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1:41 First point begins
I can do all bad body positions mentioned in this video 😂
Hahah you know it now, that’s already a step 💯 now try to get every part practiced step by step 😊
@enduranceIDthank you iam 43 and i started learning in two months ago. I have problem with head position and breathing. The progres is slow 😂 and I am impatient
Would it be good idea to have a board ,arms extended and snorkel. Learn to keep head down and forward. Learn kicking first?
Me To 😇
Me too. But look on the bright side... since things can't get any worse, we can only get better 😂😂
Thank you for explaining something that School swimming teachers do not teach!
glad it was helpful, keep swimming :) and come back for more tips and help 😊
Got the wrong teacher then
Very true. I have told very many swimmers about my problem with sinking. All of them have given me the same answer...ability to stay a float comes with experience. Thank you teacher 🙏🏽😊
Sinker here. Lean and muscular. I dont float and can sit on the bottom of the pool. Everything you said is good. I would just like to add that if you are a sinker you also need a certain amount of speed to stay on top of the water or your body will sink (legs first because your lungs have air).
you have to have air in your lugs and as a sinker, press a little down with your chest, that'll help to your legs up
Oka
@enduranceIDk
Just put some of the air in your legs
Even worse with long leg to upper body ratio
Plank You for this great video.
Cool, so chin down and engage the core - got it, gonna try
let's goooo
I think i do all these things! No wonder i sink. Thanks for the video. I've got something to work on now.
hahah well now you know what to fix, how, hope that helps, happy swimming :))
👏👏👏👏 !! 👍👍👍 thank you !
❤❤GREAT SKILLS AND INFORMATION ❤❤
Many thanks for explaining something, I wasn't taught by swim teachers
and I can relate to all of the issues listed :)
So happy it was helpful! Keep swimming! 🏊♀️ and reach to me any time for help :)
Great. I’m improving Dasha knows just how to explain thank you so much.
Happy to help, that's what I am here for! Awesome to hear you improve :)
you are a great instructor. Good job.
Thank you so much, happy to help and keep swimming 😊
I just finished my third adult swim lesson and I've been getting the hang of the front crawl. I just feel like I'm exerting so much energy for such little movement. I've got an excellent instructor and just needed to find a video to help supplement what I've learned.
This video is perfect! I feel like I'm moving my arms and legs way too fast compared to how you swim. Definitely going to work on the head position and the 6 kicks 1 arm drill next time I'm in the water!
awesome, keep up the good work, if you ever need any help or have question, reach out to me
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Thank you for giving us to the point video! Exactly, what I was looking for. 😍🙏
So happy it was helpful! Keep those legs up! 💪 and keep swimming :)
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This lady is a great coach.
thanks so much appreciate a lot
Excellent Vid! I've always struggled with this, thank you!
let's go, keep it up, and if need help reach out to me at contact@enduranceid.com
Thank you so much for your time🎉🎉
you are very welcome, happy to help :))
Ini bagus
Thank you for theses tips. Im just starting swimming after open heart surgery and have difficulty with breathing technique and was not sure about the kick. I always thought a flutter kick was the right kick. I will practise the breathing and "hiP kick today in the pool.
Yesss yesss do practice breathing first, I have a beginner swim course that takes you step by step through each phase: breathing, floating, kicking and then stroke, feel free to check it, will be really helpful: enduranceid.com/beginner-swim-course
At 66 now, I use short fins and try not to move my legs so much and that way I get a good upper body workout and then go to my back or use a kick board to workout my legs with power kicks (HIIT) training, I do take the fins off from time to time to just keep the feeling going
Thanks for the reminders I learned many years ago
thanks for watching, and sharing your way. Try using pull buoy while still kicking, it will help you keep your hips higher and have that great and flat streamline :))
I've been swimming for about a month and a half and I love my fins too! For someone who has to build up their endurance and breath control, they help me quite a bit to get from one end to the other of the pool without running out of breathe or worrying about drowning lol
Thank you so much your tips are really amazing 🥰🥰🥰
So happy they helped, keep up the great swim and if you need help reach to me at contact@enduranceid.com! 🏊♀️
Just started swimming today and wow I had so much fun. Thank you for these tips!
super, keep going and if you need any help check enduranceid.com or email me at contact@enduranceid.com
Forgot to add most important thing. Body balance. Reach out as far as you can with your left arm while kicking, bring up right arm for half a Second so both arms are out straight ahead then pull on left arm, alternating arms so one arm is always sticking out ahead for each arm stroke. This stops your legs from sinking as it momentarily extends your body length in a straight line. A bit like a see saw, arms in, body out of balance legs sink, alternate arms out seesaw is longer and balanced.
yes people think their arms are the arm of a wind mill, in opposite direction, but this is no the gesture at all. You neeed to completry change your internal vision. You are a superman, trying to have the arms straigth forward, soemtime you stroke, but you try to go back to that superman position. You should try to keep your arms ahead of you, as long as you can. You should alway have 1,5 arms ahed your head. One compeltly srtaight, and the second eitheir starting the stoke (back), or cathing up (forth).
So crucial and powerful guiding. 👍👍
appreciate and hope it truly, helps
Great video, very inspiring 😍👍👍
thanks a lot, keep it up! :))
Great video thank you !!!
Glad it helped! 😊 keep swimming 🏊♂️💯
cool, thanks always had this problem.
Glad to help
Thank you for the tips.
glad it helped :) keep swimming
Easier said than done dor some of us !!
everything takes work and patience in life, swimming is no exception
100% this. There’s a lot of either arrogance or ignorance from many coaches of “well I float so you can too, you’re just not trying hard enough or you’re making mistakes”. The reality is that factors such as bodyfat percentage can make a *huge* difference to hip and leg buoyancy. Muscular men (cyclists, gym goers etc) will have a far far harder time stopping their legs from sinking than for example average woman who (a) typically have higher body fat percentage than men altogether and (b) typically carry fat on hips and thighs (useful for floating) rather than (for men) the gut/stomach area.
I know now the other reasons than core strengthening to why I sink my legs!! Thank you❤
yesss, exactly, keep practicing
Careful you don't get cramps especially the calf part...
xellent tuition. thanks so much
thank you, I hope it helped you!
Great Video Thx for it 🙂
So happy it was helpful! Keep those legs up! 💪 happy swimming
Outstanding insight and content ❤
thank you so much, glad it helps, and keep swimming 🏊♂️💯😊
watching with my 6yo daughter. Getting some good tips before second half of winter swim. 🙂
that's awesome! hope it helps your daughter become an even better swimmer :)
Bardzo wartościowy materiał. Pozdrowienia od instruktora pływania z Polski...
That's awesome, appreciate it! Keep up the great work in Poland! 🇵🇱
The hardest thing to overcome for a 'bad' swimmer is the difficulty in getting in enough air to sustain motion (for even the shortest time) with the face underwater.
Secondly, coordination. The beautiful little foot-calf twiddle kick that confident swimmers do so easily is something incredibly difficult for the struggler.
Getting these two things ''right'' simultaneously is the major challenge to the poor swimmer. Confident swimmers just don't understand this, because swimming is something that always came naturally to them.
even confident swimmers started from 0
Nicely explained about swimming
thank you so much, glad it helped
very well explained young lady..
Thank you so much, glad you found it helpful and keep swimming and keep watching, more useful stuff is coming 🏊♂️🔥
Excellent instruction, thanks
thank you i hope they help :)
Excellent instruction.
thank you so much, keep practicing 😊
Very good teacher 👍
thank you, glad it helped
Simply genius ❤
thank you so much! i really hope it helps :)
i have been struggling with this for months, gonna try next week
awesome, let me know how it goes!
Helpful
Thanks
Glad it was helpful! Keep swimming! 🏊♀️
Thanks!
Happy to help, keep swimming 💪
Hallo very nice Super Danke schön
From Switzerland ❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉
thaaank you for watching, hope it helps you swim better and without sinking legs
Thanks
thank you for watching , hope it helped
Thanks for bringing all my bad habits to life in this video, I got my 25 yards cert, then stayed away from water , as it made me feel like i just ran a marathon, Now i have a better idea of why , rather than thinking , heavy bones or not enough fat to stay afloat 🤣🤣🤣( Im super serious BTW)
thank you
My pleasure! Glad it was helpful! 😊
Merci.
De rien! Hope it helps your legs stay high 🏊♂️
Outstanding video!
Thank you very much! I hope it helps your swim 🏊♀️ and keep going 😊
For those who want to learn swimming and perfectly too, this video / channel is a tube of pure Gold. Clear cut no time waste and complete 360 degree knowledge.
Thank you so much, happy to help you swim better, keep it up! What type of video would help you improve even more and get to your swim goals in no time ? appreciate the feedback
I think kicking is worth with a schnorkel. Since you keep your body horizontal. If you have to raise the head, you arch.
Very helpful to me 😅
awesome, keep practicing 🏊♂️💯
I have no problem here. I swim underwater all the way anyway.
Yes, my legs sink! Thank you for such GREAT ADVICE. I will also do the exercises you recommend to build my weak core and shoulder muscles.
you got this! let me know how it goes :) if you need more exercises and guidance, email me at contact@enduranceid.com
Enjoyed the quality video. I'm here to learn how to float my lower body, and I was really impressed with the way the opposite arm was stretched out to match your stroke finish.
Glad you enjoyed it and found it helpful! yes, keep these points in mind and work them though in your practices
Magnifico !!
U just solved the mystery of my sinking legs and hips. I will try your tips next time in the water. Thank u
So happy it was helpful! Keep practicing your horizontal position! 🏊♀️
thank you for the movie for the vid
Glad it was helpful, keep swimming 💪
Спасибо. То что надо
thank you! keep swimming!
Огромное спасибо за конкретные рекомендации!!!! Это оооч помогает!!!❤❤❤❤
thank you hope it helps, keep going :))))
Thank you going to try out your techniques next time.
Please do!
@enduranceIDthe chin down and toes pointed up helped me a bunch now I don’t drag….as much!!
Great content. I've watched many similar, the theory I understand, alas in practice..... I'm drowning, thank goodness my breaststroke works. I'll get it one day! Thanks again.🏊
Glad the content was helpful and keep practicing, you'll get there! 💪 because everyone can float, just some people take a little longer 😊
Google has been following me to the pool again, and it knows my swimming sucks.😂. This video explains why my swimming sucks and how to correct, even before I opened my mouth she / google answered my questions 😂. My problem looks like kicking wrong and weak core. Thanks for the video, I liked and subscribed 😂
haha so glad it helped you! You don’t suck, you’re just early in the game, keep swimming 🏊♀️ and all will come
Thanks for the video. The one arm crawl will be very helpful for me, I think, since I cannot rotate my right shoulder for an effective two arm crawl. Since I'm 70, it's not likely the shoulder will improve, so I'll try this combined with the other tips and see how it goes.
That's awesome, let me know how it goes! And try breaststroke, and lots of kicking 😊
Great video, thank you! For crawl do you keep your arms out straight and reach on entry or do you bend at the elbow and power downwards? As for your hands, do they enter the water with your pinky first or thumb first?
appreciate it, I bend the elbow in the recovery until halfway and then finish up with a straight arm throw into the next entry. Both are fine as long as they are wide from your body. Entrance with the middle finger, not the pinky
@enduranceID Thank you 🙏
Can you explain how to hold your core whilst swimming and breathing ?
Think less about “squeezing” your core and more about holding a long, stable body line. Keep your ribs down, lower abs gently engaged (like in a plank), and let your rotation come from the hips, then breathing stays low and your body stays flat.
Have you done a tumble turn vid?
yes, there's a full video and shorts as well, check them out :)
Idk why but i find it’s so much easier to float straight when I’m swimming on my back. Nevertheless this video is very useful. Thanks
yes on the back it's easier to float, keep practicing this drill :) thank you
i have suffered from this all my life, i can swim faster with just my arms than when i try to add my legs, wish i would have known this before i got too old and too many surgeries, ty for giving so many people like me, while they can still love swimming.
try pressing your chest down, a little, and also you can swim with a pull buoy and still kick, and when removing the buoy imitate that stroke
I "swam" with manatees once. The guide had me using half the noodles he had brought on the tour. At first I was embarrassed but then he said, "what do you have like no body fat?". I then relied from the water, "Thanks for the compliment, did you think this body just happens?"
What if the person has MS?What advice would you give?Not all 4 measures are possible,and yet, it s got to be a way
There are certainly pieces of advice that seem simple but are so confounding when actually trying to execute them.. This would be pushing the chest down. Its just so weird " trying to push your chest down" in water where there is no resistance. Or keep hips up..Its feels like you are thrusting your bum up
😂I do not know if instructors understand that you probably need to actually see this done then simply tell someone to do these two things 😊
It took me 3 months to understand some of these things as I did learn to swim later in life. The key thing for me was head position. One day it just clicked and I realized when I looked down toward my legs my legs went up. Then that helped me swim straight instead of sinking legs. And for breathing just look to your left and right shoulder and boom that is enough to breathe and go back in
yesssss, the head position is so true, ones it clicks, the whole body position just becomes flatter and higher :) keep swimming!
I learned watching the underwater view of Olympic swimmers: skimming hands on surface (not raising mass above water), rotate body while reaching lead arm out, then pull cupped palm back over chest to create laminar flow to reduce drag. I was swimming a mile per day at lunch before eating and once did five miles of laps for a charity event.
I have long torso and lungs with 140% normal capacity and could free dive down to 90 feet for two min so that helps a lot too.😊
nice reason to swim, keep it up
i resemble these problems
Work on them and all will come 😊
Id settle for being able to tread water. Watch so many people do it effortlessly. Wonder how much metabolism and oxygen uptake in cells affects ability to float.
You need to learn floating and gliding if you want to swim 😊
very helpful for me - what advice for me as a person with only one leg? I struggle to stop my body dropping and dragging...
thank you, keep swimming you've got this. A slightly longer lead arm glide, almost catch-up timing can counterbalance the one leg and reduce drag :)
Same problem here.
Keep practicing and it will come 😊
One of my biggest problem with free style is my hand movements still don't have that rotation correct.
The hand doesn’t rotate that much 😅you mean head? 😊
What is a catch?
When the arm moves in the water, you catch the water. So a catch is the movement of the arm in the water.
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something that helped me, is to realize we have a center of gravity let say in the belly area. So rear part will rotate in relation with with front part. So, try to have the max of you arms weigit weel ahead, in particular, try to have a t some point your 2 hand in front of you. this will, in turn, lift you legs. Second, the advice for the head, is also true for you hands. try to guide you hand ahead not high (near the surface), but deeper, let says visaulize, same depth as your feets are. so horizontal. Last advice. make a "rocket" start, like superman, or "diving position" with you hands ahead , with head down inside your arms, no kicking at the beginning), just to feel the correct position. when you get it, start to do it and let you front in htat position and kick. this is the body horizibtal position you should have when you swim. Actually, when your core/back muscles handle you body straight, and you apply the good posture, you can free stroke without kicking at all, and your feet wil stay at the surface.
Thank you for sharing your tips!
I feel like I'm hitting a wall every time I use the board. I can't seem to find the 'sweet spot' for advancing it with the swimming board and all the time im stuck
try to kick in fins, an from your hip not your knee, when you kick think about small moves
Seems like it would be weak back muscles rather than weak abs that that would allow your allow your legs to fall.
You core is the reason your stay high in the water
I am terrified of keeping my head inside water I am feeling drowning when my upper body is out of water I feel I can breath better when inside again I feel I my chest is compressed , all these after I had chest surgery things has changed after pneumotorax
I basically had surgery recently. I got a V cut on my stomach. It’s kinda like a curve or a C-section so my core has been affected and I’m scared to contract or even when I try after two years and I was not ready because where I was cut surgically, I felt like it was separating like I was extremely weak in my car and it makes me sad because I used to be a strong swimmer.
hope you'll recover soon, and will get back on track in no time
The good news is that if you don't have medal winning ambitions it doesn't matter. You're still getting good exercise no matter how bad your technique. 😊
What is the best swim style for surviving if you are stranded in ocean
Floating
With just enough movement to keep you warmed up a bit. If you’re talking about moving then the freestyle I guess. But if you’ve got no life jacket just float. Most people will die treading water.
roll on your back and float
@enduranceIDWould you be so kind teach us how to float efficiently, without too much movement, to conserve energy?
@enduranceID
That’s what I said !! 😊
@Imadtukai
The trick is to relax. Keep your nose and mouth above water.
Take a deep breath, into your chest and hold it for a few seconds to find your comfortable position in the water. Then exhale and breathe lightly but properly keeping your chest high in the water. Use light or gentle movement of your hands to keep your upper body, most importantly your face, out of the water. But always relax.
Most people die in open water situations from over exertion trying to ‘tread water’
Just chill and float.
Man one time in my life I want to swim like that But
come on, you got this, dm me, i'll help you
How do you stop water going into your ears? If my head is in the water, I get an earful. Answers would be useful.
make sure that the top of your head is in the water, and you're breaking the water in front of you, if you head is slightly higher you'll get water everywhere and legs will sink
You may have overlooked the main cause of sinking legs and how to correct it.
The primary reason your legs sink is the reaction force created when you push water backward below your center of mass. This generates a rotational torque that drops your hips and legs while lifting your head.
The deeper your pull, the stronger this unwanted rotational force becomes, wasting energy and disrupting your streamline.
To counter this, focus on bending your elbow early and pulling water closer to the surface and in line with your torso. This “high-elbow” technique keeps your propulsion aligned with your center of mass, minimizing rotation and helping you stay horizontal
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OK, so muh for freestyle. I used to swim a good breaststroke, but after replacement of both of my knees I found that one swim stroke propelling me about 1 m now only gave me 10 cm, a hopeless situation. I attributed this to the extra weight of my titanium prostheses (adding about 800 g to my knees), causing my lower body to sink and making me swim against a wall of water. I found no infomation on this on the internet - and I wish there were some slim leg flotation devices to correct my body position to moving horizontally flat in the water. Anyone with any idea or similar experience?
hey hey, never had a case like yours, I would say try to use a pull buoy and still kick, we normally wouldn't use a pull buoy with the kick but in your case it would just help you get your hips and lower body floated easier, and keep swimming, you're doing great! :)))
How do I prevent water from entering the ear when turning to take a breath ? I don't want to wear ear plugs....
when you swim, make sure you rotate your head with your body and keep one goggle in the water. When you swim your ear should face backward, not up, and a little bit of water will also get in your ear, it's swimming
What do I do if my entire body is so dense that I sink very quickly (even when breathing in fully)?
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I have swum all my life now at age 70 I have developed vertigo which came on after swimming the crawl / free style stroke for about 45 minutes. I now feel ghastly and miserable. UK.
im really sorry to hear that, have you tried ear plugs