikb.heijnen6900]

Yes, I really love DNF. My whole live I have liked to be in underwater. But it only recently I discovered it is a actual sport 😊 So only since a couple of months I train every week in Brugge with Barracuda At the moment I’m doing 2 strokes for 15meters. And around 4 to 5 for 25. Only a speedo, googles and a weight belt. I’m going to make a nek weight for better position in the glide fase. Wil a wetsuit also be a big improvement to the glide fase?

[@gertleroy]

yes a (smoothskin) wetsuit makes you glide better, but you shoukd keep training without wetsuit. and the reason is without wetsuit you learn to feel the water better and your technique will become better.

[@erikb.heijnen6900]

That makes sense. Thanks for the tip 👍

[@kamiliaelkady4223]

That is my favorite technique. I can do 25 m in the pool..but for depth, I do only 10 m comfortably. I've tried 15 m depth, but honestly, I felt the shake in my feet that I don't want to try it again :(

[@gertleroy]

progress step by step and be patient! all will be fine cheers !

[@amysoska8338]

Nice video, good job guys. I need to do 50m DNF to pass a course. I'm new to the technique. I feel like my arm push and kick are ok, but during the glide I really struggle to stabilize my body in the water and keep moving in a straight line. I'm hypermobile so my body is very loose and in so many sports I have to work hard to be stable. Not sure if it's that or whether my weight is wrong. Any tips?

[@gertleroy]

search for my video HOW TO Dnf where I dissect a world record holder's technique.

[@amysoska8338]

@@gertleroy nice video but very basic. didn't talk about stability in glide at all so my question remains unanswered. Thanks anyway 😊

[@gertleroy]

@@amysoska8338 for such a specific question youtube is not the place. I offer coaching see gertleroy.com cheers 🙏

[@NORWOODShadow]

What's the logic between not using the arm stroke at the end vs the legs?

[@gertleroy]

Personal preference. And when you almost have reached the other side one armstroke might be too much effort for the short distance to be covered

[@NORWOODShadow]

@@gertleroy Make sense. Just generally though I wonder which movement physiologically uses more energy/oxygen the legs or the arms?

[@davidcollins1853]

Yes. I can't stay dowm on a full breath. I live n US go to YMCA. Not sure if they allow weights

[@gertleroy]

you can learn no fins without weights. it's all about technique. in fact it's a good way to learn it. forget about the weights.

[@davidcollins1853]

@@gertleroy It was a little easier today. Getting better with practice. Thanks

[@gertleroy]

@@davidcollins1853 🙏

[@riskawulandari1066]

I gotta try this one. I feel like i go nowhere without fin..

[@gertleroy]

technique is everything!

[@35nacl]

I was of those, I like my fins and I’ll never dive without them... until I crossed over to Molchanovs, and now, I train no fins all the time 🤣 I’m going to make May do 24 laps every session until she cuts down to 2 strokes! Or until she hates me 😬

[@gertleroy]

hahaha awesome! which of the 2 will happen first? 2 strokes or May hating you? ;-)

[@35nacl]

Gert Leroy - Master Freediving I think she’ll hate me first, and then get the 2 strokes 😬

[@gertleroy]

@@35nacl for sure! ;-)

[@zeeefie]

I struggle with my kicks for no fins, how do I practice to get more powerful legs kicking power?

[@gertleroy]

Hi Evon, thanks for reaching out! You can swim laps with only legs (arms extended in front of you) either on breathhold or surface swimming (using a kickboard). You can also just hold on to the wall of the pool and kick (stationary) or you can kick in upright position keeping your shoulders out of the water. If you need more power in your legs, go to the gym and do squats! Lots of things you can do! Let me know if it helps! ✌️

[@GehirnfaschingDD]

@@gertleroy ... and you can use a rubber band to prevent your knees going to far out of your body-line... this is a common "think" for no swimmers and the rubber band can help a lot to learn a better technique in no fins.

[@gertleroy]

@@GehirnfaschingDD thanks Roger for the input! Allthough this is very much debatable and there is a world record holder who doesn't exactly keep his knees together.. Different styles, different preferences. But certainly worth experimenting with this! Thanks ✌️

[@GehirnfaschingDD]

Gert Leroy - Master Freediving you’re absolutely right on that... I noticed it on myself: not very good in kicking but strong legs! ;) I feel like my legs pushing me backwards sometimes and that is usually the case when the knees get too far out... but well... I would totally try out different things to get better in in no fins! :)

[@gertleroy]

@@GehirnfaschingDD I think if one feels comfortable enough keeping the knees together it's probably the way to go to reduce the backward motion! If on the other hand it keeps you from kicking hard enough, then it might not be the best option. Depends a lot on knee and ankle flexibity. ✌️

[@xpearrow5697]

But i think you look good with no Fins sir 💕

[@gertleroy]

thanks, allthough I wasnt diving myself in this video. 🙏

[@xpearrow5697]

@@gertleroy 💞

[@deniz635]

voov this is ok good

[@gertleroy]

🙏

[@WanderMore]

- which swimming pool you training? - what's about the breathing techniques when doing DNF? thank you in advance

[@gertleroy]

The pool in the video is in kuala Lumpur. As a breathup there are no special techniques. Breathing techniques are used as an exercise, as pranayama, but not as a breatbup.. In general tidal breathing is used as breathup.

[@davidcollins1853]

I do no fins.

[@gertleroy]

it's cheaper 😁

[@10sqbreak10]

Should I strike with my feet and hands at the same time

[@gertleroy]

no. when you do the leg kick, that's the moment your hands go from your hips to the front of your face and above your head.

[@RAMA-gu8cs]

Man nose clip are damn expensive bruv

[@gertleroy]

at beginner's leel you don't need a noseclip. Better is to practise with mask. here some noseclips on amazon: kit.co/gertleroy/freediving-nose-clips

[@RAMA-gu8cs]

@@gertleroy thanks gert and a question do frenzel eq like dont have any movement in the stomach or what because i think i get it but there just a slight movement in my stomach but still it almost unnoticeable

[@gertleroy]

@@RAMA-gu8cs no movement of the stomach!

[@x0z59]

Too much ceremony! The duration you do in the pool is way longer than in the deep see. The pool has no current.

[@gertleroy]

pool training is a preparation for deep. obviously it's not the same. it's a preparation.

[@1f2e3l4i5p5e6]

Yes

[@gertleroy]

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