Grant Hackett Front Crawl Technique

Underwater footage of Grant Hackett's front crawl technique. Edited together from a 1500m race.

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[chinesep1mp]

any "good" swimmer provide me the answer why their feet movement is so slow?

[jabbamom]

@chinesep1mp because it's a long distance event and swimming provides very little propulsion for the amount of energy it uses up. That's why you'll see the long distance swimmers and triathletes use little to no kicking until the final laps

[2099F]

And a resistance that you will never had!

[kraikk]

québec french!

[SoSoJasper]

Jesus Christ! This guys like the water version of Flash!

[pnewell74]

EVF Rocks!

[haikaldmax]

Hmm he swim faster than me :p

[perception247]

Great swimming !

[YOURfaceHAHification]

So, this is his 1500m race. The reason he doesn't kick as much is because if he went all-out for 1.5km he would be dead. The style all depends on how far you swim. If you are going to swim, say, 100m then of course you would pump them as hard and as fast as you can. For longer distances such as 800m you wouldn't put as much energy into kicking. Remember to stretch out as far as you can with your arms to gain as much distance and speed and scoop in as much water as you can. Hope this helped ^^~

[xXDiggsXx]

So I'm a distance swimmer and I want to refine my stroke so I can finally break 5 minutes in the 500. Should I dolphin Kick a lot off the turn, like 4-7 kicks? I do a 3 beat kick, but should I do a Negative, Even, Or just go ball's out the whole time which is what I do anyways on my whole race?

[montelongoalejandro]

@chinesep1mp because he is swimming a 1500 m, if we would kick a lot in the first 1000 his legs would be dead by the end



[wzard70]

@ernesttubb In fact, what he's doing could be defined as a "4 beat kick". As you can see, sometimes he uses a classic 6 beat pattern, other times he uses 3 beats for the stroke when he breathes and one only stroke for the following stroke, when his face is underwater. So we have 3+1 beats for every cycle (2 arm strokes). It's mostly suitable for unilateral breathing and basically allows you to save some energy on long distances, keeping the same timing of the classical 6 beat kick.

[Tharrild]

@jabbamom Yeah, I was alway told arms take you out, legs bring you home.