What's your biggest takeaway from Dan's stroke? Let me know in the comments below ⬇⬇⬇

I'm in awe of how smooth your strokes are. I look like I'm possessed by demons when I swim.

I am a 26-year-old guy that never learned how to swim while younger. I've been learning how to on my own now at my local gym pool, I am about 1 month into my journey. So far I can stay afloat (I was scared of letting go at the beginning lol) learned the breaststroke and I am ok at that, the one style however that I want to learn and perfect it so badly is the freestyle but I cannot get the hang of the breathing! Today though I finally managed to swim an entire 50M lap without stopping doing the freestyle while taking breaths by pulling my head up, I am proud of myself of how far I've come into my swimming journey and I love it I cant wait every morning to go swim when I have the time.

How do we thank you for such a deep explanation? Details, pauses, and explanations for each part?! A great video that makes us independent of a hundred other videos. Thank you very much for your time, effort and expertise.🙏🙏🙏

as a beginner who wants to have a good speed not on a competitive level this video helped me alot thank you

One of the best swimming videos I’ve seen on KZfaq

This video is a masterpiece that all swimmers should see.

I know this isn't race pace but this is one of the best front crawl strokes I've ever seen. Never mind competition, though I have done a bit, I'd just be really happy to be able to swim something like this

he swimms so fast that 50 m that it seems like a 25 m pool

watching that video got my 100m time down to 1:25 and I still feel space to improve. Thanks a lot!

Brilliant! I may never get to 1:10/100 - but fantastic to see the breakdown - ALL of your Effortless Swimming tips can be seen here - Dan's stroke is simply TEXTBOOK beautiful form and it's great to see it in action and broken down into detailed components... I'll keep working! Thanks!

Thank you for the thorough analysis and stroke break down. I'm focusing on my breathing and rotation this week.

This really demonstrates to me as a beginner swimmer how much technique is everything, hes not moving his arms and legs fast but is moving theough the water fast

I was watching his hand entry, one thing I have been working on lately. I tried it today and man, improvement in speed and efficiency was mighty. Will be watching this over and over till I get it perfect.

Love the explanation of the shoulder, elbow, wrist all in a line - I use this to explain the optimal propulsive position

Excellent video. Really like that you slow down and reverse sections whilst explaining a point. Recently put my GoPro in an outdoor pool while I was on holiday and found it so useful to see where I was going wrong and now compare it with this. Thanks.

Awesome analysis. I've been doing laps for 40 years and didn't know any of this.

There s no turbulence around his hands - amazing

This is an outstanding video showing the foundations for a smooth and energy-efficient freestyle from an elite Olympic "Ozzie" swimmer (Dan Smith). The narration is superb and this course will provide many young career, mid career and older swimmers with new tools to help improve their freestyle, especially in moderate and long distance trainings. Thank you very much for posting this series!

Awesome. This is such a useful channel. I have ‘taught myself’ with Brenton’s expert help and had my first compliment on my stroke from a young guy at my pool about two weeks ago. I was so made up - I’m 54!! It has taken about 3-4 years to get here :-) Thanks to Brenton

Tremendous analysis. So many points to practice and improve. Thank you so much!

Great video, thanks for making it! I will be watching this once or twice a week now onwards.

So helpful to have you explain these techniques. Thank you

Brenton - Such a thorough analysis, well done!!

This is brilliant analysis. It’s been transformative for my freestyle. Thanks Effortless Swimming

Wow! I watched this video yesterday. Today I applied the best I could its teachings to my 1 km practice. The improvement was amazing! I think that rotating the hip made a big difference, but all details added up to increase speed for the same amount of effort. Still a long learning track ahead, but I'm eager to swim it. Thank you very much!

The best explanation on the whole Freestyle knowhow so far, thank you very much.❤

This is super helpful! Please do more of these but with multiple angles so that we can see e.g., the power triangle from the front, and get more info on the catch!

Loved the way you broke that down. thanks for making me faster without actually having to swim!

The glide movement is well described thanks.

Excellent commentary. Thanks for doing this.

Smooth doesn’t mean easy. Even for a professional swimmer it is pretty tough to swim at that pace. There is a lot of work being done in the water. It just looks easy.

Thanks for taking the time to explain all that. This video is very beneficial for all of us!

Awesome analysis & breakdown 💪🏼. Always quality content. Tnx

Would be fantastic to see this as a split screen against your “average” slower swimmer (a 1:30 or 2:00 swimmer)

Really good analysis!! I coach new/youth swimmers to always have one hand pointing where they’re going. And also, keep your head down....look where you are...not where you’re going!!

6:14 dropped elbow in background :D

Aprendo muito com vcs, nas academias não passam exercícios como vcs!!

Thanks! Your way of explaining is very clear. There are so many areas where I could improve:-)

My most watched video for the last several years. By a LONG way! So much to take from this, and so very glad Brenton got this on tape. Inside the Effortless Membership, there's the expended filming of this same session, where Dan swims at race paces as well, for those who wish to see how all of this comes together. It's amazing, that he can swim 45spm and do 70s/100m, but his *all-out* effort's at, say, the Olympics, will get him "only" 54s/100m (200m pacing) relative to this demonstration. Just goes to show that pure technique and efficiency gets you a LONG way and then fitness, strength, elite training and aerobic capacity take you the rest.

Thanks for this generous video! Amazingly helpful for a terra firma athlete trying to learn to swim. It's hard! Who knew drag coefficients matter so much!

Superb explanation and tutorial. Great help. Thank you

Excellent tuitional video. Many thanks for sharing for all like me who wish to improve their swimming strokes. If only I could glide like that !

the tennis ball from thighs to feet and ankle flexibility on the dolphin kick - just started working on them, also 'slow to fast', and shoulder position. all great tips i will try to remember on my next swim! thanks!

Outstanding analysis and explanation of every part of an ideal freestyle technique. I have watched this many times, and I'm sure I'll come back to it again and again as I work on different parts of my form. It's also very cool how much the instruction matches with one of my other favorite videos on freestyle technique here on KZfaq, called "Freestyle Swimming: Arm Movement. Complete."

Very very nice analysis!!! Thank you 🙏

congratulations on your understanding of how humans can best propel themselves through water especially the little understood timing of the down kick with the catch on the same side, the essential element for power generation

Thank you so much for this breakdown! All swimmers, no matter the skill level, can learn from this.

Perfect explanation. Thank

Great video. I need to look at your membership for sure. Thanks

This is a great video. Thank you for uploading.

Muchas gracias muy buen trabajo sigue así.

A really great video! So many thinks to remember/improve.

thank you very much from Barcelona. I appreciate a lot!

Great video mate! Keep up the good work.

Thank you so much, the most beautiful freestyle swimming. I watch this video again and again. I try to practice from this video,

The kicks seems so relaxed and effortless

Perfect video ! Thx

glad to see you point out the key factor for power generation at about the 14:45 minute mark and that is the down kick on the pulling side to allow body rotation to augment the power of the pull; that is, down kick with left leg as the left arm moves from catch to pull; a must movement for sprinters

Thank you, great video! Helpful! 😊

Super analysis thanks good tips 👍🏻

Most beautiful swimming iv ever seen. Piece of art

I picked so many gems from this vid. Thanks so much

Very good. Learnt a lot!

Thanks coach. Thanks to you I can maintain a 1:35-1:40 pace for a triathlon when before I couldn't get across the pool.

It looks like the Total Immersion style. I think mastering multiple styles is useful, just like Mixed Martial Arts. Many swim coaches are hyper-traditional and mechanistic. There's room for innovation and synthesis in swimming.

감사합니다!!!! 느낌이 팍팍 오네요 thank u bro:)

Awesome! Thank you Brenton.

Just so beautiful. Like a perfect golf swing or a really clean run of giant slalom.

this is a masterclass. thanks mate

Excellent explanation

Brilliant thanks Brenton!

Thank you so much for such a detailed explanation of part of the technique.

An excellent video particularly the slow motion and annotation part

This is a work of art.

Great video!

GOLD! Thank you!

Love that kicking. Very light, very efficient 6 beat kick.

Thank you! I can't wait for next swim so I can try to improve my arm movement.

this video is legendary!

Amazing!

Thx for this video :)

Great video

What's even more impressive is the cameraman holding the camera while swimming a 100m freestyle in 1:10

Regarding timing of kick/arm. I used to think, and perhaps it's a different view, the timing was kick and pull same side: right kick right pull etc… Got this from Total Immersion initially but observed it in Sun Yang's swimming too. Great video and it's such an impressive example of perfect swimming, something to aspire to!

Thanks!

14:25 -15:50 about that catch-kick coordination. I saw this in one of your older videos. Ignored it, but recently observed one dude in the pool doing this and copied it. It is AMAZING. It changes whole swimming experience. Makes it so much more comfortable, whole body moves much better. I hated breathing to the left and struggled with it but doing that coordinated catch-kick allows me to switch breathing sides without much struggle like before. I cannot find the drills for this practice and I swear I saw them somewhere :/

The worked definition of Effortless Swimming!

best swimming channel ever

Thank you for the video analysis! I hope you can also show the front and rear view of the his strokes...

Great tutorial ✓

Great explanation. Since there is no real need to look forward, would it be advantageous to look straight down? Less drag..... ?

Crazy efficiency

Great thanks

I’ve watched this one a few times over about the last year or so. I notice you mention that Dan has a greater shoulder/upper body rotation than the hips. I believe it was 45-50 deg for the upper body and only about 30 for the hips. Recently, this difference in rotation was pointed out to me, as in I was rotating my hips about the same as my upper body, which I was told was causing my hips to drop more than they should. The cueing that I am using to correct it is to almost think of my hips as staying flat (they don’t really, of course) and try to rotate only my upper body. This allowed me to perceive the connection between my upper and lower body so much more and I think has been absolutely key to the improvements I have seen in the past few months. I had been told before that I should swim more ‘flat’, but it never made sense to me until I tried this cueing. The drill I tried that made it click was to swim with very wide arms and legs. I could instantly feel what the person was talking about.

So smooth!

Impressive technique

The best video 👍

Excelent video and analysis. Thanks for your time for do this. Also i want to ask you, add in description about music that you use in background video :)

1'14/100m today! still lots to improve, but what a giant amelioration! finally training paid