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Coaching / Stroke Technique
Over the last few decades a lot of changes have been made to the way we approach swimming and coaching the freestyle stroke. And we've learned that techniques we would never have thought to be efficient have proven to be exceptionally so in some swimmers.
Coaching / Drills
One of the biggest problems many swimmers have is an asymmetrical kick. It shows up in butterfly, backstroke and freestyle on the starts and streamlines, as well as in both freestyle and backstroke...
Coaching / Drills / Starts and Turns / Stroke Technique
For competitive swimmers, one of the biggest areas of opportunity for improvement is in streamlines, transitions and breakouts. An effective way to coach this technique is to break it down into three...
Coaching / Drills / Training
We can probably all agree that kicking makes a huge difference in swimming across all distances and abilities. One of the things we have struggled with in our program is explaining the necessity of...
Scott Bay, head coach of the Daytona Beach Masters, shares two of his favorite sculling drills.
Coaching / Drills
This is a drill for freestyle that we really like at the moment and for a couple of different reasons:
It lets you know where your head is for posture in the water.
It gives you and indication of where your hand is to prevent over reaching (reaching in front of the head)
It promotes rotation.
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