Swim Drill – Backstroke with Water Drills continued
Backstroke with Water Drills continued Arm Lead with “L” Drill – Positioned on one side, with one arm straight forward and the other arm above…
Backstroke with Water Drills continued Arm Lead with “L” Drill – Positioned on one side, with one arm straight forward and the other arm above…
Backstroke continued with Water Drills Head Lead Balance Drill on Back-Arms In the Saddles (elbows in and next to the ribs, hands hang down relaxed).…
Backstroke continued with Land Exercises Be more aware of the Core Area than the extremities. Core Area will determine bodyline, extremities are for Balance, Transfer…
Backstroke Backstroke is a Long Axis Stroke and the Power comes from hip Rotation. We must first establish The Line by making our spine as…
Freestyle Continued Power comes from Rotation! Just like walking, we set an Anchor, then we Vault our body past the Anchor, Rotate on to the…
Freestyle Freestyle is a Long Axis Stroke with emphasis on the Front Quadrant and the High Side. In a Long Axis Stroke the Power comes…
Land Exercises and Water Drills Land Exercises: Shrink Neck, Shrink Spine – Lay on back, knees up, feet on floor, arms at sides, back arched.…
Balance and Natural Position There are three non-articulate (non-moving) major blocks in the body: The Head Block, The Rib Block, and the Pelvic Block… we…
Spine and Core We are land based creatures, with curves in our spines at the lower back and neck to absorb shock while walking, running,…
Head Lead Body Undulation Butterfly Drill arms in the saddle (at the hips) Grow the Neck Keep the ribs down the belly button in and…
Freestyle Drill: Head Lead Balance with Rotation Hands at the side so the head goes first, balance flat on the surface of the water with…
Log Roll Streamline Log Roll is a great game for both advanced and beginning swimmers. It focuses on the single most important swimming position: Streamline.…
A great backstroke drill for beginning and advanced swimmers. Double Arm Backstroke The first stage of this drill is double arm back with underwater recovery.…
Butterfly drill “Around the World” This drill can be done with beginner swimmers or advanced swimmers. It is essentially a core strength building drill. …
Butterfly Drill: Pause, undulate, pause, undulate and stroke. This drill is actually two steps. 1) P+U+P+U/stroke GO SLOW! Do not rush this drill. the Pause…
This drill is excellent for swimming lessons, swim teams, adult lessons, or child swim lessons. It focuses on long over the water hand entry, early…
The best swimming lessons drills, or swim team drills are ones that are easily repeatable, worthwhile, and require a few simple parts. The more complicated…
Freestyle is one of the four competitive strokes in USA Swimming. We introduce it to all of our beginning swimmers as a front glide, or…
In swimming lessons and triathlon training the “Chicken Wings” is one of the classic drills exercised. The challenge of this exercise is swimming without the…