 All right, so today now you're gonna try to show me what you can do with your backstroke, right? So you have taken some class last time of backstroke when you you're a kid, right? That's the worst you're gonna show me your worst, okay, and I'm gonna see if I can help you Are you ready? Okay, you swim in any direction so I can have a look Here we go, that was beautiful Can you show me one more time? Okay, I think I don't know how to do it anymore. Okay, you try again, and then I will see how Okay, that's it Okay, look look it's fine what you experience a lot of people have the same issue, right? Basically, you're not swimming horizontal. You are sinking from your butt and from your legs So it's very hard to glide on the surface Because the backstroke is actually a swim when you have to be horizontal to glide on the surface, okay? So if you sit in the water, it's not going to work. You need to learn how to be horizontal first, okay? Let's try something simple. You come here with me Here you can you see the wall here, yeah, basically you hold the wall You will push On the wall with your feet put your feet on the wall and you will try to Imagine you're sleeping on the back on the on the and my hand will support you. Okay, you have to feel to be horizontal push Kick with your legs look up at look up look up look up belly up. Okay look up with your head Okay, you see what's happening. I show you, huh? If you look up You will become horizontal if you had look at your knees or your feet You will start to sink your belly and then you sit in the water. It's impossible to be horizontal So the idea is to be completely horizontal you kick with your legs, but you never let your you'd never sit Okay, okay, and keep your heads looking at the sky and go Okay, keep faster with your legs belly up belly up keep faster Okay, okay, not too bad don't stop that's better. Yes, all right cool stop Okay Okay, you have to blow your nose if the water goes on your face because the water will go in your nose immediately You know breast backstroke is about Being on the surface of the water and swimming but sometimes if you sink your face going to water because you're on the back It goes in your nose in your sinus. It's painful. So you blow your nose when you feel the wave blow your nose, okay? All right, so not too bad much better You need to be horizontal all right and to relax if you tense like a stone, right? You will sink If you are relaxed like a leaf You will float you need to be soft and relax You need to use your hand first learn how to feel the balance horizontal and Use your legs fast to kick on the surface remember the idea is to be completely on the surface you had your butt Your legs, okay? Yeah. All right. You try slowly. Go Yes, I Keep your legs on the surface don't sink your belly Kick kick kick kick kick kick kick kick kick kick kick kick kick kick kick kick kick kick nice That's better stop Oh You feel All right, the more you relax the better you are yep, it's working. Okay, so now that's a guy on me Yeah, we need to use another coach. It's very good. Okay, so look Now you can be horizontal Relax Remember don't go up because if you go up you will go down Try to stay near to the surface flat You know, it's you're in the water So if you go up after your balance change, then you will fall in the water The water will cover your face and then you you start to don't like it So the idea is to stay the more horizontal possible all the time Okay, when you start when you push on the wall don't push up but push slowly behind you to have a start Where you glide don't have a start where you up and then fall. Okay All right, so now the idea is to use your hands back stroke is about The stroke is on the other side. So let's say when you swim back stroke Let's say you're like this at the beginning your hands down now you will swim with only one hand simple You pull you draw a big circle in the sky Your little fingers here will enter the water behind you You pull inside of water until your ties here and then you go outside of water Your time will be the first to draw the circle then during the circle you twist your hands with the little one So there is a turn right when you finish to push in the water. You're like this Then you lift up your hands the same time you turn your hands you back to the sky Enter the water pulling the water. We do it with only one hand. Okay So what you do is I will hold your legs. I will hold your your head, sorry And you draw the circle with your hands. Show me how you do Okay, go kick kick kick kick go on the back stroke. Okay, and pull Show me the second this guy pull Don't sit you're starting to sit your legs are drowning Yes, you're not kicking fast enough and also because you forgot to put your hips on the surface So I got one it Hi It's very beautiful like this and some man Yes, now we are learning a backstroke we will do today. So yeah So We try again. Okay, don't sit. It's not because you use your hand and you have to sit. Okay? Okay, let's go Okay, and do the pulling pull pull pull. All right pull Pull don't stop keep going Keep going keep your balance Nice, that's better relax She's not relaxed stuff Okay, you are tense like a stone, you know and that's not helping you at all if you want to learn how to glide You need to relax. It's better. You are horizontal, but Okay, we try again that's good with only one hand but more relax You have to float. You don't have to sink and a stone doesn't float. Yeah Turn let's go on the other side and go All right, slowly pull Draw a big circle with your hands Pull keep going keep going big circle with your hands What goes in your nose? Exactly as I told you you need to keep your balance horizontal as soon as you sit The first thing's gonna drown is your legs your butt and then your face. You have to keep your body horizontal. Okay. I try again Yeah, it's not fun when the water goes in your nose That's why blow your nose if this happened immediately. The water don't have the time to go inside. How'd it go? Wow, that's a bad start exactly as I told you I'm very serious If you start by a jump you will think Because your body doesn't float at that moment. You will jump then after you will fall Don't start with a jump start with a push and glide on the back And then when you feel comfortable start to use your hand. First you do only the kicks then you will do the hand when you feel good That's better. Kick faster Be horizontal. All right cool and pull and Pull Faster kick you sink Stop You did it twice. Okay, and then suddenly you forgot the position immediately. You think it's gone You need to control your posture horizontal Okay, you are almost there Draw the big circle and never stop your hands circle Circle circle, but your hips don't sink it Don't stop your legs. Everything has to be like tight, you know All right, let's do it more relax Okay You move your hands when you're ready one Two that's cool three nice for Don't sit There you go You can stop if you like Right cool you try with the other hand that was a good one. You got it Stay horizontal Draw a big circle and do not stop you pull you stretch you pull you stretch you draw a big circle in the sky Huh? You pull with your hands draw a big circle. We try on the other hand turn and come back Yes with the other hand you did one side only right so we do the other side. Let's go show me and pull And pull okay. Yes, open your hands to put now you're sitting in the water. It doesn't work Come on lift up your belly lift up your belly Cannot walk you forgot your legs you forgot your belly. So you are swimming like this and possible to glide horizontal to glide Okay, and then Okay, your hands right you turn the first is the little fingers You enter the water of your little fingers you pull with your with your palm You finish with your time you twist in the hair and Pull right so you push with your hands and Then twist in the hair go back Twisting the hair there. Okay. You finish here now twist it Twist twist while you do your circle and then pull with your palm Okay, big circle twist it in the air twist twist twist twist. Okay, right? Basically is this portion will push the water your hands, right? And this is the one who enters first the water behind your head You can touch your ears with your shoulders if you want to make sure you are far away behind your head All right, let's try kick fast Kick kick kick kick kick stay horizontal. All right pull. Don't stop the pull pull and Pull touch your ears with your shoulders pull Pull nice, that's very good. All right Leo come here. It's very good. How you feel? Okay, now the real Backstroke right is with your both hands Swimming in the same time in opposite direction. So take it Basically you're doing now only one hand, right? Or you have to do your both hands one hip one down one pull one stretch They work together pull and stretch and pull and stretch so they they work like a You know propeller When one is in the water just one is in the sky when one is on the front The other one is on the back. Yeah And your legs does the same things don't stop. Are you ready? All right, show me See party Start horizontal and Alternate kick faster kick faster. You will sink if you don't kick faster It's too hard if you forgot your legs you drown your belly If your belly drown you sit if you sit it's is the beginning of the end somewhere Never let your balance become not horizontal Your hands is a bonus for the speed. Okay, but your legs has to kick all the time. Let's go again Okay, go go go go One two three Faster hands four Five That's better Okay stop How you feel You still sink a little bit. Now now I'm telling you there is a big tips about backstroke the more fast you go The more horizontal you become because with the speed your body will become more horizontal So kick faster move your hand faster and actually your backstroke become easier It's hard to swim backstroke very slowly if you get some speed It's like a boat, you know in the water at the beginning go slowly and as soon as you have enough speed You start to fly same for you Yeah, but just turn your hand fast just turn keep turning turn turn turn turn, okay You left right left right left right Okay, let's go this way. Yeah, yep and go So turn turn turn turn don't lift up that was good You are stopping For no reason if the water is nearby blow your nose keep going as soon as you change your speed then you will drown Okay, so try to keep your speed at the same time Kick move don't stop Don't stop your hands Belly up belly up. Okay. Now look you need to think your legs your hands You there is many things to think in the same time, right, but your belly is you're still like this That's better when you do only your legs focus your legs first As soon as your legs are fixed move your hands Don't sit don't sit in the water All right, move your hands and don't sit All right. All right. All right. Keep your legs up. Keep your legs up. That's better. All right. Keep going. That's good Leo Don't stop don't stop don't stop keep your belly up Okay, that's better. How you feel you don't like this stroke, huh? No You don't feel so comfortable Yeah, but at the end do you feel you're not sitting anymore? So the idea on on backstroke is to glide Horizontal on the surface each stroke helps you to keep your speed, okay, but never sit if you sit as I said You lose your balance everything gonna be complicated Okay, yeah, okay. Okay. Thank you today. Bye. Bye