Freestyle Catch Position
Australian swimmer Sam Ashby talks about the freestyle catch position and the best angle to pull through in. If you’d like more on improving your freestyle the Mastering Freestyle program is the fastest way to improve your swimming even if you haven’t improved in years. ...
How To Reduce Bubbles On Your Hand In Freestyle
Sam Ashby talks about reducing the bubbles on your hand in freestyle by changing the duration of your glide. The full Skype interview with Sam is available inside the Mastering Freestyle program. ...
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#2 Improving Your Technique (with Terry Laughlin from Total Immersion)
We chat with Terry Laughlin from Total Immersion. Terry has developed a method of improving your swimming that has helped hundreds of thousands of swimmers and triathletes worldwide to swim smoother. He’s an expert at helping people fix the weaknesses in their stroke so they can move naturally through the water with ...
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The Three Types Of Freestyle Technique
When we run workshops for swimmers, one of the things we cover is the different types of freestyle. You know that not everyone has swims with the same style or rhythm in freestyle. This video provides a great breakdown of the different freestyle techniques. There’s more than one way to swim, and any coach that [...] ...
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Did you hear about Phelps?
Michael Phelps has awesome technique. He is the best swimmer in the world because he can travel through the water with speed, but stay relaxed and controlled at the same time (this is key guys’). There is more to Phelps than his technique though. Check it out in the great article by ESPN. Michael Phelps [...] ...
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Body Position in Freestyle – The 3 Steps to Achieving Correct Body Position in Freestyle
I wanted to share something with you that I learnt on the weekend from Australian swimmer Sam Ashby. He came along to our Saturday training session and assisted with the coaching on the day. He ran through a number of drills which focused on one hugely important part of freestyle. I worked on this one [...] ...
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Swimming Technique For Beginners – 3 Killer Tips To Faster, Smoother Swimming Technique
Great swimming technique doesn’t come naturally to most people. Most people are doing the incorrect thing because they haven’t been taught how to achieve great swimming technique. Do you feel like you’re trying much harder than you should be? Do you ever find yourself exhausted after only a few laps? Does it ...
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Why freestyle should NEVER be called front crawl!
The best way to save energy in swimming freestyle is to rotate from side to side. We rotate for a few reasons. It is important because it reduces the amount of drag our body creates in the water. Does it waste energy going side to side? It does and it doesn’t. Rotation does use energy [...] ...
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Freestyle Catch: Start slow so you can flow
In swimming, effective propulsive movements are SLOW to FAST. In every stroke you reach long, feel the water, catch and then accelerate through the pull to the recovery. A powerful stroke starts with an effective feel on the entry and then a strong catch. Once you have got that strong catch, it’s the acceleration through ...
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Freestyle Technique – What They Didn’t Teach You In Swim School
As most people know, freestyle is the fastest stroke, most efficient stroke, as the body maintains a streamlined position with the arms and legs are able to apply constant propulsive forces. The arms perform an alternating action while the legs perform a continuous flutter movement. Body Position The body position needs to be ...
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