While watching Chase Kalisz, Summer McIntosh, and Leah Hayes at the US Open, we were struck by the up-and-OVER aspect of their breaststroke. We looked for examples of this in the GoSwim archive, and it’s our theme of the week.

**Monday**

<https://www.goswim.tv/lessons/239-connect-hands-head-and-hips-going-to-streamline>

:20 - head going up - hips going forward

:27 - the highest point in stroke - eyes up

:29 - hands bisecting the surface

:34 - arms at corners - eyes coming up

:35 - piercing through the surface

:36 - hands DIRECTLY forward

:41 - piercing through the surface

:50 - pressing up through the surface

:57 - head in perfect line to make sure no momentum is lost

2:01 - ready to pierce - frame forward to highest point

2:15 - frame forward to highest point

2:23 - frame forward to highest point

**Tuesday**

<https://www.goswim.tv/lessons/1204-breaststroke-shoulders-torso>

:26 - watch the subtle head movement

:29 - head pierces the surface

:30 - highest point - hips move forward

:30 - framing forward to extended hands on surface

:36 - glides to get in front of wake

:41 - last thing to show is the upper back

1:23 - show the action of the head lift, insweep and hip draw

1:28 - body on the surface

1:30 - Just under and the arms are already at the corners

1:46 - timing - feet engaged as he is nearly at full extension

**Wednesday**

<https://www.goswim.tv/lessons/590-send-it-forward>

:15 - great line under

:20 - slight chin lift 

:21 - direct hand extension

:25 - piercing the surface

:37 - only the to of the head piercing the surface

:53 - :)

1:20 - piercing the surface

1:25 - frame forward to Davo’s head straight forward

2:07 - leveraging UP

2:11 - look how he’s leveraged

2:26 - eyes down for most of the stroke

2:40 - frame through the stroke

3:04 - Throw from the back

3:20 - head comes up

**Thursday**

<https://www.goswim.tv/lessons/537-slow-mo-above-water-side>

:21 - head pierces the surface

:22 - hips draw forward

:28 - diving forward

:47 - dynamic head lift - piercing

:48 - directly up at the top of the breath

:50 - leaping or diving forward

Head falls between the arms

Slow observe the rest of the length

1:54 - dynamic hip draw

2:01 - elbows drive forward

2:02 - back last to show

**Friday**

<https://www.goswim.tv/lessons/1346-shoulders-torso-above>

:13 - look how much is above water in extension

:18 - full separation

:24 - driving to extension

:28 - watch the head lift at the corners

:36 - then dive back down to extension

1:00 - watch the exhale prior to the head coming up

1:04 - everything back in line prior to kick

1:10 - in front of the wake & exhale

**Saturday**

<https://www.goswim.tv/lessons/3071-separation-drill>

:15 - head lift at corners

:16 - insweep and up and drive forward

:24 - piercing head

:25 - fast hands forward

:29 - watch the start of the exhale

:30 - BEAUTIFUL image - but if people only saw the image (face resistance)

:31 - subtle knee bend which is the natural movement

1:18 - what typically instinctively happens

1:34 - what we want to happen

**Sunday**

<https://www.goswim.tv/lessons/2047-breaststroke-mchugh-rate>

:05 - UP

:19 - eyes completely down

:19 - nearly NO time spent in extension - feet are nearly closed

:38 - dive immediately to corners - obviously INTENSE

:44 - hands dive forward first

:45 - immediately to corners

Watch until

1:02 - eyes totally down

Frame forward showing eyes lifting

1:03 - pierce the surface

1:08 - diving over the surface

1:09 - head up hips forward

**Bonus**

**Summer McIntosh wins 400 IM at US Open**

<https://youtu.be/nLF_2yePBCg?t=196>

<https://youtu.be/nLF_2yePBCg?t=214>

**Chase Kalisz wins 200 IM at US Open**

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoTdTdXHfng>

<https://youtu.be/EoTdTdXHfng?t=127>

<https://youtu.be/EoTdTdXHfng?t=144>

<https://youtu.be/EoTdTdXHfng?t=150>

**Leah Hayes amazing breaststroke leg 200 IM at US Open**

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjJlA8KQbtw>

<https://youtu.be/EjJlA8KQbtw?t=102>

**Brendan Hansen: Head-Up Breaststroke**

<https://www.goswim.tv/lessons/260-head-up-breaststroke>

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