Grant Hackett Front Crawl Technique

rbaleksandar Says:

Jan 14, 2011 - I'm a fan of long distance swimming and you're absolutely right. :)This is a beautiful video. It's not only great to swim but to watch other people do it. One can always learn something especially when watching pros. :P

andy95258 Says:

Feb 21, 2011 - umm. english please.

MultiMarty25 Says:

Mar 1, 2011 - if you were a long distance swimmer you would know why there feet is movin slow,ofviously you are not so why bother askin?

phealy02 Says:

Mar 2, 2011 - @MultiMarty25So... you're saying he should only ask aquestion if he already knows the answer? Otherwise don't ask & thus never learn anything - like you?? doofus!

thankallahalltime Says:

Mar 9, 2011 - thenoblequran (Ctrl+Enter)

humby123 Says:

Mar 15, 2011 - does he come up for a breath EVERY time he uses his right arm?

sonkamoo Says:

Mar 21, 2011 - I teach swimming . For more advance swimmers but naturally we all do it without realising or should do it there is an elongated s shape . So there is entry hand goes into water at a certain angle , Catch , pull and recovery during the pull ( which comes into the center of the body ) the hand gets ready to go into the recovery ( elbow bending to come out of the water then stretch ) in between that transition the hand slides down in an "s " like shape down the side of the body .

falasana Says:

Mar 23, 2011 - No need for jabs on comment. Feet move slower for long distance I think to conserve energy. The idea of 80% stretch is maybe little high but NOT rubbish...gliding to get maximum stroke length without losing too much speed is very true long distance.

Wiegieboard Says:

Mar 31, 2011 - This is beautiful to watch.

swimcoachbrett Says:

Apr 12, 2011 - @chinesep1mp If you think about the largest oxygen-using muscles in the body, the legs are close to the top of the list. Like @jabbamom said, "very little propulsion for the amount of energy it uses up." Kicking is necessary to 'get on top' of your stroke, but over kicking leads to oxygen deprivation. It's a good question.

swimcoachbrett Says:

Apr 12, 2011 - yes. It allows a swimmer to favor their strong arm. In this case, the strong arm is his left.

ernesttubb Says:

Apr 24, 2011 - I am new to learning the two-beat kick. Hackett's technique seems so strange to me -- it's like he's mixing two beat kick and six-beat kick alternately. Perhaps someone more experienced than me could explain?

Lindow2 Says:

May 5, 2011 - I am really pleased to see this video. I have never had a lesson and/or observed any swim techniques and I have naturally developed Grant Hackett's technique!Its encouraging to see that you can breath to one side only and have a stronger arm. Initially I would swim 1K without much legs. Then when introduced them I only had the energy for 100M!!!! I have since been working on the legs and now swim 1K with them all the way through. I can now swim past the old ladies doing the breast-stroke.

Lindow2 Says:

May 5, 2011 - I am really pleased to see this video. I have never had a lesson and/or observed any swim techniques and I have naturally developed Grant Hackett's technique!Its encouraging to see that you can breath to one side only and have a stronger arm. Initially I would swim 1K without much legs. Then when introduced them I only had the energy for 100M!!!! I have since been working on the legs and now swim 1K with them all the way through. I can now swim past the old ladies doing the breast-stroke

Tharrild Says:

May 16, 2011 - Yeah, I was alway told arms take you out, legs bring you home.

wzard70 Says:

Jul 10, 2011 - 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.

montelongoalejandro Says:

Jul 20, 2011 - 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

xXDiggsXx Says:

Jul 28, 2011 - 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?

YOURfaceHAHification Says:

Sep 19, 2011 - 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 ^^~

perception247 Says:

Oct 30, 2011 - Great swimming !

haikaldmax Says:

Nov 2, 2011 - Hmm he swim faster than me :p

pnewell74 Says:

Dec 17, 2011 - EVF Rocks!

SoSoJasper Says:

Jan 28, 2012 - Jesus Christ! This guys like the water version of Flash!

kraikk Says:

Mar 1, 2012 - québec french!

Gwee Jia Han Says:

Apr 4, 2012 - kicking is very tiring compared to the arm pull and contributes less than the arm pull so in long distance races like this less kicks and longer pulls