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@@abiramprasad792 I don't think so, there are lot of olympic swimmers who are very hight... more or less the avarage hight is about 180÷190 mm. If you want to go faster the only think to do is to improve your technic. The thing that i used to do to swim faster was to swim above the water surface trying to reduce the hydrodynamic friction.
I’m 15 yo’s girl. I have just swam for 2 years and my record for 50m is 32s. This video is so practical and impressive!! Thank you so much for help me understand lots of things about freestyle and help me improve my passion!!!!!!!
As a former competitive swimmer I have experimented with all 4 techniques. For short sprints I like a mix of windmill and boat style. Just bury down your head and swirl! For distances like 100 and 200m I prefer the horse style since its very powerful but lasts you abit longer. For the really long distances I like the arrow style, especially in Open Water swimming. It saves you alot of energy and and the 1:1 arm/leg ratio makes the body take care of the lactic acid better.
exactly. it's just freestyle at different distances. i would say the only one i seldomly used was the horse style. it just seemed like wasted energy. the arrow style was the default to save energy during those long swim practice sets.
@@armaanayaantvI believe that they meant by the horse being a waste of energy is that- the amount of energy you exert while doing it, doesn’t match what you gain from it. Again, you have to pick and choose where this style might be best for you, and in what length of race. Each style has to make sense for each swimmer’s physicality/body/mind during the time they need it. There is no right or wrong way. ie…All of us can swim in each style right?…. But the style each of of us is better at,may differ. And it is not just physicality; You have to also swim ‘smart’. In the end: Always trust your gut.
This made me feel a lot better as I switch between 3 of these styles. I am a long distance ocean swimmer now and find its good to mix up styles over the race to prevent fatigue. And some days I dont feel strong and need to be more glidy and streamlined and other days I am pumped up and can work at higher aerobic capacity which influences style a lot.
I have been training these four styles for the past 3 months, and the one I am most interested in further developing endurance with is the horse freestyle. It’s not the fastest or the most efficient but I want to swim the 100 freestyle faster and I think this is a great style to train to be able to maintain a good pace.
I watch a lot of swimming videos, and this channel is my favorite. The more I watch the elite swimmers, the more I recognize that they all use the gallop style for anything 100 yards and over. This includes Katie Ledecky, Sun Yang, and others. For me, I can't swim more than 100 yards of freestyle without going to breathing every other arm stroke, which always seems to throw me into gallop style. I am guessing that the key is that it keeps you well oxygenated, more so than breathing every 3rd stroke or so. The more I swim it, the more I prefer it for efficiency.
True that. I do a Horse while sprinting. It is just dead easy and feels so natural to me. It’s like engaging an autopilot of sorts, I don’t have to think about it, it just happens… 😊
I'm swimming lover and recreational triathlete. I do all four techniques depending what I want to do. For example, "arrow" with slower tempo when I practice breathing, on 6, 8, 10 strokes, or "windmill" for fast interval training. "Horse" is usually my warming up technique. Actually, it just getting out of me naturally, now I recognised what I'm doing, and I see it makes sense. Fantastic video!!
I started trying horse freestyle after this video (I used to swim closer to windmill) and immediately I was able to hold 26s and 27s on a set of 16 50s where before I could barely break 26 on a single 50. Thanks so much!!
I just started learning swimming and unconsciously do horse style swimming. Been trying to correct my swimming style so my head wouldn't lift as much. I'm bouncing a little too much 😂 I thought there's only one way to swim freestyle. Very interesting!
All your videos are so good - I love the anatomical views you provide and the clear explanations for what to look for. Plus encouragement. thank you!! This is my favorite swim channel.
Hi, I loved the video. I'm 13 to 14 and I'm going to the Rioja swimming federation. Tomorrow I will try the gallop technique, it seems to me one of the best. Thank you very much for the video!!!😃
I learnt swimming from TH-cam by myself as looking at huge water bodies was one of my biggest fears... I'm trying to improve everyday....its an amazing video...thank you
I must say, it's been a while I was looking for some videos with swimming technique and every one here is just perfect. It'll help a lot on my way back to pool. Thanks!
I just realized I was taught the Boat style as a beginner at my mid twenties. The name was never mentioned and I was just taught that that's freestyle swimming, I wasn't even aware that there are different styles of freestyle swimming...
Raul, I may have had an epiphany about the gallop style. Came from another swim channel where she was comparing the back stroke and freestyle arm pulls. Back stroke is like the kayak paddle or windmill, which makes it more constant motion, and less glide then stroke. Freestyle, like your Arrow style, is more of a stroke, then glide, and stroke then glide. With the gallop style, since there is a quick 1, 2, arm pull, then a slight pause, you get only one cycle of glide, instead of 2 for each arm stroke cycle. Still playing around with this. It really works well for my over arm side stroke.
In America we call the horse style "galloping". It makes sense when you think about it. Anyway, it's really good for long course 100's and above as well as short course 200's and above. Ive been doing it so long in practice, cuz it's easy, and now I can't swim the 50 anymore even tho I was/am a sprinter. :(
Its ok man, perfect the windmill and speedboat for technique sand always research and train. Also speed comes from that heart of yours, keep your head up you can achieve anything if you put your mind to it.
Thank you guys for what you are doing from Russia. It helped me a lit to improve my skills in swimming! All the best for you and good luck to your channel!
This is great! Not related, but I was doing 25yds butterfly sprints under 10sec 20x with a 10-15sec rest between sprints in college. I had explosive speed but couldn't hold it for 100yrds. Great memories!!! My son is starting to swim and really likes it.
Just wanted to say thanks, your videos inspire me and today for the first time I got 30 on my 50 freestyle using the windmill method from this video! Thanks!
Really interesting, thanks. My preferred distance is 200m and I find I naturally go into the horse style when training 200s. It feels smooth, powerful and easy to get into a rhythm.
I just started swimming, and realize I use the Arrow stroke. I'm trying to increase my lung capacity, so speed isn't really an issue for me, this is just what felt natural. Thanks for a great video.
When I learnt freestyle as a child, it was windmill, and with thumbs first in the water. I had to learn as an adult to take long finger in water first, and bend my elbows to allow rest for my arms during swimming. Still working on perfecting it.
I keep watching this, 20 or more times now. I have been told I over analyze things.... With all the time I have spent on my over arm side stroke, I kind of forgot how to swim freestyle. I am getting back into it some what, mostly for developing more power, and aerobic capacity. One thing I have noticed here, is how the use of body and hip rotation changes with the strokes. With windmill, there very little hip rotation, and minimal shoulder rotation. I do remember feeling this when sprinting, with both my side stroke and my freestyle. With gallop style, there is more shoulder rotation to the breathing side, but since it is more of a sprint stroke, there is still minimal hip rotation. With the boat style, there is more shoulder and hip rotation. With Arrow, there is a lot of shoulder and hip rotation. I find that most of the time, I am in gallop style, even when trying to swim longer distances. I can't swim more than 100 yards without having to breath every other arm stroke. Just me I guess. When breathing every other stroke, I kind of naturally fall into gallop style. If I am swimming more distance style, and trying to do arrow, I still seem to slip into arrow/gallop hybrid style. I find boat easier to do if I am breathing every 3rd or 4th arm stroke, and same with arrow. I do practice all 4 variations by swimming a lot of 50s. I need to expand that to swimming more 100s... I use pretty much the same breathing pattern for my over arm side stroke. Up to 100 yards and I can breath every other arm cycle. over that, every arm cycle...
Hi there. I'm a total beginner. I'm going to learn swimming because I have overweight problem and now early stage of fallen arch problem as well. Plus recent years the place I live keep having flash flood or so, and my hometown is so near to the sea but yet I never even know how to float myself XD Anyway thanks for your very detailed nerdy demonstration, I never know that swimming could be so fascinating =D
In your arrow style, when your stretch your leading arm forward, it moves upwards, instead of horizontal. The entry was good and to the depth of your shoulder, then somehow when you move the arm forward, it goes up to near the surface of the water, before your start to press it down again to start the pull. This causes your lower part of body to sink a little bit and increases drag. Although it is only a matter of maybe one inch or two. I think the reasons are: 1. You look a little bit forward, instead of straight downwards. That causes your upper body naturally tilts up a little bit. 2. Your front arm is completely relaxed after the entry, so it naturally floats up. If you pay attention to that, I believe you can fix it with ease and swim even faster.
Yooo! This made me feel better! I am sprinter in 50 meters and I switched to windmill freestyle. I was swimming 50 freestyle 27 sec about a month with the boat style. With the windmill finally I swam under 26 sec! Thanks a lot!
Really interesting video. I trained for years for masters' swimming in Britain and was very interested in stroke technique. I'm a natural sprinter but prefer middle distance racing, 200s and 400s. I always wanted to swim with a two beat kick but never mastered it!
I'd like to thank you for your arrow freestyle videos, it helped me a lot when I started training 3 years ago. 3 years ago I thought 500 meters is a huge distance to swim, now my usual training is 1500-1800, I participated 2 amateur championships with 2300m (Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 2021) and 3000m (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 2022), and more to go, I hope. Definitely my sprinting skills are far from yours, my best 100m is still 1'39" 😂 but sprint is not my primary goal 😅 Thanks again and swim fast ✌🏼😁
Windmill is often good for all out sprints, with gallop being great for the 100, 200, and 400. Arrow is really good for the early and mid halves of a long race, which toward the last 300 to 150 meters turns into boat as the swimmer brings it home. Very few swimmers utilize all four in the higher levels because very few swimmers span the entire scope of freestyle. Great video
Great video! I really liked the horse technique. Also, You can see Ledecky swimming the arrow style on the 800s in Rio. She ended the race almost a pool in front of the second place.
Windmill is basically super effective with maximum efforts at short distances ( 50m & 100m ) , for a 200m I guess professional Olympians would probably do a mix of the first 2 strokes , and arrow is basically super good when mastered for +400m events , overall great video !
Excellent video. I’m a old self taught swimmer, who swims laps for exercise. The closest to my style is the arrow, but is fun to try other styles. I imagine I will be watching this video many more times. Thanks for the great explanations, and filming.
I think the horse style freestyle is also known as hybrid (hip driven in one side shoulder driven in another). Go swim tv calls it a loopers freestyle (usually occurs naturally with people with a stronger one side). Go swim tv gave a drill where you swim with 6 kick one pull but in one side you dive in and in another side or pull you come back up.
Thanks for this. I'm going back to swimming after a couple of years of break, and I'm sorta annoyed with how much I seem to have forgotten. Feels kinda embarassing :'D I've been subscribed to you for a couple of years though, in case I got back in. I've always been impressed with your insight and how straight-to-the-point your videos generally are. I don't really feel like I learn something from watching swimming videos by others, but yours I always seem to learn something from. It's pretty cool - thanks again.
Realy good analysis of the different swimming types in my opinion, good job and a interesting video. I didnt know, that i am doing the Horse style all the years, during my sprint parts! Thanks a lot. Greetings from GER!
This is one of the best video ever on freestyle. I (never a pro but a good swimmer) found myself questioning my freestyle while swimming becuase i often switch from one to another. All feels different and on distance longer than 200 i found difficult to chose between arrow and horse. BTW i preattx much think Greg Paltrinieri is on of the horse.
Hi, Just wanted to say awesome videos =). Also, I had a question, which style did Pan Zhanle use in Paris recently? Is it similar to any of the 4 techniques shown in this video or very different?
Helpful vid, but as a state qualifier just focus on the first two “types” of swimming. Either a high tempo gallop or high tempo windmill / elbow bend variation will be the only ones to help you qualify
Actually, Caeleb Dressel (long A by the way) disapproves of the gallop. By gallop, you are transferring energy upward which doesn't do much. Caeleb does stay slightly longer on one side when doing the 100 to save a bit more energy but it is different from a gallop which is more like Michael Phelp's stroke in the 200 and 400 free
I love the arrow style for a longer, more relaxed swim, but I can't achieve the kick well enough. At my level (I would say intermediate) the boat style is the best. Also, amazing video, so well done! Thank you.
I swim almost exclusively distances in open water. I use the horse technique in choppy water. I typically swim the boat style in smooth water at the beginning of my swim but do arrow toward the end of the swim.
I've entered a 4.6km open water swim after not swimming seriously for 15 years! Looking forward to trying out the horse technique... I am way more upper body dominant - terrible freestyle kick... Hopefully it goes well... Otherwise... arrow.
I use arrow while swimming in a chilled zone, but I prefer to use the horse style while going fast. My coach tells me to use the boat during the sprint but I can't with the 3,4,5 breaths lol, I forget to breathe and end up feeling fatigued haha. Thank you for making this video btw. I learnt the difference for the first time xD
@@redgoat8447 i think it's because it forced me to pay attention to my stroke technique and by swimming arrow style, it decreased my stroke count and increased the quality of each stroke :)
@@richardli8888 I practice Arrow Freestyle every work out. You can swim it for power with long powerful pulls, or for efficiency and distance with slower pulls. Yes, because of the slower stroke rate, you can really pay attention to your arm technique. It is harder with paddles on...
The windmill was actually how I learned it first as a kid (age 5-6) and later the boat was how I learned it after getting my third or so swimming certificate (age 8-9). Though around the age of 12 I said "screw it" to my coach and basically combined things... Basically just an arrow where every 4th stroke I do a "gallop" though I never really use my legs for some reason. I'm not a competitive swimmer though I do like to be faster than my friends :^)
I actually use a mixture of some of these. I find I use 2 and 3 during a game of water polo, 2/horse for when I'm closing the gap on someone and I need to be able to see them and get up out of the water, 3/boat for trying to accelerate without using the wall. The arrow is used for the long swims when training.
by the way , these style can be categorized as the both hand drill position if not mistaken , horse style is typically mixed cross drill, mixture of front cross drill and mid cross drill. Whereas rear cross drill is used for long distance freestyle. About the kick 2,4&6 would be accomplished with the cross drill technique. 😅 This is what I understanding after watching many others swimmer TH-camr sharing and concluded.
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Answer a question: which many of us are troubled with , that is, is height an important factor in swimming faster
In swimming fast
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I don't think so, there are lot of olympic swimmers who are very hight... more or less the avarage hight is about 180÷190 mm.
If you want to go faster the only think to do is to improve your technic.
The thing that i used to do to swim faster was to swim above the water surface trying to reduce the hydrodynamic friction.
Can send the message to you becouse i am brazilian
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I’m 15 yo’s girl. I have just swam for 2 years and my record for 50m is 32s. This video is so practical and impressive!! Thank you so much for help me understand lots of things about freestyle and help me improve my passion!!!!!!!
OMG BROOO I'M 15 TOOO I HIT 32 TOOO IN 50 FREE
As a former competitive swimmer I have experimented with all 4 techniques. For short sprints I like a mix of windmill and boat style. Just bury down your head and swirl! For distances like 100 and 200m I prefer the horse style since its very powerful but lasts you abit longer. For the really long distances I like the arrow style, especially in Open Water swimming. It saves you alot of energy and and the 1:1 arm/leg ratio makes the body take care of the lactic acid better.
exactly. it's just freestyle at different distances. i would say the only one i seldomly used was the horse style. it just seemed like wasted energy. the arrow style was the default to save energy during those long swim practice sets.
@@matthewqtran1318how was it a waste of energy I'm new to competitive swimming and want to improve so I don't really know much
@@armaanayaantvI believe that they meant by the horse being a waste of energy is that- the amount of energy you exert while doing it, doesn’t match what you gain from it. Again, you have to pick and choose where this style might be best for you, and in what length of race. Each style has to make sense for each swimmer’s physicality/body/mind during the time they need it.
There is no right or wrong way. ie…All of us can swim in each style right?…. But the style each of of us is better at,may differ. And it is not just physicality; You have to also swim ‘smart’. In the end: Always trust your gut.
The quality of those videos is amazing, filming, editing, content...
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Fact
I was about the say the exact same thing. So true!
If only he did quality check. Just look at 2:28 6:55
I've been a swimmer for years and this is the best explanation I've ever found. Great work guys - please never stop!
One of the best channels about swim... keep going, boys! Cheers from Brazil!
Thank you!
the arrow isn’t necessarily used for sprinting, it’s a distance stroke
Yeah true that's what I thought...
He knows that.
I do it in the 400m freestyle
yea, that is why personally when i am sprinting i do boat, but with anything else it is arrow
It's great for triathlon, and saving the legs for the bike and run.
This made me feel a lot better as I switch between 3 of these styles. I am a long distance ocean swimmer now and find its good to mix up styles over the race to prevent fatigue. And some days I dont feel strong and need to be more glidy and streamlined and other days I am pumped up and can work at higher aerobic capacity which influences style a lot.
This is an absolutely fabulous video! You explain everything with concrete, detailed examples and break down the information like others don’t.
Thank you!
I like the editing style on this. All meat and no filler. Good use of graphics.
I have been training these four styles for the past 3 months, and the one I am most interested in further developing endurance with is the horse freestyle. It’s not the fastest or the most efficient but I want to swim the 100 freestyle faster and I think this is a great style to train to be able to maintain a good pace.
I think the gallop is really good to swim the 200 free
I think the galloping is mostly uselful for the 100 and 200, or for IM swimmers who gotta hold the pace
I watch a lot of swimming videos, and this channel is my favorite. The more I watch the elite swimmers, the more I recognize that they all use the gallop style for anything 100 yards and over. This includes Katie Ledecky, Sun Yang, and others. For me, I can't swim more than 100 yards of freestyle without going to breathing every other arm stroke, which always seems to throw me into gallop style. I am guessing that the key is that it keeps you well oxygenated, more so than breathing every 3rd stroke or so. The more I swim it, the more I prefer it for efficiency.
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True that. I do a Horse while sprinting. It is just dead easy and feels so natural to me. It’s like engaging an autopilot of sorts, I don’t have to think about it, it just happens… 😊
I'm swimming lover and recreational triathlete. I do all four techniques depending what I want to do. For example, "arrow" with slower tempo when I practice breathing, on 6, 8, 10 strokes, or "windmill" for fast interval training. "Horse" is usually my warming up technique. Actually, it just getting out of me naturally, now I recognised what I'm doing, and I see it makes sense. Fantastic video!!
This is by FAAAAAAAAAR one of the best videos on swimming on youtube and I've seen dozens of hours
Thank you!
I started trying horse freestyle after this video (I used to swim closer to windmill) and immediately I was able to hold 26s and 27s on a set of 16 50s where before I could barely break 26 on a single 50. Thanks so much!!
oh man, i feel so inspired by the level of nerdery. I'm a beginner swimmer and your passion has me excited. appreciation from Austin, TX
One of the most informative and hardworking swimming video on TH-cam!
that underwater/overwater view is unique and so helpful
I just started learning swimming and unconsciously do horse style swimming. Been trying to correct my swimming style so my head wouldn't lift as much. I'm bouncing a little too much 😂 I thought there's only one way to swim freestyle. Very interesting!
All your videos are so good - I love the anatomical views you provide and the clear explanations for what to look for. Plus encouragement. thank you!! This is my favorite swim channel.
Hi, I loved the video. I'm 13 to 14 and I'm going to the Rioja swimming federation. Tomorrow I will try the gallop technique, it seems to me one of the best. Thank you very much for the video!!!😃
I learnt swimming from TH-cam by myself as looking at huge water bodies was one of my biggest fears... I'm trying to improve everyday....its an amazing video...thank you
I found everything about swimming knowledge in Skills n’ Talents channel. You’re the PhD of swimming. Respect you.
Thank you!
I must say, it's been a while I was looking for some videos with swimming technique and every one here is just perfect. It'll help a lot on my way back to pool. Thanks!
The quality of the video is amazing .... content, filming, editing, explaination, everything is perfect ! Keep going, and thanks !
I just realized I was taught the Boat style as a beginner at my mid twenties. The name was never mentioned and I was just taught that that's freestyle swimming, I wasn't even aware that there are different styles of freestyle swimming...
Awesome in depth video! Keep it up 👍
Raul, I may have had an epiphany about the gallop style. Came from another swim channel where she was comparing the back stroke and freestyle arm pulls. Back stroke is like the kayak paddle or windmill, which makes it more constant motion, and less glide then stroke. Freestyle, like your Arrow style, is more of a stroke, then glide, and stroke then glide. With the gallop style, since there is a quick 1, 2, arm pull, then a slight pause, you get only one cycle of glide, instead of 2 for each arm stroke cycle. Still playing around with this. It really works well for my over arm side stroke.
Im 5’9” swims 50 free scy in 22.14 and after seeing this im gonna try and change from boat style to windmill just to change things up! Thank you!
In America we call the horse style "galloping". It makes sense when you think about it. Anyway, it's really good for long course 100's and above as well as short course 200's and above. Ive been doing it so long in practice, cuz it's easy, and now I can't swim the 50 anymore even tho I was/am a sprinter. :(
Its ok man, perfect the windmill and speedboat for technique sand always research and train. Also speed comes from that heart of yours, keep your head up you can achieve anything if you put your mind to it.
I use that galloping for the 100 free and the windmill for the 50
@@RigoOXx me as well
I do a mix of horse and boat and I can pretty much all out sprint a 200. It’s great for mid distance
Awesome! Makes a lot of sense, informational, and explains down to earth, the differencies in styles among top succesfull freestylers. BIG LIKE MAN!
Thank you guys for what you are doing from Russia. It helped me a lit to improve my skills in swimming! All the best for you and good luck to your channel!
This is great! Not related, but I was doing 25yds butterfly sprints under 10sec 20x with a 10-15sec rest between sprints in college. I had explosive speed but couldn't hold it for 100yrds. Great memories!!! My son is starting to swim and really likes it.
Just wanted to say thanks, your videos inspire me and today for the first time I got 30 on my 50 freestyle using the windmill method from this video! Thanks!
Really interesting, thanks. My preferred distance is 200m and I find I naturally go into the horse style when training 200s. It feels smooth, powerful and easy to get into a rhythm.
Thank you so much for the style number 1(the first teqnic)!!!!!!!!!!Now I swim very fast and steady!!!!You are the best!!!!!
I just started swimming, and realize I use the Arrow stroke. I'm trying to increase my lung capacity, so speed isn't really an issue for me, this is just what felt natural. Thanks for a great video.
Outstanding editing skills, great video.
When I learnt freestyle as a child, it was windmill, and with thumbs first in the water. I had to learn as an adult to take long finger in water first, and bend my elbows to allow rest for my arms during swimming. Still working on perfecting it.
I keep watching this, 20 or more times now. I have been told I over analyze things.... With all the time I have spent on my over arm side stroke, I kind of forgot how to swim freestyle. I am getting back into it some what, mostly for developing more power, and aerobic capacity. One thing I have noticed here, is how the use of body and hip rotation changes with the strokes. With windmill, there very little hip rotation, and minimal shoulder rotation. I do remember feeling this when sprinting, with both my side stroke and my freestyle. With gallop style, there is more shoulder rotation to the breathing side, but since it is more of a sprint stroke, there is still minimal hip rotation. With the boat style, there is more shoulder and hip rotation. With Arrow, there is a lot of shoulder and hip rotation. I find that most of the time, I am in gallop style, even when trying to swim longer distances. I can't swim more than 100 yards without having to breath every other arm stroke. Just me I guess. When breathing every other stroke, I kind of naturally fall into gallop style. If I am swimming more distance style, and trying to do arrow, I still seem to slip into arrow/gallop hybrid style. I find boat easier to do if I am breathing every 3rd or 4th arm stroke, and same with arrow. I do practice all 4 variations by swimming a lot of 50s. I need to expand that to swimming more 100s... I use pretty much the same breathing pattern for my over arm side stroke. Up to 100 yards and I can breath every other arm cycle. over that, every arm cycle...
Hi there. I'm a total beginner.
I'm going to learn swimming because I have overweight problem and now early stage of fallen arch problem as well.
Plus recent years the place I live keep having flash flood or so, and my hometown is so near to the sea but yet I never even know how to float myself XD
Anyway thanks for your very detailed nerdy demonstration,
I never know that swimming could be so fascinating =D
Super, as always. Full of clearly produced videos, graphics and excellent explanations. Thanks very much team. Wish you guys could come to Europe!
In your arrow style, when your stretch your leading arm forward, it moves upwards, instead of horizontal. The entry was good and to the depth of your shoulder, then somehow when you move the arm forward, it goes up to near the surface of the water, before your start to press it down again to start the pull.
This causes your lower part of body to sink a little bit and increases drag. Although it is only a matter of maybe one inch or two.
I think the reasons are:
1. You look a little bit forward, instead of straight downwards. That causes your upper body naturally tilts up a little bit.
2. Your front arm is completely relaxed after the entry, so it naturally floats up.
If you pay attention to that, I believe you can fix it with ease and swim even faster.
You check Total immersion swim for arrow swim arms nonsense
I can't tell you how much this will help me thank you:)))
I'm so glad!
This is the best vid on TH-cam… I can’t stop watching this
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I use windmill when I am trying to get a new PR
As u should
@F K not too much though bc it is hard on the shoulders
@@marklukens273 it shouldn’t hurt ur shoulders, it means u aren’t rotating enough
I like arrow style the most
GREAT DESCRIPTION OF HORSE. I USE A SIMILAR STRATGY IN BUTTERFLY, NOT BY GALLOPING THE ARMS BUT BY STEEPLECXHASING THEM.
Yooo! This made me feel better! I am sprinter in 50 meters and I switched to windmill freestyle. I was swimming 50 freestyle 27 sec about a month with the boat style. With the windmill finally I swam under 26 sec! Thanks a lot!
Really interesting video. I trained for years for masters' swimming in Britain and was very interested in stroke technique. I'm a natural sprinter but prefer middle distance racing, 200s and 400s. I always wanted to swim with a two beat kick but never mastered it!
combining the horse and arrow styles creates the ultimate distance swim hybrid
Your observation is super, the way you take 4 style out of a single freestyle. Video making is also great.
I'd like to thank you for your arrow freestyle videos, it helped me a lot when I started training 3 years ago. 3 years ago I thought 500 meters is a huge distance to swim, now my usual training is 1500-1800, I participated 2 amateur championships with 2300m (Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 2021) and 3000m (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 2022), and more to go, I hope. Definitely my sprinting skills are far from yours, my best 100m is still 1'39" 😂 but sprint is not my primary goal 😅
Thanks again and swim fast ✌🏼😁
Great improvement and results! Congratulations!
Windmill is often good for all out sprints, with gallop being great for the 100, 200, and 400. Arrow is really good for the early and mid halves of a long race, which toward the last 300 to 150 meters turns into boat as the swimmer brings it home. Very few swimmers utilize all four in the higher levels because very few swimmers span the entire scope of freestyle. Great video
Thank you!!
I'm currently using the Arrow style to prep for IM
I combined the horse and arrow technique which feels very comfortable when I swim the 400m freestyle
I was about to say that. I combined Windmill and Arrow. Same movement like arrow but a faster pace like windmill
Thank you! I am finally going to swim tomorrow and I am very excited 😀
Keep up the good work @Skills NT Swimming
Thank you! That's good news! Enjoy!
i choose horse style for speed, arrow style for enjoying swimming---i love how the legs kick so relax
Great video and very informative. The editing and filming is amazing! Thanks!
Great video!
I really liked the horse technique.
Also, You can see Ledecky swimming the arrow style on the 800s in Rio. She ended the race almost a pool in front of the second place.
Windmill is basically super effective with maximum efforts at short distances ( 50m & 100m ) , for a 200m I guess professional Olympians would probably do a mix of the first 2 strokes , and arrow is basically super good when mastered for +400m events , overall great video !
Just know that it can be really hard to pull off and it isn’t conducive to everyone
Excellent video. I’m a old self taught swimmer, who swims laps for exercise. The closest to my style is the arrow, but is fun to try other styles. I imagine I will be watching this video many more times. Thanks for the great explanations, and filming.
Bro your editing is on a whole new level 🔥🔥🔥
VERY TRUE
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I think the horse style freestyle is also known as hybrid (hip driven in one side shoulder driven in another). Go swim tv calls it a loopers freestyle (usually occurs naturally with people with a stronger one side). Go swim tv gave a drill where you swim with 6 kick one pull but in one side you dive in and in another side or pull you come back up.
Thanks for this. I'm going back to swimming after a couple of years of break, and I'm sorta annoyed with how much I seem to have forgotten. Feels kinda embarassing :'D
I've been subscribed to you for a couple of years though, in case I got back in. I've always been impressed with your insight and how straight-to-the-point your videos generally are. I don't really feel like I learn something from watching swimming videos by others, but yours I always seem to learn something from. It's pretty cool - thanks again.
Realy good analysis of the different swimming types in my opinion, good job and a interesting video. I didnt know, that i am doing the Horse style all the years, during my sprint parts! Thanks a lot. Greetings from GER!
I love so much ur videos, the quality is astonishing.
The best channel. I like arrow swimming. Thanks you for this video.
Excellent video. It's amazing that #4 allows the body to glide and still do well. I can see it for long distances. Thank You.
Pretty sure this are some of the best swiming videos i ve ver seen, thank you
Thank you for breaking these down so well with great explanations and analyses. This is one of the most valuable swimming videos I have ever watched.
Best swimming video on youtube
Arrow will be great for open water or long distance. More elegant in my eyes too. Thanks for sharing the info.
This is one of the best video ever on freestyle. I (never a pro but a good swimmer) found myself questioning my freestyle while swimming becuase i often switch from one to another. All feels different and on distance longer than 200 i found difficult to chose between arrow and horse. BTW i preattx much think Greg Paltrinieri is on of the horse.
Your videos just got a lot cooler!
Hi, Just wanted to say awesome videos =). Also, I had a question, which style did Pan Zhanle use in Paris recently? Is it similar to any of the 4 techniques shown in this video or very different?
Helpful vid, but as a state qualifier just focus on the first two “types” of swimming. Either a high tempo gallop or high tempo windmill / elbow bend variation will be the only ones to help you qualify
Actually, Caeleb Dressel (long A by the way) disapproves of the gallop. By gallop, you are transferring energy upward which doesn't do much. Caeleb does stay slightly longer on one side when doing the 100 to save a bit more energy but it is different from a gallop which is more like Michael Phelp's stroke in the 200 and 400 free
He still gallops 🐎
@@SkillsNT it's really not tho...
@@kyleromero820 yeah he does gallop technically. Ur opinion is irrelevant
This guy is good in making swimming videos.
Loved this channel! Gave me the will of swimming again. Thx
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I love the arrow style for a longer, more relaxed swim, but I can't achieve the kick well enough. At my level (I would say intermediate) the boat style is the best. Also, amazing video, so well done! Thank you.
I swim almost exclusively distances in open water. I use the horse technique in choppy water. I typically swim the boat style in smooth water at the beginning of my swim but do arrow toward the end of the swim.
I've entered a 4.6km open water swim after not swimming seriously for 15 years! Looking forward to trying out the horse technique... I am way more upper body dominant - terrible freestyle kick... Hopefully it goes well... Otherwise... arrow.
I use arrow while swimming in a chilled zone, but I prefer to use the horse style while going fast. My coach tells me to use the boat during the sprint but I can't with the 3,4,5 breaths lol, I forget to breathe and end up feeling fatigued haha.
Thank you for making this video btw. I learnt the difference for the first time xD
I switched from my regular swimming to arrow swimming and it made me so much faster!!
Is that because u have reduced ur rest time? Arrow style saves a lot of energy from nearly- no-kicking technique.
@@redgoat8447 i think it's because it forced me to pay attention to my stroke technique and by swimming arrow style, it decreased my stroke count and increased the quality of each stroke :)
@@richardli8888 I practice Arrow Freestyle every work out. You can swim it for power with long powerful pulls, or for efficiency and distance with slower pulls. Yes, because of the slower stroke rate, you can really pay attention to your arm technique. It is harder with paddles on...
Thank you so much for this video!Really interesting!
Melhor vídeo que já assisti sobre as técnicas aplicadas ao freestyle!! Parabéns!
PLS MAKE SOMETHING ON BUTTERFLY STROKE WITH SAME CONTENT
PLS COME UP WITH A FOLLOW ALONG WORKOUT
I need more information on the windmill freestyle and the horse freestyle
Hey just asking what style dose celeb dressle swim?
I agree with some aspects but not others . I love your videos beautifully made . I love the scientific aspects you have added
The windmill was actually how I learned it first as a kid (age 5-6) and later the boat was how I learned it after getting my third or so swimming certificate (age 8-9).
Though around the age of 12 I said "screw it" to my coach and basically combined things...
Basically just an arrow where every 4th stroke I do a "gallop" though I never really use my legs for some reason.
I'm not a competitive swimmer though I do like to be faster than my friends :^)
So cool. Thank u for the lesson and glad to see u back
Can we appreciate the camera work. That’s so clear for a swim video.
I actually use a mixture of some of these. I find I use 2 and 3 during a game of water polo, 2/horse for when I'm closing the gap on someone and I need to be able to see them and get up out of the water, 3/boat for trying to accelerate without using the wall. The arrow is used for the long swims when training.
Excellent work dude. You did a great job explaining these techniques. Well done 👍
this video is awesome, big thanks. For the horse freestyle, it'sometime described a galop freestyle.
Thank you 😅
This video deserves 1M likes
Amazing effort on your part to learn the different styles!
Yes, divisons of swimming styles.
Each have intricate tellegence.❤️
Thanks 🙏
A LOTS DITAILE BOTH ON SWIMMING AND VIDEO EDITING. We appreciate your hard works.
by the way , these style can be categorized as the both hand drill position if not mistaken , horse style is typically mixed cross drill, mixture of front cross drill and mid cross drill. Whereas rear cross drill is used for long distance freestyle. About the kick 2,4&6 would be accomplished with the cross drill technique. 😅 This is what I understanding after watching many others swimmer TH-camr sharing and concluded.