Our most requested video this summer is here as we breakdown the Popovici’s awesome freestyle technique! Which swimmer strokes do you want us to breakdown next?
Hey, so I would be very grateful if you analyzed Milak Kristof 200m fly, and 50m, 100m sprint by Dressel, or even Ledecky at 800m because she can be seen galloping too. Another question, what I've noticed with Popici, it stretches the hand so much forward to increase the length of the draw that it even flexes the body.
I love it when the way I have been swimming for years makes a 'comeback' and becomes trendy. I am no means in anyone's league but, swimming high out of the water with the 'gallop' method is normal for me. Thanks for this excellent video.
Well done. Good analysis. In the days of Johnny Weissmuller the swimmers had head out swimming. Then in the early 80s we were taught to keep the head down flat in the water turn slightly to breath and for short distances breath as fewer times as possible using half the mouth. Now he has his head almost half out of water launching himself into every strokes. Good luck to him. Very nice chap. Hope he continues to do well.
Sunteți atât de fascinați de David Popovici, Minunea noastră din natație, încât analizați fiecare mișcare a lui în apă! Deci este FENOMEN la vârsta lui cum înoată și cât este de rapid! Și este doar începutul a unui șir de curse câștigate, de recorduri doborâte, de medalii de aur mondiale,europene și Olimpice care vor urma! La cât îl știm de ambițios și perfecționist va fii încă câțiva ani buni cel mai Cool în aceste 2 probe: 100 și 200 m Freestyle.👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇❤❤❤❤❤❤🇹🇩🇹🇩🇹🇩🇹🇩🇹🇩🇹🇩🇹🇩🇹🇩🇹🇩🇹🇩🇹🇩
I've been looking at Popovici's stoke too. One thing I noticed is he is not pushing water at any time during his stroke, so the water is being forced against his body. I assume, if you feel a wave of water against your body, coming off your hand motion, you are wasting that energy. For me, Popovici is swimming in a way that eliminates this drag. Of course it pays to be as thin as Popovici is too. In the end, I think Popovici's stroke is as novel as what Fosbury did for the high jump. Popovici's torso also undulates up and down almost like he is sneaking in one dolphin kick with each rotation-stroke. It's all very novel, and very dependent upon Popovici's body type.
Pity you didn’t refer to subtleties in his stroke. The wider underwater left arm position is for balance as he breathes to his right. His efficient leg action is also because he has very flexible ankles and displays a great crossover kick with intoeing which generates the propulsion. The soft hand is about feeling still water and his high elbow with longitudinal rotation creates an elliptical pathway for the arm action. His high body position reduces frontal resistance and his rotation body reduces profile resistance
You want high hips and David popovici is able to maintain high hips while getting his upper body that high out. Don’t try to emulate his upper body unless you can maintain high hips like he can (99% of pro swimmers can’t)
I see his left arm goes wide because he releases the hips, which then puts the legs out of the vertical plane. I believe this is where he can improve. This is very similar t3chnique to Ian Thorpe and Libby Trickett. The rest of the technique is obviously fantastic. Because he is super fast does not mean it can not be improved. Just a comment.
Not sure if this is even a problem. The 90 degree profile of the arm in front of the body produces significantly less drag compared to straight arm. It could be that he’s sacrificing a bit of propulsion for a major reduction in drag resulting in greater speed.
I would like to see a video of backstroke technique, especially timing, as I learnt almost entirely by instinct despite being in a club, and used to be given drills like catch up from the hip, which seems to be the opposite of front quadrant. Is backstroke meant to be front quadrant(?), when should the catch begin for each arm recovery(?), etc. Go through all the BLABT, but on backstroke (breathing may be not so important, but mention if you breathe in/out at a certain part of the stroke). Legs are interesting on backstroke because I kick to one side then the other because of hip rotation. Arms, timing the entry vs. rotation of the shoulder, how to catch effectively, width of entry, point fingers towards wall or ceiling(?), shape of pull. How does timing change at sprint speeds? Anything else that you think is important.
David Popovici is truly interesting to watch. Something Zen-like also in his mental approach to swimming. Tori Huske, IMO has something of the same mental acuity as David, I believe. Her butterfly technique is beautiful. I'd love to see you do a breakdown on her, also.
Thank you from Romania. David is a genius. Look him: he's not a man he is alien. The way he speak is the way he think & feel & move. Very unusual. Deep. High philosophy. Unic. He paint like Michelangelo on water, he's art is from nobody knows. I see this before at Nadia Comaneci, Nastase, Hagi and so on. Ervin Haaland also todays. Aliens.
Aici se discuta detalii de tehnica, caracteristicile corpului care ajuta sau nu miscarea in apa, etcm Citesc comentariile romanilor si par desprinse din Cronicile din Narnia. Popovici nu are nevoie de comentariile astea. Munca si talentul lui il recomanda mai mult decat odele astea
The big takeaway from his swim was how hard he kicked and how it didn’t fade. The rest of his stroke is basically the same as so many others. His training sets and focus to maintain this kick was probably the single biggest factor to his accomplishment.
Good analysis, my give on this is that he has a unique musculoskeletal system, he is light boned and strong efficient muscle strength and energy metabolism, what makes him fast is his core strength to limb ratio at full extension of the arm as he kicks into the extention of his arrow forward position to his catch, galop freestyle has been around for decades, nothing new there. Also to take into consideration is he is naturally doped with high testosterone and growth hormone production. Wish him a long successful career 🙏
@@darringrey4329 its just stating the obvious, when saying high hormone he is at optimal range for his age, after 25 he goes downhill in hormone production.
I have yet to see a really good explanation of the gallop style of freestyle. This does come close. Many coaches make a big deal about having both arms in the front quadrant. This doesn't really happen with the gallop style. This is because the arm pull is off beat rather than a steady beat/even rhythm. With gallop style, it is a quick 1, 2, then a slight pause, then repeat. The breathing arm stays extended, then when other arm recovers, there is that quick 1, 2. By the time the other arm recovers, the breathing side arm is past the mid point of the pull. Pretty much all of the men swim with the gallop style. Some of the women like Katie and Summer do, but Ariarne Titmus swims on an even beat. Supposedly the porpoise action that is used with gallop style puts the entire body under water for a bit which reduces over all drag. I guess it adds a little extra drive to help with acceleration. I would also guess that the normal peaks and valleys in acceleration and slow down are slightly less as well, but would need Gary Hall's velocimeter to test that out for sure. I did search swimming styles, and the gallop style seems to go back to Matt Biondi. I did find one video of Mark Spitz, and he did breath every other arm stroke, but he didn't really gallop, or lope as I called it.
interesting details! since was made a parallel with a dolphin style I would highlight that the head & torso vertical movement, linked with hips torsion and legs vertical push, create additional horizontal acceleration of a wave passing through
How does no one speaks about totally unusual body position when he breaths? Take a look where are the toes pointing when his head is on the side. Look how curved he is. And why he does he like no other swimmer goes so up to the water when breathes and then after putting his head down he almost immerse all his body in the water? He did what he did because of things that are not much visible. There are things more than that. And what Popovici does that no one do, is that he UNDERSTANDS that everyone should swimm in his own way. Everyone should understand his own biomechanics which are very different to one another. He is smart, he knows that and he practice that. He is close to his body more than everyone and his approach to swimming is different. Those things are what makes the difference to him. Things that are not visible.
Could you please analyze the freestyle stroke of the great Janet Evans. She had a galloping stroke, lifted her head to breathe and did not follow the one goggle down while breathing rule. Thank you.
what do you think, if the left hand pull will be powerful when his parallel or when his hand closer to core. Popovici has it parallel is it fault or can he improve there.
My daughter is 9 and now swimmimg in club (plus finishing level 7 swim England). we are now switching her breaststroke from what'd she's been taught (frog), to pull-kick-glide. because she's learnt a certain way for so long, it's hard for her to switch. She knows what she's supposed to be doing, but doing it and feeling comfortable are two different things lol. any tips for transition? 🙂
I don't quite understand what causes his "galop" style and the purpose of it. Is he pulling harder with one arm than the other? For what benefit? Off the top of my head, I'd think anything that causes imbalance makes you slower. But I'm clearly mistaken.
There are better angles where you can see how high he is in the water. In the euro 100m semifinal you can see it on the second half: ruclips.net/video/UNOVQlztXuQ/видео.html
flexible muscles body flexibility that allows him to put all his power in the last 25 m his opponents with better underwater technique could do nothing when he will improve his start and his wave technique he will make sprint history again
Why does he enter the water with the arm already extended. Isnt he supposed to enter close to his head and then extend to get as much distance per stroke as possible?
Pushing your hand/arm through the water creates resistance so if anything, he's getting further distance per stroke by extending above the water rather than through it
yes, everything so perfect, including his uncut toe nails and... his left-hand fingers open under water while the right-hand ones remain closed? What else is oh-so perfect you said? yes, his shortening of the arms by bending them bcse he has not enough power to extend them full at highest 'rowing' speed (unlike pan zhanle)?
I am Park Seok-ki, a leader who coached Park Tae-hwan of Korea to win the 400 freestyle at the Melbourne World Championships. Looking at Popovich, I feel that he is a great player with good skills and will lead the world freestyle event for a long time. Also, thank you for your analysis.I look forward to your accurate and reasonable analysis in the future I wish you good health and happiness. Bye, my friend!
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Our most requested video this summer is here as we breakdown the Popovici’s awesome freestyle technique!
Which swimmer strokes do you want us to breakdown next?
Hey, so I would be very grateful if you analyzed Milak Kristof 200m fly, and 50m, 100m sprint by Dressel, or even Ledecky at 800m because she can be seen galloping too.
Another question, what I've noticed with Popici, it stretches the hand so much forward to increase the length of the draw that it even flexes the body.
Dacă tot vorbiți de David Popovici....puneți subtitrări în limba română
There are many analysis of David's stroke and they all miss the MAIN POINTS except YOU! You are the best! Thank you...
Appreciate the kind words!
I love it when the way I have been swimming for years makes a 'comeback' and becomes trendy. I am no means in anyone's league but, swimming high out of the water with the 'gallop' method is normal for me. Thanks for this excellent video.
David “absolutely incredible” Popovici
Cel mai bun.
We thank you.
He is becoming a legend.
This guy doesn't care about body symmetry , one goggle in the water etc... and goes on the break the world record. Loving it!
When he improves the diving and underwaters is going to be unbreakeable.
He only needs that for 50
i think so, there is room for him to improve starting and underwater dolphin kick
He is already unbreakable.
@@feederaddict9409 good point😅
Maybe the start, because he has got an unbelieveble way to use the shoulders and arms. Even hands with his fingers. Long fingers like a pianist.
Well done. Good analysis.
In the days of Johnny Weissmuller the swimmers had head out swimming. Then in the early 80s we were taught to keep the head down flat in the water turn slightly to breath and for short distances breath as fewer times as possible using half the mouth. Now he has his head almost half out of water launching himself into every strokes. Good luck to him. Very nice chap. Hope he continues to do well.
You know, Jonny Weissmuller is born on Romania...😊
A swimming Usain Bolt !💥💨💨💨
Sunteți atât de fascinați de David Popovici, Minunea noastră din natație, încât analizați fiecare mișcare a lui în apă! Deci este FENOMEN la vârsta lui cum înoată și cât este de rapid! Și este doar începutul a unui șir de curse câștigate, de recorduri doborâte, de medalii de aur mondiale,europene și Olimpice care vor urma!
La cât îl știm de ambițios și perfecționist va fii încă câțiva ani buni cel mai Cool în aceste 2 probe: 100 și 200 m Freestyle.👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇❤❤❤❤❤❤🇹🇩🇹🇩🇹🇩🇹🇩🇹🇩🇹🇩🇹🇩🇹🇩🇹🇩🇹🇩🇹🇩
For an American viewer like myself, I attibute your young David Attenborough style commentary as authoritative.
I've been looking at Popovici's stoke too. One thing I noticed is he is not pushing water at any time during his stroke, so the water is being forced against his body. I assume, if you feel a wave of water against your body, coming off your hand motion, you are wasting that energy. For me, Popovici is swimming in a way that eliminates this drag. Of course it pays to be as thin as Popovici is too. In the end, I think Popovici's stroke is as novel as what Fosbury did for the high jump. Popovici's torso also undulates up and down almost like he is sneaking in one dolphin kick with each rotation-stroke. It's all very novel, and very dependent upon Popovici's body type.
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Pity you didn’t refer to subtleties in his stroke. The wider underwater left arm position is for balance as he breathes to his right. His efficient leg action is also because he has very flexible ankles and displays a great crossover kick with intoeing which generates the propulsion. The soft hand is about feeling still water and his high elbow with longitudinal rotation creates an elliptical pathway for the arm action. His high body position reduces frontal resistance and his rotation body reduces profile resistance
Moving in air faster than in water like your analysis
Great analysis!
He seems to be aware of his body and worked hard. Thanks for the explanations! Nice video!
You want high hips and David popovici is able to maintain high hips while getting his upper body that high out.
Don’t try to emulate his upper body unless you can maintain high hips like he can (99% of pro swimmers can’t)
I see his left arm goes wide because he releases the hips, which then puts the legs out of the vertical plane. I believe this is where he can improve.
This is very similar t3chnique to Ian Thorpe and Libby Trickett. The rest of the technique is obviously fantastic.
Because he is super fast does not mean it can not be improved.
Just a comment.
Not sure if this is even a problem. The 90 degree profile of the arm in front of the body produces significantly less drag compared to straight arm. It could be that he’s sacrificing a bit of propulsion for a major reduction in drag resulting in greater speed.
You explained the water drag with bubbles and bubbles you are a genius thanks.
Thanks for the explanation, it is very useful, especially the part of the hands and fingers and the arm position and its entrance to the water.
Glad it was helpful!
It is an extension of the style of both Popov and Ian Thorpe
It's not the muscles that matter, but the psyche, the desire and the "relationship" with water. David does not beat the water but cooperates with it.
英語、水泳を一気に勉強できるの嬉しい
thank you very much. you explain clearly and concisely.
I would like to see a video of backstroke technique, especially timing, as I learnt almost entirely by instinct despite being in a club, and used to be given drills like catch up from the hip, which seems to be the opposite of front quadrant. Is backstroke meant to be front quadrant(?), when should the catch begin for each arm recovery(?), etc. Go through all the BLABT, but on backstroke (breathing may be not so important, but mention if you breathe in/out at a certain part of the stroke). Legs are interesting on backstroke because I kick to one side then the other because of hip rotation. Arms, timing the entry vs. rotation of the shoulder, how to catch effectively, width of entry, point fingers towards wall or ceiling(?), shape of pull. How does timing change at sprint speeds? Anything else that you think is important.
Thanks for this great analysis!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Brilliant analysis!
Such a great video
David Popovici is truly interesting to watch. Something Zen-like also in his mental approach to swimming. Tori Huske, IMO has something of the same mental acuity as David, I believe. Her butterfly technique is beautiful. I'd love to see you do a breakdown on her, also.
oh very interesting suggestion! Let's see how she gets on this summer and we may well do that 🇺🇸
we must not forget that it is a swimmer who above all has bodily gifts
Grande Popovici🇷🇴💪
Thank you from Romania. David is a genius. Look him: he's not a man he is alien. The way he speak is the way he think & feel & move. Very unusual. Deep. High philosophy. Unic. He paint like Michelangelo on water, he's art is from nobody knows. I see this before at Nadia Comaneci, Nastase, Hagi and so on. Ervin Haaland also todays. Aliens.
Aici se discuta detalii de tehnica, caracteristicile corpului care ajuta sau nu miscarea in apa, etcm Citesc comentariile romanilor si par desprinse din Cronicile din Narnia. Popovici nu are nevoie de comentariile astea. Munca si talentul lui il recomanda mai mult decat odele astea
The big takeaway from his swim was how hard he kicked and how it didn’t fade. The rest of his stroke is basically the same as so many others. His training sets and focus to maintain this kick was probably the single biggest factor to his accomplishment.
Good analyse
Wow impressive
A great example of how great Popovici is IN SPITE OF his techinique
nice example of horse freestyle, should be taught more as it's extremely fun and forces the swimmer to be very explosive/efficient on technique.
Very very useful and interesting video 👍🏻
Good analysis, my give on this is that he has a unique musculoskeletal system, he is light boned and strong efficient muscle strength and energy metabolism, what makes him fast is his core strength to limb ratio at full extension of the arm as he kicks into the extention of his arrow forward position to his catch, galop freestyle has been around for decades, nothing new there. Also to take into consideration is he is naturally doped with high testosterone and growth hormone production. Wish him a long successful career 🙏
How did you come to that conclusion?? I bet his hormone levels are nothing out of the norm I bet his practice sessions though are outrageous!
@@darringrey4329 its just stating the obvious, when saying high hormone he is at optimal range for his age, after 25 he goes downhill in hormone production.
thanks for the analysis of the golop technique, I want to analyze the coolest swimming techniques, such as an arrow and a windmill in a free style.
I have yet to see a really good explanation of the gallop style of freestyle. This does come close. Many coaches make a big deal about having both arms in the front quadrant. This doesn't really happen with the gallop style. This is because the arm pull is off beat rather than a steady beat/even rhythm. With gallop style, it is a quick 1, 2, then a slight pause, then repeat. The breathing arm stays extended, then when other arm recovers, there is that quick 1, 2. By the time the other arm recovers, the breathing side arm is past the mid point of the pull. Pretty much all of the men swim with the gallop style. Some of the women like Katie and Summer do, but Ariarne Titmus swims on an even beat. Supposedly the porpoise action that is used with gallop style puts the entire body under water for a bit which reduces over all drag. I guess it adds a little extra drive to help with acceleration. I would also guess that the normal peaks and valleys in acceleration and slow down are slightly less as well, but would need Gary Hall's velocimeter to test that out for sure. I did search swimming styles, and the gallop style seems to go back to Matt Biondi. I did find one video of Mark Spitz, and he did breath every other arm stroke, but he didn't really gallop, or lope as I called it.
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interesting details! since was made a parallel with a dolphin style I would highlight that the head & torso vertical movement, linked with hips torsion and legs vertical push, create additional horizontal acceleration of a wave passing through
How does no one speaks about totally unusual body position when he breaths? Take a look where are the toes pointing when his head is on the side. Look how curved he is. And why he does he like no other swimmer goes so up to the water when breathes and then after putting his head down he almost immerse all his body in the water?
He did what he did because of things that are not much visible. There are things more than that.
And what Popovici does that no one do, is that he UNDERSTANDS that everyone should swimm in his own way. Everyone should understand his own biomechanics which are very different to one another. He is smart, he knows that and he practice that. He is close to his body more than everyone and his approach to swimming is different. Those things are what makes the difference to him. Things that are not visible.
Could you please analyze the freestyle stroke of the great Janet Evans. She had a galloping stroke, lifted her head to breathe and did not follow the one goggle down while breathing rule. Thank you.
what do you think, if the left hand pull will be powerful when his parallel or when his hand closer to core. Popovici has it parallel is it fault or can he improve there.
Hi good stuff. Yes please analyze "Chole Sutton." She has videos on the tube, and Chole's style is different again.
Yeah
We love ẻuope
My daughter is 9 and now swimmimg in club (plus finishing level 7 swim England). we are now switching her breaststroke from what'd she's been taught (frog), to pull-kick-glide. because she's learnt a certain way for so long, it's hard for her to switch. She knows what she's supposed to be doing, but doing it and feeling comfortable are two different things lol. any tips for transition? 🙂
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Having foot the size of a swimfin also helps propulsion 😄
He's even more spectacular if you compare his strength with his body, he's skinny but probably every single muscle is just perfect for his job
It's exciting to see how fast he can end up going in his career. Any predictions?
Keep watching and feel free to take all the notes you can
I don't quite understand what causes his "galop" style and the purpose of it. Is he pulling harder with one arm than the other? For what benefit? Off the top of my head, I'd think anything that causes imbalance makes you slower. But I'm clearly mistaken.
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There are better angles where you can see how high he is in the water. In the euro 100m semifinal you can see it on the second half: ruclips.net/video/UNOVQlztXuQ/видео.html
Popo did the logical thing and disconnected his left and right. It's two completely different strokes. Sleekness is the future, not muscles, thank god
I think so too. More like an eel 😅. Similarly, Usain Bolt is muscular but not heavily.
popov style
Open water swimmers can play like this
Can u please do ryan murphy ??
Popovici analysis ok now maybe butterfly analysis Michael Phelps?
There's a fun thought 😏
or Milak as he broke Phelps record
Hi Cole
flexible muscles body flexibility that allows him to put all his power in the last 25 m his opponents with better underwater technique could do nothing when he will improve his start and his wave technique he will make sprint history again
Why does he enter the water with the arm already extended. Isnt he supposed to enter close to his head and then extend to get as much distance per stroke as possible?
Pushing your hand/arm through the water creates resistance so if anything, he's getting further distance per stroke by extending above the water rather than through it
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David's technique is the reason why freestyle is stuck at 46.8. and isn't in the mid to low 45's.
Please activate subtitles in Spanish, I appreciate it
I'm going with popovich to win the 100 meter free at Paris
He had a lot of mistakes but still beats the world record is surprising me to this day!
I'm 1.73m with average proportions, there's no way i can swim like that
popopocic
Analysis for breast stroke
Which Breatstroker would you like analysed like this?
"Leg kick"? Let's talk about how his hands kick 😂😂
Breathing every 2 strokes doesn't even feel like swimming freestyle
What do you mean?
yes, everything so perfect, including his uncut toe nails and... his left-hand fingers open under water while the right-hand ones remain closed? What else is oh-so perfect you said? yes, his shortening of the arms by bending them bcse he has not enough power to extend them full at highest 'rowing' speed (unlike pan zhanle)?
Contrasts maybe with the Chinese swimmer. Think he swims the 100m? Pan. We’ll be just broke the world record!
Analyse all you like. Nobody will improve as a result. Like trying to replicate Shane Warne. Nobody on earth could copy.
A Romanian with a Serbian name? He is a Serbian?
No, he is 100% Romanian
Good skills = good records
I am Park Seok-ki, a leader who coached Park Tae-hwan of Korea to win the 400 freestyle at the Melbourne World Championships. Looking at Popovich, I feel that he is a great player with good skills and will lead the world freestyle event for a long time. Also, thank you for your analysis.I look forward to your accurate and reasonable analysis in the future I wish you good health and happiness. Bye, my friend!
Great analysis 👍