Category: Technique
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4 Great Freestyle drills
Check out these 4 freestyle drills, designed to help improve your technique and make you faster in the water!
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How To Improve Your Starts in Swimming ft. Coach Jack Bauerle | Olympians’ Tips
Former U.S.A. Olympic swimming team coach, Jack Bauerle teaches the secrets of the good start in swimming.
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Simple Drills to Improve your strokes: Calvyn Justus
Here is a simple drill for each of the 4 strokes that a swimmer at any level can do!
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Top tips for a faster breaststroke: Cameron van der Burgh
Olympic Silver Medalist (100m Breaststroke), Cameron van der Burgh gives us his advice on how he prepares for a big competition!
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3 tips to swim fast underwater butterfly kick. Improve your swimming speed with dolphin kick
Underwater dolphin kick is extremely important for competitive swimming. After each turn or start you are allowed to do 15 meters of this really fast technique in freestyle, breaststroke or backstroke. This means that in a short course race you can swim most of the it underwater. Today we will talk about three really important…
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How To Improve Your Swimming Turns | Coaches’ Tips
Head coach of the United States’ women’s swimming team for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, swim coach Jack Bauerle offers instruction on the fundamentals of the turn to maximize speed.
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Dolphin Kick Drill with Chloe Sutton
This quick drill is to work on your body undulations in your underwater dolphin kicks and in your butterfly. Feel a chest press and then feel the wave travel through your body. You should get power out of the upwards and downwards kicks.
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Breathing in Freestyle
Courtesy of Chloe Sutton on YouTube A very common issue that I see in freestyle is bad breathing habits. Watch this video to work on improving the technique and timing of your breath in freestyle
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Norwegian Swimmer Demonstrates Skills Backwards
The butterfly is generally regarded as the hardest of the four major swimming strokes to perfect. In that case, it’s difficult to understand how anyone could even attempt to do it backwards. In this video, Norwegian swimmer Eirik Ravnan performs a flawless looking version of the stroke, while facing the wrong way down the pool.…