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Do you ever do faster stroke rates with your 2-beat kick? Watching videos of Laure Manaudou and Sun Yang who also have used 2bk during competitions. It's really amazing how they keep up with rest of the field with less effort...almost matrix like ;-) Shinji Takeuchi nemrut , it depends on the distance. If it is short such as 200m, I use 6 beat kick. 问：你有没有试过快频率的二次腿？ 竹内：要看距离，如果是少于200米，我会用六次腿。 hellos mr. Shinji Takeuchi, with the help of your technique I can swim up to 1500 m / h - Is what this distance is in the standard for hours - How far can you make yourself (sorry for my bad english) Shinji Takeuchi Hi, The first goal for beginners is to swim 1500m non-stop. Then the second goal will be to swim in 35 minutes. To achieve it, you practice will be shifted to swim faster. 问：你最远可以游多远？ 竹内：对于初学者来说，第一个目标是连续游1500米，第二个目标是能在35分钟内完成，这需要你游得更快。 Will it make any difference if breath just from one side all time? Shinji Takeuchi Kerem Otag, I think it does not matter until you do open water swimming. 问：只用一侧呼吸行不行？ 竹内：没问题，但公开水域不行 Shinji Takeuchi Mr. Takeuchi, would you please explain the breathing technique you use? I don't see you breath out under water and hardly see you breath in either. 2 Shinji Takeuchi Tam Nguyen , I just breathe out to get enough air for me. I create 'bow wave' to lower the surface of the water. It is why my head is hidden in the water. 问：能不能介绍一下你的呼吸技术？好像看不到你在呼吸 竹内：我会头前造波，这样呼吸水面会降低，头可以藏在水里。 Hi Shinji, I have question about Superman Glide practice. As many others, I'm having the problem with sinking legs and find it difficult to keep balance and floating longer. I see Superman Glide is the most basic and important lesson to be successful in TI freestyle swimming so could you please give me some advice to take Superman Glide more effectively? Thank you very much! Shinji Takeuchi Khanh Nguyen , when you do Superman Glide, it is very important how you push off the bottom. 1) Lean enough so that your shin is parallel to the bottom, 2) Stretch the back of your knee very quickly. 问：关于超人滑行你有什么建议？ 竹内：1 尽量前倾，让上身平行水面 2 快速伸直膝盖打腿 how do my head and body always go up to surface about all the time ? It's cause me hard to take a breath, although I keep my head on bottom. But it's not work. what's the keys ? Shinji Takeuchi 3 key points. 1) Head position: Top of the head is just beneath the water surface 2) Hand position: 6 inch (15cm) deeper from the water surface 3) Hand entry angle: 45 degrees so that you can shift the weight during recovery 问：你的头和身体如何总是保持在水面附近？ 竹内：三个关键点： 1 头的顶部在水面附近 2 手在水面下方15公分 3 手入水45度角，这样能重量转移 I have a question. Yes it looks graceful but from this technique it seems acceleration is the key to look 'efficient' for propelling forward. My question is, does the energy expend from strong kick like this is even more tiring than the standard 4 beat kick? I tried it, but it felt that the kick use relatively the same amount of energy than the 4 beat flutter kick.maybe im doing it wrong Shinji Takeuchi In my style (not TI standard), kicking itself does not create propulsion, So I do not get tired from kicking. If you try 2-beat kick with scissors style, you might get tired mainly coming from tension. If you use 6 beat kick, you might swim faster but you get tired sooner. 问：二次腿比四次腿累吗？ 竹内：我的二次腿并不是全浸标准的二次腿，不产生推进力。如果用剪刀式二次腿，你觉得累可能是因为肌肉紧张。 Hello Shinji, my extending arm sinks. If i don't press down with extending arm I have to lift my head to breathe. How to solve this? Shinji Takeuchi Amit Verma, 1) Just before you breathe, insert your hand closer to your head and extend it underwater very quickly. 2) Match the timing of inhaling with the extension of the elbow. 问：呼吸时老是压手怎么解决？ 竹内：1 呼吸前，在头附近入水，水下快速前伸 2 肘部前伸的时候吸气 Hello! Just found you and TI. Beautiful Freestyle Swimming. I am encouraged that I can improve my swimming after seeing this! Curious, how many strokes to you take and then breath? I am capable of like 4 4 4 3 3 3 2 2 1 something like that for a 2 mile workout. I never seem to tire, but need an improved method to become better at what I love! I taught myself to swim at age 50 through YouTube! Now do TRI's! Swimming was the only thing I didn't know how to do so I turned to YouTube! Worked! Shinji Takeuchi Lolly , I breathe every 4 stroke. When I need to speed up, I breathe every 2 stroke. 竹内：我四下呼吸一次，如果需要提速我两下呼吸一次。 I am a big fan of yours Shinji. How fast can you do 400m and 1k with this style of swimming? Shinji Takeuchi outlawcatcher1 , I try to keep my pace at 90 seconds / 100 m. 问：你这么游1000米的速度是多少？ 竹内：保持在90秒/100米 if im kicking that little my feet would sink way too low :( do you guys try to keep ur torso relatively flat or are you supposed to twist it from side to side w each stroke? Shinji Takeuchi You do not have to worry about twisting. 1) Insert your hand closer to your head and spear down in the water. It will help your lower body to go up. 2) Press the water with your face and chest. You will feel your weight shifts forward. The leaning sensation is important to keep your body flat. 问：我需要扭动躯干左右转动吗？ 竹内：1 靠近头部入水，向下插，会帮助你下身抬高。 2 用脸和胸部压水。你会感觉重心前移。这种前移的感觉对保持身体水平很重要。 Takeuchi-san - I could not make out from the video but are you moving your hand in a S like fashion? (Right arm in a S and left in a mirror-S). If so how close your hand is to your torso when you are in the middle of the pull. Shinji Takeuchi Nasir Khan I just focus on the form of the arm in the beginning. Then I relax my arm while my body rotation move it. Then I focus on the way of pushing the water to add more momentum for recovery. 问：你的划水是s型吗？ 竹内：划水开始时我关注手臂的形状，然后放松让转动带动，快出水时推水让回臂更快速。 When I first saw this video - about one year ago - I said to myself 'Wow!! I would like to swim like that' So, one year on, I'm nearly there....hopefully. So thank you for all your videos, they have been a huge inspiration. I do have one question, how much do you pull on your catch? I was under the impression that you hardly pull at all and that it is the leg kick plus rotation of body that creates the propulsion. This is the only mental part that I cannot seem to get quite right. Shinji Takeuchi Wondrin Minstrel My intentions is to form my arm then let the body roll do the rest. I may need to push more for open water swimming. 问：你是如何划水的呢？ 竹内：我是固定好手型，然后让身体转动来带动，在公开水域我也许要推水。 Hi Shinji. Awesome swimming. Just have a question about kicking. I have recently started doing the two-beat kick but I can't seem to get my hips level after I breathe. For example,after I breathe on my right, and as my left hand is pulling thru, I kick with my left leg but I can't get my hips level like you do in your video. Any suggestion will be much appreciated. Shinji Takeuchi Jae Lee Your legs might get tensed after down-kick. Once you move down your leg, you try to relax it so that the water pushes it up. My dry-land rehearsal for 2 beat-kick will work for you. It makes you recognize the connection between toe-flick and hip rotation. 问：我打完腿后为什么身体不平呢？ 竹内：你打完腿后可能没有放松，打完腿后要立即放松，让水流把腿推回水面。 I have watched your video hundreds of times. Amazing technique. You are an inspiration. From not being able to swim 10-15 meters, I do 1200 meters trying to use your technique. I follow your guru Terry Laughlin as well. Thanks for the video. I still can't get my lower body parallel to the surface with the 2 beat kick. Resort to the buoy every so often. Any suggestions.?? Shinji Takeuchi It is great improvement swimming from 15m to 1200m! As for your leg sinking, check as follows; 1) Is your top of the head submerged all the time? 2) Are you looking down (at most 1.5m ahead)? 3) Can you see the spearing hand? 4) Is the elbow in front of your ear when insertion? 5) Is the degree between the surface and the hand more than 45? Once you say yes to all the questions above, you feel your lower body goes up. 竹内：如果你的腿部下沉，检查一下几点： 1 头顶是不是一直没在水中 2 是否眼睛朝下，最多朝前1.5米 3 能否看见前插的手 4 入水时肘部是否在耳朵前 5 入水角度是不是大于45度 如果回答都是是的话，你的下身就会漂起来 how can i kick like him? i tried but i lost my body balance. Shinji Takeuchi park鞝戩榿 , the kick is to assist body rotation, not to raise your lower body. You can improve your balance with your upper body. 竹内：打腿是为了帮助身体转动，而不是为了抬高下身。你可以通过上身来提高平衡。 This is very smooth really ...iam trying to do your style but not yet reaching your level as i feel very slow , others told me that i am over-gliding because of the slaw stroke rate..so how can you keep your speed with the slow stroke rate? Shinji Takeuchi mahmoud elsonbati , even the tempo is slow, you need to rotate your body very quickly with your arm stroke. It will create propulsion. 竹内：即使是很慢的频率，也需要快速的转动来产生推进力。 Hello, I swim my freestyle with a six beat kick as I feel swimming TI with a 2 beat needs very strong and durable lat muscles, which I do not have. Even after using the six beat kick to add propulsion to my stroke, I am not able to sustain it for too long. I can swim only 500m, in about 12 mins or so. What may I be doing wrong? Should I just hit the gym and focus on building by back muscles? Shinji Takeuchi fegdfg You do not need very strong lat muscles to swim 2 beat kick. Using core enough to keep the posture is what you need. Find how to minimize engaging your core while doing Skate drill with kick. 竹内：二次腿不需要很强的肌肉，用躯干核心来保持体态就够了。在侧漂的时候，练习用尽量少的躯干核心来完成。 I notice that my T.I. front crawl stroke is more like Terry Laughlin's and my physique is more like his than yours, Mr. Takeuchi. I notice that Terry and I are more barrel-chested than you, and I also observe that Terry and I don't shrug our shoulders as much as you during forward motion/recovery, nor do we have such extended shoulder lifting. These are very subtle observations on my part and perhaps I am wrong. It is hard to see everything with different camera angles and with the water refracting the light. I wonder if it is because you have a wider shoulder to waist ratio than Terry and I? Basically I am hoping that you can comment on differences in body types for stroke dynamics, in other words, how do different builds affect T.I. swimming style. Thank you very much for offering to answer questions! Josh in Canada Shinji Takeuchi Hi Josh, It is true swimming style may be different based on flexibility and other factors. In addition to that, I intentionally stretch my shoulder blade during recovery in order to put my elbows in higher positions before insertion. I do not intend to shrug my shoulders.I intend to open my armpits and move the elbows to the side in the beginning phase of recovery. Then I engage my shoulder blade to bring the whole arm without changing the shape. Some of movements are introduce in my newly published 'Freestyle Toolbox' digital content at http://shop./en/ 竹内：在移臂时我主动伸展肩胛骨，这样入水前我的肘部更高。我没有刻意耸肩，而是在移臂开始的阶段打开腋下，让肘部在身体的外侧。然后，不改变手臂形状，用肩胛骨来移动手臂。 |
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