"His relationship with the water is potentially the best we've ever seen..."
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2022
- Jon Rudd provides a few thoughts after watching David Popovici live in Rome.
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being my self a butterfly swimmer in the past not elite, i am almost 50 i find incredible how people can swim so well free style, i swim faster butterfly than freestyle now (i am not a good freestyle swimmer...) i have seen in my live very few people swimming as fluent as popovici...maybe popov... i also watched the interview of popovici in this channel, and he is an amazing kid talking he even tack about philosophy, his coach must be a very good teacher...people have to think that swimming is a totally different sport, when you tell people that you have to feel the water they look at you as you are an alien, my best 100 m butterfly (58 sec.. normal time and long ago) was the day i felt water the most... marvellous channel...
Wow, I am speechless! This is motivational speaking, life coach, swimming coach, coach in everything kinda lesson! Chapeau!
Most of the commentary on Popovici is based on old paradigms: his catch, his flexibility, and the mystic black hole of "feel for the water" or "aquatic force" which can mean almost anything. Of course, he's very good at these things. But is it likely that these are the best reasons for his success while he and the fastest swimmers are departing from swimming orthodoxy with their loping technique? Why not investigate the loping technique, which is much more low-hanging fruit than these other ideas, which are either plowed over or untestable?
How about this? The asymmetrical rhythm of the loping technique, by which it is commonly defined, is a red herring which has little or nothing to do with its purpose. How do we know? Because the theory behind this of a "hybrid" freestyle makes no sense. Supposedly, the lope is a hybrid of the "shoulder-driven" freestyle and the "hip driven" freestyle for the purpose of combining the benefits of a sprint stroke with a distance stroke into a middle distance stroke. This is obviously not the case since loping is prominent from Jason Lezac's superhuman final 50m in 2008 to Grigorio Paltinieri's dominance and Bobby Finke's emergence at long distances. Besides, you don't see Sydney McLaughlin, Eliud Kipchoge and other great runners using a short stride on one side and a long stride on the other. The hybrid interpretation makes no logical sense and flies in the face of the facts.
What if the asymmetric rhythm is irrelevant and the key feature of the lope is the vertical motion up and down? Popolvici's head almost completely clears the water, then submerges beneath it in a single stroke cycle, carrying his upper body with it. This flies directly in the face of swimming orthodoxy, so this is the place to look for a paradigm shift. It is not supposed to work, but it does. Why? There's no reason it shouldn't. The butterfly, with its pronounced vertical movement, evolved as a faster version of the breaststroke. The breaststroke itself has evolved to include more vertical movement since the 1990s. No reason why the principle that works there shouldn't work in freestyle as well. We just need to understand how.
You are so damn right, genius remark! His style maybe doesnt benefit of water physics, but that lope stroke provoke more complex including dolphin muscles involvement not unsimilar to Paul Biedermann 2009 swimming dress. But for that you need extraordinary body elasticity
Popovici’s opening 50m in the 100 free should improve as he matures and gains extra strength. His current 50 free PB isn’t particularly noteworthy: 22.16. That is far off Michael Andrew’s world junior record of 21.75, and Diogo Ribeiro was the fastest junior performer in 2022 with a 21.92. (Fun fact: Brett Hawke’s 50 free PB from 2004 is also slightly faster than Popovici’s time.)
Popovici should be able to dip under 22 seconds in the next couple of years, which should also allow him to go out more quickly as well. (It’s worth noting that the 22.74 opening split from his WR is only .58 slower than his 50 PB, so he seems to have no problem generating easy early speed. Cielo had a 50 free PB of 21.08 in Rome 2009, but took out the first lap of the 100 WR in 22.17 (1.09 seconds slower than his 50 PB), which suggests that he had a harder time than Popovici to access that easy speed.
Easy speed guys, this is how he did it!
When the best swimmers in the world use the loping style, which flies in the face of swimming orthodoxy, and they reach new levels of performance, maybe it's time to start understanding the loping style.
Brett, first thanks again for the great swimming content! In almost all of the videos about David, his low differential between the first and second 50s is brought up. I realize there's no easy, or single answer, but is there a training methodology or type of set that can get a swimmer down to a 1.5s (essentially an even split) differential in a 100? Asking for a friend...haha!
lots of BES work
Every sport has their Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Without potentially.
When we’ll see a podcast with Phelps ?
he is on my list
Would disagree about the pool. It is one of the fastest pools in the world, was the same venue used for the world champs a decade ago where so many records were broken (in the suit era). I would agree that he’s left 0.2-0.5 in the race with slow start and poor turn… it will be a scary thing when he’s done 20-30 races at top international level…
Actually his turns are pretty good if you watch where he is relative to the other swimmers before the turn and where he ends up 10-15 yards/meters after the turn.
His starts and turns are no where in the league of best in field. If you compare them with Caleb dressel, César Cielo, Phelps turns, Ben Proud he leaves A LOT out there. In the worlds final specifically he had a poor start and turn, he wasn’t super powerful off the wall, hence the comment about 20-30 senior international races. At that point he will have put everything together in a final for sure.
Naught against this assessment, even though David had a tough time in Japan this week. Still, I think we've got a new 'best relationship with water' candidate in Hafnaoui. I get it, sprinter vs distance, huge difference, but Ahmed just looks made to scull more speedily than is humanly possible through water. A ridiculous exhibition in Fukuoka!
One of the best? Sure? THE very best? Ian Thorpe.
He swam 46.86, that means popovici is the best free styler until someone swims faster
@@elchacha5246 greatness isn’t about time. This said, the topic was about water relation/sensibility
@@toivonencresto of course it’s about time, that’s the most obvious indicator of a successful ‘relation’ between the swimmer and the water. Don’t get me wrong, Ian is fantastic but David is a better freestyler imo, more so considering his age.
When you add each swimmer’s top 50, 100, and 200 m times, I believe he has the lowest
Yes Steve, you are perfectly right! How old are you?