Happens all the time! I had the pleasure of watching Nathan Adrian warm up at an age-group swim meet and it was hilarious to watch him get stuck behind 10 year olds
🤣🤣 It happens sometimes. I practiced a lot 12 years ago, and this happened to me. Unfortunately, now it doesn't happened at all. I hope I can recover some of that old form, but working and life hits hard 😕
@@djkleb7645 i actually want to cry now that i read your comment... the truth hurts so much. This is life! I used to swim competitively for years... i stopped when i finished university... the years that i miss the most are when i was a teenager. Going to school. Waking up before everyone and going to the morning practice at 6am in the morning then at school. Then again after school at 4pm-6pm... god do i miss those days. With all my buddies, my teammates and our coach! Such a wonderful team! 😔 how i miss those years...
I swam competitively at a national level for 10 years, and what he does is alien to me. I obviously understand _what_ he’s doing, but it’s the fact he’s doing it so efficiently with so much power that is mind boggling. The amount of force he’s generating with a single dolphin kick is likely more than the average swimmer can generate by pushing off the pool wall. Basically, what I’m trying to say is that even among people like myself that did it at a professional level, he is another animal. The gap between him and me at my prime would be like me versus a 10 year old just starting to learn how to swim properly.
The crazy thing is that the other people in the pool aren't "average." This is the Mesa Grand Prix, a national level event. Those other swimmers are easily in the top 1%.
Fun fact: Butterfly technically isn't really a swimming technique, but was actually derived from breast stroke swimmers developing a new "meta" that ended up being much faster than breast stroke. In order to preserve the sport, a rule was made in breast stroke saying you can't use the butterfly technique, and butterfly stroke became it's own race [1933 i believe]
I used to train swimming and waterpolo after that. This isn't butterfly stroke(it's called that in English,however the legs do not move similar to the breaststroke technique)this is what we used to call in my country the dolphin because your legs do that and in official competitions your legs have to move like that. When you are moving the legs like in the breaststroke technique along with the armstroke seen here that is what we actually call the Butterfly and this technique is sometimes practiced on training but I haven't seen it being allowed in official competitions.
You dont see videos like this often. Raw and uncut. Up closez Idk about you but home video sometimes impacts me more than seeing it on tv. The way he travels underwater is unreal. What a lunatic.
As someone who used to swim at a National level, swimmers like Phelps, Thorpe, etc are just truly gifted + talented. I've tried to break down their swimming so many times, watching their techniques in super slow mo, but in the end, having a 190cm+ height with huge wingspan is something no matter how hard I train I can never overcome. As much as they're my swimming heroes, one just can't help but get a little bit jealous of the advantages they're born with.
@@kazakh-interista okay, name one Japanese male swimmer that can stand up to the likes of Thorpe, Phelps, Lochte, Popov, Sullivan, etc Although Japan has won a few golds in Breaststroke, however again all the greatest Breaststroke world record holders have been tall swimmers, ie: Sludnov, Peaty, Van Der Burgh, etc.
@@mistrace Kosuke Kitajima won 2 gold medals back to back at two olympics. he is 178 cm tall only and competed against 190+ guys like Brenton Rickard and Hugues Duboscq.
Love this video, such a star doing warm-up so casually in a tiny, crowded pool. Hope to see the ban on the dolphin kick lifted one day and freestyle records smashed!
@@urbro2 You go faster completely submerged if you’re doing dolphin kicks but it’s not really swimming if you’re just holding your breath and kicking, it eliminates so much nuance so I see why they’d limit it
In my recommandations just today after I saw Léon Marchand using the same dolphin kicks at the Paris Olympics, it's incredible, same coach same technics same results
Holy crap. It‘s always awesome to see the difference between good and very good athletes and then professional ones of that kind like him. It‘s like normal people might be a very fast Ferrari street car, but then someone comes around who is a Formula 1 race car
I used to be a swimmer in my teens. Even my coaches put me in local tournaments. I can tell you I never reached the level where you can cover half the pool in seconds. Really makes you realize why they are called olympians.
I was training on an Athletics track in Manchester when I was a kid and ran into some guy by accident. He laughed and said I would run better if I kept my head up. Then he sprinted off. Turned out to be Linford Christie (Olympic gold medallist.) It's awesome when the pros train with us common folk! 😋
For the 0.2% of us looking for the track in the background, the song is "Coldplay - Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall (Swedish House Mafia Remix)". I hope this helps at least one person looking for this amazing song :)
@@ZER-cr4dm every swimmer I’ve known . It’s a different use to the muscle. They can kick really damn hard but jumping ? They usually can’t jump very well at all.
He really should have his own lane reserved for him. Same goes for Ian Thorpe in his prime. A pleasure to watch their effortlessness in the pool they're that good.
Being one of the ladies that arrive at the end of the pool, seeing Mr Phelps being ready and does not making room for Mr Phelps, almost kicking him and leave him behind - those ladies have nerves of steel!
He literally took 4 strokes to get to the wall, that's how good his dolphin kick is
Breakout was horrible tho
@@alberto1277 but u can’t do better tho
*are
Erm...but the pool dont seems like 50m to me....😅....sry
@@ケルシー-j2f probably 25 yard so a bit less than 23 meters
The Greatest Olympian of All Time, still has to deal with the warm up pool traffic jam.
True
Not true at all.
Hahaha
Happens all the time! I had the pleasure of watching Nathan Adrian warm up at an age-group swim meet and it was hilarious to watch him get stuck behind 10 year olds
olympians also need to socialize and swim with others.
You don't realise how fast he actually goes with the camera angles in the Olympics, this angle really puts it into perspective.
Well also this is a 25m pool and Olympic pools are 50m.
@@GiraffeFeatures If I am not mistaken this is not even a 25 m pool.
@@Falquiboy Yeah I didn't think so either at first but erred on the side of caution.
Yeah because this is a 25 yard pool which is what most Americans swim in.
@@waltysalamander Yanks are so weird man.
When you're so fast you have to wait for everyone to reach the other side😂😂😂
🤣🤣
Except Milorad Cavic..
😂🤣
🤣🤣 It happens sometimes.
I practiced a lot 12 years ago, and this happened to me.
Unfortunately, now it doesn't happened at all. I hope I can recover some of that old form, but working and life hits hard 😕
@@djkleb7645 i actually want to cry now that i read your comment... the truth hurts so much. This is life! I used to swim competitively for years... i stopped when i finished university... the years that i miss the most are when i was a teenager. Going to school. Waking up before everyone and going to the morning practice at 6am in the morning then at school. Then again after school at 4pm-6pm... god do i miss those days. With all my buddies, my teammates and our coach! Such a wonderful team! 😔 how i miss those years...
Totally worth the wait of 45 seconds before he actually started
42 man
people are so slow 😔
Except Phelps obv.
I wanna know how many dolphins he kicked in his lifetime.
The total opposite of when you tubers
Drag out videos with world of click bait
I had time to read the comments find yours and be like
YAH
I mean its kinda funny watching him do impressions of the girl in the line to the left at 0:30
Dude covered half the pool with just one kick
Was a lot of kicks but yea
No he didn't he kicked like 6 times before starting the strokes at the end
when nobody gets the joke: ^
@@snoopah3077 they all think take themselves too seriously thats why 😂
@@Moozie420 Well no it's just not a joke, it's an incorrect statement with zero shred of humour in it.
It never dawned on me that Michael Phelps would have to share a lane: how many golds do you have to win before they give you your own lane?
He probably chose to be there. I saw a Pic of Bill Gates waiting in a Fast Food Lane once lol
Hard work don't care what you did yesterday.
He’s in his own lane already 😉
@@ARSENICKMUSIC I like that
@@ARSENICKMUSIC this is instantly one of my favorite mottos I've read. Thank you.
Watching this as a swimmer, it feels so awesome to see that I'm not the only one who fixes goggles and cap position mid set. I love Michael phelps
Ok as long as ur not a pro I wanna compare myself. I'm 14 so dont hate but what are ur times for 100 free back and fly
@@loadingyt4487 why not breast?
@@rahjebwallahi5076 1:15 100 breast hbu
@@user-sz9py2ey8w we talkin bout lcm or scm
@@rahjebwallahi5076 american video so prolly scy
Damn, he’s good, he’s gonna shine on the Olympics someday
Probably
He's already the best.
Nah dont know if he will ever won a medal tbh
@@mohamedalikhandwalla7392 it’s a joke dumbo
Cringe
It must be awesome feeling being able to swim that fast.
Just what he does.
@Tony Why? Is it painful or uncomfortable?
@@modetallah its like sprinting except you cant breathe whenever you want
@@jayduncan8153 Oh damn. Yeah okay, that would definitely suck.
@@modetallah yea training in the ocean is what sucks most lol.
but tbh im pretty sure that tony guy who said it sucks was making a joke anyway xd
Dolphin says to his buddy
“Hey check out my Phelps kicks”
It would be terrifying to see a stranger swimming to you that fast-
Would genuinely think he was a super human of some kind…
lmaoo imagine what you said in open sea randomly ahahaha
Aquaman when he comes over to hang out
@@ilkemagic7721 thats why hes called the shark of baltimore
@@dannywayne311 I’d be tensing up like a mu’fucka, ready to fight Creature From The Black Lagoon and shi
You dont appreciate their brilliance before you see how incredibly much better they are than the average person. Whatever sport they are doing.
I swam competitively at a national level for 10 years, and what he does is alien to me. I obviously understand _what_ he’s doing, but it’s the fact he’s doing it so efficiently with so much power that is mind boggling. The amount of force he’s generating with a single dolphin kick is likely more than the average swimmer can generate by pushing off the pool wall.
Basically, what I’m trying to say is that even among people like myself that did it at a professional level, he is another animal. The gap between him and me at my prime would be like me versus a 10 year old just starting to learn how to swim properly.
I had a neighbor who could scrub the ice like nobody's business in curling. It was supernatural scrubbing.
The crazy thing is that the other people in the pool aren't "average." This is the Mesa Grand Prix, a national level event. Those other swimmers are easily in the top 1%.
Every time i watch it... "incredible"
He’s amazing… ex very good swimmer.
Fun fact: Butterfly technically isn't really a swimming technique, but was actually derived from breast stroke swimmers developing a new "meta" that ended up being much faster than breast stroke.
In order to preserve the sport, a rule was made in breast stroke saying you can't use the butterfly technique, and butterfly stroke became it's own race [1933 i believe]
I used to train swimming and waterpolo after that. This isn't butterfly stroke(it's called that in English,however the legs do not move similar to the breaststroke technique)this is what we used to call in my country the dolphin because your legs do that and in official competitions your legs have to move like that. When you are moving the legs like in the breaststroke technique along with the armstroke seen here that is what we actually call the Butterfly and this technique is sometimes practiced on training but I haven't seen it being allowed in official competitions.
@@andronekic6351Dolphin is the name of the kick itself. Fly (or Butterfly) is just Dolphin + symmetrical pulls
That was incredible to watch. He did that whole length in a few seconds.
Dude just traversed over 10 metres with 4 wiggles of his body. Here I am windmilling to get past 5 in any decent amount of time.
I see kids swimming 1:20 hundreds when I time and I think damn that is so slow, then I get in the pool and am gasping to do the same. Weird sport...
Damn, I can't believe random guys are swimming in the same lane as this Olympic legend like it's just another day for them. 😂
It's not random guys this is most likely the warmup pool in an event
@@TheSwordfish-g3r You're probably right, though I wouldn't expect pro swimmers to train in crowded lanes like these.
@@F_Bardamu yea its so odd haha
I actually like the fact that it's just another day for him. So humble
I was lucky enough to share a warmup lane and heat with him! Dream come true
I never realised how fast he is, its almost scary loll
if you look closely there is another swimmer doing the same thing in the next lane at the same time....it really shows the difference!
You dont see videos like this often. Raw and uncut. Up closez Idk about you but home video sometimes impacts me more than seeing it on tv. The way he travels underwater is unreal. What a lunatic.
As someone who used to swim at a National level, swimmers like Phelps, Thorpe, etc are just truly gifted + talented. I've tried to break down their swimming so many times, watching their techniques in super slow mo, but in the end, having a 190cm+ height with huge wingspan is something no matter how hard I train I can never overcome. As much as they're my swimming heroes, one just can't help but get a little bit jealous of the advantages they're born with.
Just get good bro then you’ll be better than Phelps, I did it so can you
@@levitrap5192 why stop at getting good, why not get younger too! Ill beat him when I'm 20 again and when he's 80.
there are japanese swimmers who are shorter yet they swim like dolphins
@@kazakh-interista okay, name one Japanese male swimmer that can stand up to the likes of Thorpe, Phelps, Lochte, Popov, Sullivan, etc
Although Japan has won a few golds in Breaststroke, however again all the greatest Breaststroke world record holders have been tall swimmers, ie: Sludnov, Peaty, Van Der Burgh, etc.
@@mistrace Kosuke Kitajima won 2 gold medals back to back at two olympics. he is 178 cm tall only and competed against 190+ guys like Brenton Rickard and Hugues Duboscq.
Love this video, such a star doing warm-up so casually in a tiny, crowded pool. Hope to see the ban on the dolphin kick lifted one day and freestyle records smashed!
Wtf there is a ban on that? Are they retarded?
@@urbro2 you can only do dolphin kicks up to 15 metres which makes sense
@@urbro2 You go faster completely submerged if you’re doing dolphin kicks but it’s not really swimming if you’re just holding your breath and kicking, it eliminates so much nuance so I see why they’d limit it
Freestyle, so you can do anything you want, except...🤔
@@EverythingisGoodieBud uhh how is it not swimming
Now I know why he is the best in swimming. He swims fast with elegance.
Now?
Well
@@sumanstephen109 yeah glad this yt video cleared it up for him
I was like which ones Phelps? *and then the alpha separated himself from the pack effortlessly, and my question became awe*
The guy with the huge back
The one who looks like an Olympic swimmer.
With that reach he can never share a lane
With that reputation he should never have to!
Dude the spatial awareness from the other swimmers tho...
He almost covered all the pool with just dolphin kicks 💀
He is the equivalent of an exotic super car in a pool of domestic economy cars.
That is exactly what I thought
In my recommandations just today after I saw Léon Marchand using the same dolphin kicks at the Paris Olympics, it's incredible, same coach same technics same results
Holy crap. It‘s always awesome to see the difference between good and very good athletes and then professional ones of that kind like him. It‘s like normal people might be a very fast Ferrari street car, but then someone comes around who is a Formula 1 race car
I love how he keeps dipping his head under water like it's his idle animation.
i swam beside a world record holder later Olympic champion once in a race. Dad took our movie
Michael Phelps is half man, half dolphin.
Respect to him.
What a great swimmer God bless everyone hope you all have great holidays!
I waited so long for it to happen while the vid seemed closer and closer to end, only to blink and see him on the other side, absolute goat.
I stop watching it for a second and next time he wasn't there. Phelps being Phelps.
I was looking for „Michael Phelps kicking dolphins”. Damn you, TH-cam.
Holy cow, that was fast
With great paddles comes great responsibility.
I used to be a swimmer in my teens. Even my coaches put me in local tournaments. I can tell you I never reached the level where you can cover half the pool in seconds. Really makes you realize why they are called olympians.
Tournaments? Shut up u never even dipped your toes in a swimming pool, let alone a bath
lol 0:37 Michael Phelps mimicking girls voice hahaha
lulz
That was 16 metres with a few kicks. Insane.
25.
@@Oliffin 25 ia the whole pool as he seems to be in a 25 m long one. He had arm strokes at the end to finish it. 16m is leg alone underwater.
I honestly didn't expect that kick to be so fast hahaha, dude almost finished the entire pool with a simple kick. Amazing
I was training on an Athletics track in Manchester when I was a kid and ran into some guy by accident. He laughed and said I would run better if I kept my head up. Then he sprinted off. Turned out to be Linford Christie (Olympic gold medallist.) It's awesome when the pros train with us common folk! 😋
that sounds absolutely mortifying 😁
1992 gold
@@rubenjara5794 Yep! He was my hero back then!
He is so talented. He needs to be consistent to get an Olympic medal.
Wait! He already won 28 medals.
that guy is fast, mark my words, probably we are gonna listen a lot coming from him soon
Was hoping he would kick up 4/5 out of the water, fly through the air, and land down on his back. I misinterpreted what a dolphin kick is
Wow this guy is very impressive. Certainly one to watch out for in the future.
I'm proud to live in the same time with him. He inspires me to swim
You can't swim
@@venice2823How tf u know
¿Como està Phelps hoy en 2022?
Su salud mental? Gracias
I can proudly say i lived in the era of Michael Phelps, Usain Bolt, Messi and Ronaldo, Valentino Rossi and many such legends
You forgot JR Smith
@@lyes215 who
I lived in the one with Jordan also
@@lyes215 you are foul for that one lol
yeah he's fast in a heated pool but how good is he in the winter when the water is frozen?
0:14 Thought she was gonna lock him in the head 😂
can u imagine just warming up in the pool and seeing ur swimming next to michael phelps like the pressure would be unreal lol
Not gonna be pressure instead amusing
@@mas5986 for sure but like i feel like there would def still be pressure
Dolphins call them Michael Phelps kicks
When you want to go back to the basics before you were famous instead of your own private pool. Humble champion
i love how people automatically just know to swim on the right side of the lane just like when riding on the road :))
the standard in ayny pool i have ever been in is to swim on the right and leave the middle for passing.
For the 0.2% of us looking for the track in the background, the song is "Coldplay - Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall (Swedish House Mafia Remix)". I hope this helps at least one person looking for this amazing song :)
0:40, thank me later.
Thank you, how are you
Watching him is like watching an actual animal do something that is so fluent to them
he behaves like a great but humble greek god
Is it a 25m pool? Bc if is is and that is very incredible
I bet this guy can swim faster than he runs
Funny part is how strong their legs but they can’t jump very well at all
@@righttohavebeararms.4300 source?
@@ZER-cr4dm every swimmer I’ve known . It’s a different use to the muscle. They can kick really damn hard but jumping ? They usually can’t jump very well at all.
@@righttohavebeararms.4300 being a pro swimmer is cooler tho imo
@@suprdez3617 100%. Imagine if they want to chase and drown you in the ocean? It’d be like trying to swim away from an angry dolphin XD?
Dolphin kicks are so crucial i tell my swimmers even the best of the best do it
kicks start at 0:41 . thank me later.
Tu
There is NO others will be like him.... The most Decorated Olympian all time!!! - Michael Phelps🔥🔥🔥 Greeting from Malaysia❤❤❤
Damn this dude is fast, he should try competing
@@duck4424 woosh
Never has a 52 second video been so long.
That’s pretty fast. What about the girl that flipped turned right in front of him. He just ignored her
What should have he done?
@@bubisbubble4259 Exactly .
He ignored her because he knows she's a TRAINED ATHLETE ... she's not gonna slam into him like an a**hole.
Normal for a warm-up pool. Rather than ignoring her, he was concentrating on what he needed to do next.
That’s just what swimmers do in warm up
When it comes to beauty and perfect form of dolphin, Ian Thorpe is your man
Dude seems like a good swimmer he should go pro or something one day
unfunny copied comment
@@tpiano1165 you suck at piano lul
@@mosu8779 you suck at comment writing lul
Me: switching from Facebook to TH-cam to find something educational
TH-cam: Michael Phelps dolphin kicks
Me: Let's goooooo!!!!
All the makings of a varcity athlete
How long is that pool? How many meters..I mean
Dangerous... He should be fined for speeding. Poor people around him ran for their life
Holy crap his push off wall is absolutely insane
This guy knows how to swim fast, he should go to Olympic or something
He is in the olympic stuupid learn to think and reseearch before the comment.
@@thefanficdinosaur7621 woosh
@@thefanficdinosaur7621 We usually call this a joke.
Please tell me this is a 25 metre pool
I like to see him swim at 90 .
He was swimming at the 90 second part of his life.. He won that race too..
those people at the end must be terrified; imagine phelps coming at you doing butterfly, like if he connects one arm with my neck he splits me in two
Oh shi... How to kick to be so fast?
Ray Irie short but strong legs + powerful core muscles
Step 1: be an olympian
Step 2: git gud
You need to be from mars like Phelps.
congratulations on commenting when Michael Phelps was still on Olympic swimmer
I don't know if that's Michael Phelps anymore. That's literally a dolphin now.
i was very confused at the beginning because i just randomly clicked on this video - my jaw dropped at the end hahaha
This guy is going places, I'm positive his name will go down in history.
He already went places and is retired now
@@dec1085 whoosh
imagine a collision with Michael in a public pool!
Don’t know why this is in my algorithm but thank you that boy quick
He’s an actual fish
there will never be a better swimmer
This pool is busy! They need a bigger pool with more lines! I appreciate their compromises sharing lines with too many people! Really amazing!
He really should have his own lane reserved for him. Same goes for Ian Thorpe in his prime. A pleasure to watch their effortlessness in the pool they're that good.
Imagine you go to the local pool to try and get into swimming and Michael Phelps is there in the same lane as you
Im not gonna focus on my swimming instead asking for his autograph and teach me his technique or not just just watching him from the edge of the pool
1,287,128 views, 14k likes, 459 comments, 336 subscribers. Nice!!
When you look at the length and everything + strokes that's crazy distance covered so quickly
Young ladies: Hi! Hiiiiiii!
Michael Phelps: 🗿
How long I can use dolphin kick?
is it fish?
Being one of the ladies that arrive at the end of the pool, seeing Mr Phelps being ready and does not making room for Mr Phelps, almost kicking him and leave him behind - those ladies have nerves of steel!
It is nice to see we mortals are not the only ones that have to share a pool with more people than the pool can handle.
Correction: That’s a dolphin doing Michael Phelps kicks
Even the dolphins are jealous