This moves the drill forward to a standard Separation Drill. One of the most important things about this step is to make sure the head stays down as the hands begin their out sweep.Have the swimmer st ...
We're going to specifically think about the hands there that important in this lesson.Try to have the hands scraping the surface of the water. Even when you breathe, especially when you breathe, the t ...
Glenn uses a freestyle/backstroke combination drill to transition from breathing drills to actual swimming.Focus on keeping the head and neck aligned and keeping the head low to the water.
This exercise uses multiple positions you’ve already learned.Start in the ready position.
Drop to a push on your back.Pull one hand back to your side and end up in the balance position with the arm ...
So if you follow us on social media, you may have seen some of our great triathletes doing some breathing exercises. And so the breathing exercises are to make sure that the rotation of the head is in ...
Position 11 - Triple Switch, helps you build a balanced and rhythmic freestyle. It’s just like our last drill…Single Switch…except that you’ll get into Position 11 THREE times before you roll to y ...
Knowing how to Start from Zero is essential if you’re in a race that starts in deep water... or if you have to stop swimming to adjust your goggles, eat some Gu, or get your bearings.To practice this ...
Position 11 Freestyle is really just a series of Position 11 drills, but with a varying degree of pause IN Position 11.Start by leaving the wall in Position 11, then alternate dropping and recovering ...
Robert Margalis is another 400 IM specialist who finds efficiency with the hands closer together at the base of the diamond.Watch for all the elements of the pull: float, diamond, angel, swing.
Once they get the butterfly float position, we go to the pull, and the mantra is: Float…Diamond…Angel…Swing.We don’t push back to the legs. We pull in to a diamond……then push out to the side to ...
Thinking of everything that you've learned up to this point and butterfly and thinking of the mantra of float, Diamond, Angel, and swing, you can see the vertical butterfly or pushing off the bottom a ...
Focus just on Kelsi’s hands and wrists in this clip. Notice that Kelsi’s hands are always in motion. They never get stuck at any point in the stroke cycle. Notice that Kelsi leads with the top of th ...
The head, which is made of Styrofoam and costs about $10, is a visual aid that makes your demonstrations more effective. It takes the pressure off of you as the teacher and...surprisingly...takes the ...
