FREESTYLE SWIMMING: 5 MOST COMMON MISTAKES

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In this video I am going to show you how to fix the most common freestyle mistakes. Specifically, by doing swimming exercises and drills from the video, you will master arm stroke and breathing technique really fast!

0:23 - Low elbow arm stroke
4:03 - Arm stroke while breathing
6:46 - Lifting head for taking a breath
9:29 - Short arm strokes
11:08 - Large bending at the knees

Here's what you'll learn in today's video:

First, I will show you the "cheat code" how to perform correct arm stroke. By using my tip, 100% you will do an arm stroke correctly.

Next, you will find out chair arm stroke exercise to set up your freestyle arm stroke technique. Also, you will figure out why swimmers have bad swimming technique and how to avoid it.

2nd most common mistake appears when swimmer does not have basic swimming skills. Swimmers are taking a breath and at the same time performing an arm stroke. This mistake makes swimming hard and super inefficient. When you correct this mistake, your freestyle swimming will be 2x faster! (This is really easy).

Then, I will show you how to get rid of incorrect breathing technique. Many swimmers have learnt to breathe in the water by themselves, therefore, in many cases technique is wrong. Breathing is super important in swimming and especially, if you are a triathlon swimmer. Fortunately, this is much easier to correct than it sounds.

Next, I will show you how to improve swimming by using the same amount of energy with "Long Efficient Arm Strokes". By performing such arm strokes in IronMan competitions, you will swim really fast and save energy for cycling and running.

Finally, the last mistake is caused by performing incorrect kicks. This mistake can be dramatic and ruin the entire swimming. Kicking does not give us large speed boost. However, incorrect technique slows us down. Check out my swimming tutorial to get correct kicking technique.

Evgeny Lomtev

Filming:
Ville Tirroniemi
Benjami Hiljanen
Juhani Alatulkkila

Design:
Gregory Kovalev

[SwimUp]

What do you think is the biggest mistake?
1st - Low elbow arm stroke
2nd - Arm stroke while breathing
3rd - Lifting head for taking a breath

[romanmedveckij]

that feeling when you watch him swimming on WRONG mode but for you it looks smooth and perfect

[kuthanc]

Extremely helpful video. My only suggestion is to split the screen into two videos, showing the mistake and correct technique side by side in slow motion.

[agentwrench]

"In this position it is impossible to perform an arm stroke wrong" man, don't underestimate my ability to fuck up

[chewbrookaw]

I definitely struggle with the breathing. My form falls apart completely when i feel desperate for a breath. I’m a beginner and it’s so hard to focus on the correct form when I feel distracted by breathing at the wrong intervals. I will definitely be trying your drills to improve my breathing patterns! Thanks for the great video!

[juliengaucher]

Even when this guy makes all the mistakes he still swims 10x faster than me.

[bekamtchedlidze]

Friends at the river: When did you become an expert in freestyle swimming ?
Me: Last night.

[giacomoguarnieri]

I have just started swimming recently (~1 month ago) and there is no adult class at the pool where I'm going, so I have relied on watching many YT videos explaining how to swim properly.

This was the best freestyle swimming lesson video I came across and it REALLY helped me.: Yesterday I made use of your precious advices and "unlocked" my first mile of consecutive freestyle without even getting tired (I know it's nothing but before I was able to only swim for 250m consecutively, so it's at least a factor 4 boost just happening out of the blue). So, thank you very much, I will keep trying to improve following your videos!

[TheGhostWriter.]

I think that guy swim better outside the pool than me in it 😂

[jimka]

After watching this video, I realised that I was doing pretty much everything wrong :D

[LayzieDave]

When you realize that being able to swim is not even close to being able to swim.

[lovelovelioness]

I'm a beginner and I've been watching a lot of videos and this is the best video I've seen so far. Thank you for posting this.

[MrCaneast]

I have never known how to swim all of my life. I have always just stood in the pool or ocean just watching my wife and 3 children swimming and finally took swimming lessons for 2 sessions in a row last year and I have never been shown these techniques. I finished still not knowing how to swim. These are exactly what I should have been shown. I find I'm partial to oxygen so I needed to know how to breathe while practising the techniques. Thank you very much. (By the way I'll be 71 this year and was born and brought up near an ocean beach).

[pattybishop]

This is the best video. Thank you so much. I am 72 years old and determined to achieve freestyle. This video will definitely help me

[Steadysales]

Outstanding! What a tremendous amount of value packed into each mistake Correction. Thank you for taking the time to produce such an excellent video.

[Catawbaindustrialspur]

Thank you for making this. I realized that I was doing a lot of things wrong and this really helped and made me realize how to swim correctly. Once I put it into practice the results were amazing. Thank you!!

[matildafaltyn]

A big Thank you for including the legs. Most instructional videos pay little attention to the legs.
Having said that, the most common mistake for me is everything you've instructed,
especially lifting head out of water to take breath .

[RJ-zcvt]

This is the most detailed video on FreeStyle Swimming. You have done an absolutely amazing job at explaining the cruical aspects. Indeed the best video on FreeStyle. Keep-up the wonderful work.

[slasha]

Hands down, this is one of the best freestyle swimming advice videos around here! I am swimming casually freestyle since a few years and working on those mistakes, helped me increasing my speed and endurance big time! Last habit i broke, was doing strokes while breathing. Fixing this, really took some hours, but once you get the hang on it, you see an improvement immediately! Thanks!

[landen]

Bro… you have the most common sense way of explaining technique. I’ve watched so many videos and all of them combined still don’t compare to one of your videos. I appreciate your insight!!!