The Most Important Swimming Skill

I learned the most important swimming skill when I was 7 years old. When I started this channel at 26, I’d already forgotten how and why I learned it. I did it instinctively and trained it every day.
It wasn't until I spent years researching, reading your comments, and teaching how to swim in person that I discovered just how important this skill really is. Later on this video we will see why it is the most important swimming skill, if you need to improve it or focus on something different.

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00:00 - How I learned the most important swimming skill
00:31 - Running well but swimming tired
01:51 - The basics backwards
03:52 - Should you focus on something else?
05:12 - Benefits of testing yourself
07:06 - Discovering the best way to swim

[SantiCUCA]

How is A-Aron? Is he all right? Is he improving? I miss him brother

[pablocuello]

Let me tell you, im a beginner swimmer since i started in december 2021 and only swam for 3 months, stopped until last month and didnt stop since then. Nevertheless, every time i followed your advices, exercises and comments, ive always improved at least ONE bit more, and I find it fantastic, because you always hit the right key. Your clips are GOLD for me, congratulations for you ability to share and explain you knowledge and THANK YOU!! Pablo from Argentina

[sphinxxxx]

I am new to the sport. Used to be a runner in youth, stayed active all my life, yet haven't done much proper serious training. Am 50 years old now and only went to swim due to back injury, but found out that I really enjoy learning to swim properly (since swimming "holidays style" :-) is boring and I love challenging myself).
Just tested sitting idly, it takes 35 seconds to blow slowly out of the nose. In the pool my comfort zone is to breath every 4 strokes. I only started going to the proper training pool just over a month ago, but I've made a big progress from not being able to swim continuously for more than 25 meters (due to not knowing just how important it was to breath properly) to swimming for 2 hours with only short stops when switching from one drill onto the next and I do feel the burning muscles now instead of just running out of breath.
Thank you for all your videos, they help so very much 👍🙂

[dadodave]

Thank you for the quality of your videos. I love swimming and I find your tips and lessons very useful.

[Nat-opel]

Oh man, you are a genious teacher.! You 've just confirmed some important points which i ve instinctively worked it out for myself through trying, making mistakes, reflecting on it and self correcting, and reflecting again.

[loop]

Love your videos, man. You've helped me improve so much- I get compliments on my technique at the gym, like, quite often now and I'm kinda chubby- I feel like I must look competent and I owe it to practicing your tips! Thank you for your content ❤️

[vitchmacro]

Thank you so much for your hard work .

[thecutawayinconyers]

This has been helpful. I'll try this today.

[tempedweller]

I absolutely loved how you were evaluating your arm and hand position at the end of the video.😅 Watching your feet in the videos has helped me to relax my own feet/ankles and figure out (a little more) what’s wrong with my freestyle kick. Thank you. 🙏🏾

[davidglassman]

Hi, I met you at Masters Nationals in Irvine. Thanks for the great content. Hope to see you at the next Meet.

[lkwrjhx]

Great content as usual, breath control is indeed an essential part of swimming yet not taught in a way that it should be. It was always a self pick up skill of mangy young learner. Thank you to point it out with such convincing explanation! And there is somthing to share. I am practicing freestyle and backstroke together and doing LA practice which means long axis practice, combining these two strokes together at the moment, realizing that the synchronization of the feet and stroke in the period of transition from freestyle to backstroke or backward is really interesting but hard to explain. Would you be interested to make a video to uncover it?

[abidRehmani]

i like your swimming skills I also do light classes here I have new boys to learn swimming But I teach her swimming in dasi style I learn a lot from your videos too

[tarassu]

I've done Wim How, I believe I can do over a minute on the first try. Will update :)

[thefoolwise]

I got 50 seconds out of the mouth and 20 seconds out of the nose. I wouldn’t exactly call myself the strongest swimmer (32 second 50m freestyle at 14), but my breathing has always been better than most people in my club. For reference the furthest I’ve swam in one breath, whilst fully submerged, is 50m.

[nanotrk]

Hi, your videos are great. I learned lots of things from them. Especially smooth arrow was a lifesaver. Nowadays ı am focusing on freestyle with dolphin kicks. Can you do a video about it with pinpointing key points of them so ı can get feedback from it. I am sure it will be useful for lots of people since this drill teaches a lot about timing and feeling the water.

[allydea]

5:14 That background shot was hilarious! 🙂 That's probably how my breakout looks sometimes.

[blinkinglightbeacon]

I love swimming and do have the I-can-do-it-forever thing, whereas with running I have to stop and catch my breath very quickly. But I am SO SLOW. I got people doing the breaststroke passing me one after the other. I have checked my technique, I guess I just need to focus on moving faster.

[stephengentle]

I just tried a few times sitting here in my seat - managed to get breathing out my mouth to a minute (first try was a bit over 30s) but through my nose first try was 20 seconds, got it to 27 after two more.

So still some practice to go to increase my nose exhaling score I think.

[fabi]

Moin, 48 seconds.... Thanx for this nice Video.

[kofio]

I'm a half decent swimmer css 1:47, 400m (PB 6:36 @1:40) and 100m (PB 1:30). However, breathing out of my nose on dryland is extremely hard I can only manage 5 sec, but out of my mouth I can easily do 45secs. I will test this when I'm in the pool, I think the resistance of the water helps to slow down my breathing. Also for reference I normally breathe every three strikes and exhale water out of nose/mouth at the same time and I still have Soem left before turning to breathe.