Your swimming technique SUCKS (and how to fix it)

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:26 How to film yourself swimming
01:05 Example of good swimming technique
02:20 How to do a swimming video analysis
05:09 Common swimming mistakes
05:38 Drills to improve catch
06:18 Drills to improve body position
06:40 Drills to improve arm recovery

[@MychalBackhaus]

Jonne bro, your channel is so amazing, that it makes me want to do all of your challenges and to be great like you, eventually, I’ll try to climb Mount Everest.

[@BlossomyPen6275]

So it on a stair master or something it’s much safer and better for Mount Everest.

[@JTD33]

I had a pretty similar head position to yours and found that by looking more down instead of forward I was able to raise my lower body closer to the surface. It also helps breathing since it enables you to breath without lifting your face out of the water so much. Would have been cool if you did some kind of a time trial (400/800/1000m?) before and after working on your form.

[@tommim4353]

i've had same with just focusing on the gaze, did help

[@mikhaillastname8719]

i second that all starts with your head position. it helps you raise your lower body and makes it easier to reach optimal position when breathing.

[@Rory626]

The breathing part is bang on. Your mouth is closer to your chin than your forehead. Head straight, eyes looking straight down, and rotate your head to the side to breath. Dig your temple into the water. Mouth comes straight out for the breath

[@daiko6019]

Glad you still do videos man your edits and ideas are phenomenal

[@33Jenesis]

When I do everything right, I feel light and smooth free styling. Currently this doesn’t happen often nor consistently. When something or several things don’t feel right, my form, speed, breath, or alignment suffers. As a newbie I am very self aware and critical in order to tweak or correct what bothers me. These drills will be helpful to be added to practice drills.

[@steeleronfire7030]

Same with me. I am an intermediate swimmer - I started about 1 year ago and I have made insane progress, huge leaps forward in progress at first and then over time I have plateau'd with my improvements because I have already taken all the low hanging fruit if you will. I know how to do 'everything right' now in theory and whenever I do hit that 'perfect stroke' I can feel a tremendous difference in how easily and smoothly I glide through the water with what feels like 0 effort. The focus now is to master how to hit that perfect stroke consistently.

[@cgin18]

Really enjoy all your content, thought and production quality. Keep it up!

[@jeremy-bernard]

Awesome videos, once more! Really entertaining and instructive 👏🏻

[@user-rz8uv1py2z]

Well done Jonne! You really nailed the points on the most common issues that I see in beginner to intermediate swimmers. I look forward to seeing your progress toward the Ice Mile!

[@joshmcnulty5950]

Excellent video. Incredible content, easy watch and always of value. Thank you

[@fabrizziofernandez6540]

Amazing vid as always !! And amazing edit !!

[@babetdoornbos]

Your timing is perfect. I'm just learning how to have a better swimming technique. THANK YOU

[@TheMitch112190]

Need videos more often! I really enjoy your editing. It's unlike anyone else's!

[@centralparkjoe1290]

Outstanding! I learned more from this video then any lesson or tutorial!🤙💪

[@philippebelanger228]

Amazing video! Thanks for clearly showing the theory

[@guadaluperuvalcaba5582]

Very nice video, very visual, very informative. Thank you

[@aceleryful]

Superb video, thanks! Extremely short and to the point. I'm getting myself a "swim smooth" right now!

[@stevengtv]

I’m loving the swimming videos!!

[@oliverburns1867]

Love your channel bro

[@hamadalkhalifa2323]

Amazing video. Thanks.

[@atejaney8322]

You're the only one who showed and refer a book on swimming. Good!

[@sebon11]

Great video!

[@batlin]

Great analysis and tips. I was also "falling" on my left arm glide phase when breathing on the right, and a swim coach suggested I might be starting to rotate my head too early. I delayed it a little bit, only turning when my right hand was about to exit the water, and it helped a little although I'm still quite inefficient.

[@jacobpetroelje85]

very good video! I have a suggestion for the example of good swimming technique portion. Maybe add footnote that extends on what you are explaining. For example I don’t know what a 6-beat kick is so it would be helpful to have an explanation written out so I can pause the video and find out

[@megancooper6130]

That paddle drill is awesome! Thank you for this video

[@renesampers5225]

yesterday I thought of extending my endurance workouts and start swimming to improve my endurance and ultimately running, but thought how and where I could find instructions on good swimming techniques. Well, Jonne never disappoints 🤝🔥

[@Incognito-or2ot]

Cool video!

[@angelosarrocchi]

Great intro to the video

[@seamuscavanaugh5933]

keeping your elbows higher on the recovery will also help you. A drill we used to do at my club was to drag the fingertips along the surface of the water on recovery, and focus on keeping the upper arm in line with the shoulders. This may help you to rotate more. look at videos of Open Water swimmer Florian Wellbrock

[@itsdivertido9020]

Man, I miss Joone, on the days he doesn't upload. seriously! I can watch the unlazy way every day, awesome video as always. keep up the good work man

[@ashleyoatmilk]

Just getting into swimming, and this was the best technique video I've seen yet!

[@atletaflores]

Such a funny and demostrative video. Unbelievable analysis.

[@dank2112]

A non swimmer teaching swimming, kinda I have to admit that your technique is better than I'd expected (also I'm a competitive swimmer) and if you're looking for a challenge once you get good freestyle form, learn the butterfly

[@gasly1018]

The butterfly is my nemesis. How often I've hit my thumb against the lines during training, ughhh hurts even thinking about it

[@dank2112]

@@gasly1018 I have the same thing except I have long hands, arm span being 6'7" and hit the lane lines at practices and meets... Even during the 200 fly 🥲

[@1dameister1]

Is it correct then what he's saying? Or it's very theoretical and doesn't really work like that in practice.

[@jblizzard962]

Can you compete in the Swedish ice swimming competition. That an idea for an video.

[@egidijuscekanauskas3795]

Questions, how did you become so good with camera, editing, and all that stuff, is it just practice or is there an actual course or something like that on how to?

[@calculatedrisktaker]

What name of book?

[@romina141086]

I don´t even know how to swim and I´m watching this video... Only because it´s Jonne! 😄

[@jaxon2904]

top teir editing

[@pabloMM01]

I never understand if the stroke rate / time per 100Ms should be measured in a sprint, or in slower 400 meters / 1500 meters distances. Anyone knows?

[@ryanduggan6738]

You will have different measurements for each event. For example, I train 1:10 pace on a 1:20 interval, which is close to my 1500 pace.

[@P_Izenberg]

this was helpful

[@MegaBabygal1]

I can't swim and this video is exploding my mind. How shall i ever learn this 😭😭😭😭. In other news....how can i buy unlazy merch please?

[@Deprived.drifter]

I have a lot to learn

[@TheAdamant94]

That graph at 4:02 is literally just the Pepsi logo

[@tocororo2]

Is a powerful 2-beat kick OK? I feel it’s so much more natural than 6 kick.

[@ryanduggan6738]

It’s ok for longer distance swimming, you can see olympians using it in the longer events. However the 2 beat kick is very hard to do if you don’t have good technique. If it feels better for what you’re doing, it probably is.

[@hamzakeifo]

Whaat! A Swedish swimming pool

[@danielhirschmann6447]

@03:56 not sponsored #pepsi

[@TamaEnergy]

i would dream of 140 pace howwww

[@OttiIie]

FIRST 🎉 xoxo your biggest fan

[@TheUnlazyWay]

hallo👋

[@andriipurskyi23]

Have one leg shorter so have a roll and need to focus to swim with technique

[@olimpiart]

Is this where the pepsi logo comes from? 3:47

[@johnnytrn]

4:00 the pepsi graph

[@kosmaty71]

1:30 Where is good swimming technique ?

[@TheGhost385]

Are we all gonna ignore the fact that 1:40 is an outstanding easy pace for his technique? Just imagine how much better can he get

[@ked4]

I never really passed swimming lessons as a kid, and as a result, never swim.

[@robohippy]

I have never understood the concept of 'the kick should come from the hips and not the knee'. Best guess, since this is repeated by pretty much every coach out there, is that they don't want you to be doing the scissor kick that is used in the life guard side stroke, which does provide lots of thrust, but also lots of drag. As near as I can tell, the front side/down kick in freestyle anchors on the pulling arm, which actually rotates before the hips, and then the front side kick happens. The action is a 'crack the whip' type action. In freestyle and back stroke, it is a spiraling action, in the fly, it is a body wave action. Have to check out more of your videos. My favorite swim stroke is the old over arm side stroke, in part because no one else swims it. Only record in existence is 1:02.5 for 100 yards, set in 1895, some 127 years ago. Much faster than breast stroke and back stroke, and maybe able to keep up with the fly...

[@swimfan752]

If you’re kicking from the knee You’re creating drag. People teach to kick from the hip to keep the leg straight and keep a somewhat streamline position. It also incorporates more of the leg. Your hip flexors should be working in flutter kick

[@robohippy]

@@swimfan752 Well, without a little knee, you will lose most of the 'crack the whip' action that leads to a more powerful kick. It is identical to a football/soccer kick, but not a huge length of the field kick. Foot plant, hip rotation with knee flex, leg follows through. Yes, if the knee comes too far down into the slip stream, you create more drag, which cuts into your propulsion. This is part of why we don't use a totally straight leg for the front side/down kick. There is a subtle difference between the backstroke flutter kick, and the freestyle flutter kick, and I would guess that this is part of why the dolphin kick if you are on your back is a tiny bit faster than if you are on your front. You have to flex at the hip slightly in freestyle to get the lower leg at an angle so you can get some thrust out of your kick. In an extreme example, if you think of the scissor kick used in life guard side stroke, way too much drag created, but lots of thrust. So, for the back stroke, if you try to use the identical flutter kick that you use in freestyle, your knees come up out of the water. You end up flexing more at the knee with backstroke than you do with freestyle. Side note, the lower leg is far more streamlined than your knee and thigh. Another 'funny' thing about differences between freestyle and back stroke flutter kick, and swimming on my side I see everything, many will do the flutter kick with about a 30 degree ankle flex, with 0 degrees being a gymnastic type toe point. These same people have a much better toe point when swimming back stroke. No clue as to why, other than maybe it is "90% mental, and 10% in their heads". The crack the whip is also used in the dolphin kick, but it is linear/body wave action, and flutter kick is rotational spiral action, not linear.

[@SteveDahlskog]

Don’t be that self critical. I think you look pretty strong in the water. You a truly dedicated to this! Amazing! Relax your neck and find a neutral head position. Try to not look that far ahead. Relax your shoulders to remove that last crossing over (trying to stay on the “train tracks” with your shoulders). Perhaps a more relaxed hand during recovery might help as well. You could begin the pull phase with a more bent elbow to be even stronger in the pull.

[@Queenfisher444]

That book you’re referencing is incredibly dated fam. This is not an efficient way to swim freestyle. A few things - 1. Start by learning breath every stroke catch-up freestyle. 2. Once you can do this comfortably learn to move your head earlier. Your eyes should always be directly to the bottom when your elbow goes over your head (breathing or not). The other tips the Swedish coach gave will have little or no effect until you fix your breathing Rythm and achieve a better line through your head.

[@Queenfisher444]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/anrRfXSpo9J-nrs Here is what you should be aiming for. This form is 1+1 freestyle, if you can’t swim this technique you will be guaranteed to make mistakes in the more advanced rythms (offset {Phelps, popovici} or aggressive fast breath {titmus, dressel}.

[@user-rz8uv1py2z]

Well done Jonne! You really nailed the points on the most common issues that I see in beginner to intermediate swimmers. I look forward to seeing your progress toward the Ice Mile!