Just want to leave you a comment, i haven’t been swimming since high school and I’ve only picked it back up after my herniated disc injury, watching your videos have been great inspiration as i never really paid attention to all these different techniques, i just thought swimming was swimming and never took it seriously. All these subtle differences has improved my swimming technique and also gave me much joy to see my progress, thank you so much!
@@snakers716 That’s a disgusting take. Seriously? Suggesting people should drown because you think we're overpopulated is beyond twisted. If that's your solution, it says a lot about you as a person. Human life isn’t something to be thrown away for your convenience. If that's how you see things, maybe it's time to reconsider what it means to value others. Suggesting that people should drown as a solution to overpopulation dehumanizes individuals and reduces them to mere statistics. It's a callous and morally reprehensible viewpoint that lacks empathy and respect for the basic dignity of others. Life isn't something to be casually discarded, and advocating for harm or death, especially in such a flippant way, crosses a line that no one should tolerate. If that's your idea of solving global problems, you might want to rethink your approach to valuing human life. 🙄
Oh my gosh. The backwards dolphin kicks and regular dolphin kicks into the backstroke is my go to in a call back audition yesterday. But we had to do 17laps spaced out in between breath holds in the 25 meter pool and i just told literally told my mind I was done. I was bored, tired and cared too much and gave up. Mostly bc i knew we had to then do deep dives in the 10ft part and do performance (mermaid auditions). This video was definitely needed and now, i need a coach. (I don't even have motivation anymore!) But I know its a goal i can reach with the proper mental training.
As an old 200m butterfly and IM-er, I LOVE both WHAT you tell about and the VOICE you have in telling us: where you are coming from. . . Brilliant. Thank you.
They should have it as a separate stroke/competition. This way, you don't "cheat" in the other strokes, and at the same time, you can develop and see the full potential of underwater dolphin kick.
The back stroke guy lives here in Oregon, though I haven't met him. It was a revelation to me that there was less drag under the water than when swimming on top, and after thinking about it, it made sense. I do remember a video by Gary Hall Sr. where he used his 'velocimeter' to check several different swimmers doing the dolphin kick. One woman actually generated more thrust on her up/back side kick than on her down kick. It was the video where I learned to swim with toes pointed in slightly. When seeing people trying to prove underwater swimming is faster than surface swimming, they always show it in back stroke, like the one with you and your brother. Don't think I have seen one that compares it to swimming freestyle of the fly. One other point is the Lochte rule in fly where you have to do the dolphin kicks on tummy because they think there is some sort of advantage to dolphin kicks on your back. I have yet to hear any explanation that makes any sense to me, as to why there can be any mechanical advantage.
Mr. Man, This video is just excellent. Besides teaching about swimming, you weave in history, nuance of paradigm shift among people of the sport, and a sprinkles of fluid dynamics minutiae into high engaging content. There's Swim Fast and I now understand that to also be Swim Smart!
i know before about wave drag, i was like training swimming and i read some papers, but after i hit my toe in training accident i switched completly to underwater swimming and got into freediving. i'm just a beginner at swimming, but i could beat most people at the swimming pool by swimming completly submerged and even with frog kick not even using dolphin kick.
1.Why am I going downwards while Dolphin kick swimming. 2. I tried my best to float but I don't know why my leg is still sinking. 3. Having a hard time to leave breaststroke swimming. Especially with the kicks, unable to get pushed by the kick and if I force myself I had a sprain in the backside of my knee joint muscles. *Please advise!*
Love your videos, they just get us hypnotized. Love the way you pronounce every word, almost can feel you thinking in Spanish first. Tranks for sharing all your love and excitement for swimming. A big water hug from Brasil!
Man these videos are amazing keep making them! The animation you did for the 1956 breaststroke underwater dude was so amazing I don’t know how you do that!
i always knew dolphins were faster by just watching the olympics but dang them banning the amount you do is crazy! Also did you already do phelps video already?
Hi guys i suck at swimming(freestlye), my main problem is the breathing, i try to breath one side and i kinda get water in my mouth and it sucks. Any tips?
While your arm is coming back, take a breath. You'll want to breathe out only while turning your head (underwater) and breathe in quickly at the surface.
I swim freestyle for exercise. A snorkel is absolutely great to compensate my bad breathing technique. At the end, I have a great exercise and it's been 4 months and counting.
Make sure your arm on the non breathing doesn't go down too fast when you breathe in. If you lower it to quickly you'll have less support from the water and you'll sink faster. Also, try overdoing the rotation for now. When turning your head out the water look at your armpit and then the ceiling.
I bet if you asked Jesse Vassallo about his underwater swimming he will mention the TV Sci-fi series 'Man From Atlantis' from the 70s. After this was on TV all kids would copy him ............... 🙂
The 1 - Less Waves isn't explained very well. It isn't an avoidance OF waves, but more an avoidance of GENERATING waves. If you think about the cavities created by placing a solid quickly into water, you'll notice air moves down behind the solid (like an arm), water will rush into that cavity thanks to gravity and other fluid dynamic principles. If you're moving mass that isn't your own (water) up and down vertically, and not horizontally, then you're wasting energy. You're just pumping water up and down. By being under the surface, your body is constrained by the weight of the water from moving vertically (it's heavy), so it keeps your stationary upper body in a vertical plane, instead of proposing. That gives the water going around your upper body a chance to flow in a more attached column, where the legs can then do their thing, and accelerate those columns more easily. Anyways, the reasons why it would be slower is the pumping of the "fluid" being more water than air, but for the reasons I mentioned, you can keep yourself from going too vertical with your center of mass. An similar analogy can be seen in cycling. Small tires with low volume and high pressure transmit more high frequency energy into the frame and human. On most road surfaces, the roughness causes the bike to vertically "hop", and any vertical motion is taking away from kinetic and putting into potential, then back to kinetic, so lots of losses occur. It's more efficient to absorb the bumps at the tire deformation, which will cause some more heat in the tires, but reduce the vertical component of the rest of the mass (biker and bike frame/wheels). Anyways, thanks for the videos, very entertaining. I have new people to watch now :)
she reminds of my old crush anagha i used to be the fastest guy swimmer in my team before I left to Australia she was very fast and also the had the most beautiful dolphin kick and butterfly I wish I was back in India I shouldn't have left for Australia
It wasn't that the Puerto Rican government prevented Vassallo from competing in the Olympics. He made the US Olympic team, but the US boycotted because of the USSR in Afganistan.
Berkoff got a slow start because they started weird back then, the horn off start was not always uniform so it led to false starts and you often slipped off the wall because nothing to push off of. Sure Suzuki had all the things you said but I think the reason he won was due to the start, he was lucky with his and David was not. Berkoff had gone faster in prelims. Also did you see Gretchen Walshes 50 free split on her relay? Those underwaters could give Maggie a run for sure!
From what I saw, Berkoff always had a slow start. Always going up too much. I don't know how he didn't slip. But yeah you never know what will happen at the Olympics.
I saw Gretchen. Amazing. For sure incredible underwaters. Hopefully she can swim long course as well as she swims yards! It would be amazing to see her at the Olympics.
Yes, underwater swimming without surfacing could be faster. Look at animal world, most creatures swim under water most of the time. Otter, for example, exhales before surfacing and only inhale shortly after surfacing to maximize underwater time. To them, swim fast could mean catching food or starve to death. Humans got a long way to learn on how to swim.
I have a question. Let’s say a fast 50 meter long pool butterfly is 24 second or less. What is the fastest 50 m underwater fly kick ? Let’s do that experiment. I think NOWADAYS if do not come up before 25 meter you lose the race. Let’s do the experiment with backstroke in 50 m long pool.
"- If you don't show it at the Olympics - almost noone cares" (said 3x) "- Noone cares if you only won once at the Olympics" Looks like they (the ignorants?) do not care, no matter what, where and how many times you do. 😉 Very interesting video, thank you!
Races should be about the stroke and not how long they can stay underwater and do a dolphin kick, let them dive and have that 15 meter limit but after that they should go straight into the stroke from each wall and not be allowed to do dolphin kicks, which isn't the stroke in the event in which they are competing. That way one is using the stroke virtually all of the way in the swim and not for only approximately 35 meters for each 50 meter lap.
We have plenty of reserve oxygen that we don't really use. If you are well trained you can stay underwater for a long time (don't try it without supervision and never hyperventilate before)
From freediving videos I know that there is oxygen in the lungs. It's CO2 which makes you take breath. You can build CO2 tolerance to improve/extend usage of O2 from your lungs. Warning!!! After overbreathing you can clean too much CO2 from your body and then use all the O2 from your lungs before signal to breath. You can pass out (in the water) and die. Be carefull. S'n'T Maybe some breathing cross with Adamfreediver (if he's still active)?
The people in the Philippines actually are genetically advanced to hold their breath for over 15 minutes while diving .. they don't really care about the Olympics , just fishing.
Oh vented by the PuertoRican 🇵🇷Jesse Vasallo so why don’t you call it the Vasallo technique?? The Japanese swimmer copied the technique from Vasallo and now the whole swimming Worlds uses it!
How Did She Swim So FAST If She DIDN’T Enjoy It!?
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Children swims playing more than 10 minutes under water before they can even walk here in my country.
@@chitaegandalalake263 that is awesome! what country is that?
@@SkillsNT ya
@@SkillsNT i think usa
Just want to leave you a comment, i haven’t been swimming since high school and I’ve only picked it back up after my herniated disc injury, watching your videos have been great inspiration as i never really paid attention to all these different techniques, i just thought swimming was swimming and never took it seriously. All these subtle differences has improved my swimming technique and also gave me much joy to see my progress, thank you so much!
Thank you for sharing! That is great news. For sure inspiration to continue doing our videos
I’m an ex national champion.
You could argue that she is saving her arms by using the full 15 metres underwater but trust me, those lungs are bursting
The 5th stroke - underwater dolphin kicks - was one of the top ways how my son ended up going to state last year.
Congrats to him. :)
Amazing animations. The movement is so well done. Congratulations.
Thank you very much!
Yes! They made it clear to understand what you meant exactly. Would love to start swimming, I just need a good class.
I've known this since the 60s but thats why competition limits how far you can go underwater!
It’s more for safety because some swimmers pushed too hard and passed out. I say let them drown if they feel the risk is worth it.
@@rl8571no, we'd have a bunch of corpses in the pools, especially from more oppressive countries.
@@T1Oracle Is that a bad thing. We're already overpopulated as a planet.
@@snakers716How about you take the tribute & do us all a favour ...after all you think dying's gona help humanity?
@@snakers716 That’s a disgusting take. Seriously? Suggesting people should drown because you think we're overpopulated is beyond twisted. If that's your solution, it says a lot about you as a person. Human life isn’t something to be thrown away for your convenience. If that's how you see things, maybe it's time to reconsider what it means to value others. Suggesting that people should drown as a solution to overpopulation dehumanizes individuals and reduces them to mere statistics. It's a callous and morally reprehensible viewpoint that lacks empathy and respect for the basic dignity of others. Life isn't something to be casually discarded, and advocating for harm or death, especially in such a flippant way, crosses a line that no one should tolerate. If that's your idea of solving global problems, you might want to rethink your approach to valuing human life. 🙄
Those animations are so freaking accurate, they show the two kick one stroke cadence of butterfly perfectly. Subscribed!
Oh my gosh. The backwards dolphin kicks and regular dolphin kicks into the backstroke is my go to in a call back audition yesterday. But we had to do 17laps spaced out in between breath holds in the 25 meter pool and i just told literally told my mind I was done. I was bored, tired and cared too much and gave up. Mostly bc i knew we had to then do deep dives in the 10ft part and do performance (mermaid auditions).
This video was definitely needed and now, i need a coach. (I don't even have motivation anymore!) But I know its a goal i can reach with the proper mental training.
I like your videos because you are talking straight to the point.
Thank you for grate content!
Cool history. I always assumed Suzuki was copying Berkoff in '88. Now I know it was the other way around, and both owe the innovation to Vasallo.
I got to watch Maggie Macneil swim at the last meet before Olympic Trials at LSU! Her 100 free in finals was a 50 fly down then 50 free back
Como siempre un gran video Mauri! Quizá faltó hablar un poco de Denis Pankratov (7 records mundiales, bicampeón olímpico debido a sus underwaters).
As an old 200m butterfly and IM-er, I LOVE both WHAT you tell about and the VOICE you have in telling us: where you are coming from. . . Brilliant. Thank you.
They should have it as a separate stroke/competition. This way, you don't "cheat" in the other strokes, and at the same time, you can develop and see the full potential of underwater dolphin kick.
There are dolphin kick competitions but with fins.
Definitely, some may see it as a form of cheating..
The back stroke guy lives here in Oregon, though I haven't met him. It was a revelation to me that there was less drag under the water than when swimming on top, and after thinking about it, it made sense. I do remember a video by Gary Hall Sr. where he used his 'velocimeter' to check several different swimmers doing the dolphin kick. One woman actually generated more thrust on her up/back side kick than on her down kick. It was the video where I learned to swim with toes pointed in slightly. When seeing people trying to prove underwater swimming is faster than surface swimming, they always show it in back stroke, like the one with you and your brother. Don't think I have seen one that compares it to swimming freestyle of the fly. One other point is the Lochte rule in fly where you have to do the dolphin kicks on tummy because they think there is some sort of advantage to dolphin kicks on your back. I have yet to hear any explanation that makes any sense to me, as to why there can be any mechanical advantage.
Mr. Man, This video is just excellent. Besides teaching about swimming, you weave in history, nuance of paradigm shift among people of the sport, and a sprinkles of fluid dynamics minutiae into high engaging content. There's Swim Fast and I now understand that to also be Swim Smart!
Nice comment! Thank you!
Amazing content. This should be watched by the world.
Great video with outstanding graphics!
That reversed effort law is priceless knowledge, not only for swimming. Thanks!
i know before about wave drag, i was like training swimming and i read some papers, but after i hit my toe in training accident i switched completly to underwater swimming and got into freediving.
i'm just a beginner at swimming, but i could beat most people at the swimming pool by swimming completly submerged and even with frog kick not even using dolphin kick.
1.Why am I going downwards while Dolphin kick swimming. 2. I tried my best to float but I don't know why my leg is still sinking.
3. Having a hard time to leave breaststroke swimming. Especially with the kicks, unable to get pushed by the kick and if I force myself I had a sprain in the backside of my knee joint muscles.
*Please advise!*
Love your videos, they just get us hypnotized. Love the way you pronounce every word, almost can feel you thinking in Spanish first. Tranks for sharing all your love and excitement for swimming. A big water hug from Brasil!
Man these videos are amazing keep making them! The animation you did for the 1956 breaststroke underwater dude was so amazing I don’t know how you do that!
Glad you like them!
His animations are fun
Between 6:56 & 7:26 there is a good lesson for a whole lot of competitive things. I have experienced this quite often.
Great content. I'm to out of shape to attempt this technique
so that's what it was called. i mainly use it in public pools since i can see better underwater.
Wow, thanks for all this videos for the olympics! I'm so excited :)
Glad you like them!
She worked smarter not harder, less resistance creates more momentum
i always knew dolphins were faster by just watching the olympics but dang them banning the amount you do is crazy! Also did you already do phelps video already?
Este video, está en español?
I'm a bit confused, say you compete freestyle on 25 meter pool. And if you're good on dolphin kick, you can go as long as you can?
15 meters is the max
@@SkillsNT If you go over; is it DQ?
Hi guys i suck at swimming(freestlye), my main problem is the breathing, i try to breath one side and i kinda get water in my mouth and it sucks. Any tips?
While your arm is coming back, take a breath. You'll want to breathe out only while turning your head (underwater) and breathe in quickly at the surface.
I swim freestyle for exercise. A snorkel is absolutely great to compensate my bad breathing technique. At the end, I have a great exercise and it's been 4 months and counting.
@@Xynurse yeah that's fine for just exercise but isn't good for training to race.
Make sure your arm on the non breathing doesn't go down too fast when you breathe in. If you lower it to quickly you'll have less support from the water and you'll sink faster. Also, try overdoing the rotation for now. When turning your head out the water look at your armpit and then the ceiling.
Thank you guys for your tips!
Swimming a 12.5 m sideways gases me out..to imagine 100m and 400m in record times is amazing
unless this video is played on air at the olympics, nobody will know anything about this video.
lol
Bhagwadgita clearly states this. "Stop worrying about the result and focus on the present & effort"
I bet if you asked Jesse Vassallo about his underwater swimming he will mention the TV Sci-fi series 'Man From Atlantis' from the 70s. After this was on TV all kids would copy him ............... 🙂
Is that legal?
I can't swim. But I love ❤️ this. Stuff.
~~~~~~~. 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁👍👍👍
Now if only I can figure out how to jump out of the water occasionally and dive back in while swimming to gain speed, I'll swim like a true dolphin🐬.
Children swims playing more than 10 minutes under water before they can even walk here in my country.
Are you from the Philippines?
Japan has an ancient method to go underwater since samurai time
The 1 - Less Waves isn't explained very well. It isn't an avoidance OF waves, but more an avoidance of GENERATING waves. If you think about the cavities created by placing a solid quickly into water, you'll notice air moves down behind the solid (like an arm), water will rush into that cavity thanks to gravity and other fluid dynamic principles. If you're moving mass that isn't your own (water) up and down vertically, and not horizontally, then you're wasting energy. You're just pumping water up and down. By being under the surface, your body is constrained by the weight of the water from moving vertically (it's heavy), so it keeps your stationary upper body in a vertical plane, instead of proposing. That gives the water going around your upper body a chance to flow in a more attached column, where the legs can then do their thing, and accelerate those columns more easily. Anyways, the reasons why it would be slower is the pumping of the "fluid" being more water than air, but for the reasons I mentioned, you can keep yourself from going too vertical with your center of mass. An similar analogy can be seen in cycling. Small tires with low volume and high pressure transmit more high frequency energy into the frame and human. On most road surfaces, the roughness causes the bike to vertically "hop", and any vertical motion is taking away from kinetic and putting into potential, then back to kinetic, so lots of losses occur. It's more efficient to absorb the bumps at the tire deformation, which will cause some more heat in the tires, but reduce the vertical component of the rest of the mass (biker and bike frame/wheels). Anyways, thanks for the videos, very entertaining. I have new people to watch now :)
she reminds of my old crush anagha i used to be the fastest guy swimmer in my team before I left to Australia she was very fast and also the had the most beautiful dolphin kick and butterfly I wish I was back in India I shouldn't have left for Australia
LOVE YOUR VIDS! Sorry that swimming is less prevalent of a sport. I hope you can keep it up.
Best male underwater swimmer? ...would worth a clip also.. Thank u
It depends on the distance. But I would say Leon Marchand.
Swimming underwater makes a mockery of the different swimming strokes. 15 meters is way too generous.
Maybe next time competitors will compete by seeing who can finish lap in a single breathe!
Not surprising. This was banned in Breaststroke as it is faster to swim underwater then regular breaststroke.
Sjostrom has ruled out swimming the 100 fly in Paris.
🥲
Did she? That's a real shame
@@sethaldrich6902 Was reported in the Swedish media. She's only doing the 50 free.
@@XDF745 that's too bad. They need to add 50s of stroke.
@@sethaldrich6902 I agree. And more underwater footage to see their techniques better.
It wasn't that the Puerto Rican government prevented Vassallo from competing in the Olympics. He made the US Olympic team, but the US boycotted because of the USSR in Afganistan.
What about Denis Pankratov?
Berkoff got a slow start because they started weird back then, the horn off start was not always uniform so it led to false starts and you often slipped off the wall because nothing to push off of. Sure Suzuki had all the things you said but I think the reason he won was due to the start, he was lucky with his and David was not. Berkoff had gone faster in prelims. Also did you see Gretchen Walshes 50 free split on her relay? Those underwaters could give Maggie a run for sure!
From what I saw, Berkoff always had a slow start. Always going up too much. I don't know how he didn't slip. But yeah you never know what will happen at the Olympics.
I saw Gretchen. Amazing. For sure incredible underwaters. Hopefully she can swim long course as well as she swims yards! It would be amazing to see her at the Olympics.
Yes, underwater swimming without surfacing could be faster. Look at animal world, most creatures swim under water most of the time. Otter, for example, exhales before surfacing and only inhale shortly after surfacing to maximize underwater time. To them, swim fast could mean catching food or starve to death. Humans got a long way to learn on how to swim.
POV Leon Marchand
true
it's like... your racing everything but the thing your assigned to stroke.
I try to do the dolphin kick, its been a challange, i feel , it feels slow.
It Is very challenging
Look how Leon broke phelps world record. Amd NCAA records due to his underwaters
just ask denis pankratov, he is the best diver in swim
Amazing
I have a question. Let’s say a fast 50 meter long pool butterfly is 24 second or less. What is the fastest 50 m underwater fly kick ? Let’s do that experiment. I think NOWADAYS if do not come up before 25 meter you lose the race.
Let’s do the experiment with backstroke in 50 m long pool.
Y te olvidas de tu canal en español?
Si, ya no me acuerdo cómo hablas español
"- If you don't show it at the Olympics - almost noone cares" (said 3x)
"- Noone cares if you only won once at the Olympics"
Looks like they (the ignorants?) do not care, no matter what, where and how many times you do. 😉
Very interesting video, thank you!
Don't wanna be an ass, but this is a well known fact by swimmers. There are also rules to limit the length/distance of under water leg kick swims.
I got a 36 in fly thanks
You mean in freestyle swimming you are not free to choose your style?
There should just be a UNDERWATER SWIMMING EVENT...
Races should be about the stroke and not how long they can stay underwater and do a dolphin kick, let them dive and have that 15 meter limit but after that they should go straight into the stroke from each wall and not be allowed to do dolphin kicks, which isn't the stroke in the event in which they are competing. That way one is using the stroke virtually all of the way in the swim and not for only approximately 35 meters for each 50 meter lap.
anything US athlete cannot achieve = too dangerous. same for gymnastic.
Here is a tip to pronounce Zhang - John
Thanks, I'll try next time!
What about misty hyman?
How can she not run out of oxygen?
We have plenty of reserve oxygen that we don't really use. If you are well trained you can stay underwater for a long time (don't try it without supervision and never hyperventilate before)
From freediving videos I know that there is oxygen in the lungs. It's CO2 which makes you take breath. You can build CO2 tolerance to improve/extend usage of O2 from your lungs.
Warning!!! After overbreathing you can clean too much CO2 from your body and then use all the O2 from your lungs before signal to breath. You can pass out (in the water) and die. Be carefull.
S'n'T Maybe some breathing cross with Adamfreediver (if he's still active)?
The people in the Philippines actually are genetically advanced to hold their breath for over 15 minutes while diving .. they don't really care about the Olympics , just fishing.
not faster for the 50m freestyle though...
I clicked in the video because I thought it was underwear.
same thing Michael phelps does
"If you don't win at the OIympics, no one cares." Great video, but you repeated that sentence several times.
Yes, on purpose 😉
👌👍
Because she did not do the butterfly style. Cheated for all the way.
🇨🇦
what is your secret is your underwear ...😮
Shhh
steroids
Experience is NOT only SOMETIMES ahead of knowledge as you said it but EVERY knowledge is ALWAYS PRECEEDED by Experience.
Llegará un momento en que limiten la distancia recorrida por debajo del agua para que haya una igualdad entre todos
Si hay. 15 metros
Oh vented by the PuertoRican 🇵🇷Jesse Vasallo so why don’t you call it the Vasallo technique??
The Japanese swimmer copied the technique from Vasallo and now the whole swimming Worlds uses it!
We can start calling that.