Love the way Florian points forward with the index finger, it's like he's telling himself "I'm going that way" but also maximising his reach at the same time.

The world's swim coach! Nobody can compete with your coaching on the internet. Thanks for being so generous with your swimming knowledge. I want to achieve good technique more than winning and setting records, which don't really mean much, but true excellence and love of sport and helping people, that does mean something.

Thank you. This is fantastic. I’ve been working on my kick and think I finally understand the timing between catch and kick.

Always perfect analysis . Thank you Brandon !

Thanks, this is a great example of the "effortless swimming" distance stroke that I'm aiming for.

Thank you for detailed analysis. I am amazed how you break down such complex movement in comprehensible parts.

Thank you for this video!! The way you break it down is amazing! Specially for a new swimmer like me!!

Love this, exactly what I needed. Thank you Brenton.

I THINK that’s how I look when I swim

I LOVE the way Brandon analyzes and explains the stroke. It is perfectly aligned with my Tri coaches approach. I watch his videos when I’m away from the pool to “keep my head in” the stroke and do visualization training. These videos have helped me immensely and shaved serious time off of my long distance swims. Bravo Brandon!

Thank you very, very much! This was by far the best swimming video I've come over so far, explaing everything I ever wondered! 👌👌👌

Great training video that I can watch before I go for a swim to help my technique. Thanks

Thank you! Amazing stroke and analysis. I would LOVE to see what he looks like when he sights and how that impacts that perfect catch...

Thanks Brenton, again a great and helpful video✌🏽☘️

Thank you so much ! This video is excellent. What I notice is the hand entry into the water, coincides with the contra lateral arm pull through the water and contra lateral leg kick ! I think learning to coordinate those three elements while giving a good rotation for hydrodynamics is key to an efficient freestyle. Thank you again !

Great video! It would be nice to have more videos analysing top swimmers' style.

Real swimming smoothness. Will help a lot your pov...

Absolutely great!!!! Thanks!

Dude i've been following you for a year now and you're online videos have managed to make me love swimming! And love getting better and better with every tip! Now shameless question incoming, i've got a real problem with timing my kick with the opposite hand entry, i tend to do the kick with the same hand entry and i CANNOT figure out how to fix that!!!! any drill you can suggest that can change my damn muscle memory!?!!?

Great video. Very good points that I will try to work on.

Covers it all and quickly. Cannot get my head round the kick timing though. Are there any drills for that?

I like you’re idea for working or thinking about one side with kick timing.

Awesome! Thanks!

Thanks for posting this and all the other great content you post. I started lane swimming about 6 weeks ago, and I have a question: You mention during the kick that our toes need to be extended like a ballerina. Should the toes be kept rigid during the kick or relaxed to create more of a “fanning” motion?

Thanks I work daily to achieve this technique

Thanks very interesting. Great explanation

Flumin' beautiful, wow, he really is doing ballet in a bucket!

There's one thing that surprised me a bit. When he switches breathing sides he does it immediately. I mean he takes a breath to the left side and then immediately takes another breath to the right side. I imagined I would do that being out of breath as I usually am after a few lengths 😉 but seeing a pro doing that is quite interesting.

He looks so awesome! Do you think it makes a difference to watch him swimming in a pool compared to this pool with counter current though?

Have followed your great videos for quite some time. What program / software do you use for the video annotation and review?

When reaching out, is there a slight inflection, or turn, of the forearm, and if so, in which direction? Thank you.

Wish you can share a similar perfect in butterfly as well please 👍

I noticed something that answered a BIG question about the speed/motion of the hand during the pull.I would like to see this in greater detail with bigger bubbles. I tried to observe a bubble moving with the current and the hand moving in a slightly faster motion. There is a sweet spot where if the hand moves too fast there is a loss of grip on the water, too slow and you don't maximize the thrust. When swimming I try to feel the water on my hand and try to judge that sweet speed by the flow of the water through my fingers. I see in the video the hand and a reference bubble and their relative velocity. I would like to see more regarding this technique. Thanks

That's dream technique

so much strength to have such a high elbow

Why do some swimmers do the 3rd and 6th kick during the recovery and others at the end of the stroke before the arm is out of the water?

Like sun yang techniques,, thanks a lot for the vedeo

You can keep a rhythm with your stroke and kick by saying one two three four five six power on the one and the four. Or, you can just say one two three on the left and one two three on the right with power on the three then rotate.

Hi. Do you have a video of drills that help to practice the timing between strokes and kicks for 6 beats kick (and possibly 4 beats kick)? Thank you very much!

Hello coach, I think what you said about the lift is correct, the water in the tank hits back with big waves, if you want to keep your head lower, you really need to do that, but I think from his swimming technique , his technology itself is that the body needs to be flatter, defined as EVF, this technology may use lift force is indeed a very good choice

Interesting that his left hand does a curved bird claw shape just after entry some times. I would correct that. Interesting that he doesn't use the gallop style for swimming. This is very uncommon with men swimmers. As for the kick, some thing I have never seen pointed out is that the hips rotate as one unit, they are not capable of rotating independently. The shoulders on the other hand, rotate independently with the pulling arm initiating the shoulder rotation, the hips rotate, then the recover arm finishes the shoulder rotation. The front side kick (better than up and down so you don't have to change terms for back stroke and freestyle) always anchors on the pulling arm, right as it enters the power phase of the pull. This is most evident in the 2 beat kick pattern. To me, this is the best indicator that the shoulders drive the hip rotation, and not the other way around. This is also why there is a 'surge' kick as some have called it, or a power kick as I have called it. The #1 kick is the power kick because the shoulders drive the hip rotation. In ground based sports that use body rotation, the feet drive the hip and upper body rotation, either by both feet being anchored on the ground or by stepping forward/into a stance to drive the upper body rotation. The feet have nothing to anchor on to drive the hips and upper body when you are in the water. Add to that that in swimming, the power part is the pull, not a push or swing or punch.

Thanks Brenton. I noticed he flattens his hand just before lifting if out for recovery, after it's finished its propulsive phase. Is that just an advanced technique? Ive not heard you mention it.

So Brenton at the end of his arm extension he seems to rotate palm and forearm in towards his midline slightly as he is initiating the catch. Meaningful? Or simply the way he initiates his catch?

I wish our Swimming Pool had Flume!

This might be only my impression but it looks like sometimes he does something like “double” kick with left leg. Or more like sometimes it’s a “full swing” and sometimes just small movement. I’m wondering if this is for a reason or maybe it’s because of this flume thing or personal preference?

The hand entering phase where his hand is near the top of the water /not beneath the shoulder…. and yet still be in perfect form was new for me . As when I first looked at him I thought it was an error. But there you go , but goodness…. How long are his arms !?!? He looks very relaxed . Great example and great points to take on board ! Thanks B

Gracias...thanks

Is there a video from front perspective?

Nice!

Brenton: one thing that I didn't see you cover was the shape of his hand and was wondering if you could clarify that? His hand looks very loose and his fingers are apart. Other swimmer's hands are the fingers are tight together. In my mind, it makes sense to keep them together to keep water from slipping between the fingers. Could you elaborate please?

Hip rotation is limited to avoid drag and to keep body as much flat as possible. Shoulder rotation should be similar to hip rotation??? How do you control that?

Time the kick on one side. Good tip mate

His line from shoulder to hand at extension almost goes upward. This is something mentioned on TheRaceClub channel as well.

Always trying to train the high elbow technic but quite complicated for me. Sometimes only in the opposite arm from where I am breathing. Mostly impossible for me :(

First time in canal. Brasil!

Could you cover the 2 beat kick and how to sprint with a 2 beat?

Nice to watch - in 2023 April some mistakes from 2022 are eliminated ... 🙂 looking forward to compeed

beatuful high elbow😊

At breathing front arm strechinh slightly upwards, this enables breathin more easy,I think.

Please how he kick exactly

Hey Brenton, is there anything a “normal” swimmer can do to achieve a significant improvement in ankle flexibility?

Research "The Swimming Flume at the IAT Leipzig". It can monitor all kinds of physiological parameters. Even exhaled air analysis in real time.

It looks like he has (what I thought was) tape on his fingertips. Especially his left index finger. Are those bubbles? Why don't they get washed off like the other bubbles? Just a trick of the light? Is he going so fast it's causing cavitation on his fingertips?

wow she’s got that 4 beat kick , but 2 kicks per stroke on ONE leg

What's about Ferry Weertman?))

Wow. I'm not envious of his technique .. honest!

I just watch these videos like... Man it must be nice to swim in an infinity pool.. But if runners don't count the treadmill as real running. What does that mean for an infinity pool? Or are most of us just too poor to afford one to make it a topic? 🤔

Please add Turkish subtitles

What about Ryan Cochrane :-)

How I think I look in the water…

I am not agree with something. Some could be better. Efficiency and Perfection of Presition in Effect at the end, could be even quicker.

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Yes it’s perfect BUT, isn’t he granted the wonderful gift of free buoyancy from all the plastic he is wearing?