Swimming is a very technical sport and reading about high elbow and proper catch can get very complicated and confusing. I have made a simple video that give some tips on how to improve your catch. Made in frenglish…you will see that i keep every terms very simple. It s not the Holly grail reference but it might help some understanding what is suppose to happen in the water. And the best…you can practice those tip at home in your living room!!!
The interesting part about the catch is…the day you start having a decent high elbow and catching good water, you will get a dramatic improvement …you will be at the front of the pack…
You are clearly one of the better swimmers to visit this forum but I don’t know that you should dismiss Jonnyo’s advice for open water swim technique so quickly. What you believe works best for you may not work so well for the majority of triathletes who do not have your swim background.
exactly. I m happy to hear everyone opinion. That said, Micheal phelps can come on here and tell me i m wrong all day long. it wont change that the advise to not glide and work on high turnover, good catch and good open water are the element needed to be a FOP swimmer…even in the best of the pro field.
it might work for Pie to glide. good for him. But for those that want to get faster and be out at the front…with the olympic swimmers…but without the Olympic swim background… get on it now and stop gliding now…
as for my vision of gliding…desert dude said it very well.
do you have a video of him with 5 other people in his lane side by side, getting hit ever stroke, some wave and him making a turn around a boey instead of a wall? curisous what his glide would look like?
other than that…dam it s nice to watch him swim!!!
do you have a video of him with 5 other people in his lane side by side, getting hit ever stroke, some wave and him making a turn around a boey instead of a wall? curisous what his glide would look like?
other than that…dam it s nice to watch him swim!!!
I don’t think that would change his stroke at all. the key is that he has such ridiculous flexibility and power that he can generate power earlier in the catch than the rest of us mere mortals, so he only gives the illusion of a glide. in actuality, if you compare the timing of when his hand exits the water to when the opposite arm begins the pull, there is virtually no pause there (there may be a slight delay on his breathing side).
do you have a video of him with 5 other people in his lane side by side, getting hit ever stroke, some wave and him making a turn around a boey instead of a wall? curisous what his glide would look like? other than that…dam it s nice to watch him swim!!!
There would not be anyone with him after 100 m since the top tri swimmers are prob not fast enough to even draft off of him but, if by chance one or two could hang on his toes to the first turn buoy, they wouldn’t be in his way at all, since they would be just barely hanging onto his toes. My understanding is that the very fastest ITU guys go around 15:40 for 1500 scm vs Yang’s 14:10, so he is about 6 sec/100m faster, which is a big enough diff to make it hard for them to even draft.
Of course, he would only be doing a relay anyway:)
i know he is fast. But put 55 other of his best friend that all swim 14:10 with him on a open water course…beating the shit out of each other at every stroke…hitting each other, climbing on each other…punching …grabbing…in waves etc… he will change his swim style very fast…and same way ITU athlete do…
triathlon is very different than pool swimming. It s important that we teach the right skills for the right job instead of trying to emulate world class pool swimmer.
i know he is fast. But put 55 other of his best friend that all swim 14:10 with him on a open water course…beating the shit out of each other at every stroke…hitting each other, climbing on each other…punching …grabbing…in waves etc… he will change his swim style very fast…and same way ITU athlete do…
triathlon is very different than pool swimming. It s important that we teach the right skills for the right job instead of trying to emulate world class pool swimmer.
But there are only maybe 6-8 guys in the world who can swim the 14:10-14:30 range, but really, I’m just giving you a hard time; sarcasm is hard to detect in writing:)