The Smoothest Swimming Technique In The World? Jono Van Hazel

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Now this really is efficient (and fast) swimming! Watch Olympian Jono Van Hazel's near perfect stroke technique just before your next swim and reproduce his smooth movements when you jump in the water: a very powerful way to improve your swimming.

Notice that while Jono has a very long freestyle stroke technique he doesn't achieve this by gliding (a very common misconception amongst swimmers). Instead he has low drag and fantastic propulsive technique which gives him great distance per stroke.

Whilst he has a long stroke, he also has great stroke rhythm - the real secret to great swimming. Our 'time between strokes' measure shows that Jono has nearly zero gap between finishing one stroke and starting the next. (In fact when he's swimming quickly there's even a slight overlap between strokes.) His lead hand is constantly in motion, either extending forwards, catching the water or pressing it backwards: great catch technique and no over-gliding.

See more of Jono and find out how to develop this technique yourself at: http://www.swimsmooth.com/catchmaster...

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[jean silvas]

Interesting tht now adays top swimmers dont knife their hand in sideways it just goes straight in.

[swimsmooth]

Absolutely Jean, don't enter with the thumb down, palm facing outwards as it internally rotates the shoulders and can easily lead to shoulder injury! It's much more healthy for your shoulders to enter palm facing down, fingertips entering first.

[shadowaspire]

my coach i had briefly said that i should leave my fingers open but it seems like all the great swimmers i've seen on youtube have their fingers closed? am i just seeing things? which is correct?

[swimsmooth]

Hi there, definitely keep them held lightly together - a very small gap is OK but in practise this is very hard to achieve and the last thing you want to try is spread them wide. Some elite swimmers move the thumb out during the catch and pull but not the fingers.

[Dick Bronder]

Lots of core-stability training :-) and keep your hips as quiet as possible

[SourceBoom]

His 100m pace at easy is nearly as good as my sprint :/

[jessierose48]

You are awesome

[jessierose48]

SO TRUE!!!

[jessierose48]

you are correct

[jessierose48]

Very smooth



[jono]

Lol this was awesome to film! - Jono Hazel

[Moiez Ismail]

right. everyone's an expert on youtube.

[Dominic S]

Fantastic videos, Thank you, really helpful to fix in your memory what things should be like. I was wondering- the no. of strokes per 50m, how long underwater does that involve? Is there a min or max with the time underwater on push off?

[NewProgenitor]

that will be me tomorrow.