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I think its the Consistency in practice that seems as suffering to them. Its a thing that happens with EVRYONE THATS A HUMAN. the practice makes you rot but then if the harwork pays off that ALL THEY WANT :)
Believe it or not but in America especially many professional athletes do not win or earn a great deal from their sport. Infact in America each athlete must pay their own way to the Olympics are are only rewarded if they win. There are over 600 athletes on team USA and very few are popular enough to get sponsorships. Sorry for the rant but few professional athletes actually make a good living off what they do and the rest are the many losers needed to have a few winners.
@@Kolazola yeah and not only in America tbh, in other countries as well. In my country (Singapore) swimmers get very little incentive (besides the cash rewards if you win in major competitions like olympics, Asian games, SEA games etc) the rest of it we pretty much pay everything ourselves. For certain meets, if you win they may subsidize the cost of the trip. Majority of the swimmers would not win or even get a medal (2nd and 3rd places are sometimes partially subsidize) so we are literally paying to represent our country in competitions. Many times people only know of the records breakers and the gold medalist but behind there scenes are so many others unrecognised athletes who worked as hard and never got a single cent.
@jj bb sure there are the exceptions, but for most professional athletes, they are doing the same thing 7 hours a day every day. Its like a job, and there is a reason why people advice don't make your hobby a job, but the repetitiveness of it all in addition to the pressure to perform destroys passion for it in a few years time
Oh yeah btw that quote is good Like my parents say When you are cold go into a blizzard When you are not go to a campfire When you are tired go carrying stuff
Philippe Lucas has a lot of nice quotes like that, but in reality he is an abusive man with a power complex, insulting and harassing his athletes. Yes, he gets them some medals sometimes, but all of them quit the sport shortly and take years to recover mental health and confidence.
Here in France, Laure is still a true legend of swimming, years after she left the sport and ended her career. By winning in Athens at the age of 17, she became the first French Olympic gold medalist in swimming in decades and paved the way for more successful games for our team in the following Olympics.
This is a great life lesson. Many people are very skilled and productive at their jobs, but they don't really enjoy it. That's why we have hobbies! We should appreciate the great work they do and admire their skills and dedication. Always appreciate and thank them.
This is my husband, he has built a great construction business, and it does very well , but he doesn’t like it. His favorite hobby is carpentry building furniture for family and friends is his passion, which we both do together, I love adding touches to his carpentry.
The true lesson is don’t try to emulate champions as a normie, they are genetic freaks. As we see, they don’t even need to be motivate and like what their doing to make progress and broke WR. Which is completely crazy to general population that have to make crazy efforts to make little to small progress.
She doesn't like swimming - so she picks one of the worst events - the 400. It's not a sprint. But you have to swim like it is. It's not distance. But you have to think like it is.
swimmers don't choose to be better at certain strokes or distances, they just tend to be better at some more so than others because of their body and technique. Laure was naturally good at 400 free so that's what her training would focus on
Laure ❤️❤️❤️ Her brother got his last medal in Paris too this summer !!! While she was commenting the event live it was very touching. She was crying before the race even started ahah
@@adamburdt8794 look, give them the benefit of the doubt. They may not have gone on to win world championships, but thats not their point (at least i dont think so). They just wanted to say that they know the feeling and that its not something completely out of the ordinary
Yeh most people I know from meets say they don't enjoy training/swimming much if at all. Personally don't understand how people put so much time into it if they don't since I love the sport more than just about anything else I do.
@@noahpalmer6653 I assume it would be frustrating to love something so much and someone who doesn't even like it that much be better at it. Not saying that is your situation. You could be the best, I dunno. I just always wondered how people deal with it
Federica couldn’t handle it that Laure was beating her, so she went after her boyfriend, Luca Marin. After Laure and Marin had a really nasty breakup, magically he was dating Federica right away, and magically nude photos of Laure were released. She was never the same after that. Laure Manaudou, in my opinion, was the most naturally gifted swimmer since Tracy Caulkins, and I have no doubt that had she not gone to Italy, she would have won a number of gold medals in Beijing.
Samuele Zanarella how curious that it happened within hours of them breaking up after a fight during the 2007 Euros. HOURS. And it wasn’t long after that when Federica had Marin on her arm publicly.
@@samuelezanarella9197 Please. She's saying it to protect them from an angry mob of French fans. I'm Team USA all day but I'm a fan of hers and clearly still curious about what happened to her. If her brother got ridiculed for coming in second you can only imagine what they'd do to these two if she blames them for thwarting her career.
I can personally relate to Laure because something similar has happened to me as well. I´m a former athlete in a different sport, and while I was preparing for my last world championship, my boyfriend, who was also my coach, cheated on me with another athlete from a different country. At first, I decided to get myself together and went abroad to train with another coach, who was really amazing. But while I was away, my ex let this other person into our home, sleep in my bed and even bought things for her with my money. This person was aware of everything that was going on because she was stalking him for almost a year, bevor making her move. The psychological pain was unbearable and I even cried while competing. Said year, I managed to place at different championships, but could never get first place. After almost one year, the person got pregnant, which totally crushed me, and forced me to quit competing for good. Afterwards I was not able to train in any sport for over 5 month, as it was making me sick. Nowadays I train in another sport just for fun, but the wounds open up everytime I have to face a hard training session.
Coach “The 7 other swimmers next to you have as much talent as you. It will be painful for the 8 of you. But they don’t know that you’ve been through that pain thousands of time in training. When your shoulders start to hurt Swim faster. When your lungs ask for a break Make them work harder. When your mind tells you that you’re crazy, Swim with your heart.” ❤️🔥🌊 Bruce Lee “Be water my friend”.
@@JKenny44 Unfortunately (for you maybe) that is not true. And I mean not true at all, thats why I wonder about the 20 likes your comment has. The skeleton and the potential muscle size does not adapt. Its given, its genetics. The body adapts within its muscle size possibility and oxygen intake but that is only a fraction of percentages that define the success of a swimmer. And I tell you this being lanky and 6,3 and not a swimmer. I have a swimmer body and have never been a swimmer. Only because of my body I got interested in the sport at 25 yo when I prepared for a sports test. I even got noticed by a coach when I went to swim in a competition pool. I wasnt even good at that time. I am pretty fast now though. Tall and long arms wins. Same reason black men are the fastest on track. They have fast twitching muscles. Its genetics. Thats like saying you will get a basketball body by playing basketball. Sorry man, the comment is so wrong, I cant even believe it.
@@Falquiboy You are right to an extent that genetics play a big role in it. I am not one of them who will deny the existence of race. But your body is still very adaptable from a young age. There is a reason all of the best athletes compete from a very young age. Your whole skeleton is not set yet and it is very adaptable.
@@JKenny44 The adaptation is absolutely insignificant. That is my opinion and experience knowing many many sports. Within the given body its possible to "perfect" it, but nothing that changes noticably that hasnt been there before.
I was the same way with running. I hate running, but I have insane endurance. I was really good at cross county. But I legit cried once during a race and still managed to make top 10.
literally flat the same way. i did cycling for 5 years and moved to track & cross country after an injury. i did not like running but i had insane endurance. i would just run and not stop haha. i luckily won many events but there was no joy. i cried during a cross country race but placed top 3.
I personally don't like to swim, I only really enjoy watching it during the Olympics and Commonwealth games. This channel shows the dedication, skills, technology, training and back story of the athletes that i can appreciate.
Florent has the same feeling than Laure about swimming. But they both love competition and winning. Florent does not like swimming and his manager (Romain) had to use a lot of imagination to motivate him and find entertaining trainings. He was so fed up with swimming that he tried (with no success) hand-ball. He came back to swimming because he is very gifted and has the Olympics in mind. It is a bit like André Agassi who hates tennis but is so good at it that he kept going.
I trained from the age of 11yrs - 17yrs, no parental encouragement, simply my own choice, 6-8 hours a day and up to 18 hours a day on weekends, it hurt it was bloody at times, I scraped my hands on the concrete or bitumen and wrecked my nails and stubbed my fingers. I practiced in the rain often for hours. Young people hate lots of things and so training is always going to be one of them, I mean who the hell chooses broccoli over cheese cake.. Im 50 now and I do :) my wife is a great cook. Laure is very inspirational. If Laure is coming back then she has a longer harder road than she has ever trodden before. She must train all day all night eat well do the reps in and out of the pool and think winning. That to me will be something to see if she gets there.
Dude, your videos are always so good and informative. I feel like these types of videos are good, because it helps inform us about the history of swimming and gives us some tips, like Ian Thorpe's hand staying on the surface of the water longer than usual to maintain glide and balance, as well as having a smooth stroke with not a lot of power needed. Keep up the great work!
The Ian Thorpe video was amazing. I started holding out my hands longer on my free, and after a month I went a 200 time from a push that was faster than my fastest time from a dive in practice
Two small corrections: Federica's career started in 2004 (silver medal in Athens), not 2007; and the Lioness is Federica's nickname, not Laure's. That said, amazing video and amazing swimmer.
I never really liked swimming either, but I never really got that good at it and it's been several years since the last time I even saw a pool. Yet your content somehow makes me want to swim again! it's great!
I teach swimming. I was always type 1 I remember pushing myself to learn and become streamline pretty much on my own by feeling what would look right and pro. Now I just play with the water for a living watch others swim and teach it. I'm not a fanatic but a waterbaby at heart.
its like a case where you dont like studying, and you just spend an entire day preparing for exam so you dont get remedial which is makes you spend your time more to studying
It's more like you're a gifted genius who didn't have to try at all when it came to getting the highest grades...but then you go to some gifted extremely competitive prep school and all of a sudden you're competing eith the best in thr world. Now you are good and you are intelligent, but you actually have to try your heart out because your peers are just as good.
Started swimming when i was very little... hungry and angry because we were really poor.. started training two sessions a day with gym on top of that. Everyday (even weekends) I thought it was the way out of poverty.. became a 10× national champion, held 2 national records and multiple regional records. The fact is, i indeed hated it, every single time i trained lol but finally, when i was sick of it, i had developed a strong mind that helped me pursue the university career i was dreaming of.. Some things are just a step in the middle of something better... Wishing you all very good luck in your dreams!!
It's not my place, but your choice of words are often delightfully outstanding despite this not being likely your first language. I am referring to 5:38 " This is how Annika and Laure entered a competitive trance". The word picture is glorious. They not only entered and actually lived-in, dwelt in the world record pace trance. Keep up the excellent, tastefully curated content!
Laure and Bousquet had a baby? That kid is predestined for greatness. Laure has won the 50 all the way to the 1500. No one has ever done that. At least in the modern era.
I agree. Too many people say just work hard, work harder than anyone then you will do great. When in fact the world doesn’t work like that. Luck is one fundamental aspect of success.
I remember a show where a guys always slacking off on his work but the truth is, he is an expert on his field and finish his job early so most of the time he's slacking off...
People always say study a field you find interesting, find a job that you like to do! Follow your passion, this is how you'll reach your highest highs in what you undertake She's proof that you can do something that you dislike and still excel in what you do
Certainly one of the main reasons that may explain the fact that she hated swimming: her coach. Phillipe Lucas is one of the biggest assholes I've ever seen. He treated her like a garbage. He built his fame on her, she made him somebody. And he kept treating her like garbage, and criticizing her publicly.
I don't know anything about swimming, but correct me if my assumption is wrong. in the clip of the 50 free final in London '12, Manaudou seemed like he dove in and stayed in that stance much longer than the others, had that anything to do with why he won? Or was his special training? I just noticed that, because the others were already doing the strokes (I don't know what they're called) and he was still diving. Or did I just see it wrong?
In that video you point out (1:18) that her left arm comes in when her right foot pushes off. But in another video "Smooth swimming step by step" you were speaking of long distance swimming with a kick down of right leg at the same time right arm is pulling. So 2 different Technics that work the same on long distance?
I think self destruction, if done properly, is meditative too. It is so relaxing in an anti-relaxing way. It is the same feeling you get when you eat too many chillies. You get numb and enter some other world.
Wow had no idea Florant played handball for 2 years! What a guy, he’s a born athlete. The 50m free is for Caleb to lose, definitely going for the 7 medals.
What average people don't understand, is that it's hard to know if you like something because you're elite at it, or because you enjoy the activity itself
One of the reason why boxing sell so much ppv is because the have show like 24/7 and all access where the show the back ground and motivation of each fighter. And aLso the history of the sport. These shows makes people really tuned in into the fight. Thank you for creating something similar for swimming and showing that even swimming have a rich and interesting history. P.s 24/7 has been canceled but there are yt channel that do similar stuff. Channel like ; rainy day boxing and office hancho
he won't be dressel. dressel by all rights holds the actual world record in the 50 free - fastest all time not wearing an LZR suit. and he just tied his record at the US trials.
@@MsAggie78 For starters, she needs to kick three times for every arm she puts forward. Very very simple stuff. Not all swimmers have perfect tachnique and she definitely doesn't
this was me with soccer. first i loved it and started hating it years later. and quit it but now i’m debating getting back into it (even tho i really like volleyball and want to do it)
the coach that led her to the top is famous to France general public to be absolutely brutal with his trainees, when he says she has billlions of hours of swimming it might be an understatement the guy is straight up crazy. He basically does his best to crush you both mentally and physically, if you survive then you have a chance for world title. For real you guys should get some translation of his conversation with his swimmer.
I was competitiv in the sports i was doing but without the playful aspect in these i think that would have drive me crazy, i'm glad i didn't start swimming 😂 the mental of competitive swimmers is impressive
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Oh i know her by the way how did she break world records ? A very good dose of drugs and expert coaching that's all.
She probably hates swimming, but competition is what she really enjoys.
Isn't that every swimmer?
Katie Ledecky enjoys the training part more.
I hate trainings and i hate competitions even more
That's Exactly what the video says
I like a good challenge in a practice, but sometimes it is really boring aerobics, but I love competing especially.
Q: How did she Swim so FAST if she DIDN’T enjoy it!?
A: She wanted to get out of the pool as fast as possible!
Not all jobs we do we enjoy 😊!
😂
A: She didn't love it, she just liked it.
Yeah and get it over with. 🤣
😂🤣🤣
Believe it of not, many professional athletes don't like their sports, they like winning and earning a good deal from it.
I think its the Consistency in practice that seems as suffering to them. Its a thing that happens with EVRYONE THATS A HUMAN. the practice makes you rot but then if the harwork pays off that ALL THEY WANT :)
@@anubhutimishra8809 agreed
Believe it or not but in America especially many professional athletes do not win or earn a great deal from their sport. Infact in America each athlete must pay their own way to the Olympics are are only rewarded if they win. There are over 600 athletes on team USA and very few are popular enough to get sponsorships.
Sorry for the rant but few professional athletes actually make a good living off what they do and the rest are the many losers needed to have a few winners.
@@Kolazola yeah and not only in America tbh, in other countries as well. In my country (Singapore) swimmers get very little incentive (besides the cash rewards if you win in major competitions like olympics, Asian games, SEA games etc) the rest of it we pretty much pay everything ourselves. For certain meets, if you win they may subsidize the cost of the trip. Majority of the swimmers would not win or even get a medal (2nd and 3rd places are sometimes partially subsidize) so we are literally paying to represent our country in competitions. Many times people only know of the records breakers and the gold medalist but behind there scenes are so many others unrecognised athletes who worked as hard and never got a single cent.
@jj bb sure there are the exceptions, but for most professional athletes, they are doing the same thing 7 hours a day every day. Its like a job, and there is a reason why people advice don't make your hobby a job, but the repetitiveness of it all in addition to the pressure to perform destroys passion for it in a few years time
"When your mind tells you you're crazy - swim with your heart."
Great coach!
Yes
Ikr such inspirational words makes me want to work hard
You should never let your mind take over the race you are doing because sometimes your mind tells you things that are not true
Oh yeah btw that quote is good
Like my parents say
When you are cold go into a blizzard
When you are not go to a campfire
When you are tired go carrying stuff
Philippe Lucas has a lot of nice quotes like that, but in reality he is an abusive man with a power complex, insulting and harassing his athletes. Yes, he gets them some medals sometimes, but all of them quit the sport shortly and take years to recover mental health and confidence.
Here in France, Laure is still a true legend of swimming, years after she left the sport and ended her career.
By winning in Athens at the age of 17, she became the first French Olympic gold medalist in swimming in decades and paved the way for more successful games for our team in the following Olympics.
Everyone is a wannabe legend in ur croissant land
DID SHE BEAT THE MEN.? THAT IS THE REAL QUESTION ! TO PUT HER AT HER REAL LEVEL !
@@trailerparkboys3390 shut up miss girl
@@MarcusDecius kid
@@trailerparkboys3390the reality is just that....
This is a great life lesson.
Many people are very skilled and productive at their jobs, but they don't really enjoy it.
That's why we have hobbies! We should appreciate the great work they do and admire their skills and dedication. Always appreciate and thank them.
Thank the garbage guys and womans to! And the mine worker....
This is my husband, he has built a great construction business, and it does very well , but he doesn’t like it. His favorite hobby is carpentry building furniture for family and friends is his passion, which we both do together, I love adding touches to his carpentry.
The true lesson is don’t try to emulate champions as a normie, they are genetic freaks. As we see, they don’t even need to be motivate and like what their doing to make progress and broke WR. Which is completely crazy to general population that have to make crazy efforts to make little to small progress.
@@Oskour117perfect . They are like a lot of ppl that don't like their jobs and are perfect doing that
She doesn't like swimming - so she picks one of the worst events - the 400. It's not a sprint. But you have to swim like it is. It's not distance. But you have to think like it is.
400 is definitely distance in my book. As long as its not sprints ie. 50 or 100, they are distance lol.
@@ACIIIL_extracts-zr5wz please document said chases via RUclips.
@@ACIIIL_extracts-zr5wz tbh that sux :(
swimmers don't choose to be better at certain strokes or distances, they just tend to be better at some more so than others because of their body and technique. Laure was naturally good at 400 free so that's what her training would focus on
@@joesr31 but it doesn't feel like one 😂😂😂
Laure ❤️❤️❤️ Her brother got his last medal in Paris too this summer !!! While she was commenting the event live it was very touching. She was crying before the race even started ahah
Lol, I was just like her. My anger for why I have to swim was propelling me to pull harder and faster in the water when I raced haha.
Oh yeah? So that anger caused you to become so commited you won a world championship, Set records and such? I don't think you were just like her...
@@adamburdt8794 Kind of, I won championships and I was a D1 swimmer. I can definitely relate to her lol.
@@adamburdt8794 look, give them the benefit of the doubt. They may not have gone on to win world championships, but thats not their point (at least i dont think so). They just wanted to say that they know the feeling and that its not something completely out of the ordinary
Yeh most people I know from meets say they don't enjoy training/swimming much if at all. Personally don't understand how people put so much time into it if they don't since I love the sport more than just about anything else I do.
@@noahpalmer6653 I assume it would be frustrating to love something so much and someone who doesn't even like it that much be better at it. Not saying that is your situation. You could be the best, I dunno. I just always wondered how people deal with it
Federica couldn’t handle it that Laure was beating her, so she went after her boyfriend, Luca Marin. After Laure and Marin had a really nasty breakup, magically he was dating Federica right away, and magically nude photos of Laure were released. She was never the same after that. Laure Manaudou, in my opinion, was the most naturally gifted swimmer since Tracy Caulkins, and I have no doubt that had she not gone to Italy, she would have won a number of gold medals in Beijing.
Laure has already clarified that it wasn’t Marin nor Federica to release her nudes
Samuele Zanarella how curious that it happened within hours of them breaking up after a fight during the 2007 Euros. HOURS. And it wasn’t long after that when Federica had Marin on her arm publicly.
@@aquajosh JER-RY! JER-RY!
@@samuelezanarella9197 Please. She's saying it to protect them from an angry mob of French fans. I'm Team USA all day but I'm a fan of hers and clearly still curious about what happened to her. If her brother got ridiculed for coming in second you can only imagine what they'd do to these two if she blames them for thwarting her career.
I can personally relate to Laure because something similar has happened to me as well. I´m a former athlete in a different sport, and while I was preparing for my last world championship, my boyfriend, who was also my coach, cheated on me with another athlete from a different country. At first, I decided to get myself together and went abroad to train with another coach, who was really amazing. But while I was away, my ex let this other person into our home, sleep in my bed and even bought things for her with my money. This person was aware of everything that was going on because she was stalking him for almost a year, bevor making her move.
The psychological pain was unbearable and I even cried while competing. Said year, I managed to place at different championships, but could never get first place. After almost one year, the person got pregnant, which totally crushed me, and forced me to quit competing for good.
Afterwards I was not able to train in any sport for over 5 month, as it was making me sick.
Nowadays I train in another sport just for fun, but the wounds open up everytime I have to face a hard training session.
Coach
“The 7 other swimmers next to you have as much talent as you.
It will be painful for the 8 of you. But they don’t know that you’ve been through that pain thousands of time in training.
When your shoulders start to hurt Swim faster.
When your lungs ask for a break Make them work harder.
When your mind tells you that you’re crazy, Swim with your heart.”
❤️🔥🌊
Bruce Lee “Be water my friend”.
Much like Michael Phelps, she has a body for swimming. It’s too bad she never really enjoyed it, she has a natural gift.
If you swim every day from a very young age it's not a coincidence that you will have a body for swimming.
Our body adapts
@@JKenny44 yes, but at the same time broad shoulders and long arms and legs certainly help lol
@@JKenny44 Unfortunately (for you maybe) that is not true. And I mean not true at all, thats why I wonder about the 20 likes your comment has. The skeleton and the potential muscle size does not adapt. Its given, its genetics. The body adapts within its muscle size possibility and oxygen intake but that is only a fraction of percentages that define the success of a swimmer.
And I tell you this being lanky and 6,3 and not a swimmer. I have a swimmer body and have never been a swimmer. Only because of my body I got interested in the sport at 25 yo when I prepared for a sports test. I even got noticed by a coach when I went to swim in a competition pool. I wasnt even good at that time. I am pretty fast now though.
Tall and long arms wins. Same reason black men are the fastest on track. They have fast twitching muscles. Its genetics.
Thats like saying you will get a basketball body by playing basketball. Sorry man, the comment is so wrong, I cant even believe it.
@@Falquiboy You are right to an extent that genetics play a big role in it.
I am not one of them who will deny the existence of race.
But your body is still very adaptable from a young age.
There is a reason all of the best athletes compete from a very young age.
Your whole skeleton is not set yet and it is very adaptable.
@@JKenny44 The adaptation is absolutely insignificant. That is my opinion and experience knowing many many sports. Within the given body its possible to "perfect" it, but nothing that changes noticably that hasnt been there before.
The Olympics are so spread apart, that this kind of content is necessary to know the many other participants.. Thanks
I was the same way with running. I hate running, but I have insane endurance. I was really good at cross county. But I legit cried once during a race and still managed to make top 10.
literally flat the same way. i did cycling for 5 years and moved to track & cross country after an injury. i did not like running but i had insane endurance. i would just run and not stop haha. i luckily won many events but there was no joy. i cried during a cross country race but placed top 3.
U run the 5k?
@@peterparker1724 yep. That was typically the average race length give or take
You need therapy for real
@@gokushkameha-ha-ha9344 I need therapy for a whole lot more than that lol
It's crazy how their competitiveness both destroyed the competition and themselves, depending on the period.
I personally don't like to swim, I only really enjoy watching it during the Olympics and Commonwealth games. This channel shows the dedication, skills, technology, training and back story of the athletes that i can appreciate.
looking at the family you can just tell they're gonna be good swimmers
Florent has the same feeling than Laure about swimming. But they both love competition and winning. Florent does not like swimming and his manager (Romain) had to use a lot of imagination to motivate him and find entertaining trainings. He was so fed up with swimming that he tried (with no success) hand-ball. He came back to swimming because he is very gifted and has the Olympics in mind. It is a bit like André Agassi who hates tennis but is so good at it that he kept going.
3:43 "when your mind tells you that you're crazy, swim with your heart." I wish I had that kind of endurance.
I was completely intrigued by this story throughout. Great production and story telling.
These are probably some of the best swimming stories I watch on youtube. Keep it up!
I trained from the age of 11yrs - 17yrs, no parental encouragement, simply my own choice, 6-8 hours a day and up to 18 hours a day on weekends, it hurt it was bloody at times, I scraped my hands on the concrete or bitumen and wrecked my nails and stubbed my fingers. I practiced in the rain often for hours. Young people hate lots of things and so training is always going to be one of them, I mean who the hell chooses broccoli over cheese cake.. Im 50 now and I do :) my wife is a great cook. Laure is very inspirational.
If Laure is coming back then she has a longer harder road than she has ever trodden before. She must train all day all night eat well do the reps in and out of the pool and think winning. That to me will be something to see if she gets there.
Dude, your videos are always so good and informative. I feel like these types of videos are good, because it helps inform us about the history of swimming and gives us some tips, like Ian Thorpe's hand staying on the surface of the water longer than usual to maintain glide and balance, as well as having a smooth stroke with not a lot of power needed. Keep up the great work!
The Ian Thorpe video was amazing. I started holding out my hands longer on my free, and after a month I went a 200 time from a push that was faster than my fastest time from a dive in practice
Two small corrections: Federica's career started in 2004 (silver medal in Athens), not 2007; and the Lioness is Federica's nickname, not Laure's. That said, amazing video and amazing swimmer.
I love this content! Being a swimmer technique is so interesting.
Thanks!
I never really liked swimming either, but I never really got that good at it and it's been several years since the last time I even saw a pool. Yet your content somehow makes me want to swim again! it's great!
“Lets get this over with!”
-the motivation
She swam so fast so she can go home early and watch The Wonder Years.
Well yeah, that and she also has the exact perfect body type for swimming.
yeah.. i guess that's what they call gifted. it's given to you.
I teach swimming. I was always type 1 I remember pushing myself to learn and become streamline pretty much on my own by feeling what would look right and pro. Now I just play with the water for a living watch others swim and teach it. I'm not a fanatic but a waterbaby at heart.
Very good pronounciation. You say "Laure" et "Florent" like a real french person. From an english speaker, it's very impressive 🇨🇵
its like a case where you dont like studying, and you just spend an entire day preparing for exam so you dont get remedial which is makes you spend your time more to studying
It's more like you're a gifted genius who didn't have to try at all when it came to getting the highest grades...but then you go to some gifted extremely competitive prep school and all of a sudden you're competing eith the best in thr world. Now you are good and you are intelligent, but you actually have to try your heart out because your peers are just as good.
They should both go play waterpolo and have fun.
ex-swimmer who teaches swimming full time and still doesnt like swimming himself :)
Exactly. What fun is going up and down a pool all day? I swim recreationally now, but what a drag aau swimming was.
Same with one of the Williams sister who said she never really liked tennis but she is good at it .
She kinda reminds me of Daniel Komen in that neither of them loved their sport but pushed through on willpower and broke multiple record
I’m doing a French assignment about her because I’m a swimmer as well and stumbled on this lol this is super helpful!
"True focus lies somewhere between rage and serenity" - Professor Charles Xavier
I think about that quote often.
Expected. There are a lot of high achievers without passion
But passion is what keeps you in for the long run
I don’t even know how to swim yet I am here watching swimming videos. Your videos are entertaining.
Started swimming when i was very little... hungry and angry because we were really poor.. started training two sessions a day with gym on top of that. Everyday (even weekends) I thought it was the way out of poverty.. became a 10× national champion, held 2 national records and multiple regional records. The fact is, i indeed hated it, every single time i trained lol but finally, when i was sick of it, i had developed a strong mind that helped me pursue the university career i was dreaming of..
Some things are just a step in the middle of something better...
Wishing you all very good luck in your dreams!!
What are those turns? No fly kicks and straight into freestyle kicking? Jeez swimming has progressed since 2004
Daniel, I’m sure that you’re better than Laure Manaudou
I hardly enjoy studying but I want to study medicine. It gives a purpose to my life . Yeah I want to be a doctor and I am gonna love the profession
This is an absolutely incredible video! Super entertaining, brilliant from a filmmaking standpoint.
It's not my place, but your choice of words are often delightfully outstanding despite this not being likely your first language. I am referring to 5:38 " This is how Annika and Laure entered a competitive trance". The word picture is glorious. They not only entered and actually lived-in, dwelt in the world record pace trance. Keep up the excellent, tastefully curated content!
Thank you!
still, her determination and hard work is amazing.
I didn t know he is going to 2021 Olympics, I hope România is gonna get at least 1 medal
Robert glinta???????
@@darraghrusk6299 and David popovici
@@daniagaming925 David popovici is going to be scary he went 1:46 with a garbage pool and no competition I see a 1:44
@@anx93 shut up , did Someone ask?
Nu stiam ca avem romani inotatori olimpici
I love her form and relaxed 2 beat kick even when sprinting. 🙏💙🙏
Allez les Manaudou !!!! Vive la France !! 🇨🇵🇨🇵💪🏻
Laure and Bousquet had a baby?
That kid is predestined for greatness.
Laure has won the 50 all the way to the 1500.
No one has ever done that. At least in the modern era.
We are loving this series of different swimming videos you've started..
Scripting is at its best!
Lots of Love from 🇮🇳
He just earn silver medal for 50M freestyle in Tokyo today 😘.
3:33 Here you can really see the large difference between swimming styles, very interesing how Laure is faster with way less leg movement.
You're a great storyteller, this was riveting.
Sometimes when you have a talent it is almost as if you owe it to the world to share it with them
Well done mate, thanks for the video. Cheers from France
That coach speech....hit hard. 👊
I think this is most elite swimmers. I hated training but lived to race. It’s why we do it
These videos are so good! Well done indeed. Amazing work
thanks for the wonderful content. You are bringing out the stories behind these athletes so well.
This gives me hope man, I also hate swimming but happen to have been swimming all my life.
It is not about beeing only Competive, it is only about beeing born with a Talent in something and beeing competive.
I agree. Too many people say just work hard, work harder than anyone then you will do great. When in fact the world doesn’t work like that. Luck is one fundamental aspect of success.
God given talent. I don't like singing but I Cantor at my church because I know God wants me to use the talent. The right coach makes a difference.
I remember a show where a guys always slacking off on his work but the truth is, he is an expert on his field and finish his job early so most of the time he's slacking off...
That is what naturally born talent is. They are easily bored !. Too natural. They exactly want to be supernatural !.
Well, after winning alot of money, I hope she can actually do what she wants
She wants to win
People always say study a field you find interesting, find a job that you like to do!
Follow your passion, this is how you'll reach your highest highs in what you undertake
She's proof that you can do something that you dislike and still excel in what you do
Certainly one of the main reasons that may explain the fact that she hated swimming: her coach.
Phillipe Lucas is one of the biggest assholes I've ever seen. He treated her like a garbage.
He built his fame on her, she made him somebody. And he kept treating her like garbage, and criticizing her publicly.
I don't know anything about swimming, but correct me if my assumption is wrong. in the clip of the 50 free final in London '12, Manaudou seemed like he dove in and stayed in that stance much longer than the others, had that anything to do with why he won? Or was his special training? I just noticed that, because the others were already doing the strokes (I don't know what they're called) and he was still diving. Or did I just see it wrong?
Those videos are so great ! You are an incredible story teller, keep going !
Loved watching her swim-I could do it all day.
I have no interest in swimming but watched the whole video 🤠
In that video you point out (1:18) that her left arm comes in when her right foot pushes off. But in another video "Smooth swimming step by step" you were speaking of long distance swimming with a kick down of right leg at the same time right arm is pulling. So 2 different Technics that work the same on long distance?
Noup. Same technique. The right arm enters as the left leg goes down. At the same time the left arm is in the first stage of the pull.
@@SkillsNT OK this is more visible on your vid, with Laure it goes faster
Her elbow can bend so much more when catching the water comparing with others. It makes a great difference in speed.
"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.' "
-Muhammad Ali
I think self destruction, if done properly, is meditative too. It is so relaxing in an anti-relaxing way. It is the same feeling you get when you eat too many chillies. You get numb and enter some other world.
True!
One of the most natural gifted ones.
Wow had no idea Florant played handball for 2 years! What a guy, he’s a born athlete.
The 50m free is for Caleb to lose, definitely going for the 7 medals.
Thank you for the visual of her technique. I have so much work to do on mine
How did she get into swimming and discover she had a talent for the sport if she didn't like it? Life is crazy like that?
Probably her parents
Really talented swimmers and what awesome forms!
"I hated it so I want to get it done quickly and get it over with."
I really dont like swimming but your style of storytelling made me watch this whole video with enjoyment xDD
Thats one way to beat your opponent. You gotta hate it so bad that your gonna give all you got only to beat it and win over it.💪😅👍🏼
That was me during swim team. I hated everything about it and I had NO motivation. Idk how but I was fast during competition and went to state haha
Have you done a video yet discussing the pros and cons of bilateral breathing versus breathing every stroke? If not I'd love to see one
I was actually rooting for Manadou in the 50 free but Dressel is too much of a beast this year to be beat by any mere mortal!
Nice documentary, thank you!
On point with the musics !
What average people don't understand, is that it's hard to know if you like something because you're elite at it, or because you enjoy the activity itself
One of the reason why boxing sell so much ppv is because the have show like 24/7 and all access where the show the back ground and motivation of each fighter. And aLso the history of the sport. These shows makes people really tuned in into the fight. Thank you for creating something similar for swimming and showing that even swimming have a rich and interesting history.
P.s 24/7 has been canceled but there are yt channel that do similar stuff. Channel like ; rainy day boxing and office hancho
its crazy how laure kicks so much less when she swims than her competitors, but still wins and beats the world record
he won't be dressel. dressel by all rights holds the actual world record in the 50 free - fastest all time not wearing an LZR suit. and he just tied his record at the US trials.
Hardwork beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.
Love the video but Laure's technique is definitely NOT perfect.
I'm sure you can get in there and give her some pointers.🙄
@@MsAggie78 For starters, she needs to kick three times for every arm she puts forward. Very very simple stuff. Not all swimmers have perfect tachnique and she definitely doesn't
@@makisxatzimixas2372 Well, go outswim her, bud. Otherwise you're just armchairing.🧐😄
this was me with soccer.
first i loved it and started hating it years later. and quit it but now i’m debating getting back into it (even tho i really like volleyball and want to do it)
when you smack angrily at the water you go faster.
the coach that led her to the top is famous to France general public to be absolutely brutal with his trainees, when he says she has billlions of hours of swimming it might be an understatement the guy is straight up crazy. He basically does his best to crush you both mentally and physically, if you survive then you have a chance for world title. For real you guys should get some translation of his conversation with his swimmer.
That baby is gonna be scary🥶
I was competitiv in the sports i was doing but without the playful aspect in these i think that would have drive me crazy, i'm glad i didn't start swimming 😂 the mental of competitive swimmers is impressive