@appalloisis I dont see it. They are all doing flutter kick. Also, yes, you could be DQ'd for that. You can do any stroke you want, but it must stay the same throughout the entire race.
@appalloisis No, freestyle kick is when you do a walking motion with your legs, you can bed your knees as much as you want, but bending them like he did makes you slower. If he where to be kicking them at the same time, he would be DQd
@KaleeCali hi!, I do swim but not in competition.. maybe i'm not understanding well, i think freestyle means you can swim the way you want and the only rule is not to be underwater more than 15m and not pushing yourself from the bottom of the pool, as the fastest way to swim is the front crawl is the style many swimmers choose and is often confused as freestyle is not actually a technique, why would you do a butterfly kick if is not as fast as a crawl kick, that should be no reason for being DQ
@KaleeCali but a reason just for someone dumb to lose the race lol. As I said first, im just an average swimmer not a pro, and just last friday I did 3km of front crawl in 1 hour for the first time.. :)., as i want to join triathlon, since you are not misunderstanding front crawl with freestyle, and maybe im not well informed, could you please allow me to see where are the rules of competitive freestyle so i can be enlightened... Thanks!
@elinfiernoentusojos in my 15 years as a swimmer, the first two years, yes free style was anything you wanted but for a weird reason it changed. Front craw is now free style. You can kick how you want, bending the knees will make you go slower but it's allowed, just as long as you're kicking. if you're not, you're DQd. I haven't done a triathlon and I know little about it, so free style could be completely different than it is in swimming, it could have different rules to it.
U are lucky to ask me; Since im a swedish swimming freak I had the opportunity to ask him why he only uses that few kicks per cycle. He said it was to keep his stroke rate high. Hes so strong in his upper body. And according to him more kicks would make his stroke rate fall and make him slower.
He have tried it as well as he have swum with bent elbows.
remember his starts are slow... There are analysis ive seen proving that he swam the race as fast as Bernard. The start is just so important.
Thanks for the reply. Interesting to hear the insight. He does appear to apply lots of power through the front end of the pull and have an amazing body position to go with it. Interesting though I heard that he has incredibly powerful legs as well.
Bernard definitely has a monstrous kick in contrast. Very few swimmers put out the power he does through such a small kick. The power phases of the kick still look fast at 25% speed!
I know hes very powerful in his legs... U know he jumped as high in vertical jump as swedish triple jump - olympic gold medalist Cristian Olsson?
He sure got talent in loads... but i guess that is the kind of muscles his built of in the whole body...
No im sorry i don´t have the link... I searched on the internet a bit... but sorry... it was a really good analasys site.. Lots of races. I´ll write the name of the site down for u if i find it tomorrow.
it's too slow
mslol360 3 months ago
the guy on Bernard right, he looks as if he's mixing both flutter and dolphin kicking together... can't you get DQ'd for that?
appalloisis 3 months ago
@appalloisis no, it's called freestyle for a reason ;)
TheSwimmingworld 3 months ago
@appalloisis I dont see it. They are all doing flutter kick. Also, yes, you could be DQ'd for that. You can do any stroke you want, but it must stay the same throughout the entire race.
MickChickenn 2 months ago
@appalloisis No, freestyle kick is when you do a walking motion with your legs, you can bed your knees as much as you want, but bending them like he did makes you slower. If he where to be kicking them at the same time, he would be DQd
KaleeCali 1 month ago
@KaleeCali First, freestyle means that you can swim whatever the fuck you want.. :)
elinfiernoentusojos 2 weeks ago
@elinfiernoentusojos however oops
elinfiernoentusojos 2 weeks ago
@elinfiernoentusojos You obviously don't swim. If you did whatever you want you would get DQd for it dumbass.
KaleeCali 2 weeks ago
@KaleeCali hi!, I do swim but not in competition.. maybe i'm not understanding well, i think freestyle means you can swim the way you want and the only rule is not to be underwater more than 15m and not pushing yourself from the bottom of the pool, as the fastest way to swim is the front crawl is the style many swimmers choose and is often confused as freestyle is not actually a technique, why would you do a butterfly kick if is not as fast as a crawl kick, that should be no reason for being DQ
elinfiernoentusojos 2 weeks ago
@KaleeCali but a reason just for someone dumb to lose the race lol. As I said first, im just an average swimmer not a pro, and just last friday I did 3km of front crawl in 1 hour for the first time.. :)., as i want to join triathlon, since you are not misunderstanding front crawl with freestyle, and maybe im not well informed, could you please allow me to see where are the rules of competitive freestyle so i can be enlightened... Thanks!
elinfiernoentusojos 2 weeks ago
@elinfiernoentusojos in my 15 years as a swimmer, the first two years, yes free style was anything you wanted but for a weird reason it changed. Front craw is now free style. You can kick how you want, bending the knees will make you go slower but it's allowed, just as long as you're kicking. if you're not, you're DQd. I haven't done a triathlon and I know little about it, so free style could be completely different than it is in swimming, it could have different rules to it.
KaleeCali 2 weeks ago
it looks like nystrand swims uphill. if he swam flat he would crush everyone.
danedmd 3 years ago
yeah I have to agree with that... Strange that he swim with such a bad position in the water cuz he uses a lot of videoanalysis...
In this race he accualy swam as fast as Bernard , his start was just terrible. He got so much talent...
343596 3 years ago
Interesting to note that on top of all that he only used a 4 beat kick, although it was a dolphin flutter kick, still!
His body position is obviously effect, I would just like to see 2 more of those amazing kicks per cycle.
elixirnova 3 years ago
U are lucky to ask me; Since im a swedish swimming freak I had the opportunity to ask him why he only uses that few kicks per cycle. He said it was to keep his stroke rate high. Hes so strong in his upper body. And according to him more kicks would make his stroke rate fall and make him slower.
He have tried it as well as he have swum with bent elbows.
remember his starts are slow... There are analysis ive seen proving that he swam the race as fast as Bernard. The start is just so important.
343596 3 years ago
Thanks for the reply. Interesting to hear the insight. He does appear to apply lots of power through the front end of the pull and have an amazing body position to go with it. Interesting though I heard that he has incredibly powerful legs as well.
Bernard definitely has a monstrous kick in contrast. Very few swimmers put out the power he does through such a small kick. The power phases of the kick still look fast at 25% speed!
Do you have a link to any of the analysis?
elixirnova 3 years ago
I know hes very powerful in his legs... U know he jumped as high in vertical jump as swedish triple jump - olympic gold medalist Cristian Olsson?
He sure got talent in loads... but i guess that is the kind of muscles his built of in the whole body...
No im sorry i don´t have the link... I searched on the internet a bit... but sorry... it was a really good analasys site.. Lots of races. I´ll write the name of the site down for u if i find it tomorrow.
343596 3 years ago
@elixirnova hey there, would you recommend using 6 kicks in longer distances too?
eruseron 1 year ago
@danedmd
well sprinters like to keep their body high in the water as possible.
HungAzn 2 years ago