Just wanted to share my appreciation for this channel and the work you put into it. I'm a 40 years young man who learns through observation. I don't have any swimming background aside from the fact that I learned how to swim when I was 6 or 7. I've been going to the pool once a week for the last 8 weeks, working only on technique (decided to sign up for a 70.3 next July, so I need to start training). 8 weeks ago 2.02 x 100m avg for 1650m, today 1.37 x 100m avg for 2000m which also felt relatively easier... only pull, no kicking, and no flip turns... it's a massive 25sec improvement over 100m just thanks to improved technique.. which means THANKS TO YOU!!!!!!
I was the same way Luca. Only started swimming in 2018. Only swam like 12x before doing the 2 triathlons I had planned that Summer. My first 2. I then started in June 2019 to train for the Summer triathlon season again and been trying to make corrections ever since. I seen improvements working with other people, but it wasn’t until working with Brenton that I seen the biggest improvement.
Great analysis. A few other things I noticed with this guy (hope he is reading the comments of his analysis on this video) is he crosses his hands over the "center-line" running along his spine when his hands enter the water and during the catch phase. This tendency to enter the hands close to the body's midline is too narrow and causes your shoulder to over-rotate and does not put the shoulder in a position optimal for maximum leverage during the catch and pull phase. Instead, if you keep your arms entering the water as though they were on "train-tracks" (two parallel lines that are about shoulder-width apart), rather than entering closer to the midline of the body, this will also help tremendously in keeping each elbow "out wider" during the pull, and therefore help you to keep that 100-120 degree angle (viewed from the front) of the elbow during the maximum force part of the pull. Also, and less important, are his feet are not really pointing, so he's causing unnecessary drag with his toes pointing down to the bottom of the pool rather than pointing backwards. Hope this helps. Good improvement from the Before vs After videos. You look great!
I so appreciate your channel, I am a 55 year average swimmer living in Canberra, I started swimming in the pool after being caught in a rip, all I could think of was being there for my son, I have taken lessons I can do 50ms but I train at the ANU pool in a 25m pool, at the moment I am trying to increase my stamina and correct my stroke and improve in my stride and confidence. thank you so much for your videos
Thank you for this video! I am an amateur triathlete in the fifty's and just started swimming in my late forty's. At the moment I swim low 1:50's on the 100mtrs and want to bring this down to 1:40ish. As I am actually facing exactly the same challenges as Chris I will try to work on the high elbows (amongst some other techniques) in the coming weeks/months 😃
Thanks for all the videos. I just recently started watching your channel and feel I am learning a lot. Started swimming in the late 1960's and swam through high school. Never have seen underwater video of my stroke but am planning to get a GoPro to check things out. I have a friend who I swam with in high school who went on to swim in college and he mentioned that he has not seen his stroke underwater either. We plan to get the 4 or 5 views that you mention in your video on videoing your stroke. I am surprised to hear you say the optimal shoulder rotation is around 35 degrees. I keep hearing over and over about rotation and swimming on your side to reduce your drag. I often wondered how you could have a good catch and have your fingers pointing at the bottom of the pool if your shoulders are at close to 90 degrees.Does not seem possible even if you are very flexible, etc. It will be interesting to see what my friend and my stroke actually look like versus what we think it looks like. He is able to maintain low 1:30 and I maintain high 1:30/100 meters for 3k+. As senior citizens, it would be nice to pick up the pace a bit and make it more "Effortless"! Thanks for what you do. Brian
Great tips! That video is great! Much easier for me to relate to a swimmer for which we can see an improvement on the way he catches the water and the speed consequence!
I am thankful that I found your channel. I was able to improve my stroke before lockdown by following the drills you suggest. The biggest challenge I faced often is that sometimes I got water in my nose while breathing to the side during freestyle strokes. This happened during flip turns as well. Can you please suggest a workaround on that? Thank you in advance.
Great tips. I'm sure I have similar issues, but more extreme that I'm working on :) Good to see this more subtle example. My left arm definitely 'collapses' during a breathing cycle. I'm off scuba diving next week, should get chance for some practice to work on this.
@@IronmanHacks Nearly a year ago, wow! I'm never going to be a Sam Laidlow, but I should be a better swimmer than I am, unfortunately I'm still not there yet. At least I have youth on my side :)
When you say 1.40, 1.30 per 100 meters do you mean in a pool including kicking the wall? Or just raw swimming time? Cause I see a huge difference between the two cases. And when it comes to open water swimming the speed drops even further...
Hmm, surprised you didn't comment on how he kind of snakes through the water. The head on shot shows this best. He isn't really crossing over with his arms, but head and body line do not remain straight. That would take time off of his 100m, and distance swims.
is that a sustainable pace for longer distances like a triathalon? new swimmer here and find that when I do 750+ m, I can't keep that quicker pace like when I just do a 100m.
@@RickMartinRUclips sounds like you have some decent pace already if you can hold 1:40/100m for 750m. Longer distance is achievable, with proper training and time. I’m an average swimmer, for years would be 1:58/100m did a few triathlons including 2 x Half IM in wetsuits and was 1:53/100m With the help of this channel I am now averaging 1:48/100m over 1000m, my sprinting time is 1:41ish, but can’t hold for long. If you’re training for an event, squad training works 🙌🏻
@@cnaimoli007 How many days were you training in the first video? I think technique is important, but I also believe many swimmers just improve by swimming more.
@@bretzky9261 I had been swimming 3-4x a week over the last year. I had plantar fasciitis in 2020 and so I was only swimming & biking. So I seen all my progress in 2020 from just swimming long open water swims. And then October 2020 I signed up for Ironman Texas and was 4x a week in the pool mostly.
I don't know how people have the courage to swim in water deeper than their neck. If you get tired, you'll drown! I panic in the gym pool, and it's only four feet deep.
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Just wanted to share my appreciation for this channel and the work you put into it. I'm a 40 years young man who learns through observation. I don't have any swimming background aside from the fact that I learned how to swim when I was 6 or 7. I've been going to the pool once a week for the last 8 weeks, working only on technique (decided to sign up for a 70.3 next July, so I need to start training). 8 weeks ago 2.02 x 100m avg for 1650m, today 1.37 x 100m avg for 2000m which also felt relatively easier... only pull, no kicking, and no flip turns... it's a massive 25sec improvement over 100m just thanks to improved technique.. which means THANKS TO YOU!!!!!!
Thank you Luca, and well done on the improvement!
I was the same way Luca. Only started swimming in 2018. Only swam like 12x before doing the 2 triathlons I had planned that Summer. My first 2. I then started in June 2019 to train for the Summer triathlon season again and been trying to make corrections ever since. I seen improvements working with other people, but it wasn’t until working with Brenton that I seen the biggest improvement.
PS: im 42
Great analysis. A few other things I noticed with this guy (hope he is reading the comments of his analysis on this video) is he crosses his hands over the "center-line" running along his spine when his hands enter the water and during the catch phase. This tendency to enter the hands close to the body's midline is too narrow and causes your shoulder to over-rotate and does not put the shoulder in a position optimal for maximum leverage during the catch and pull phase.
Instead, if you keep your arms entering the water as though they were on "train-tracks" (two parallel lines that are about shoulder-width apart), rather than entering closer to the midline of the body, this will also help tremendously in keeping each elbow "out wider" during the pull, and therefore help you to keep that 100-120 degree angle (viewed from the front) of the elbow during the maximum force part of the pull.
Also, and less important, are his feet are not really pointing, so he's causing unnecessary drag with his toes pointing down to the bottom of the pool rather than pointing backwards.
Hope this helps. Good improvement from the Before vs After videos. You look great!
I so appreciate your channel, I am a 55 year average swimmer living in Canberra, I started swimming in the pool after being caught in a rip, all I could think of was being there for my son, I have taken lessons I can do 50ms but I train at the ANU pool in a 25m pool, at the moment I am trying to increase my stamina and correct my stroke and improve in my stride and confidence. thank you so much for your videos
Thank you for this video! I am an amateur triathlete in the fifty's and just started swimming in my late forty's. At the moment I swim low 1:50's on the 100mtrs and want to bring this down to 1:40ish. As I am actually facing exactly the same challenges as Chris I will try to work on the high elbows (amongst some other techniques) in the coming weeks/months 😃
Clearly putting a lot of time and effort into making you effortless swimming vlogs. Cheers Alan
Bravo Chris!! Keep up the great progress.
Thanks for all the videos. I just recently started watching your channel and feel I am learning a lot. Started swimming in the late 1960's and swam through high school. Never have seen underwater video of my stroke but am planning to get a GoPro to check things out. I have a friend who I swam with in high school who went on to swim in college and he mentioned that he has not seen his stroke underwater either. We plan to get the 4 or 5 views that you mention in your video on videoing your stroke. I am surprised to hear you say the optimal shoulder rotation is around 35 degrees. I keep hearing over and over about rotation and swimming on your side to reduce your drag. I often wondered how you could have a good catch and have your fingers pointing at the bottom of the pool if your shoulders are at close to 90 degrees.Does not seem possible even if you are very flexible, etc. It will be interesting to see what my friend and my stroke actually look like versus what we think it looks like. He is able to maintain low 1:30 and I maintain high 1:30/100 meters for 3k+. As senior citizens, it would be nice to pick up the pace a bit and make it more "Effortless"! Thanks for what you do. Brian
Great tips! That video is great! Much easier for me to relate to a swimmer for which we can see an improvement on the way he catches the water and the speed consequence!
I will try to wider now. I mean,I will be increasing the angle tomorrow. Thank you so much for your time and helping others through RUclips
I’m learning a lot of this videos!! Thank you
Excellent video. Also, well done on the improvements in your swim technique, Chris.
Another great video! Very clear analysis, very helpful. Thanks for the great content!
I am thankful that I found your channel. I was able to improve my stroke before lockdown by following the drills you suggest. The biggest challenge I faced often is that sometimes I got water in my nose while breathing to the side during freestyle strokes. This happened during flip turns as well. Can you please suggest a workaround on that? Thank you in advance.
Great observation
muchas gracias, excelente video
Great tips. I'm sure I have similar issues, but more extreme that I'm working on :) Good to see this more subtle example. My left arm definitely 'collapses' during a breathing cycle. I'm off scuba diving next week, should get chance for some practice to work on this.
Fancy seeing you here, Dean. I’m working on similar issues, too. 😅
@@IronmanHacks Nearly a year ago, wow! I'm never going to be a Sam Laidlow, but I should be a better swimmer than I am, unfortunately I'm still not there yet. At least I have youth on my side :)
These are brilliant videos!
Thanks for your sharing
thank you for so much.
When you say 1.40, 1.30 per 100 meters do you mean in a pool including kicking the wall? Or just raw swimming time? Cause I see a huge difference between the two cases. And when it comes to open water swimming the speed drops even further...
Great video, thank you
What program and technology is used for the analysis? It's super nice and detailed oriented.
great stuff
music which helps free stye swimming?
What is a good waterproof camera to capture underwater swimming action?
Gopro 6 or above
Hmm, surprised you didn't comment on how he kind of snakes through the water. The head on shot shows this best. He isn't really crossing over with his arms, but head and body line do not remain straight. That would take time off of his 100m, and distance swims.
How do I join 5 day challenge
I notice he has poor ankle flexibility. Do you have any simple tips to help this. I feel like it’s holding back the speed
1:40 per 100m, that is my goal time 🤦🏻♂️
Great videos btw 👏
is that a sustainable pace for longer distances like a triathalon? new swimmer here and find that when I do 750+ m, I can't keep that quicker pace like when I just do a 100m.
@@RickMartinRUclips sounds like you have some decent pace already if you can hold 1:40/100m for 750m. Longer distance is achievable, with proper training and time.
I’m an average swimmer, for years would be 1:58/100m did a few triathlons including 2 x Half IM in wetsuits and was 1:53/100m
With the help of this channel I am now averaging 1:48/100m over 1000m, my sprinting time is 1:41ish, but can’t hold for long.
If you’re training for an event, squad training works 🙌🏻
I think I make abt 5s off based on the 5 day catch challenge. Thank you
Looks like a stronger stroke. I bet this guy has been putting in the miles and naturally became stronger and faster.
Same inpression from my side
Thanks! I have been putting in the work. At least 3 days a week. Was trying for 4 for the longest time but life got in the way.
@@cnaimoli007 How many days were you training in the first video? I think technique is important, but I also believe many swimmers just improve by swimming more.
@@bretzky9261 I had been swimming 3-4x a week over the last year. I had plantar fasciitis in 2020 and so I was only swimming & biking. So I seen all my progress in 2020 from just swimming long open water swims. And then October 2020 I signed up for Ironman Texas and was 4x a week in the pool mostly.
@@cnaimoli007 congrats! Keep it going mate!
I don't know how people have the courage to swim in water deeper than their neck. If you get tired, you'll drown! I panic in the gym pool, and it's only four feet deep.
This guy needs yoga stretching for upper body and less kicking legs...along with technique