Wondering if there is a trick to stop water going up my nose? I was never taught to swim, and can get by, but when I try the breathing and “ leaving one eye in the water” water tends to go up my nose. I see the person in the videos doesn’t use nose things ( not sure what they are called). I’m currently nursing a nasty ear infection from water going in my nose. I will keep trying!
I am 70. Hard to believe and I have recently started swimming again. Never really cared for it the past, but the gym was getting a little boring and I wanted to try something different. What I have discovered is there is a lot more to swimming than I thought --- much more than showing up at the gym and going through a my roiutine. Swimming is more mental and the questionis is applying what I just heard when I get to the pool which is where I am going next. I'm starting to see the importance of seeing myself perrorming each movemnet down to perfection.
Hah - I'm 30 but never managed to swim due to phobia - however I've started taking swimming lessons now just becuase of this/I wouldn't want to regret it when I'm a bit older. So far so good! Love it. Second lessons and I can already flutter kick almost properly and I feel comfortable in water
It would be nice to have a video about the real basics, like how to relax in water so to breath easy and avoid CO2 build up, how to use strength while performing flutter kicks so swimmer won’t go backwards or stagnant in water, how to get the accurate breathing window so swimmer is not pressing the water down with lead hand just to bring head up to water surface, instead of using shoulder rotation to help breath at ease. Don’t get me wrong, this is a fantastic video, but it’s more for people who can already swim a lap or two to fine tune their techniques instead of a real “how to” guide for non-swimmer, just my suggestion.
Thekidisalright agree, good video but no mention of breathing (how/when/techniques) or what to do with the legs. As a total beginner researching ‘how to swim’ I feel this does assume I have some prior experience & a basic foundation to build on.
THANK YOU from you’re videos I’ve taught myself to swim ️ & lost 8 stone ! I now do skill drills and freestyle for 4 miles 5 times a week ! Cheers guys
Seriously though, I was wondering if I just missed this part. Probably the hardest and most important thing to teach, no?! No mention of a swim snorkel either.
there's another video for that. swimming is definitely a technical sport. if you get loads of information all at once it can be daunting. but this breaks up in the arm part. you can look into legs and breathing and one that puts it all together. one tip that helped me with breathing is that when you roll for your stroke (as in this video) you press your temple down (instead of lifting your head) and it creates a breathing area. that pressing down on the opposite side was really helpful. there's a video about that
been swimming all my life. recently got shoulder issues, and going back to basics - thankfully recovered. this video - has been fantastic. well done, thank you !!!
I used to be a fast swimmer when I was younger but it's been a LONG time since I did it. Just started going to the aquatic center near me, and on my first day back, they had a team training with their coach there. Oh man, did I feel self-conscious lol. I was really out of form, and after a few laps, decided to use my swimming snorkel until I can go without it. But I was happy overall and felt great after around 45 minutes of laps. Going to start swimming 3-4x a week, instead of the boring old cardio I've been doing for years.
I have very little swimming training back from my when I was 15. Now at 37, this whole week I've been going swimming at my local gym at 5 am. There are always 2 older Asian ladies, in their 70's, swimming with such perfect form! I must look so silly when I come in with my pink beach trunks, no goggles, no hair cap, and splashing all over the place. When they are swimming, it's completely quiet !!! I Just got my head cap, and goggles; With this video, I'll be showing them bitches wuzzup soon lol.
I wish this video had been around in 2009. I was a ok swimmer with lots of raw strength. I had a good coach but I literally needed a visual and almost someone to direct my arms and this wasn’t the style of teaching that my teammates or coach had the temperament for. And RUclips existed but now it’s been around long enough to find anything you want. Oh well I still love swimming and improvement is a lifetime habit.
THANK YOU 🙏 from you’re videos I’ve taught myself to swim 🏊♂️ & lost 8 stone ! I now do skill drills and freestyle for 4 miles 5 times a week ! Cheers guys
@@Darkest_Soul_187well that's okay if they do less also,it doesn't really matter how much you do and thats also very nice I also now know how to do freestyle better!!!
Awesome. Can say this has greatly helped my front crawl. Nice that everything is in one video from the same people. Rather than scattered technique tips from different companies. Thanks.
I did my first sprint triathlon yesterday and it was a great experience. Thank you GTN for all the tips and videos! It was a big help getting me ready (especially on the swim).
Great video! I learned how to swim when I was young, but this helped me improving the technique. I'm working now on the rotation. Well explained, with slow motion and graphics, to see the technique better.
i have been training to swim for 1 year but had to move on due to financial issues i can mostly freestyle but titling my head to breath has been a challenge for me so i might try to go back into swimming
nice video. as a guy who usually swims like a retired old lady (a noob version of breastroke, head always out of water) I ve learned a lot. thanks to a phobia induced by a childhood pool accident I cant submerge my head fully underwater but I ll try and try.
I got into swimming in the last few years and it was really helpful for me, because I had developed a more intense fear of suffocation. It took me some time to get my head under the water when doing the freestyle, but on some level, it was just having a trust that I was okay and not thinking about it too much when doing it. Take your time and trust that it will happen. I feel very comfortable with it now and I'm glad I did.
Started swimming again after many years absence to help reduce fat tummy but also really helping early arthritic hip, I'm just getting confidence enough to do this Front Crawl but I can't get the breathing in without catching and taking water causing me of course to choke very annoying so how do I time that? 🤔
I have my fingers relaxed and slightly spread when entering the water. It actually does not reduce efficiency and it greatly relaxes me which improves all other parts of my stroke, especially breathing.
Thanks for your question! We actually have a video on freestyle kicking if you'd like to check it out - ruclips.net/video/yx_WSJJcZNw/видео.html Hope this helps! 😊
As a beginner I am yet to see a video which explains the snake shape or wiggle that the arm makes under the water before exiting. Am I missing something here..
Ima gonna go to the pool now. And would be nice to have a video breaking it diwn completly cuz ive never learned how to seim like that properly :'( but decided to trach myself!
Thank you. Now I remember it nice and clear. Freestyle is my specialty, but I kind of forgot a lot of it, because of COVID-19 shut down of many swimming pool.
Can I confirm that post the catch phase, your straight arm goes directly down prior to bending it and pushing back. I have also been doing an ‘S’ shape after the catch. Does this help?
Hi. I am a newbie swimmer. When I turn my head and breathe on my left, my feet do not sink. But when I turn on my right, my head rises excessively, and feet sink. Pl advise some corrective drills to prevent excessive head elevation and leg sinking. One seems to be connected to the other. Thanks in advance
I get the whole concept cleared in the movements and everything but what about the breathing part how do you breathe lol. Cause if I wanna learn how to swim, I first wanna know how will I save myself if I drown, I should be able to breathe
Ohh I understand what you mean! All you have to do is when you need to take a breath, just tilt your head out of the water while one arm is out and your still kicking.
Breathe out from your nose in the water and when you rotate your torso, your head should only come out of the water slightly to take a breath. Don't lift your head out, you can really strain your neck. I like to use the lane line or wall as a focal point.
I would add - keep your fingers together. Even here in slow-move moments underwater is visible, how the fingers are bent separately, how air is bubbling around each finger. It increases force needed to hold a palm, increasing a drag and turbulence behind each finger, which slows you down, increases the water surface to break entering your palm. decreases your "torque" because the water escapes between the fingers, and not all around the palm - it is like to have a holed paddle. All of it is minor effect, but you want to be efficient, right?
the 'slicing' of the water is actually a very bad tip. Most people tend to cut in way too short en way too slowly because of that general advice. Most top swimmers actually have a pretty heavy entry with quite some splash. The splash itself is not such a big issue, as long as the fingers go in first, elbow high and aligned with the shoulder. So don't bother trying to slice the water, just go in smoothly and don't mind the splash that much
@@JontyOfficialYT In what way? Ofcourse 'no' ' splash is always better, but as a general beginners tip i would recommend not to focus at that for the reasons mentioned above. You might tweek it in the later stages
There are multiple ways to swim freestyle. Windmill and horse splash a lot, boat some, arrow not much. The video above is boat. Without discussing what style you are swimming, splash advice is confusing.
Atleast he is actually trying to help people learn you didn't have to say a bad tip just say it's wrong not everybody is a so called expert of swimming like you.
Hello, during the freestyle at which point does your leading arm start to pull into the water? What my coach taught me was that your back hand ahould be brought forward amd touch the leading hand before the leading hand starts to pull. But i observe that other people don't really do that. So do you start to pull with your leading hand when your back hand exits the water or what? What's the cue for your front arm to start pulling?
learnt some good things thanks. only tip would be if u do another video like this then you would not cut away from the shot whilst what ur talking about. the hand movements
Can you talk about the legs. As much as I try to do the arm technique, I always find my legs sink and I just can't seem to stop it. This then increases the drag, makes me slower, tires me and then I run out of breath. I struggle to do more than a length freestyle where as I could swim for an hour breaststroke, and also run miles so I know it isn't my aerobic fitness making me short of breath
Ahhh, how to relax in the water?! Lucky for me, I’ve been swimming since age 2. My daddy had 5 kids to tend to so it was pretty much sink or swim. For me, it’s the most natural thing in the world. For many adults who never learned to swim, it’s a major struggle. The water really is your friend. It doesn’t want you to fight it or do other things that create resistance. Treading water and floating should be a breeze. If you’re having trouble doing either of those, you’ve probably got some fear. Another thing is knowing that you don’t have to hold your nose under water, EVER. All you do is exhale through your nose. In freestyle, srsly keep your head down and look at the line on the bottom. I see people trying to swim with their arms flailing and heads above water at all times. Just get in a shallow end, breathe, submerge, and exhale through the nose under water. And get real comfortable with that because then you’ll understand you’re not going to drown or gulp in a bunch of water.
Hi. Very informative but I am used to open water so struggle with breathing correctly during stroke. I often lift my head before turning it to the right. My current average is 2 minutes per 100m but want to go much faster. Stroke rate averaging 14 per 25m. Leg kick tends to slow me down. If I use ki kboard I can do 25m in 2 mins 15secs as I can hardly move jyst kicking. I still do not know how to sort this issue. I do however have a good catch and pull but seem not to be able to completely turn my shoulder over to get maximum stretch. Can you please advise how I can improve further? Thanks.
It's a great guide but not for absolute beginners the instructor physice is way too good for beginners to learn he is easily managing the big feet paddle and breathing with maximum head submerged. Will come back and watch this after a month of practice 👍
Heading for a swim to try this out? Let us know how it goes in the comments, we'd love to know! 🙌🏊♀
It's great and fast but I need to increase my stamina
@@AnaishaSharma000 3-4 swims a week 2 swims isn’t enough, especially if a sprint distance swim kicks your butt.
booooooooooooooo
Any info on the kick? Is there another video?
Wondering if there is a trick to stop water going up my nose?
I was never taught to swim, and can get by, but when I try the breathing and “ leaving one eye in the water” water tends to go up my nose. I see the person in the videos doesn’t use nose things ( not sure what they are called). I’m currently nursing a nasty ear infection from water going in my nose.
I will keep trying!
The dark blue colour of the water in that pool is just so beautiful! Learning the freestyle stroke is a never ending battle for me!
Keep it up, It'll kick in the end.
Me too! I feel like I'm sinking, and I have no idea when to breathe 😂😂😂
@@ruthbarr3159 IKR 😂😂
I am 70. Hard to believe and I have recently started swimming again. Never really cared for it the past, but the gym was getting a little boring and I wanted to try something different. What I have discovered is there is a lot more to swimming than I thought --- much more than showing up at the gym and going through a my roiutine. Swimming is more mental and the questionis is applying what I just heard when I get to the pool which is where I am going next. I'm starting to see the importance of seeing myself perrorming each movemnet down to perfection.
60 and just learned the basics 2 years again, I’m back this summer to learn how to use my arms and legs..at the same time 😂😂
Hah - I'm 30 but never managed to swim due to phobia - however I've started taking swimming lessons now just becuase of this/I wouldn't want to regret it when I'm a bit older. So far so good! Love it. Second lessons and I can already flutter kick almost properly and I feel comfortable in water
It would be nice to have a video about the real basics, like how to relax in water so to breath easy and avoid CO2 build up, how to use strength while performing flutter kicks so swimmer won’t go backwards or stagnant in water, how to get the accurate breathing window so swimmer is not pressing the water down with lead hand just to bring head up to water surface, instead of using shoulder rotation to help breath at ease. Don’t get me wrong, this is a fantastic video, but it’s more for people who can already swim a lap or two to fine tune their techniques instead of a real “how to” guide for non-swimmer, just my suggestion.
Thekidisalright agree, good video but no mention of breathing (how/when/techniques) or what to do with the legs. As a total beginner researching ‘how to swim’ I feel this does assume I have some prior experience & a basic foundation to build on.
Don't worry there is more to come and we will be breaking the stroke down further so keep an eye out for those!
Heather Fell Yay! Thank you Heather, looking forward to it! I am sure that would benefit many novice swimmers!
Try this to work on breathing, and sinky legs...
ruclips.net/video/JEoX9Clf52I/видео.html
I will really want to see how 2 push the water underneath
THANK YOU from you’re videos I’ve taught myself to swim ️ & lost 8 stone !
I now do skill drills and freestyle for 4 miles 5 times a week !
Cheers guys
I've been swimming for 25 years now. Beautifully explained every detail. Thanks.
Thanks, the side angles were super helpful!
I’m disappointed there was no discussion of breathing technique, because that’s what I’ve always struggled with
I take a deep breath when my face is outside the water at the third stroke so every three strokes
Same
Seriously though, I was wondering if I just missed this part. Probably the hardest and most important thing to teach, no?! No mention of a swim snorkel either.
There is a video for that too
there's another video for that. swimming is definitely a technical sport. if you get loads of information all at once it can be daunting. but this breaks up in the arm part. you can look into legs and breathing and one that puts it all together. one tip that helped me with breathing is that when you roll for your stroke (as in this video) you press your temple down (instead of lifting your head) and it creates a breathing area. that pressing down on the opposite side was really helpful. there's a video about that
been swimming all my life. recently got shoulder issues, and going back to basics - thankfully recovered. this video - has been fantastic. well done, thank you !!!
The tip on timing of breathing in the end of video was so useful, thanks!
Great breakdown. I seem to have a problem gulping some water as I breath while doing freestyle. Is there some tips on this?
Fantastic job by the film crew on this one. And great explanation of course!
I used to be a fast swimmer when I was younger but it's been a LONG time since I did it. Just started going to the aquatic center near me, and on my first day back, they had a team training with their coach there. Oh man, did I feel self-conscious lol. I was really out of form, and after a few laps, decided to use my swimming snorkel until I can go without it. But I was happy overall and felt great after around 45 minutes of laps. Going to start swimming 3-4x a week, instead of the boring old cardio I've been doing for years.
I just followed your "putting your arm around a barrel" advise for the first time today. Very helpful!
I have very little swimming training back from my when I was 15. Now at 37, this whole week I've been going swimming at my local gym at 5 am. There are always 2 older Asian ladies, in their 70's, swimming with such perfect form! I must look so silly when I come in with my pink beach trunks, no goggles, no hair cap, and splashing all over the place. When they are swimming, it's completely quiet !!! I Just got my head cap, and goggles; With this video, I'll be showing them bitches wuzzup soon lol.
You should superman float on the water and use the strong hand to paddle. That'll give them a real heart attack
@@edwardzamora4781 good idea mate. I started to swim today. It was hard, but need to work on my form. I wish I carried on.
Bar was used to hide the huge croc
😂😂😂 BEAT THEM UP YOU 37 YEAR OLD LADY 😂😂😂
why don’t you ask them to teach you, I bet they’d love that 🤍
Swimming is the best alternative for workout in the gym too☺️ I've been doing it so far and trying to practice this routine everyweek
Without a doubt the video that's helped me most as a beginner. Thank you tons!
Those are excellent video shots. The pacing, cuts and lighting really help with the narration. Thank you 🙏🏼
Tried the arms and breath timing today, both very helpful.
I joined swim team and I have no clue what I’m doing, but now I do. Thanks bro
I wish this video had been around in 2009. I was a ok swimmer with lots of raw strength. I had a good coach but I literally needed a visual and almost someone to direct my arms and this wasn’t the style of teaching that my teammates or coach had the temperament for. And RUclips existed but now it’s been around long enough to find anything you want. Oh well I still love swimming and improvement is a lifetime habit.
Thanks for sharing. Those techniques help me a lot. Finally I can swim free style now.
THANK YOU 🙏 from you’re videos I’ve taught myself to swim 🏊♂️ & lost 8 stone !
I now do skill drills and freestyle for 4 miles 5 times a week !
Cheers guys
Here - have some more cake … 🍰🍰🍰😀
Wow. Great for you! That's awesome. I'm relearning to swim after 13 years of smoking, I hyper ventilated after a couple laps, I have a long road ahead
Only 4 miles? Meh, after watching this video I now freestyle 16 miles 10 times a week.
@@Darkest_Soul_187well that's okay if they do less also,it doesn't really matter how much you do and thats also very nice I also now know how to do freestyle better!!!
@@Darkest_Soul_187Let bro be proud of his accomplishment
How would you structure a complete swim session, from beginning to end, so that it includes both drills and intervals?
Awesome. Can say this has greatly helped my front crawl. Nice that everything is in one video from the same people. Rather than scattered technique tips from different companies. Thanks.
I did my first sprint triathlon yesterday and it was a great experience. Thank you GTN for all the tips and videos! It was a big help getting me ready (especially on the swim).
Wow this is great to hear, well done!
Thank you, my daughter was much better at this now it was the breath part she did get better, and the arm part too. 👍
I just want to say...these videos shots are EXCELLENT! Somebody is really good at their job lol
Great video!
I learned how to swim when I was young, but this helped me improving the technique. I'm working now on the rotation.
Well explained, with slow motion and graphics, to see the technique better.
I am about these have a swim test for rowing tomorrow for rowing it i haven't swam in 3 years. Thanks this video helped A LOT🆘🆘🆘🙏
So relaxing to watch
So nicely done, as always Mark...
Very informative now I see where I've been going wrong for 46 years lmao
i have been training to swim for 1 year but had to move on due to financial issues
i can mostly freestyle but titling my head to breath has been a challenge for me
so i might try to go back into swimming
nice video. as a guy who usually swims like a retired old lady (a noob version of breastroke, head always out of water) I ve learned a lot. thanks to a phobia induced by a childhood pool accident I cant submerge my head fully underwater but I ll try and try.
I got into swimming in the last few years and it was really helpful for me, because I had developed a more intense fear of suffocation. It took me some time to get my head under the water when doing the freestyle, but on some level, it was just having a trust that I was okay and not thinking about it too much when doing it.
Take your time and trust that it will happen. I feel very comfortable with it now and I'm glad I did.
Thanks for the awesome sharing. I normally only run but will apply this too. Thanks.
Started swimming again after many years absence to help reduce fat tummy but also really helping early arthritic hip, I'm just getting confidence enough to do this Front Crawl but I can't get the breathing in without catching and taking water causing me of course to choke very annoying so how do I time that? 🤔
Very useful and re-asuring since i didn't know if i was swimming alright
Absolutely no mention of the kicking. Gotta love it.
I have my fingers relaxed and slightly spread when entering the water. It actually does not reduce efficiency and it greatly relaxes me which improves all other parts of my stroke, especially breathing.
Thanks for the help!
This was a cool video. Camera man was an ace.
Amazing channel and deserves to following
I know swimming but I feel I am very clumsy swimmer. I never learnt it from a pro. This video helped a lot.
This help me alot thank u
Nice tutorial especially on rotation and keeping my head more forward and down.
Very helpful I won my race because of you ❤❤❤
I am finally getting that feel of swimming with ease because my technique is getting better, but I still need to get better endurance
One word. BREATHE!
What about kicking? I noticed your feet say several inches below the surface of the water
Thanks for your question! We actually have a video on freestyle kicking if you'd like to check it out - ruclips.net/video/yx_WSJJcZNw/видео.html Hope this helps! 😊
Watching this to become a life guard at my local gym:)
As a beginner I am yet to see a video which explains the snake shape or wiggle that the arm makes under the water before exiting. Am I missing something here..
Nice
I’m a swimming teacher and love your videos 🎉
Thumbs up. Back to the pool to learn to swim all over again. Great tips.
Ima gonna go to the pool now. And would be nice to have a video breaking it diwn completly cuz ive never learned how to seim like that properly :'( but decided to trach myself!
You have really good tips here Mark. Stuff I haven't heard before. Thank you!!!
Well done, beautiful explanation and editing. I will try the rotation bit at the end, never thought about it up until this moment!
Thank you. Now I remember it nice and clear. Freestyle is my specialty, but I kind of forgot a lot of it, because of COVID-19 shut down of many swimming pool.
how can you forget something as basic as swimming in two years?
@@miloraddjurdjic1695 Simple answer, forgetfulness.
@@Marielm5 I bet it is more
Question: What about leg movements and how frequently we should pull out to breathe?
Can I confirm that post the catch phase, your straight arm goes directly down prior to bending it and pushing back. I have also been doing an ‘S’ shape after the catch. Does this help?
Hi. I am a newbie swimmer. When I turn my head and breathe on my left, my feet do not sink. But when I turn on my right, my head rises excessively, and feet sink. Pl advise some corrective drills to prevent excessive head elevation and leg sinking. One seems to be connected to the other. Thanks in advance
thank you- well explained.
SUPER USEFUL GTN! THANK YOU!
Where will I find information about the use of the legs and feet for front crawl please?
I get the whole concept cleared in the movements and everything but what about the breathing part how do you breathe lol. Cause if I wanna learn how to swim, I first wanna know how will I save myself if I drown, I should be able to breathe
Wdym you don’t know how to breathe
Ohh I understand what you mean! All you have to do is when you need to take a breath, just tilt your head out of the water while one arm is out and your still kicking.
Breathe out from your nose in the water and when you rotate your torso, your head should only come out of the water slightly to take a breath. Don't lift your head out, you can really strain your neck. I like to use the lane line or wall as a focal point.
@@firetagx2363 💀💀
I would add - keep your fingers together. Even here in slow-move moments underwater is visible, how the fingers are bent separately, how air is bubbling around each finger. It increases force needed to hold a palm, increasing a drag and turbulence behind each finger, which slows you down, increases the water surface to break entering your palm. decreases your "torque" because the water escapes between the fingers, and not all around the palm - it is like to have a holed paddle. All of it is minor effect, but you want to be efficient, right?
@jellymango8101 you have read the comment, right? and you know now.
And so will the others.
These videos look great and are super helpful! Should I press the thumb with other fingers, or let it loose?
Was this filmed on a GoPro?! Beautiful quality!
How to breath? How to move legs and knees?
the 'slicing' of the water is actually a very bad tip. Most people tend to cut in way too short en way too slowly because of that general advice. Most top swimmers actually have a pretty heavy entry with quite some splash. The splash itself is not such a big issue, as long as the fingers go in first, elbow high and aligned with the shoulder. So don't bother trying to slice the water, just go in smoothly and don't mind the splash that much
wastes energy though?
@@JontyOfficialYT In what way? Ofcourse 'no' ' splash is always better, but as a general beginners tip i would recommend not to focus at that for the reasons mentioned above. You might tweek it in the later stages
There are multiple ways to swim freestyle. Windmill and horse splash a lot, boat some, arrow not much. The video above is boat. Without discussing what style you are swimming, splash advice is confusing.
Atleast he is actually trying to help people learn you didn't have to say a bad tip just say it's wrong not everybody is a so called expert of swimming like you.
Good will try hope to see more
Hello, & thank you. I learned a lot. Do you recommend using a kick board to help with speed for the front crawl?
I would like to ask if we can use nose clip and ear plugs while learning. It helps a lot though
Hello, during the freestyle at which point does your leading arm start to pull into the water? What my coach taught me was that your back hand ahould be brought forward amd touch the leading hand before the leading hand starts to pull. But i observe that other people don't really do that. So do you start to pull with your leading hand when your back hand exits the water or what? What's the cue for your front arm to start pulling?
learnt some good things thanks. only tip would be if u do another video like this then you would not cut away from the shot whilst what ur talking about. the hand movements
This really helped my son a lot
That's what we like to hear 🙌
Your guys video helps me so much ❤❤.I improved a lot.
Can you talk about the legs. As much as I try to do the arm technique, I always find my legs sink and I just can't seem to stop it. This then increases the drag, makes me slower, tires me and then I run out of breath. I struggle to do more than a length freestyle where as I could swim for an hour breaststroke, and also run miles so I know it isn't my aerobic fitness making me short of breath
Adam McVeigh are you kicking your legs or just letting my them follow you?
@@PivotFirearms Trying to kick, but when I do it seems to zap my energy :(
Have you checked out our video focusing on sinky legs and how to prevent them?!
You can find the Sinking legs video here gtn.io/SinkingLegs
@@gtn Thank you!
Good Explanation 😉💅
Stay blessed sir ❤️❤️❤️
Thanks, this is helpful... although looks so easy in a flat pool, I'm trying to swim in the ocean...
Ahhh, how to relax in the water?! Lucky for me, I’ve been swimming since age 2. My daddy had 5 kids to tend to so it was pretty much sink or swim. For me, it’s the most natural thing in the world. For many adults who never learned to swim, it’s a major struggle.
The water really is your friend. It doesn’t want you to fight it or do other things that create resistance.
Treading water and floating should be a breeze. If you’re having trouble doing either of those, you’ve probably got some fear.
Another thing is knowing that you don’t have to hold your nose under water, EVER. All you do is exhale through your nose. In freestyle, srsly keep your head down and look at the line on the bottom. I see people trying to swim with their arms flailing and heads above water at all times. Just get in a shallow end, breathe, submerge, and exhale through the nose under water. And get real comfortable with that because then you’ll understand you’re not going to drown or gulp in a bunch of water.
Guys you’re the best!
I needed this I was going to begin swimming after I got vaccinated, this really helped.
Great!
Great vid just wished it included what to do with the legs. Thanks for the content!
Hello, when taking a breath through the mouth, should it be emptied from the nose or the mouth under water? Thank you
14 August 2023
thank you for this,,, i will add this in my youtube list,,, 🏊
Thank you! ✨🙏💖😁✨
Hi. Very informative but I am used to open water so struggle with breathing correctly during stroke. I often lift my head before turning it to the right. My current average is 2 minutes per 100m but want to go much faster. Stroke rate averaging 14 per 25m. Leg kick tends to slow me down. If I use ki kboard I can do 25m in 2 mins 15secs as I can hardly move jyst kicking. I still do not know how to sort this issue. I do however have a good catch and pull but seem not to be able to completely turn my shoulder over to get maximum stretch. Can you please advise how I can improve further? Thanks.
Best video thank you
This is fantastic!
It's a great guide but not for absolute beginners the instructor physice is way too good for beginners to learn he is easily managing the big feet paddle and breathing with maximum head submerged.
Will come back and watch this after a month of practice 👍
Excelent video 😉👍
Great and complete explanation
I do swimming lessons this actually helps because I usually struggle with freestyle
So much to remember 🥲
Really nice. BIG issue for me is breathing. To an amateur with no experience, this changes things a lot
I have swim class tomorrow and I was told that we have to front crawl for the deep end test and i only know how to swim underwater so this rlly helped
Glad we could help 🙌
Am having a swimming competition yay at April 28
How do you breathe ?
By moving your head to the left of the right
About every third stroke you should rotate your body and breath
Inhale air and then breathe it out
That's the neat part, you don't...
Watch the video lmao