Is it really easier to kick less?
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- Опубликовано: 25 июн 2024
- Swimming with a single kick per stroke at a fast speed takes a lot of training, strength and coordination. This video takes you straight to what you need to do to avoid wasting leg energy.
If you can't control what your legs are doing, you won't be able to breathe properly. If you can't breathe properly you won't be able to correct your swimming technique. Without good swimming technique, you will not only us the energy from your legs, but from your entire body.
Follow this video series in order:
1- Swim with LESS Effort: • Swim with LESS Effort
2- Is it really easier to kick less?: • Is it really easier to...
3- The Most Important Body Part In Swimming: • The Most Important Bod...
00:00 - Is it really easier to kick less?
00:44 - Make your body longer
01:28 - Three forces that lift your legs
02:35 - Flexion of the knees and hips
03:44 - Exercises to improve the kick
07:36 - How much should your kick in freestyle swimming?
The position of the legs while swimming is simple to understand but difficult to apply in the water. The goal is to lengthen the body as much as possible. According to fluid mechanics, longer bodies have less resistance in water. One way to visualize the correct position is to imagine that you are in quicksand. If you cover little area you sink. But if you lie down you have more area on the ground and you have a better chance of survival. If you bend the hips and knees the area is reduced and you sink.
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Follow this video series in order:
1- Swim with LESS Effort: ruclips.net/video/9Wm0kyjtmaE/видео.html
2- Is it really easier to kick less?: ruclips.net/video/GMuYSlli3io/видео.html
3- The Most Important Body Part In Swimming: ruclips.net/video/CxhHPhKEtSI/видео.html
4- The Speed is in Your Hands: ruclips.net/video/Qnk_W5rzs2I/видео.html
5- Correct Breathing: ruclips.net/video/DuYAuj7DkUs/видео.html
6- Correct Arm Movement: ruclips.net/video/16mF-BUQRfI/видео.html
7- How to swim faster: ruclips.net/video/2KhqIa5ates/видео.html
8- Beautiful Freestyle is the last step: ruclips.net/video/mID8Mu1_nKQ/видео.html
9- 5 months to swim 2.5 miles (From zero): ruclips.net/video/C0uBYuBmvw4/видео.html
10- The easiest way to swim: ruclips.net/video/F7yP2bcoRgM/видео.html
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I'm new at swimming and I always lose concentration trying to find optimal kick rate. It's very tough. Anyways, great video and looking forward for the next one!
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This is a great video and I like it a lot. I also like the one stroke kick, but I have two versions of that kick: the sharp kick that turns the body and propels (which you demonstrate beautifully) and the softer kick that just turns the body, but provides no propulsion.
If I want to swim with _minimum_ energy, perhaps for swimming a very long time, no racing, then I find myself using that softer kick or no kick at all. The title of your video is "Is it really easier to kick less?" and the answer to that is a resounding yes. When using a no-kick stroke, I don't use speed to drag the legs back up, like you suggest in the video, but instead I change my balance - by keeping my arms forward and down. With this balance and the most minimal speed it's entirely possible to swim without kicking and to be efficient. Though, despite this, I might still use the single soft kick, because the rotation of the body really helps drive the arms and reduce their energy outlay.
Great video - one of the best on this topic.
Your videos are very appreciated and seem to be focusing on what will help me. I swim with arms only put my legs don't always stay high in the water. How static muscles control
contributes to better balance is an area I focus on. Thanks and keep your great vidoes coming.
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Very insightful. I discovered most of these techniques by copying movements from olympic swimmers and by understanding dynamic apnea breathing and posture principles, along with adding simple physics such as 'drag'. When I started swimming again in 2006 after a yearlong break, I did all the wrongs: low angle hips, heavy kicking and head out of the water. Nowadays I hardly use my legs at all while sprinting in front crawl. The pull buoy really helped me out. To stay frosty, I always include a few 'slow' lanes in what I call the "lazy crawl": a front crawl where I let myself glide out for as long as possible in between each stroke. This idea came from dynamic apnea and applying it in my front crawl magnifies the small mistakes that you make. As my aikido sensei once said: many can do it fast, but can you do it slow? That's where you give your imperfections enough time to show themselves. Besides that, it is also very relaxing to do a 'lazy crawl'. I heard of a guy in my province who swims around a small island regularly, and often almost falls asleep while doing his 'lazy crawl'.
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(also while i'm here thanks for breaststroke pull, kick, glide video!)
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I am literally doing the Cozumel Ironman in a month. I have watched your previous aero swim technique video. I guess I will have to modify my kicking for that longer distance haha. This is very timely.
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I can add that you apply pressure with your chest on the water, so your balance would shift forward and your legs will stop sinking as well.
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Hi there, First of all, really love your channel. I discovered it recently and love the way you explain the technique. I'm just a lay person trying to master the freestyle so that I can do endurance training. I watched this video some days ago and then tried the breathing exercises and kick drills from your other videos before I began doing laps. That definitely helped a lot ! I did find kicking just twice very tricky, especially using the arm and leg from the same side as you demonstrated. Tough to find a rhythm, but I guess it comes with practice.
Coming to my question: Isn't the kick supposed to help maintain the body's horizontal line? If I kick less, it feels a bit harder to maintain that line, especially after I take a breath -- my back tends to arch and the horizontal line becomes a bit of a u-shaped line instead. What might I be doing wrong here? Would love some guidance, will practice it out in the pool.
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im improving my swimming techniques through this series. im able to swim freestyle better than before. thank you for this insightful videos. It is also not complex and easily understandable from a beginner point of view. keep it up!
It's nice logic and realistic explanations! I've always try to train the legs as it help greatly while on water
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Solid analysis...I always want to go try right after watching
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Thanks my friend for the advices. How you say core muscles are very important to activate with kicks and gravity center body I love my Erica Lemus
great video! And can we swim backstroke with less kick in long distance?
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Binge watching your video. Thanks for the tips! Now I need swimming pool.
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One benefit of kicking that you didn't mention is that it helps stabilize your body when rotating. Which means less effort for the core and glutes and better endurance. That's why I always kick at the very moment I'm rotating.
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Question :
Why Tempo not arranging the Hand shake ?
I remember in one of your previous video, you suggest to hold the breath under water (as opposed to the more popular way, exhaling under water)
I personally found its easier to hold breath under water but I'm not sure if it is "correct"
Can you make a video on how ( and when ) to exhale?
about scissor kicks, yeah, few or professional swimmers can really use them for propulsion, but they are really not that efficient compared to frog kick for example, or arm strokes
bc our legs are small, so most of that water pressure used to produce lift is wasted, it's like comparing an eargle to hummingbirds
bc our legs are small compared to dolphin, to produce really good lift power, we need to kick very fast
that's why for example freediving fins are very long
Best advice I ever heard for keeping feet elevated was from a coach from Speedo, I think, "Suck in your gut like you are trying to put your belly button on your spine." Your swimming model here has an arch in his back, small, but still an arch. Getting rid of that arch, by tightening the abs is huge, at least for me. I have that old guy 'dunlaps', like the tire, or spare tire, disease, "your belly done laps over your belt." Never have been able to feel tightening of the glutes and back while swimming. Tightening up the back muscles can add to this arch in the lower back. 3 mile swim coming up today! Side stroke rules, breast stroke drools!
I’ve noticed one very interesting thing here 9:20, the timeing of your breathing is different as 90% of what I’ve seen, you actually rotate your face to breath in while your right hand - the same hand to which side you breathing, is in the propulsion and left hand is straight infront of you, my timeing is exact oposite, I am breathing to the right side while my left arm is in propulsion and my right hand goes out of water, now as I trying it just in my room it makes much more sence the way you doing it 🤔 because while I am breathing in an as my left arm is in propulsion while I am with my body on the side, my left arm tends to go over center line of my body which makes me swim in curve to the right, Today I just thought about this why am I swiming in curve, your videos are best here on youtube 🫡 👍🏼