Wanted to add something to your point about not pulling/pushing too hard during the catch setup phase. Pushing/pulling hard and fast while your arm is up front will result in a downward force, which is not only wasted effort (it's not pushing you forward) but will additionally lift up your upper body and push your legs deeper into the water (your air-filled lungs act like a pivot), increasing drag on top of it all.

Thanks for your videos! I'm 60 and began lap swimming due to covid 19. Your videos taught me so much I lost 25 lbs since mid-June and the skills I have learned has also improved my golf game as well.

This was very helpful. Thank you. I'm a beginner at 42 years old and feel very weak curling my forearm down in the extended position. I've been doing a 1000 in the ocean every day for a month and this made my time go from around 19 minutes to 17

Best description of the high elbow catch I've ever seen so far.

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A huge thanks. After watch this. It clicked into place. It all about loading up that catch, to power through under the body. Gives rotation and helps breathing all in one motion for me.

Love your videos, mate! So helpful and quite honestly have me hooked on swimming again as more than just a way to get fit, but a passion and something I want to get better at :)

This is very informative and clear. Great correction points you make and making sense of everything helps a lot. I am 43 year old thriatlete new to the sport and trying to improve. You talk of experience which really makes a diference and you really know what you are talking about. Thank for the help!

Wow! This is such a helpful explanation. I was doing some of the things you mentioned attempting to get that "high elbow".

Cheers brenton - this is your best freestyle video

Thank you for many helpful videos. You are an excellent teacher. My freestyle is finally improving.

I’m so glad that this was brought up, and it makes total sense. I’m a beginner swimmer learning the freestyle and I was told to pull really hard and I especially found it difficult and draggy, and just kept wondering if this was really the only way. But I’m glad to know there was a reason behind it!! Thanks!!

Great teaching. Simply amazing! Thanks for what you do. 😎

Thanks this was useful. Especially the tip on holding off the power while setting up the catch!

Thank you! I learned a new fact about high elbow catch and now I have to try it in practice.

eye opening - high elbow being above the arm-hand line and not high=close to the water surface - is a gamechanger

Great explanation. Will try this tomorrow.

As always perfect tips with the most clear explanation.. Thank you,helps alot !

Really terrific advice. Thanks!

thanks, the third advise seems helpful, i will try it today

Fantastic video!! I understand why I’m making my mistake now!! Extremely helpful advice

Thank you, this helps quite a bit!

Thanks mate, love your videos

Awesome video thanks man!

Excellent tips

Congratulations from Spain. Very usefull. Thanks a lot😊

Awesome coaching :)

Caught me at what I have been doing and can now correct. thanks!

Thank you was great and you explained very good what the high elbow is . Thank you

Great video.

Very very helpful. Thank you so much.

Excellent videos, thank you

I increased my swim time from 1.50/100 to 1.30/100 just watching your vids, thanks so much for the content! Looking to break under 30 mins in my iron man 70.3 this weekend

Great video again.

GREAT VID GOING TO PRACTICE THAT TONIGHT

Great video Brentan . Personally I prefer the high arm entry as it allows the start of the catch earlier too..

Breakthrough on catch. Thanks!

thanks for videos Legend!

OMG I want THAT kick pattern!

Thanks!

Thanks..I like how you explain........

This video alone have so many gems. I necessary, watch it over and over again like me untill you catch all details, it's worth it. 🏊‍♂🏊‍♀🏊🌅

Great video

Thanks your video,

Very informative and practical! I speculated almost all these points while I’m training to swim fast recently, but no one confirms that. your video confirmed my thoughts while there are not so many video talk about these. I find myself trouble to get to the perfect postures illustrated in almost every swim videos and tutorials, like you said, it’s either I managed to get to that correct position, but cannot perform a powerful pull, or I’m in my powerful position, but it’s wrong by the book. And lastly I’m curious, how long does it take for you to make such improvement/transition? I get to know alongside the “information”/“knowledge”, it still needs time to make you able to perform like the image in your mind, understand and knowing things does not mean you can manage to do it properly. So how long does it take? Thank you again for making this video, good stuff!

Best description of the high elbow catch I've seen so far. The tip about the front arm depth is very valuable as well. I also thought I have to keep it on the surface of the water. One question regarding the leg stroke: Why do you interrupt the leg kick during the breath?

Thanks for the videos. My kids are age groupers and we’ve been working through your drills. Can see results already after just a couple of weeks.

Can you mabye do an episode analyzing fly? Im trying hard to work on my fly stroke and it would help me alot! Understandable if you cant though.

max ryan really helpful as this is simply explained

Dont know much about swimming. But from <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="0">00:00</a> to <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="20">00:20</a> your rythim is hypnotising!

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Watching these and then getting in the water I feel like I don’t even speak English. I get a little bit each time but there’s a lot going on.

Amazing video. Clear explanation, with a dynamic swim in the demonstration. I get back in the pool in my 30s just for fun. Only water gives you this sense:) 🏊‍♂🙂

Could you review Nathan Adrian’s catch. It looks like he catches only a little bit compared to distance freestyler like sun or Ian

What's an effective workout routine in relation to swimming fast?

I and 62 and have been lap swimming on and off for years. Which of your videos would you consider best for a beginner to start with. Love your videos but often see them as a bit advanced for me. Any suggestions?

very helpful and accurate, thanks. Can it be said that diamond shape arm is the same as high elbow? I also observed your leg work: long-short-shor-tong, (long on the same side leg as the catch arm), yes?

Is the movement/motion of the catch going to be the same no matter what distance is being swam (like in a 50 sprint vs a triathalon swim)?

I notice your elbow slips back (behind your hand) through the pull phase. I've always been told to not let this happen. Thoughts?

Thanks for all the tips, I have a question. When does the water begin to feel like you have "gripped" it and you are starting to pull? I always feel like the Catch is just chasing the water to find that purchase, but when should I feel it?

hi, thanks for the clips. 8.11 picture in the right is what I have as high elbow. extremely bent . feels fast. Is it ok? I give the rotation where my shoulder comes close to my chin...

I'm 67 and I've been trying to do the freestyle for more than 50 years. Could never do it, could never like trying, always drowning after two breaths. I'm determined now. Got fins, a snorkel, a keel, and hand paddles. I'm ready. New info. for me here. Thx.

Very informative video. Can you also talk about the "power phase"? How close to the body should the hand be during the power phase?

Thanks for the vid. "High" elbow is a misleading term for some people. "Elbow FORWARD". Form the paddle, THEN use the paddle. Catch-Pull-Push. Or, Catch-Throw. Ive seen people actually pull the elbow up and back as they start the pull, because they said "I was told High Elbow??" Stay gold.

Interesting. You're not talking about this in this video but I can see how you flip your feet in this video. I'll try that.

High elbow catch is so important for freestyle

What are your thoughts on the kick timing. Would you get a stronger catch with kicking the opposite foot as you start the pull?

Please make a vdeo about leg kicking rhythm, ´cause you told about doing the downwards kick when starting your catch. But in this video you did 4 kick every cycle and I don´t understand how that fits. Thx a lot. Your videos are helping me improve immensly. :-)

I completely agree with this. I stumbled on this my self. I haven't been swimming because of COVID-19 pool closures, but I got in the pool. Barely lost speed because it is the form that kept my speed up.

Excellent. You can explain difficult topics in easy way. I improved so much with your tips but still struggling with the legs sinking.

Hello. I discovered something. I swim since may 2019 and i could keep 1.45 pace but my breathing... I thought what wrong i'm doing and i checked smt. When i stay vertical i exhale and i can feel Perfect moment when i have to inhale but as i keep horizontal position (without swim) i cant feel that and same during swimming. I exhale air but i dont get that feeling im free of air and i can inhale but only eith horizontal body pos also with vertical position i feel mich better bubbles.

Do you coach people in other countries ?

Are the fingers tight together or slightly separated?

What's your "every day pace" for 100m over a distance of 1000m? Hiw old are you?

Thankyou😅 just out of pool and my elbow was higher- better

For your online course do you need special equipment.

Would you be more faster with your head more down?

What's up with the Thorpedo?

I think my big mistake was pressing downward and not backward, which caused my legs to sink, drastically slowing me down. The FIRST time I tried 5mm neoprene shorts, I dropped 30 seconds off my 100m. Try those. They helped me identify why I was swimming a 2 minute 100meter.

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the last second in the video when you do 6 kicks, I see your hand crossed middle of your body under water

what ıts pace on <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="480">08:00</a> ?

I am having a hard time engaging my back muscles during the pull phase especially my left arm. Is extension the only way to do it?

mate, my gut causes me some pretty bad drag IMO. What do I do? I can swim 10 x 100m on 1.30 pretty comfortably but I probably need more technique and weight loss to take things to another level... Im 33 btw.

Brenton is mainly 'catching' attention with those leopard speedos!

How is yours high elbow catch? It doesn't look like it

this is 4 kicks?

That a busy little reach

I tried this and took 8 seconds off my 100m on the first try (cracked 1.30). Tried again and now worse than when I started … what am I doing wrong 😭😭

Your comment that the catch should not be used for high propulsive effort has a parallel to some observations of "variable resistance" advocates. You don't put effort where the muscles are less effective (as is done in weight lifting, for example). In this perspective, the mass of water is a 'weight' we're trying to pull down toward our feet.

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Hey! Your body is spectacular! Waooo!!

Copy Ian Thorpes thumb position underwater

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Your kick is at the knee, kick from the hips always, the drag is pulling you down you can see this buy how low your back / hips are , you are swimming up hill sorri to be so no it all

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Super off topic but your ankle flexibility is level 1,000,000 i lost some of that during my years away from the sport but am working on getting it back! What are your thoughts on coaches' advice about "swimming downhill"? I think it is relevant to the topic of figertip entry and depth (i struggle with that and am working on it). I was trying to not let my fingertips float up by attempting to "swim downhill" but for me i ended up burying my head too deep, rounding the shoulders slightly and losing my great "tall and proud" posture a bit, to where i was feeling bogged down (losta resistance I guess). Just recently watched your video on Park and noticed how he looks like he is almost puffing his chest out as he is swimming and remembered an older video of yours explaining the posture. So i have been paying attention to that as well for the past week or so. Thank you for sharing your journey to your best and most suitable technique!

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