The smoothest fastest swimming :: Freestyle Friday #5 :: catch up swim

Today’s tip is called catch up swim. If you want to swim faster but with even less effort you need to maximize your stroke effeciency. Many would think that if you pull harder then you can move farther with each stroke, and they are not wrong but there is a better easier way!

Try this. For this exercise wait until your arm finishes the pull to start pulling with your other arm. While you pull make yourself longer by reaching forward with your other arm. Do this a couple of times too see how you can move easily through the water while your other arm waits. When you swim, don’t wait until you other arm comes back completely, start your other pull when your hand passes your head. Or just think of holding that arm in front a little longer.
If you want proof that this works just watch Ian Thorpe break the 400 world record. In the first 50 alone he took 22% less strokes as the guy who got second.
Thorpe took 27 stroke :: The guy who got second took 35 strokes.

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[RickMartinYouTube]

tried this today (before even seeing your vid) thought it was the "catch up drill" and it seemed to be better to get a glide --I'll keep trying it ---I wasn't as tired afterwards, either.

[zeack]

Why didnt i discover this channel earlier!? 😤

[greenapple]

From not being able to swim 100m non stop, now I can swim a longer distance after switching to almost catch up freestyle technique.

[DamionJR]

I can use all the technical help I can get Thanks!

[theonewiththeratpfp]

ok im early thanks for the swimming tips

[REDandBLUEandORANGE]

This is how I swim already

I am less fit and lest strong than my entire team but I still beat them
All the swim parents are always like “omg your swimming is so prett”

[aboooaalnaserrr]

I hope to increase the video time Thank you 👍🏼

[B.N.Y-]

Kindly advise ...
My strokes is ok ..kicks too, but when I started breathing I lose Harmony !🤕
I tried Hardly to recover the rhythm but I to do ?

[jhonnyc]

Excelente, vídeo puedes hacer uno sobre la forma de salir a respirar para principiantes, mucha gente se hunde su brazo cuando respira y no lo puede controlar

[danieltdp]

Just don't do it in open water, because, there will be too much wavelets stopping you from gliding that much

[scarykloky]

Do you have any tips on how short people can compete against long people. I remember that Phelps beat a French swimmer by swimming really close besides him. Are there Any other tricks. Asking as 153 cm swimmer.

[REDandBLUEandORANGE]

Can you guys do a video on all out sprinting like a 50??

[attif]

What's "Ctach-up swim" . And how can it pass to being uploaded without anyone notice it.

[trykozmaksym]

0:47 see how you move up and down with each stroke - means you push down instead of back - that's because the arm in front is positioned almost at the surface and you apply pressure before the catch which is also hard to achieve from that starting position...

[anniemccowan]

Okay, is it just me or is this guy giving two conflicting pieces of advice for the same drill? First he says to wait for your hands to meet at the top of the stroke and then he says to start the stroke before your hands meet. I'm confused.

[qwas]

ничего не понял т.к. плохо с английским. Перевод на русский не помешал бы. Люблю плавать, в сорок начал учиться плавать технично.

[mandrhe]

Aaah! Pero quítenle ese tipo de traje y entonces sí le contamos las brazadas🤔

Pero igual, interesante... ¡Gracias por el video!