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There’s a Drill for That

By ⋅ February 8, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Cokie Lepinski, a 2010 USMS Kerry O’Brien Coaching Award winner, recently came out with an inexpensive eBook collecting 125 drills covering all four competitive strokes.

The Catch

By ⋅ January 26, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

A critical component of swimming strokes is the catch, the point in the pull at which you begin forward propulsion. A video from GoSwim demonstrates a drill for practicing a good catch in freestyle.

Video Analysis of the Underwater Pull

By ⋅ December 24, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Gary Hall Sr (The Race Club) and Paul Newsome (Swim Smooth) present detailed underwater analyses of the freestyle pull. Check it out!

The Short Breaststroke Pullout

By ⋅ November 23, 2011 ⋅ One comment

Recently, some breaststrokers have experimented with a new variation of the classic breastroke pullout.

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