Backstroke swimming : Easy to learn, hard to master.
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- By the end you will see why I think backstroke is the easiest swimming stroke to learn and yet the most exhausting and difficult to master for a lot of people.
The First part is a demonstration of me doing a 50 meters backstroke at full speed.
00:00 - 1- Demo
The next part of the video is very important to reduce the risk of getting injured and to learn to swim faster.
00:55 - 2- Do not do this!:
Straight arm
No rotation
Crossing hands
Bending the knees or hips
Wrong synchronization
02:58 - 3- Easy to learn; hard to master:
If you want to swim under 30 seconds you need to do these four things right besides swimming backstroke correctly.
a)- As you saw me do, you need to swim at least half of it underwater, doing dolphin kicks. Don’t worry we will go over some exercises to help you swim underwater dolphin kicks on the next section.
b)- You’ll also need to have a great break out, meaning the transition between dolphin kicks and backstroke.
c)- You’ll need a fast flip turn.
d)- You’ll need a good backstroke start.
03:44 - 4- Breaking :30
a)- What is a good dolphin kick?
Good dolphin kicks are actually faster than backstroke swimming. They require a lot of practice and core strength. But keep these 3 things in mind to make your journey easier:
I)- Use a nose plug or your upper lip to keep you from exhaling all your air and from water getting into your nose.
II)- Keep your big toes touching at all times. If that is a problem, you can get a stretch band and wrap it around your ankles to practice.
III)- Kick forwards and backwards with almost the same intensity.
Remember that in a race it is allowed to do dolphins kicks for 15 meters after each turn or after the start. There is usually a different color disk to help you identify where the 15 meters is.
b)- What is a good breakout?
A good breakout is when you don’t waist any time transitioning from underwaters to backstroke. Remember that when you do the first stroke your other arm must remain in the streamline position. Keep in mind that to do a good breakout you need to transition close to the surface and don’t have to come up at a sharp angle.
c)- What is a good flip-turn?
This flip turn is hard to get it right because you need to know exactly how many strokes you do from the flags to before you turn. Remember that the rules allow for the last stroke to be a freestyle stroke. Also you may continue kicking if you are too far apart from the wall. Don’t slow down before the turn and push deep so you can do your dolphin kicks.
d)- What is a good backstroke start?
The backstroke starts have been changing these last years. Now the FINA rules allow for a wedge that helps swimmers push higher and farther, essentially doing backwards dive. The optimal initial position is slightly different for everyone as you can see here. But nowadays everyone starts with almost their whole body outside the water, except for their feet. This is faster because by being up like this you only have to focus on pushing backwards and not up and back like before the wedge. Arch your back and try to enter with your whole body in a small circle.
06:25 - 5- Do these:
These 17 exercises are some of my favorite backstroke exercises that will help you swim faster no matter what your level of swimming is. We will divide them in water drills and dry-land exercises.
10:44 - 6- Giveaway:
If all of this kind of makes sense but seems complicated. And if you really want to improve your swimming technique, I am sure we can help you in person in one of our swimming camps. Your age is not an important factor in our swimming camps because technique is for everyone. So, If you are interested please go to this link to find out more about the camps:
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Hello sir
Hola, creo que eres mejicano, porque he visto otros vídeos tuyos hace tiempo. ¿por qué no los haces también en español? ¡És tu idioma!. Y ¡es el segundo idioma más hablado en el mundo! Estoy seguro que tendrías muchas más visitas. por cierto, tus videos son muy buenos. Un saludo desde España.
@@rafaelalonso1150 nuestro canal en español se llama Natación Skills NT , estamos trabajando en traducir todos los videos. Saludos
Today I tried the backstroke,I heard the kick must be powerful and hips must be,strong when I swim I swam halfway and stop on 50 m ,I drank two times of water.
I wanna race you.
I'm a backstroke swimmer and watching this will definitely help me improve because my rotations always let me down but with these drills it will definitely become better
Thank you!!
One of the best tutorials I’ve seen! Love the overlay shots and graphics for visualization. Might need to add backstroke to the repertoar now.
This has to be THE Best instructional video and explanation for backstroke. Thank you for your hard work.
Excelente video 💪🏼. Muchas gracias, describe claramente todas las partes donde debemos prestar atención y nos brinda ejercicios precisos para trabajar en ellas. 🤜🏼🤛🏽
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This is the best Backstroke swimming tutorial I have ever seen ..Thank you
I’m a recreational swimmer & find the backstroke exhausting but exhilarating. I’ve certainly learnt some tips that I will put into practice today. Thank you for your content 🤩
Thank you. I really enjoy your video. I have been trying to teach myself to swim for a few years now, and backstroke is the hardest to pull for me. But this vid has helped tremendously.
Just got home from a big 50m pool meet, my 50 backstroke didnt go as well as i hoped and i've been going through the race like a hundred times.... I really appreciate you guys making videos for us younger swimmers. Now i know what i need to improve and work on
Those dolphin kicks are so pleasant to watch! I reckon the sharp-angled breakout is the reason why I keep having a bad start. As a heavily short-sighted person, it is quite hard to judge if I'm close to the water surface or not yet. Will keep practising. Thanks for the great and very educative video as always!
Why RUclips suggested this to me, I don't know, but I am utterly mesmerized by this! I'm not a strong swimmer, but just seeing this video was inspirational! The technique is so graceful! Thank you for sharing your skill! You absolutely gave me some ideas to try to become better!
29.55! Thanks for all the great teaching tools! Also the video editing is superb!
Fuerte entrenamiento, sin duda necesario para fortalecer y nadar bien. Mañana mismo lo hago. Gracias.
man, so much value. beginner appreciation from Austin, TX.
O trabalho de vocês é ótimo!
Love your video. I always struggle with backstroke, I will keep your advices in mind and start to practice more. Thanks.
Thank you a lot for making this video. It helped me a lot and gave me the idea of which direction to go.
great great great editing! you guys have improved a lot keep it up!
Thank you!
Por lo visto es tu mejor estilo, ¿verdad? Excelente vídeo!!!👌
I've been following you guys for a few years now, and this is one of the best instructional backstroke videos on the entire internet. Your content keeps getting better and better. Keep up the great work!
Thank you! We have been learning from your feedback and developing new skills! Just as we hope our audience is developing their swimming skills.
This must be his most favourite stroke I reckon XD
@@PeLuRu4586 haha actually it's my worst. I'm a freestyle guy
@@daigz , actually Sam where! Backstroke is MY WORST TOO!!
But I’m a breaststroke guy.
One of the best videos about backstroke
Great technique! I was a backstroker myself ( 200m in 2m 14 seconds as a 14 year old ) and I can say your style is flawless. Only thing that I would change on yours is swimming a little bit less powerful and doing instead a little bit faster rotations :) But waaw, impressive!
Great instructions and demonstrations.
The best channel ever for learning swimming 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Thank you!
As a teenage, i used to do 28" in 50m backstroke with a teeeeeeerrible start and underwater... I think i did some miracle in the swimming part. Lol... Amazing video as usual. Thnx ,🇧🇷
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Saludos desde Cd Juarez, muy detallados los videos
Muy buenos videos muchas gracias !
Excellent tutorial on water and dry land exercise
Informative, I'm impressed and a little turned on. Love all the tips!
I am a backstroke swimmer, thank you so much for this video❤️❤️❤️
nailed it! This video really helped me. Thank you for the thorough explanation!
Glad to hear it!
Thank you Sir... This is really helpful
Wow, I'm impressed, I know how much difficult it is❣️
Awesome! Those video are the best
Man thank you soo much. I can't thank u in words.
Brilliant video
Great!! started with a new swim team today, and it was backstroke day... wish I had seen this earlier
Thank you for making this video 😲😲😲
Oh, I would love to participate in the swim camp!! I have a few things to work on when it comes to backstrokes.
Thx for helping in my swimming race!
I love your swimming videos
Superb! Thanks.
Super swimming you are rock ,hope I can catch you one day
Thank you.
I would try these out...
Gracias
it's truly grate information
Very useful. Keep it up. Ty
I always using backstroke mainly and breast stroke whenever im tired at river really love this technique
Geniales vuestros videos tutoriales. Me encantan todos. ¿Para cuando un thin thursday?
Great video! Keep it up
Thanks for the help😁
Love your videos. I return again and again.
Very good video, My name is Daniel. I from to Ecuador, I live in Guayaquil. I am a swimmer. My style is back. I am 52 years old. My last time in 50 meters was 34 seconds. but my best timer was 32, I think I try make this exercive and down my time. Thanks.
Thank you
good exercises!!!
Thank you!!!
* Really instructive! *
*Thank you very much, could you please upload a Breaststroke video similar to this one.
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Freakinh cool
Just so satisfying to watch
Your vids are great !!!!
Thank you so much for this video, coach
You're so welcome!
It's been so~~~ long! So good to see you again ♡♡♡ I am having a hard time to get used to swim backstroke. Especially it is so hard to breathe if I swim backstroke 100 m, though I can swim freestyle without breathing problem like 1000m. I guess I breathe too much while doing it and hope it gets easier to breathe while swimming backstroke in a very near future. Yesterday was a new year's day in South Korea following the lunar calendar. I was depressed a little bit with a cloudy start of this year. But thanks to you I am more excited ^^ Happy new year ☆
Yes! Keep up that spirit and this new year will be great for you! Hope this video helps you with the backstroke
To add to my previous comment, I have applied the 'Arrow' freestyle technique to my back stroke, swimming it with a 2 beat kick rather than the 6 beat kick. It feels like when in full stroke and kick that my timing isn't correct. Just have to practice the Arrow style a lot more so I can feel it without thinking...
This is very good video for competition style
Wish I could come to your swimming camp. I am new swimming just learning how to swim and am struggling with most if not all the swimming strokes. But I'll keep practicing.
Thanks you alot
Great content
What a fab video for an amateur
Amazing.
Excellent and useful tips!!! Congrats!
That underwater is just superb! Thank you for the quality of the videos.. I m getting addicted to swimming thanks to these videos!
Greetings from Morocco!
Glad you like them!
you are the best
Another excellent video, and you answered a few questions that I have had that no other video I have seen does. Main one was about linking the kick to the arm pull. What 'felt' right is the way you do it, one arm pulls, and you kick forward with the opposite leg, which is the opposite from what we do with freestyle.
One question on the finish part of the arm stroke. Since my main stroke is the side stroke, I get to observe a lot of swimmers... So, many, to varying degrees, in the last 1/2 to 1/4 of the arm sweep, rotate their palm over so it is flat/parallel to the top of the water. I would think you would want it to stay at that 90 degree angle until your palm is pretty much on your leg, and then for the arm recovery, the palm is in least resistance position. I would think that as soon as your palm rotates over, you start losing thrust. I did practice this with kick laps and just the finish part of the arm stroke.
I had one lap pal ask me about how I breath on my back stroke. I found out that I exhale as I do the arm pull. I do practice Arrow back stroke along with Arrow freestyle and side stroke.
Do you have any secrets for touching the wall to stop the clock? My stroke count is never very exact, and I have to guess. Most of the time I glide way to far. I haven't hit my head on the wall, at least not yet...
I had hoped to make your swim camp in San Diego, but a birthday party for one aunt who just turned 100 conflicted with the date. Next time you are in the US, especially if you are on the west coast, I will make it.
Also, some thing I would find fascinating would be a poll of your viewers. Age, days per week in the pool, length of workouts, and maybe some best times for different strokes, distances, kicking, and maybe other things.
Oh, are you ever going to get your own logo swim trunks? Don't have enough hair for a swim cap to be practical.....
I just love everything about dolphins kick
13secs!! Bro thats insane👏👏👏👏
Perfect
Señor ; Working hard and Watching this video again 😂 i'll Do It gladly .
Thanks
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Hi there... I've a compettion next month. I think it will help me a lot. I'm going to play game wearing your swimming cap....
Отлично, молодец!
Quality content
great 👍
Need a video like this for butterfly!!
very helpfuly, thank you. it looks so easy but it is not. a lot of practicec is neddeed. once again thanks !
great video
Excelente
Follow you from algeria 😍☄️
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Cool... could you please upload a video for underwater dolphin kick. Your arrow freestyle improved my freestyle swimming in many ways. Thanks a lot... 🥰🤗😊
No joke,my 50 breaststroke is faster than my 50 backstroke😂
😂😂 same here dead serious lmao
😯
Same that’s the way it used to be for me but now I’m a little bit faster at backstroke
jade baboolal for me when I’m at I meet and I do a backstroke and It’s last 25 I’m scared to hit my arm hard at the end cause I always do so I slow down and that’s why I’m extremely slow 😁
@@Ohohchoco you gotta count your strokes when you reach the 5 meter flags or average,for me I just know when to take my last stroke
это видео мне сейчас очень и очень вовремя, все в деталях разобрано и сжато , спасибо!
на 0:27 - подводный пешеход, на заднем плане, очень интересный .)
Good video
God DAMN, you are fast! Amazing video and amazing swimming! Respect!
That's no where near fast
@@titanassamelis2260 You think he's slow?
Avery Carole He‘s fast but in my club we have a backstroke-swimmer who swims 50.9 on 100m Back
PS: He really is very good and went to the world championships/European championships
i’m a young swimmer( i’m 11 years old) and i’m the best in britain at the moment for my 50m backstroke i’ve got a 33 before but my time for long course is 34 something and i watched this and i’m going to try and break 30 in the next year!
Man this channel is gold! You guys are great! I just started learning and tje biggest issue for me is keeping my legs up - they just drown on backstroke. How do I keep them close to water surface? What to do?….
That sounds like something that would help me break 57.0 in 100m. Thank you
Excelent video like always!!!!! One thing I will try is to increase the dolphins kicks... “half of the race has to be under water” what a challenge!!!! Thanks!!! And... I think I’m the cup winner 😅
Yes! That will improve your time but only if you practice a lot and make your underwaters faster than your swimming. Keep up that good attitude! Swim fast!
God is great!!! ✝️🙏🏼❤️JESUS LOVES YOU!
Great channel by the way!
thanks a lot ,sir this education was very helpful for me.
Nice
Si, efectivamente el dorso es la patada de delfín y hacer que las piernas puedan hacer el resto. ¿Cómo mejorar la parte aeróbica en las vueltas para poder hacer 6-7 patadas y no 3-4? Saludos
Eu adoraria uma legenda em português, please. This is very important for me!