David Popovici PERFECT Freestyle Technique Explained!!

Could you please analyze the freestyle stroke of the great Janet Evans. She had a galloping stroke, lifted her head to breathe and did not follow the one goggle down while breathing rule. Thank you.

thanks for the analysis of the golop technique, I want to analyze the coolest swimming techniques, such as an arrow and a windmill in a free style.

He had a lot of mistakes but still beats the world record is surprising me to this day!

Breathing every 2 strokes doesn't even feel like swimming freestyle

A great example of how great Popovici is IN SPITE OF his techinique

Good skills = good records

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Pity you didn’t refer to subtleties in his stroke. The wider underwater left arm position is for balance as he breathes to his right. His efficient leg action is also because he has very flexible ankles and displays a great crossover kick with intoeing which generates the propulsion. The soft hand is about feeling still water and his high elbow with longitudinal rotation creates an elliptical pathway for the arm action. His high body position reduces frontal resistance and his rotation body reduces profile resistance

Very Good Job!

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interesting details! since was made a parallel with a dolphin style I would highlight that the head & torso vertical movement, linked with hips torsion and legs vertical push, create additional horizontal acceleration of a wave passing through

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Well done. Good analysis.
In the days of Johnny Weissmuller the swimmers had head out swimming. Then in the early 80s we were taught to keep the head down flat in the water turn slightly to breath and for short distances breath as fewer times as possible using half the mouth. Now he has his head almost half out of water launching himself into every strokes. Good luck to him. Very nice chap. Hope he continues to do well.

It is an extension of the style of both Popov and Ian Thorpe

Thanks for this great analysis!!!

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I love it when the way I have been swimming for years makes a 'comeback' and becomes trendy. I am no means in anyone's league but, swimming high out of the water with the 'gallop' method is normal for me. Thanks for this excellent video.

Why does he enter the water with the arm already extended. Isnt he supposed to enter close to his head and then extend to get as much distance per stroke as possible?

Great analysis 👍

we must not forget that it is a swimmer who above all has bodily gifts

flexible muscles body flexibility that allows him to put all his power in the last 25 m his opponents with better underwater technique could do nothing when he will improve his start and his wave technique he will make sprint history again

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There are many analysis of David's stroke and they all miss the MAIN POINTS except YOU! You are the best! Thank you...

I'm 1.73m with average proportions, there's no way i can swim like that

How does no one speaks about totally unusual body position when he breaths? Take a look where are the toes pointing when his head is on the side. Look how curved he is. And why he does he like no other swimmer goes so up to the water when breathes and then after putting his head down he almost immerse all his body in the water?
He did what he did because of things that are not much visible. There are things more than that.
And what Popovici does that no one do, is that he UNDERSTANDS that everyone should swimm in his own way. Everyone should understand his own biomechanics which are very different to one another. He is smart, he knows that and he practice that. He is close to his body more than everyone and his approach to swimming is different. Those things are what makes the difference to him. Things that are not visible.

Thank you from Romania. David is a genius. Look him: he's not a man he is alien. The way he speak is the way he think & feel & move. Very unusual. Deep. High philosophy. Unic. He paint like Michelangelo on water, he's art is from nobody knows. I see this before at Nadia Comaneci, Nastase, Hagi and so on. Ervin Haaland also todays. Aliens.

Popo did the logical thing and disconnected his left and right. It's two completely different strokes. Sleekness is the future, not muscles, thank god

"Leg kick"? Let's talk about how his hands kick 😂😂

This guy doesn't care about body symmetry , one goggle in the water etc... and goes on the break the world record. Loving it!

Analyse all you like. Nobody will improve as a result. Like trying to replicate Shane Warne. Nobody on earth could copy.

David Popovici is truly interesting to watch. Something Zen-like also in his mental approach to swimming. Tori Huske, IMO has something of the same mental acuity as David, I believe. Her butterfly technique is beautiful. I'd love to see you do a breakdown on her, also.

It's not the muscles that matter, but the psyche, the desire and the "relationship" with water. David does not beat the water but cooperates with it.

I don't quite understand what causes his "galop" style and the purpose of it. Is he pulling harder with one arm than the other? For what benefit? Off the top of my head, I'd think anything that causes imbalance makes you slower. But I'm clearly mistaken.

David's technique is the reason why freestyle is stuck at 46.8. and isn't in the mid to low 45's.

Thanks for the explanation, it is very useful, especially the part of the hands and fingers and the arm position and its entrance to the water.

I'm going with popovich to win the 100 meter free at Paris

He's even more spectacular if you compare his strength with his body, he's skinny but probably every single muscle is just perfect for his job

I have yet to see a really good explanation of the gallop style of freestyle. This does come close. Many coaches make a big deal about having both arms in the front quadrant. This doesn't really happen with the gallop style. This is because the arm pull is off beat rather than a steady beat/even rhythm. With gallop style, it is a quick 1, 2, then a slight pause, then repeat. The breathing arm stays extended, then when other arm recovers, there is that quick 1, 2. By the time the other arm recovers, the breathing side arm is past the mid point of the pull. Pretty much all of the men swim with the gallop style. Some of the women like Katie and Summer do, but Ariarne Titmus swims on an even beat. Supposedly the porpoise action that is used with gallop style puts the entire body under water for a bit which reduces over all drag. I guess it adds a little extra drive to help with acceleration. I would also guess that the normal peaks and valleys in acceleration and slow down are slightly less as well, but would need Gary Hall's velocimeter to test that out for sure. I did search swimming styles, and the gallop style seems to go back to Matt Biondi. I did find one video of Mark Spitz, and he did breath every other arm stroke, but he didn't really gallop, or lope as I called it.

We thank you.
He is becoming a legend.

Keep watching and feel free to take all the notes you can

Contrasts maybe with the Chinese swimmer. Think he swims the 100m? Pan. We’ll be just broke the world record!

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yes, everything so perfect, including his uncut toe nails and... his left-hand fingers open under water while the right-hand ones remain closed? What else is oh-so perfect you said? yes, his shortening of the arms by bending them bcse he has not enough power to extend them full at highest 'rowing' speed (unlike pan zhanle)?

what do you think, if the left hand pull will be powerful when his parallel or when his hand closer to core. Popovici has it parallel is it fault or can he improve there.

Hi Cole

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