How the “Dolphin Kick” changed Swimming forever

How the “Dolphin Kick” changed Swimming forever | On the Line

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At the 100m backstroke final in at the Olympic Games 1988 in Seoul, a new underwater technique called "Dolphin Kick" revolutionized the swimming world and brought the victory to Japanese swimmer Daichi Suzuki.
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@adolfothemidget 5 жыл бұрын

The international governing body for swimming, FINA, changed the rules in 1991, so now swimmers must surface at or before 15 meters, so you will no longer see races like the one shown from the 1988 Seoul Olympics. The rule applies to all events, not just backstroke.

@TheGOLD132 5 жыл бұрын

I've seen swimmers doing breaststroke get past the 15 off their start, most notably caeleb dressel in his 100 breast american record. I know that after that point if they were to surface past the 15 they'd be DQ'd, but would that be an exception to what you said?

@TheGOLD132 5 жыл бұрын

Michelle Cong-Bowers i see thanks for clearing that up!

@garrysekelli6776 5 жыл бұрын

@MrAlex great idea. It should be called freestyle or something.

@dkphantomdk 5 жыл бұрын

@@garrysekelli6776 Yes I wonder what would happend if they made a discipline called freestyle !! :D :D :D I would suggest swimmers are allowed to swim how ever they like. ;)

@felixf.7214 5 жыл бұрын

@@garrysekelli6776 Not everyone knows it...its a secret....but.... there's... a stroke called freestyle already

@The-Dom 5 жыл бұрын

Shaves head, keeps mustache. lolz

@RL-tz8so 5 жыл бұрын

It's his turbo. Improves breathing

@guillermojrboy3292 5 жыл бұрын

The bristles help trap air which the swimmer uses for breathing when fully submerged. xD

@Bertolucci_ 5 жыл бұрын

It was the 80's man. No explanation needed

@jameschristophercirujano6650 5 жыл бұрын

@@guillermojrboy3292 Exactly like how gills work.

@danialhasyeimi 5 жыл бұрын

its cool though

@abc-me9ic 5 жыл бұрын

Phelps : Thank you.

@billybob6604 5 жыл бұрын

tom shields

@agustinmanyari 4 жыл бұрын

caleb dressel 😹

@loulecloss8014 4 жыл бұрын

Ryan lochte

@SilphSpectre 4 жыл бұрын

Ricky Berens

@moseyalong1 4 жыл бұрын

The dolphin kick was used by almost all butterfly swimmers in 1958 when I swam, and one of our backstrokers did the back butterfly with the dolphin kick both underwater and on the surface for the whole 100 yard race in 1958. Our best breast stroker swam most of the race under water in the 100 yard breast stroke in 1958, before it was outlawed. When we played underwater tag, the fastest stoke was the dolphin kick without using one's arms.

@OneAdam12Adam 6 ай бұрын

That's impossible.

@shaimeinbray5788 29 күн бұрын

Dolphin kick with light arms is how we help train little ones in survival techniques with roll over with belly up..

@dud621 5 жыл бұрын

So when do they explain what the dolphin kick is and how it differed from standard technique

@austin1567 4 жыл бұрын

dud621 it’s when starting or turning you kick with both legs together off the wall or start while in streamline position

@ironjohn03 4 жыл бұрын

I guess this video is for swimmers who already know what a dolphin kick is? You can simply search for "what is a dolphin kick" if you want.

@foxmcfog7809 4 жыл бұрын

@Mary Antonio I assume someone somewhere did, just not widespread or recognized. Most probably just pushed off like you do before you are taught dolphin

@applemauzel 3 жыл бұрын

@Mary Antonio Yes, but it wasn't used strategically to min-max the system. Like people kicked twice or thrice out of habit before surfacing, until that one guy realized that going underwater is faster than above water, then its intentionally "im never going to surface because i can win".

@natsfan100 2 жыл бұрын

Dolphin kick is both legs kicking together essentially. When done underwater you can put your whole body into it and it's very fast. Normal backstroke uses a flutter kick (legs alternate) because of how your arms alternate in backstroke.

@cooliodiablo6117 5 жыл бұрын

That's how I always swam around the pool as a kid. With flippers on you can go really quick. Definitely the most natural way we're supposed to swim I think.

@sampathalwis3649 2 жыл бұрын

This was oddly satisfying ....the way these great athletes spoke of the sport, recognition & respect they had about their opponents , and the background music 👌 This is one of the best videos in youtube .

@intldawn 5 жыл бұрын

This is cool but I wish they also would have talked about how swimmers used the dolphin kick in other strokes. I remember in 1996 Olympics, Denis Pankratov of Russia swam maybe 30, 35 meters of the 100 butterfly doing the dolphin stroke underwater. He did it in the 200, too, but not quite as far. He won gold in both and set a world record in the 100. I seem to recall they changed the rule after that. In a lot of ways the dolphin kick has been really controversial throughout swimming history so there’s more of this story to be told

@MiguelPerez-my7kx 5 жыл бұрын

Melivin steward's

@iREVOLTER 5 жыл бұрын

Of course there is. Many swimmers use it in different ways, with different power which lead to getting a head start against competition. Would love to here more about other's experiences.

@GunsNRoses1123 3 жыл бұрын

That sounds like getting away with cheating as this one said it was chanced 88.

@donna25871 3 жыл бұрын

You swim faster underwater - that’s why swimmers did this and FINA created the 15m rule.

@lajohnson1ly 2 жыл бұрын

@@GunsNRoses1123, it wasn't "cheating" because it wasn't against rules as long as the swimmer stayed on their back. The international governing body then regulated it so that their heads had to break the surface by 10, then 15 meters and actually swim the stroke. Now it's a standard element of the turn cycle except in breaststroke, where the rules limit it to one dolphin kick (though some swimmers succeed in getting away with 2 or 3).

@davidwang1229 5 жыл бұрын

This is a cool story! Thanks for the upload.

@justbynk 5 жыл бұрын

Very well made infographic video !!

@mahendersingh6195 5 жыл бұрын

Can't Wait For Tokyo 2020

@imamgiuseppe5103 5 жыл бұрын

😀😀😀i know it's gonna be epic

@imamgiuseppe5103 5 жыл бұрын

Rio was so boring

@simpolang 4 жыл бұрын

Asians now to bring the world together.. Just look at Beijing.

@marshycazeau9016 4 жыл бұрын

Sorry to tell you but...

@theonlynoob2939 4 жыл бұрын

its been postponed

@erwiny97 5 жыл бұрын

What a nice video, thanks

@markhooker8520 2 жыл бұрын

Great that you showed all the innovators who developed this techniques.

@OneAdam12Adam 6 ай бұрын

Nothing innovative about it. It's cheating.

@takebackthenight4390 5 жыл бұрын

Cameron Van Der Burg invented Dolphin Kick in the 100m Breaststroke in 2012.

@billybob6604 5 жыл бұрын

u mean cody miller in 2016

@dianaowusu6182 5 жыл бұрын

@@billybob6604 It couldn't be in 2016 because i knew it *_wayyy_* before 2016

@user-eu6sj2gj1t 5 жыл бұрын

Actually I invented it yesterday

@junsib9829 5 жыл бұрын

Diana Owusu no he’s talking about when Cameron dove in he did 2 dolphin kicks. It’s a joke

@dianaowusu6182 5 жыл бұрын

@@junsib9829 Ow ok😂

@KeeganVera 5 жыл бұрын

I really enjoy this channel.

@snoopyshultz 10 ай бұрын

THEY SHOULD JUST HAVE A DOLPHIN KICK EVENT IN THE OLYMPICS

@himbeerkonfiture3014 5 жыл бұрын

Aaahhhh the good 80's... Love the vibe

@MyBoomStick1 4 ай бұрын

Lol does this comment imply there’s also a bad 80’s lol

@Wheel333 5 жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed that thanks.

@mauriciomigliorelli725 5 жыл бұрын

The editing of this vid is astonishing. I need to know which music have they used.

@heirtotheshwa 5 жыл бұрын

Great edits and video work

@Olympics 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you! We're glad you enjoyed it 🙂

@banksportsaustralia4110 5 жыл бұрын

amazing video !!!

@kristinerivera6637 3 жыл бұрын

I’m really enjoying watching these Olympic swimming sports because I have never learned how to swim but you know I am really happy for these people!!!

@ahmedalhamadi1231 Жыл бұрын

Try to swim.. you will learn

@loretta_3843 Жыл бұрын

To be so fit that you can go so far on a breath and then continue is crazy to me. If I have to run 10 metres for a train, I'm puffing to catch my breath, these guys can't even stop and take a breath away from the water, so impressive.

@thibod07 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing! What an amazing contribution To the world of swimming. The dolphin kick is now used with all swimming technics associated to the turn so it is in fact one of the most used technic in pool racing as it is the fastest technic to use.

@piggiswinks7543 5 жыл бұрын

Three words, "Man from Atlantis" 🤘😌👌 Look it up!

@Obez45 5 жыл бұрын

great video, could we get a soundtrack list?

@cre8bigone Жыл бұрын

I was there back in 1988, Seoul. It was very interesting to see Dolphin kick backstroke. Time goes really fast uh?

@tromboneJTS 5 жыл бұрын

Geeez, Berkoff had a piano with him the last 25 meters

@MonsterElephantBlog 5 жыл бұрын

Very nice made video

@rolltru 5 жыл бұрын

how are they doing that effect on the video, i need to know

@karenharper4318 5 жыл бұрын

I remember using the dolphin kick like that and I stopped competing in 1984.

@fturla___156 3 жыл бұрын

The new rules for the under water dolphin kick and the 15 meter limit applied to all the races meant that I will get DQ'd if I don't remind myself to only do one dolphin kick off a turn in a race. This happens to me if I lose concentration and lapse back to trying to push for more speed. I was afraid my niece would get DQ'd in a race when you don't surface by the flag lines in the Olympic trials. It did happen to her in the nationals and that was disappointing because she won the race.

@tenningale 2 жыл бұрын

Reagan Smith almost got DQ'd in the Olympics since she takes advantage of all 15m underwater and was literally inches away from going over 15.

@MiguelPerez-my7kx 5 жыл бұрын

this bring back memories from 96 Us trails and 1996 ATL games..DENNYS PRANKATOV,MEL STAWERD

@musacpuerto 5 жыл бұрын

Jesse Vassallo was an olympic gold medalist and world record holder. Sad they didn't even mention that.

@sween13377 5 жыл бұрын

MTV Cribs around 9:00 in the recognize that Vassallo technique

@musacpuerto 5 жыл бұрын

@@sween13377 yeah I'm talking about more his achievements, not development of the technique. Sounds almost like a random good swimmer. He was on the cover of sports illustrated with Muhammad Ali and Wilt as the greatest athletes ...should mean something

@sween13377 5 жыл бұрын

MTV Cribs some amazing athletes that want nothing else then that gold but even if you win any medal at any Olympics that still is an accomplishment

@vrokhlenko 5 жыл бұрын

"Jesse Vassallo was an olympic gold medalist" No, he was not! Check your stats! He was a World Champion and a world record holder.

@musacpuerto 5 жыл бұрын

@@vrokhlenko lol ok. He won a gold medal at the US version of the Olympics paralleling the boycotted Soviet ones with much better times than all the competitors at the boycotted ones. Happy? Greetings from Mother Russia, Vadim... Na kaleni Suka.

@tewfik8616 Жыл бұрын

The freestyle should be 100% free as a discipline on its own in the olympics where the athletes are able to swim in and outside the water as they wish, whereas crawl could be a separate discipline as it is today.

@chochola1209 8 ай бұрын

Totally agree. It's be interesting to have the crawl and freestyle as separate events. Everything goes in freestyle - underwater, dolphin kick, switch strokes whatever you want. The first person to touch the end wins kind of race. Lol

@EmilSosnin 5 жыл бұрын

very aesthetic Olympics KZfaq channel, very cool.

@househomie6128 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing. Especially that the music matches the time period

@pegasusted2504 5 жыл бұрын

These are awful to watch. Such a confused mess I don't even think we actually got to see the guy do it the first time it was done.

@marcuslea6821 4 жыл бұрын

Ted Cameron it was done first by him off camera

@centanhotbox84 4 жыл бұрын

THANKS. utibbis ruined by wishy washiness

@johncitrowske9922 4 жыл бұрын

Ikr the whole video confused me. Never explained the dolphin kick, explain when it was first done and that video. Bunch of random people in different languages talking about random races where they used it

@KARMA-gr4uh 2 жыл бұрын

@@johncitrowske9922 I mean, dolphin kick is pretty well known so it’s kinda on you if you don’t know

@Gabriel_Micah 5 жыл бұрын

This is really cool

@josephwashington8480 5 жыл бұрын

Beautiful.

@garrysekelli6776 5 жыл бұрын

I think water would go in my nose if I tried this.

@1houndgal 5 жыл бұрын

Try using a nose clip, at least while you are learning the underwater dolphin kick on your back.

@1houndgal 5 жыл бұрын

Blowing bubbles out of your nose while you do this helps. Otherwise get a nose clip.

@mikejones8269 5 жыл бұрын

It’s worse going down your nose and through your throat

@campkira 5 жыл бұрын

If you strong enough.

@SergeantColdgirl 5 жыл бұрын

A technique they do is "humming" which gradually releases air at a constant rate creating air bubbles that prevent water from going in and by the time they resurface they just breathe in.

@yanzhang5785 5 жыл бұрын

The person next to me is John Naber (John Neighbor)

@orangecouchie 5 жыл бұрын

Hi I'm Troy McClure you may remember me from commentating the 1988 Olympics.

@josh-spooky 5 жыл бұрын

Ok, Daniel.

@laurenlopez4772 4 жыл бұрын

nice, daniel.

@henrydavis6983 Жыл бұрын

My best friend's uncle is David Berkoff, this is nuts.

@AmxCsifier 2 жыл бұрын

You're a Japanese Athlete swimmer and your last name is Suzuki.. imagine the pressure

@diobrando7759 2 жыл бұрын

They should just do a dolphin kick race

@ruirodrigues1971 9 ай бұрын

Maybe one day we will have Dolphin Kick style competition hehehe

@NathanHeaver 5 жыл бұрын

the dolphins are suing over naming it after them

@bobayekadabogeyman9819 4 жыл бұрын

Yh clever comparing humans suing to dolphins suing says a lot

@madpuppy54 2 жыл бұрын

all FINA ever does is ban stuff to follow the protocol they want. Why didnt they think of adding a race for dolphin kick technique. That would have been the best stroke of the 5 to watch underwater.I loved when some swimmers turned sideways underwater to do their kick. I tried it once.

@sealand000 4 жыл бұрын

It would be nice to see a swimming event made up solely of kicking.

@glasshousefuture6836 2 жыл бұрын

I'm so very confused that I feel like I missed something. The title mentions "dolphin kick" but it seems like everyone said something about a "butterfly kick" and finally a "Vassallo" kick, so I feel like I missed something since no one said "dolphin".

@leonard8766 4 ай бұрын

Fidias is a legend!

@olib2336 2 жыл бұрын

Why not have this as a new race, with the underwater dolphin kick as primary, allowing competitors to come up for air as often as needed? For a 50m race, most may probably not need to come up at all.

@DrZoom2023 5 жыл бұрын

Inventor of dolphin kick Jesse Vasallo!

@madmagyver9981 5 жыл бұрын

I remember the dolphin kick could only be use with the butterfly stroke. Just one of the factors allowing faster lap times.

@user-zm9gn4yd4x 5 жыл бұрын

서울1988 때 센세이션 바로 돌핀킥 이때 나왔군요 스즈키씨 잘했네 하지만 FINA에서도 규칙바뀐것은 어쩔수가없을듯

@shaimeinbray5788 29 күн бұрын

Is there anywhere I can try out for a team. I can swim brestroke with dolphin kick 53. Seconds in 100 meters

@toivonencresto 5 жыл бұрын

As someone said, they put the limit After Pankratov... but even with the limit, it simply ‘depends’: during Rome 2009’s 200 free final when Phelps was playing the lullaby game underwater Biedermann ‘open the water’ à la Moses (disclaimer: i don’t like Biedermann @ all and 200 and 400 WR should have bene given to Agnel and (back to) Thorpie)

@sebclax5073 5 жыл бұрын

imagine when that guy did the first backwards high jump

@ah7027 5 жыл бұрын

they laughed at him warming up until they saw how high he jumped. lol

@forgottenone90 4 жыл бұрын

how can you constantly blow water out of your nose without losing air???

@user-nf2sd7kk5b 2 ай бұрын

このレースは何度見ても興奮します。鈴木大地選手、金メダルおめでとうございます。

@edizhang8531 4 жыл бұрын

"Swimming next to John (Neighbor)"

@ayf7033 4 жыл бұрын

Wait for me..I will invented a new stroke

@user-cw2py6wh8l 5 жыл бұрын

Why am I watching this? I will never swim in the Olympic.

@iREVOLTER 5 жыл бұрын

Never stop dreaming and keep going. You can do it!

@campkira 5 жыл бұрын

Improvement in life.

@davidwang1229 5 жыл бұрын

Lmao, time to dolphin kick underwater in the backyard pool. Dont hit your head though

@texabara 5 жыл бұрын

w23857980 but if you make the minimum times, you might swim at the world master swimming championships. I went to Montreal 2014 and to Budapest 2017. Go for it!

@jayuppercase3398 5 жыл бұрын

I believe in you

@MrJohanGuzman 5 жыл бұрын

I definitely know Japanese.

@kenguvasantoshkumar8527 4 жыл бұрын

No under water cameras at that time

@KeithHiew 4 жыл бұрын

You don't give people a medal to make them happy. Just remember their names, and name something after them.

@AndresBonilla211 2 жыл бұрын

No subtitles for Suzuki's part in Japanese??

@weixiangwong2227 2 жыл бұрын

you can turn on closed captions for that. i'm not sure why they didn't add it in to the in-video subtitles

@namn.2466 2 жыл бұрын

This Jesse guy looks like the Jesse guy in Breaking Bad

@jackwardrop4994 2 жыл бұрын

Long tracks of this video not in English or subtitled, or closed captioned. Otherwise fascinating. It’s like. Billy Yang video but swimming.

@nothingwrongwiththisname2313 5 жыл бұрын

Why would u put music over someone talking .

@robeanfran 5 жыл бұрын

Why would 5 dolphin kicks only get you 5 meters lol

@allgoo1964 5 жыл бұрын

Good example, it's not cheating when everybody does it. lol

@alma_nasiri 4 жыл бұрын

lol XD

@billybob6604 5 жыл бұрын

fRom 1987 lmao turn on the captions

@diorynovis 5 жыл бұрын

What if somebody did it 15.5 meters?

@magioti 5 жыл бұрын

Diory N he would be Disqualified!

@lilbickleymane 5 жыл бұрын

What's the song?

@paulblackman8159 5 жыл бұрын

Laurie Lawrence at 5:20. No Australians in final. Why??

@jagobbin2 3 жыл бұрын

I was going to post the same thing but decided to scroll the comments first. Was he privately coaching one of the other athletes? Googling "laurie lawrence 1988 olympics backstroke" draws a blank - just articles about Duncan Armstrong

@SouthernGryphus Жыл бұрын

1:40 Hello, ¿me escuchas? 😂

@tromboneJTS 5 жыл бұрын

Jesse Vasallo?

@michellejane9092 5 жыл бұрын

There was this american girl who did the dolphin kick on her side in 1984 and won Gold in the 100 & 200 freestyle

@petermacleod5710 2 жыл бұрын

A friend of mine used to be DISQUALIFIED for doing this

@texabara 5 жыл бұрын

VASALLO: From Puerto Rico. 🇵🇷😎👍🏽 Even thou PR is a colony of the USA, we got our own olympic representation. He competed for USA because swimming here was very difficult. I do not applaud his decision, but still he was one of the greatest!

@SpikeyKactus 5 жыл бұрын

The editing is really weird ...

@pedrooliveros3085 4 жыл бұрын

They should start a new race. Underwater dolphin kick, 50, 100, 400, etc. I swim leisurely and can do it for 35 meters, so an olympian can do 50 and 100 easily but 400 will be for the free divers

@owenturnacliff2841 5 жыл бұрын

@whatwelearned 2 жыл бұрын

So they had Suzuki speaking but didn't bother to put up a translation? Maybe I'm the only dunce who can't speak Japanese...

@jia4228 4 жыл бұрын

Me thankyou this guy

@butter_nut1817 5 жыл бұрын

Subtitles would have been nice

@daquan99999 2 жыл бұрын

Win a swimming competition with diving skill, they should be shamed.

@Mark-xe1qx 5 жыл бұрын

Wrong Gary Abraham's did this at the 1980 Olympics. Butterfly swimmer, came 8th in the Backstroke

@agustinmanyari 4 жыл бұрын

“paTada”, kick=patada, El nacimiento de la patada de delfín”

@rohaninamdar6060 4 жыл бұрын

Love me some epilepsy!

@XchemicleX 5 жыл бұрын

Russian is 21 year old and half of his hair has already fallen

@QUABLEDISTOCFICKLEPO 2 жыл бұрын

So, if the Dolphin Kick is so great, why are other kicks still used? Why isn't it the only kick that is taught and used?

@uchicha666 4 жыл бұрын

I thought it's Lawrence from Arabia at the beginning

@bambangsudirman6063 4 жыл бұрын

I did 25m dolphin kick at school during interhouse competitiom and got dqed i was first though

@bigstronkbee 3 жыл бұрын

Remember the 15m limit! They exist for a reason :D

@spensert4933 4 жыл бұрын

@olympic why not have a dolphin kick event that is short enough for people not do drown? Would be cool?

@rileygshep7606 3 жыл бұрын

Freedivers do already swim 200+ meters underwater without drowning or blacking out

@Jacob-sb3su 5 жыл бұрын

3:23 did they edit out the russian flag?

@americanbobtail1 5 жыл бұрын

It was Soviet not Russian flag in 1988.

@allgoo1964 5 жыл бұрын

3:28 Sensored. lol

@darKILLusionnn 4 жыл бұрын

Censored*

@stephenr80 4 жыл бұрын

patada de delfin en español ?

@AdamBhay 5 жыл бұрын

I don't think technique should require rule changes. Advantages gained by gear, or other forms of performance enhancements should have rules to restrict them for sure, but not outright better technique.

@Toastwig 5 жыл бұрын

But it's a race for that particular stroke. It's not better technique it's a totally different motion. It would be like allowing freestyle in breaststroke because it's faster.

@Ayyyyther 5 жыл бұрын

imagine some guy who is really good at the dolphin kick, so much so that he can get enough edge on people to win every stroke competition. I think FIDA was trying to prevent that scenario.

@juliasenzon8033 5 жыл бұрын

i think people would hyperventilate before a race to trick their mind into thinking they don't need oxygen so they could stay underwater longer and some people died as a result

@tonglau6350 5 жыл бұрын

@Shank C Its because of loss of hypoxic drive to the brain stem I believe.