Faster Fast Sprint Freestyle Turns & Transitions

Faster Fast Sprint freestyle Turns & Transitions with Richard Quick and Brett Hawke

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* Make your turn a weapon * Learn a better wall approach andturn set-up * Gain a more powerful push-off thewall with Richard Quick,former AuburnHead Coach,and Brett Hawke, AuburnUniversity Head Coach What set Auburn sprinters Fred Bousquetand Cesar Cielo--the two fastestsprinters in NCAA history--apart fromtheir competition? It was theirdomination in turns and transitions.Coaches Quick and Hawke share with youthe tools to build a faster fast sprintfreestyle turn and transition focusingupon five areas of instruction:Approach, Summersault, Push-off,Streamline and Transition. Quick beginswith training for the approach byteaching the skill of submerging. Movingto the summersault, Quick and Hawkepresent summersault techniques,reinforcing that the tighter the tuck,the faster the body can spin. Next, thecoaches move to the wall for push-offdrills and wall alignment strategies tomaximize carrying the energy going intothe wall through the push-off. Quick andHawke then discuss and demonstrate skillset necessary for an effectivetransition from being an underwaterswimmer on the push-off to a surfaceswimmer through the breakout stroke cycle. 36 minutes. 2008.