20-Second Drop: Watch This Triathlete's Insane Swim Improvement!

Technique is so much more important in swimming than in other disciplines of triathlon! Your videos show how impactful even minor changes can be.

Super valuable, concise, relatable teaching video… Thank you so much.
I've been swimming one month now, and am focusing on technique above all :-)

This was really well done. I learned a lot. Thank you.

Thank you.

Great work in improving his catch ... recovery could also improve

Hi Brendan, how long would you typically expect this turn around to happen?

I swim with my balls out front..

your arm still not straight at the end of pull phase.

Great explanations.

I watched lots of videos where they just show an athlete swimming perfectly, but as an amateur I had no idea what to focus on, this one was great! I need to work on hands motion

Great video!

But he still is kinda slow 😅

Look how much less turbulence in the water too!

Triathletes who don't do 2-beat kicks or bilateral breathing. Hmm...

ow long did it take him to do these changes?

Now do tell how to get under 1m per 100m

Check this out. I've been struggling for years to break 2 minutes on 100 meters. Awful, I know but after watching these videos and getting some 5mm neoprene shorts, I dropped to 1m 33s today, fist time ever. You can do it!

..that those small changes made 20sec/100mtrs difference..wow

This is great thank you.

Why is he called Z???

Change to brighter more vibrant colours is the key.

maybe hes just got rid of his giant earth sized balls.

you can really see the difference in body position, it has stopped that snaking from side to side that was in the first swim. feet are naturally higher. hands are much closer to centre line and front arm glides out further in front causing less drag. Big improvement smother swim.

So many pointers from watching you critiwue others that I can think about for myself. Thank you!

I’m wondering od this pace is achieved on 25m od 50m pool? I can see that my pace is much better on shorter pool.

I can't learn freestyle stroke for the life of me :-)

Amazing! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

You can see who's not comfortable in water n who is..its about been relaxed in the environment..total immersion swimming 4 long open water

Please add to Turkish subtitles 🌻

Great video. I know the day will come when I look forward to swimming!

I do all this but still slow AF

Good improvement

muito bom 🎬📺📉

Position, Pace, Persistent...

This is no proof that technique improved his results. How do you correct for improved stamina?

I would say his head is still a bit high. For the finish of his stroke, That last little whip with the wrist before you start your recover can make at least one less stroke per length in a 25 yard pool. I compare it to being in the sand box with a pile of sand in front of you, and a hole a meter or two behind you. For a proper finish, you want to toss that handfull of sand into that hole behind you.

I would have to watch him swim a couple of laps to be sure. The before film he appears to be breathing on a 2, 2, 3 pattern. It appeared that he was more every other arm stroke on the after film. With the male elite swimmers, they pretty much all swim gallop style, and breath on every other arm stroke. Some of the women swim gallop style, some don't. One advantage of breathing every other stroke is you stay very well oxygenated. If you start running low on air, you have a huge problem getting that debt back.

As for his arms being in the front quadrant, well, you do not want the windmill style where the arms are opposite each other like back stroke. You did one a while back where the swimmer was doing that. It works for the 50 meter sprint, but not for distance. Watch a video of Sung Yang, or Katie Ledecky. You did an analysis of a swimmer who was using the gallop style, and commented about how he 'almost had the one arm in the front quadrant'. It is not an even cadence arm stroke, which is why one arm is barely in the front quadrant, while the other clearly is. The breathing side arm is the 1 stroke, and the non breathing arm is the 2 stroke. The breathing side arm does extend and pause slightly before the next cycle starts. The swimmer also does porpoise slightly when using this method. Supposedly that adds a bit to the stroke. Not positive, but I think the reason this stroke is more efficient, is that instead of getting a constant steady speed/glide for each arm, you get one more 'normal' cycle, and the other cycle with the quick 1, 2, has less of a glide cycle so your speed is a bit more constant for that cycle. This style is some times called 'hybrid' style, which is for those that think that the lower body drives the upper body rotation, and they say there is hip driven and shoulder driven freestyle.

I think that breathing from both sides and more stretching exercises would give him more alignment and comfort in the future

This was a super nice video comparison, I wish all coaches had such a detailed approach.

The before video is more streamlined than the after video. The video after shows rhe leg sinking more and more kicks as well. Not really efficient

That's so good Brenton!

He’s kicking x3 as well ….??!

brenton.. from the side wiev of the athlete.. doesnt his right elbow sink.?