Freestyle Swimming Technique - 3 Styles of Freestyle
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2024
- At The Race Club we don’t believe that one style of freestyle swimming technique is enough for a swimmer to be successful at every distance. We want our swimmers to walk away from our camps and private sessions with at least two or three different freestyle swimming techniques that the swimmer can utilize depending on his events. Coaches Gary Hall Sr and Devin Murphy take our campers through the Three Styles of Freestyle - Shoulder Driven, Hip Driven and Hybrid Freestyle. In this video we showcase each freestyle swimming technique as our coaches discuss characteristics that are unique to each style in order to help the swimmers perfect each swimming techique and finally sets that will reinforce each style. Subscribe to our video subscription as we will explore in depth each of these 3 freestyle swimming techniques and give you drills, dryland exercises and more to master each swim technique!
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This is excellent info makes a lot of sense. In the past, I was a little confused, as some swimmers say you need to rotate your body from hip to shoulder and glide smoothly, while the others say you need to drive from your shoulder and keep your hip calmer. Now it is clear. Both are right. You just need to pick up the right tool when needed.
Glad it was helpful!
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@Erik Toby glad I could help :)
This man has a PhD in swimming
Thank you. Maybe someday, they will offer a PhD in Swimming Technique.
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Raceclub is the bomb. Its helped me so much tune my swimming style.
Thank you! Hope you subscribe to Lane 2 or Lane 3 for lots more videos!
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Glad you think so!
Thank you! You helped find back/being comfortable with what feels natural to me. I was swimming as a kid /teenager in a club for more than a decade, but never since then then until more recently. I watched all the tutorials on YT to make sure I get technique right, but they all teach hip driven - which felt odd, unnatural to me, and I was desperately slow but what felt natural to me in the pool was seemingly not the right technique so I forced myself to work on hip driven style. I never heard of the term "hybrid style" before watching your video today, but it all made sense and is what I have been taught as a kid to swim, actually. So went to the pool today, put it into practice, muscle memory kicked in, I let be what is and I swam as well and fast as not in twenty years. Thank you!
You are welcome, Robert! Sounds like you are made for hybrid technique. Hope you will catch our hundreds of amazing videos in Lane 2 or Lane 3 membership: theraceclub.com/membership/
Great video. Clears up a lot.
Glad we could help!
This is the first time I come across a solid definition of what hybrid/horse/loping/galop freestyle is. I was searching for this information for a while. Thank you!
I have seen Katie Ledecky using it with a two beat kick on the 800m free and almost all males competing on 200m free are using it now (because Phelps used it?). Anyway it’s seems great for those kind of middle distances and the rythm and breathing look more simple.
Not sure who the first to use hybrid freestyle was, but I can trace it back to at least as far as Matt Biondi in the late 80's. Phelps took it to another level and nearly all elite swimmers have adopted it for the 200 m free. Some for the 100 and some for the 400 and up.
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Thank you! Will do!
Great video! I thought that Greg Paltrinieri had a strange swimming style but I have just realized that it's the hybrid style
You see it quite a bit these days - especially on the mens side!
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Glad you think so!
Beginning for me I like the hip driven style! Thank you!!
You're so welcome!
Fantastic video.
Thank you very much!
I’ll start using the hybrid technique for the first 50y of the 100y free and switch to shoulder driven and see how it goes. Great video!
Good idea! No reason why a swimmer shouldn't change techniques during the race...if it makes sense.
Ba bum ba bum ba bum ❤ I just finally adopted this style after 4 years of swimming in my 30s! It worked so well for me in long distance swim
So glad to hear! It should be much more energy efficient!
I have decreased my pace over 10 seconds in open water. The hybrid style in long distance it's successful. Thx for the demo
Glad it is working for you. Each swimmer must find the best technique for distance or OW swimming. All three can work.
Can you make a video where you show off good drills for returning to the pool please? Also, these videos and many other things have helped me a lot when I’ve been out of the pool and I know that when I get back since I’ll have way better technique and know a lot more useful things I will be way faster. Thank you for videos like this.
You are welcome!
waiting for the in depth tutorial, great video
More to come!
This is a great video, I’ve been teaching this for 15 years and you’re the only other place I’ve seen talk about the three freestyle forms.
The only point I disagree on is that I don’t believe shoulder driven is the actual fastest potential freestyle. I think we will see significant increases in speed from hybrid freestylers now that hip drive freestyle is normalised at a young age.
Thanks for watching! It will be interesting to see if anything significantly shifts. We think moving towards a hip driven rotation (at least in sprint) limits the effectiveness of coupling your pull with the recovery arm. But in 100's and up, those who do hybrid well (as you pointed out - Popovici, Phelps) have definitely proven that hybrid technique is more than just a viable option.
@@theraceclub I would have totally agree’d pre popo but I think we’ll have to wait and see. Certainly we’re lining up for some very interesting years in freestyle swimming either way. Exiting stuff!
Hi Coach, could you explain more drills about hybrid freestyle,
Thank you..
The arm on the breath side of the stroke recovers faster than on the non-breath side. That hand then pushes forward first, then downward, like in hip-driven free. The non-breathing hand presses downward immediately after entry to help facilitate the breath, more like a shoulder-driven free technique.
You will find two great drills for hybrid free on our Lane 3 subscription at www.theraceclub.com.
@@theraceclub thank you..
nice vids but can you tell some characteristics i need it its for a assingment i have to do it
pls make a video about it
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Feel free to correct me but I think it’s about when to start pulling
In hip driven you start to pull when your recovery arm passes the shoulder blades and approaches head or some coaches calls it as front quadrant
In shoulder driven you start to pull when your opposite hand is done with pulling or when the opposite hand exists the water
Hybrid is when you pull with shoulder driven on the non breathing side and hip driven on the breathing one.
Yes, that is another way of looking at it.
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Please can you clarify the reasoning for the different kick timing on distance freestyle. One style kicks to connect on the catch, the other kicks to connect before/after catch.
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I feel that in open water swimming the shoulder driven thecnique is useful when you get choppy water
You may be right on that!
It would be elegant if we could explain the hybrid in terms of doing hip-driven with one arm and shoulder-driven with the other. But this might confuse some swimmers, because (1) the best examples of the hybrid style (like Phelps's freestyle) involve the breathing arm catching up to the non-breathing arm, whereas (2) the allegedly "shoulder-driven" (non-breathing) arm cannot go immediately into the pull phase (as shoulder-driven style normally requires) while also waiting for the breathing arm to catch up. How to reconcile (1) and (2)? Perhaps what makes the non-breathing arm "shoulder-driven" (despite its delayed pull) is that it lacks the hip-driven extension out front that takes place with the breathing arm. Contrast Sun Yang's hip-driven stroke, where the hips *do* drive the non-breathing arms's extension out front (while it waits for the breathing arm to catch up) with Phelps's more hybrid stroke, where the non-breathing arm stays more locked into the shoulder socket (without a full, hip-driven extension out front) while it waits for the breathing arm to catch up.
The biggest difference between a shoulder driven freestyle technique and a hybrid technique (besides the asymmetry) is the stroke rate. With a hybrid free, the non-breathing hand begins to press down immediately (like a shoulder driven technique), but the breathing hand recovers so fast that the non-breathing hand is in front of the shoulder when the breathing hand hits the water. The cycle time of hybrid free is the same on both arms, because the non breathing hand presses more out the back (and the hip turns) and recovers more slowly, while the breathing arm pushes out the front (like a hip driven freestyler). Hope this clarifies!
Is there a risk teaching different styles to younger swimmers and confusing them while focusing on a single style that suits them best be better investment of time and energy?
Good question. Most young swimmers are doing 50's and 100's and should be taught shoulder driven freestyle technique for that. Once they start doing 200's or longer, they can be introduced to hybrid and faster hip-driven techniques. I have several 10 year old swimmers using hybrid freestyle for their 200 freestyle events.
Well, I do understand the mechanical differences between the 'hip driven' and the 'shoulder driven' variations of the freestyle that you are showing here, but remember from viewing this the first time you put it up some time ago, I don't really understand the terminology. Maybe I am being peculiar. I guess, to me, it comes down to the argument about 'do the hips drive the body rotation, or do the shoulders drive the body rotation. I am in the shoulders camp on that one. For sure, in the sprints and shorter distances, you need to be in a lower gear/high stroke count for speed, and in the longer distances you are in a higher gear/lower stroke rate. As near as I can tell, it also seems that when sprinting, you use less body rotation than you do in distance swimming, as well as the shorter arm pulls. This doesn't seem to change the basic mechanics of the stroke as the body rotation still seems to come from anchoring off of the pulling arm. Not sure if I am making this clear or not.
My overarm side stroke uses that hybrid style of stroke, and it seems natural to do it that way. I heard it called the 'loping' style a while back.
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No surprise here. Swimming is a tough sport to keep doing.
With the hybrid freestyle it seems that the arm pulls straight then bends at an angle. Is that true?
Not sure exactly what you mean. Could you clarify?
If your right arm is stronger than the left arm , is right arm going to be hip or shoulder driven ?
Good question. In our experience using VM technology, for example, with american record holder, Zane Grothe, who uses a hybrid freestyle technique, the peak velocities from his left and right pulling hands are almost equal. The pulling hand on the breath side uses hip driven technique, while the opposite hand uses a shoulder driven technique. We recommend trying to breath on one side, then try breathing to the other. You will likely feel better using this technique on one side compared to the other. The recovering arm on your breath side should be faster getting to the water than the non-breath side.
@@theraceclub I breath to my left and my right arm is stronger than left , so if I were to try the hybrid freestyle , my left arm should use hip driven that extends the glide and catch , while my right arm use shoulder driven by increasing tempo , on the last bit of your comment you said , the recover arm on the breathing side should be faster , that means the hip driven arm recovery arm should be faster , but isn’t the shoulder driven recovery also just as fast ?
When doing hybrid, I breathe solely on my left side. And the only time I feel shoulder pain or tightness is in my left shoulder. What am I doing wrong?
Pain during the pull of the left arm or recovery? If the pull, it is likely because you are pulling underneath your body. Keep the hand just inside the elbow during the pulling motion.
@@theraceclub ok I'll try that, thank you. I also notice that bi lateral breathing significantly reduces pain in my left shoulder, so I am definitely doing something different with my left arm when breathing.
@@avocatious6402 You might try breathing to the opposite side only. I am not a big fan of bilateral breathing.
Fantastic video , coach so Well explained ....even though I’m a hip-driven technique Master working on a faster longer stroke , I can’t help but be amazed with hybrid technique .. these swimmers look like dolphins ...
@@theraceclub okay I really focuses on my stroke in practice this past week to determine the source of pain. I think the pain arises from the recovery. Alsl when I put my hand in the water it tends to inwardly rotate. I've been fixing that and its feeling a lot better, I am also getting a lot more power out of stroke
Are there specific drills to teach each style & which style is best for each race distance?
Definitely! Every drill has a correlation to a style of freestyle, we will go into more detail in our video subscritpion with videos, articles and dryland exercises for each style.... sign up for our free 7 day trial and give it a gander! Thanks for watching!
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I am 6 months out of the pool :( They say that it may open next week...
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What technique is optimal for Ironman swim?
hip driven
Depends on the swimmer. Some do better with shoulder-driven while others do better with hip-driven. Few use a hybrid technique.
these are really what we the pacific Asian fishpeople do naturally , except that we have various kicking fashions
Not sure who you mean by that!
I tried the third method and all my problems in freestyle ended
Awesome!
Hybrid is like a galloping horse, in the sense that is assimetrical and efficient 🙂
It seems to work well, especially for middle distance events and with a good kick!
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Hope that will all change soon!
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There are four techniques
Windmill, boat, horse, arrow
Please explain?
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@@theraceclub I saw this on another swimming site, called "Skills N' Talents"
I always wondered why these other people are swimming so funny. I guess that I was only taught hip driven freestyle firstly. But, whoever wins in guess. I swan a 25 meter at 10 seconds using hip driven freestyle. Pity i was unfit and couldn't swim back the other 25 meter. One day, I going try it again just to see if it can do it sub 20 seconds
Good luck! Shoulder driven technique should help with that. You'll probably need to go a 9.low or faster to the feet the break 20!
@@theraceclub maybe or not.
I think I will pass. I first would like to find a good diving instructor because I am still starting inside the pool, kicking of the wall.
It's easy teaching other people but I can never get it right on my own.
I think that the next level coaches also are those that can record underwater and over water to pick up points from there swimmer.
Where’s body driven?
What MIke Bottom refers to as Body Driven is what we consider to be high octane shoulde-driven freestyle. For the full Octane series, check out our videos on Lane 3 at www.theraceclub.com.
@@theraceclub so the high octane forces the entire body to rotate
Thanks for the reply
I just realized how wierd my free technique is
Perhaps...there are many ways to swim fast!
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