The Stroke That Broke The Internet
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ม.ค. 2022
- In the last 12 years creating TH-cam videos I've had two strokes that have received a huge amount of feedback from people. Dan Smith's easy 1:10 100m free and Lukasz Wojt's Ironman Swim. Let's take a look Lukasz Wojt's stroke from underwater and see what makes him so fast.
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Thank you for making this! I watched just before getting into the pool and mimicked all the form ques you mentioned here and managed to consistently get my 50m down from just over a minute to hovering around 55sec! I fealt like I had an epiphany in the pool today.
That…is…awesome.
Fabulous video 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Thank you for taking the time to put this together and sharing it. You do an awesome job of explaining each part of the stoke. I am looking forward to watching more of your videos and applying what I've learned.
This is a fantastic analysis, thank you for your videos!
I'm coming up to 2.3km ocean swim so this is perfect inspiration to get me in the groove, Thank you!
Thanks Breton -great content Happy New Year!!
Thank you so much for all of your videos. I’ve learned so much! I’ve been out of the pool for six months because of a medical issue, but watching your channel makes me feel as if I’m still a swimmer. I hope and pray I will be able to get back into the water and put into practice some of your excellent teaching. Thank you again.
Thank you for you videos. I train for half IM distance (and I'm self coached), and your videos helped me get from 2:15 to 1:51 in one month period. Keep on great work.
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I want to add my appreciation for your channel !! Love the instructions and the video from underwater that can be slowed down to allow concentration ... Wondering if there is a way that I can learn more from you and your excellent video??
Excellent, always high quality analysis.
Great vid. Thanks for all that work.
Man, i love your channel and how you break down effortless swimming into specific movements. For me you are the Harald Harb of swimming!
had to search who that was! thank you :)
Love these breakdowns!
Excellent excellent video. Everything I need, everything I need to know. This is gonna my "gospel" for freestyle. I will watch this video regularly, until I get it right. Thank you so much Brenton. I swim freestyle a mile a day, best part of my day, I love it. You're the best teacher Brenton! Trust and respect.
Thoroughly enjoyed this. Thank you.
I have done my best to imitate Dan’s style in the Easy 1 minute pace video and you’re right, I swim it at a 2 minute pace. 😆
Thanks for this tips Sir, these helps a lot!!!
Dan's swimming ❤🏊♂️❤. I have watched that video on a loop on a few occasions it's that GOOD!
Thanks for your detailled analysis! Lukas has surprisingly more bubbles on his fingers as I expected.
Hi Brenton, after watching this video, I went to the pool this morning and I have swum my usual 1000m.
My pace was 9 seconds per 100m faster than last week! I almost didn’t believe I had completed 1000m as this was faster than last week’s time for 950m, but I checked my time at each 250m point and was on that pace consistently throughout. Thank you so much for your tips and commentary on swimming. You are amazing!
Nice! 👏👏👏
That's quite unbelievable! What was your new pace and have you improved further since then?
@@allydea I think I put this comment in Feb last year, so the week would have been a 1000m at 2:44 /100m followed by one week later a 1000m at 2:35 /100m, which is a huge jump in one week.
I have been consistently training since then, working on both fitness and technique and now swimming around 2:15-2:20 /100m depending on distance. I haven’t timed myself over 1000m for quite a while.
Great content and explanation. More content please 🙏
Brilliant analysis!
Wow! So dense, but but very good simplistic explanations.
Thank you Brenton, this is a great video 👍🏼. I’m a 40yo age group Triathlete in NSW Australia 🇦🇺 and have made some big improvements over the last few years thanks to your work. If I compare my 50m pool sprints from before I did your 5 day catch challenge to my last pool swim, I went from about 45secs/50m (1:30/100m pace) to last week I did an all out 50m sprint against my friend and apparently swam 33sec/50m (about 1:06/100m pace). This is a bit of a stand out performance without a wetsuit as I have only ever managed 35sec/50m with a wetsuit (when the 50m outdoor pool was colder). I’m hoping to try out another one of your programs when we recover 💰 from Christmas and when I can get access to a GoPro for video analysis of my stroke as I’d like to be able to hold the faster pace for longer. Eg my pace drops significantly over the 100m (1:18), 200m (3:00), 400m (6:40) and 1500m (23:00) These are in the pool without a wetsuit.
Another thanks for posting this great technique. I notice the "lack of hesitation" before the catch, that seems so prevalent in so many swimmers today. To the point where the glide is so long, the recovery arm has caught up, and rests with the pulling arm. (which hasn't begun its pull yet).
The lack of hesitation... i like that view
Brenton hi,
Thank you for yet another brilliant video.
Could you please comment of the scapula position during the power phase?
Looks like those natural swimmers manage to keep it pushed forward, while I am retracting mine back.
I don't recall of you relating to that in the 5-days catch challenge as well.
Maybe you could give a coaching point or even a drill to help fixing this?
Thanks a lot,
Avri
Re high elbow, I see that Lukasz maintains this through the second half of his pull. At 2:27 and other places, particularly in the head-on shots, his elbow is at the surface behind his shoulder while his forearm and hand are pointing directly down. Virtually a perfect right angle, elbow high. His entire forearm and flat palm have just pulled back with maximum force against the water to this point, having gotten a great catch. Then he easily and naturally keeps his palm pushing water essentially straight back as he straightens his arm while his elbow only barely rises above the surface. This gives his stroke the “light bulb” pattern that Brenton describes. So perfect! This is what I’m going to be working on this week…
One point not highlighted in the video that struck me is how late the recovering arm is entering the water compared with the position of the catching arm which is almost at the 6 o'clock position.This would appear to reduce the amount of time in the stroke cycle that the swimmer is gliding (and therefore losing speed). A secondary effect of this is the stroke is much 'flatter' and the torso rolls only during the power phase (5 o'clock to 9 o'clock). Thank you for a very well produced video. Much to think and work on.
Thank you for explaining the entry and high elbow catch, i have struggled with both and destroyed any progress i have made so much so i have lost my love for swimming.
Just swim. Getting caught up in technique and overthinking takes away from the ultimate goal which is to enjoy/have fun.
Incredible explanation
Great stuff
headed out to swim soon, i will do my best to take your advice
Thank you for this! So helpful! This sounds really daft, but it made me realise I have misunderstood the high elbow concept for years… d’oh!
Applied the proper technique and it has already made it easier and faster and noticeably less strain on the shoulder…
Thank you very much I was extremely helpful.
Thanks for your brilliant work!
I tend to find that my should brushes my ear upon entry, especially on the left side. Not sure if this is OK, but it seems to work for me.
notes for myself (ignore)
split vision breathing
skewer through head and neck, don't let your head deviate to much off the skewer
heads hips and heels near surface (3 points of contact)
Horizontal body position
Toes pointed behind you
Finger first entry, elbow up
high elbow position, 'elbow forward'
forearm and hand is your 'big paddle'
extreme high elbow is not necessary
shoulder near cheek
100-120 degrees arm angle in the catch
This looks like footage from an X-Files episode, but as such, it's very informative and entirely authentic.
Thanks a bunch for yet another very constructive video, Brenton!!!
It‘s interesting to see how Lukasz, a middle-/long-distance swimmer, doesn‘t do front-quadrant swimming; his swimming is to me more similar to a sprinter swimmer.
@Brenton: is my observation correct? If so, how does he still manage to be so good at mid-/long-distance without front-quadrant technique?
His high stroke rate still maintains front quadrant, but only just, so you raise an interesting point.
An over head view would also be helpful.
Thanks!
How important is hip rotation? Does a clean twist create power? I'm trying to work on my hips right now and can't figure out what I should be doing so any advice would be welcome.
That Ironman swim is so boss
so my suspicion that it is not necessary to start the catch movement (on the breath side) only after the face is parallel to the bottom was well founded. So far, all the coaches have pointed it out to me, and as I understand it, it is much more important to care about starting the movement from the horizontal position of the hand. I'm right?
Can you present the light bulb / globe (~13:00 here) and show about where most of the power should be applied during the stroke? I feel like I try to apply too much power too early in the stroke but would like to hear what you think.
Nice and thorough videoanalysis. Please, can you tell me what app or software do you use to draw those lines on the video? Thanks
I think it's Coach's Eye. But they are shutting the mobile app in September 2022.
Skillest
great summary from a lot of what I've heard on other Effless Swimming vid analysis - but some instruction I've heard about hip/core body rotation - should you have any focus on hips/core rotating?
thanks, you haven't mentioned his stroke a little quicker than what you normally suggest (Front quad something) ? Seems like his stroking hand goes 90° and below before the other hand gets in. is that a normal thing or something to fix ?
He’s still front quadrant. One hand enters as the other is under or just passed his should, so if looking from above there would always be a hand in front of his head
Again again view helps lot to remember Brent, Pool open's tomorrow, not to bad just 1 week close.
he‘s swimming front quad with 1‘10 pace but not when he races open water and in the pool . the difference is in the continuous interchange of pulling-pushing motion of both arms while in front quad there is not.
"Who is the 5 day catch challenge suitable for?"
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- The person who secretly desires recognition as a good swimmer
YES! :D who doesn't? :D Good points there - I'm in.
Can you tell me please, what song this is?
His hands seem to be neutral to almost outward pointing at the catch. Does that matter? 🙏🏼 My hands are usually pointed inward like a proper diamond.
What theme song is this please!!!
Is the swimmer Ian Thorpe
You need a perfect kick to maintain that position. If I do the same, my legs are going to scratch the bottom of the pool. When I swim, I put my head so low I can almost see my belly button (just kidding) to keep my legs and my hips high.
Pools have been closed for two months here, they finnally mentioned opening again on Jan 3rd, so excited I called on Jan 3rd, and a robot voice told me they are opening on Jan 9 now, but now I find out all the pools gyms everything are shutting down so idk if I'll ever be able to swim this season.
Just curious, are these Olympic caliber swimmers? If not, I'd love to know what faster swimmers are doing differently...
Both are olympians
@@EffortlessSwimming Good to know, thanks!
More movement
Is he swimming “front quadrant”??
Essentially…hand is about 6 o’clock when arm enters at 3 o’clock. I thought that he was slightly late on entry but he’s a faster swimmer than me! 😁
when you talk about "internal rotation" could you maybe clarify it in terms of: rotate so the thumb is lower than the little finger - is that right?
80 strokes a minute! Bejesus! I’m about 60! Folks should get a tempo trainer and try 80 spm. It’s fast! 🥵
I'm here cuz I want tips on teaching myself how to swim....lol....
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