Category: Technique
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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.…
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The Race Club Swimisodes – Backstroke Spin Drill
The backstroke spin drill is one of the most effective ways of teaching swimmers to accelerate the straight arms quickly through the recovery phase of the stroke cycle. One of the greatest challenges we see with our swimmers at The Race Club is getting them to turn their arms over fast enough in backstroke. In…
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Technique vs. Training – An Olympic Swimmer’s Perspective
My stroke has always been in my favour, my strength. Up to the age of 13, I won races thanks to an effective stroke and a winner’s mind. It got me pretty far but eventually my competitors came up beside and passed me. I realized there and then: I have to start training for real!…
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Going for Gold podcast: Swimming with Olympian Ryan Lochte
USA TODAY Sports columnist Nancy Armour hosts with special guest and USAT Sports reporter Nicole Auerbach, who spent a day at the pool with American swimmer Ryan Lochte. The 11-time Olympic medalist teaches Nicole the fundamentals of the freestyle, butterfly, breaststroke and backstroke. See the video in its entirety at www.usatoday.com/videos/sports/ol…6/03/29/82373064. Then Nancy and Nicole talk about the…
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Swim school with Ryan Lochte
Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte teaches USA TODAY Sports’ Nicole Auerbach how to master the individual medley. https://youtu.be/Tp2vJ02mvQg
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The Race Club Swimisodes – Breaststroke Kick – Speed Drill
Swimmers of all ages and abilities come from all over the world to the Race Club swim camps to improve their swimming technique. Join us! http://theraceclub.com/swim-camps/