mc1703 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

apart from the freestyle element of a IM race - you are required to swim front crawl

pokejoesbros (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

ye man

swimbeast197 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

its a longer race thats why he is taking longer strokes then other short distance freestylers.

E189Siemens (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

E io che pensavo che respirare ad ogni bracciata e ad un solo lato sia da scarsi/dilettanti :D invece vedo che anche i più grandi lo fanno.

luanswan2002 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I always use the 2-beat kick in my races, I get a lot more propulsion by doing two hard kicks per stroke as opposed to many less powerful kicks - not many swimmer I know do this buy it helps me.

jimmyuk007 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

no he is not overreaching abit cos he is long distance swimmer unlike other guys who were sprint swimmer so distance and sprint front crawl technique r bit different

343596 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Yh hackett maybe overreaching a bit... Look @ vids with Van den Hoogenband, Sullivan and Schoeman.. Good techniques you can try out in the pool.. Also let some1 record yrself on tape when ur swimming. So you can see for yoursel ur weaknesses in ur stroke...

cellardoor70 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

if ur talkig about ur recovering arm i think ur prob is that ur thiking about moving the hand while it's the shoulder and the elbow that lead the recovery. to familiarize urself with the movement, imagine that ur forearm and hand are merely spectators in the recovery. u rotate ur body to make room for the shoulder than u bring ur elbow from the back to the front in a high circle and put ur hand in the water halfway between ur head and full extension, more or less where ur other elbow is.

cactuscity (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

that was in response to dimputhegreat

cactuscity (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Front crawl is the stroke you see in this video, freestyle is a term that encompasses all four main strokes, any are permitted, and indeed front crawl is the fastest and most efficient. In fact one time when I was young I chose to do backstroke in a 200m freestyle event out of exhaustion from previous events.