That dolphin kick tempo is insane. Now I understand how olympic-level swimmers have such incredible underwaters.

@theraceclub

Жыл бұрын

Exactly! The tempo alone is a challenge but the amount of propulsion she still gets at that tempo is what makes her world-class.

@truefitness118

Жыл бұрын

What's tempo(fr)

@coltonbeatty7668

2 ай бұрын

I just started swimming around 2 months or so ago and I’m already as fast as some of the fast swimmers in my area due to training dolphin kick for speed and kick board for feel and power and the rest came naturally

This fits in with my 'theories' on the dolphin kick. Had an old school swimmer tell me that I was moving my upper body too much. The kick is a 'crack the whip' action/body wave. Used to play crack the whip on ice skates. The longer the whip, the faster the poor kid on the end went, so using the entire body makes sense. If I want speed, small amplitude and faster cadence. If I want minimum kicks per length of the pool, then high amplitude and slow cadence. I would have liked to see how her upside down dolphin kick compared to the right side up one. Oh, you need a spring steel body to get max results/power. Too loose or too rigid and you lose energy transfer along the path.

@theraceclub

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your thoughts, robohippy! Small, tight & fast is the answer if you're going for speed! We always say "bend don't break" but I love the steel spring analogy! And that's exactly why we want to initiate the kick from high in the body - gives us the best chance as having a high velocity at our feet (and therefore a higher propulsion). As always, it's about finding the balance of minimum drag vs maximum propulsion that works best for you!

Holy crap, I've been swimming a long time, this young lady is actually a dolphin. That is as fluid a kick you will ever find

@theraceclub

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching - there's a reason she's a world record holder 👍

beautifully filmed! and very educational, as always!

@theraceclub

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Amazing video and very educational. The best dolphin kick video I've ever seen.

@theraceclub

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

That's a hell of a dolphin kick, she move like an actual dolphin. Now I'm curious to see a side by side comparison between her dolphin kick and actual dolphin 🐬 lmao

This is the best dolphin kick video I have watched! It also helped me get a better kick. Thanks for the video!🐬🐬🐬

@theraceclub

Жыл бұрын

Glad it helped!

Awesome video love this. Thank you Raceclub. I'm an Australian coach and this will be great help for my swimmers.

@theraceclub

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for tuning in, glad we can be some help!

@CoachConnorUSA

9 ай бұрын

Well shit I’ll have you know I’m an American coach and this will be great for my swimmers. GL out there everyone. Great vid

Thank you for this great video. It helps people of all ages to better understand how to swim the Butterfly stroke. Butterfly is the stroke you cannot swim with bad technique.

@theraceclub

Жыл бұрын

You are so right! You are most welcome. Glad you enjoyed it.

@Slowhand871

8 ай бұрын

True but you use this kick on free and backstroke off t wall. For up to 15 meters.

Once again goes to show that there are multiple methods to achieve similar results. Dressel is somewhere around a huge 90+ degrees but in a similar way to Maggie, does not let it go outside his “slip stream”

@theraceclub

Жыл бұрын

And for him, taking that extra drag might be worth it due to how much extra propulsion he gets from going slightly "bigger".

Very cool! thanks!

@theraceclub

Жыл бұрын

thanks for watching!

Truly amazing!

@theraceclub

Ай бұрын

Agreed!

she is truly a water creature 👍👍👍

@theraceclub

Жыл бұрын

that she is!

Brilliant! It seems to me that having a body with increased but not exaggerated muscle mass helps him develop strength in his core and extremities and with his dedication to maintaining the right and correct technique to move as necessary and at the same time as quickly. It seems that he does not move his upper body at all. she makes it look so easy

@lordemed1

Жыл бұрын

He's a she 😉

@mariatarazona7995

Жыл бұрын

@@lordemed1 language translation 🙃

@lordemed1

Жыл бұрын

@@mariatarazona7995 😁

@theraceclub

Жыл бұрын

Maggie shows very little wasted motion and takes more advantage of inertia by holding on to her speed.

@mariatarazona7995

Жыл бұрын

@@theraceclub ✨

As a kid in the 80s, Disney's Little Mermaid had just come out, and all my friends and I spent all summer at a friend's pool trying to swim like Ariel! This lady has mastered the mermaid swim! It's also amazing to me, as someone who hasn't been in the swimming world since the early 2000s, how much we are able to learn through underwater video. Back when I was swimming laps for fitness, I remember ordering books on swimming technique from early-days Amazon. If I was lucky, there would be a diagram or illustration. Most of the time, I was trying to envision what the text was describing, and then trying to remember that during my next swim to try to integrate it into my technique. I can learn so much more from a few minutes of video than I could from hours of reading. It's really amazing to me how far swimming has come!

@theraceclub

13 сағат бұрын

Yes! Video teaches us way better than a drawing. there are many subtleties to Maggie's kick that even coaches would not pick up on.

Awesome video love this Thank you so much Race Club 🙏 I am a Indian coach & this video. Very helpful my Swimming And every day Practice Thank you so much 💗🙏 Sir 🙏

@theraceclub

9 ай бұрын

You are welcome!

@parulshah8197

9 ай бұрын

@@theraceclub Thank you so much sir 💯👍🙏

Heu sir thanks for the information you give it us us lover of swimmer you help me a lot with my progression ❤, for me the angle is higher I think because morphology because I see legs longueur that's mean longer distance 😊😊

@theraceclub

8 ай бұрын

Yes, the length of the legs and body are also a factor in determining the ideal stroke rate.

Thanks for the interesting videos analysis. Is her speed faster when she is dolphin kicking on her side compared to regular dolphin kick?

@theraceclub

Жыл бұрын

slightly faster on her side and even faster on her back...Has to do with gravity and the vortices.

Big thanks from bali, indonesia 🙏🏼😊🙏🏼

@theraceclub

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Sehr gut

@theraceclub

Жыл бұрын

Appreciate it!

How do I work on my up kick? I have a stronger back kick, and more limited ankle mobility, everything feels a bit stiff.

@theraceclub

8 ай бұрын

Start with ankle flexibility stretches....2 and 20 on Instagram post

@danielcser8144

3 ай бұрын

Sorry, where can i find the post? Thank you.

Oh to have such a core!!

@theraceclub

Жыл бұрын

The core of an Olympic Champ!

how about someone like caeleb dressel? is there some kind of explanation to his underwater kicks or is he just an exception? the way i see his underwater kicks is that he continuously rises every kick

@theraceclub

Жыл бұрын

Rise in terms of depth in the water?

@mizeri5008

Жыл бұрын

@@theraceclub yes thats what i think so

@theraceclub

Жыл бұрын

@@mizeri5008 Caeleb would probably be through the roof in a lot of our metrics. I don't know if he's an exception... but he likely does a lot of small things better than his competitors. That constant rise you see during his underwaters is likely a result of his uber-powerful downkick; it probably helps him take a smarter line to the surface after a few kicks in deep/clean water.

@saiwolaw2842

Жыл бұрын

He may need to rise more per dolphin kick simply because he’s taking fewer kicks than others.

If you had to Fly kick through a narrow tunnel this would have to be the technique.Great Video analysis🙂👍

@theraceclub

8 ай бұрын

Great analogy for teaching the tight kick! Thanks for watching!

Now we need to see drills/ strength training to get on this path.

@theraceclub

8 ай бұрын

we have many on Lane 3 of our video subscription. www.theraceclub.com

Shes incredible

@theraceclub

3 ай бұрын

What it takes to win Olympic Gold medal!

amazing, looks like a dolphin or some animal born in water

@theraceclub

Жыл бұрын

Spend as much time in the water as she has and maybe you will too haha!

@luammerces2461

Жыл бұрын

That's what I immediately thought after seeing her dolphin kicks 😳

@theraceclub

Жыл бұрын

@@luammerces2461 pretty amazing, right?

i wish i could do this

@theraceclub

2 ай бұрын

Me too! Gary

Absolutely beautiful.

@theraceclub

8 ай бұрын

Right?

👍

@theraceclub

6 ай бұрын

😁

Technic,dolpin kick,helpful human.

@theraceclub

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@user-kh1ys6pj4f

Жыл бұрын

@@theraceclub wow, i am luckey because of your answer. You are so talenty,pretty skin. Yes Nice

None of the angles displayed is even close to stated measure. Maybe they should review the definition of acute angle. Probably they meant 180-x.

@theraceclub

4 ай бұрын

The measurements are taken from the 180 degree axis, which are less than 90 Degrees. Occasionally, swimmers will bend beyond the 90 degrees or right angle. Not a good technique.

Joseph Schooling is 5' 11". Mark Phelps is 6'4". Both won olympic gold in butterfly. Their mechanics are very different. Just sayin'. 😉

@theraceclub

Жыл бұрын

That's why we love late breath butterfly! Schooling might be the best example we've seen to date.

@sickoid87

Жыл бұрын

Mark Phelps and Michael Spitz

All the angles used for illustration are not correct. The first comparison saying 50 and 78 degrees are more like 60 vs. 65 degrees, and the hip angles are 35 degrees for both swimmers. So cannot be the main explanation, or maybe the shown examples are not really representing the difference well?

@theraceclub

5 ай бұрын

There is definitely a small margin of error in using our transparent protractor placed directly over the knee and hip joints. We don't know how you are measuring, but believe our measurements are accurate.

where’s the credit to her? whats her full name?

@theraceclub

5 ай бұрын

Olympic champion, World Champion, Commonwealth Games Champion 100 m butterfly, WR holder 50 M SC backstroke!

@kathrynnewberry6823

4 ай бұрын

It's Maggie MacNeil. Canadian Butterfly swimmer.

Those girl’s feet look like fins 😮. How can she bend them like that?!! Amazing

@theraceclub

Жыл бұрын

She worked on ankle plantar flexion every day growing up (and did a lot of fast kicking)!

I dont think when it's said the knee bend is 50° it really is. It looks much more.

@theraceclub

2 ай бұрын

We measure with a protractor to be somewhere between 50-55 degrees

Maggie 🫡

@theraceclub

Жыл бұрын

😁

First and only swimmer that is a household name and the only name i know is Michael Phelps 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🏊🏊🏊🏊🏊🏊🏊

@theraceclub

8 ай бұрын

Michael Phelps is certainly in the mix of fastest underwater kickers of all time 👍👍

@James-hs3tu

8 ай бұрын

M.P. in THE MIX??? DON'T understand that??😐😐🤔🤔🤨🤨🤨😕😕😕🤷🤷🤷🤷🤦🤦🤦🤦🏊🏊🏊🏊🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥈🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇

I believe that I am more faster then her using my arms at side body. I can prove

@theraceclub

Жыл бұрын

When hands are at your sides, there is more drag than in the streamline position.