GoSwim GoldBreaststroke - Sculling at the Wall
0 commentsSculling at the Wall is a great drill for learning how to move your hands from side to side (rather than pulling back) in breaststroke.
Breaststroke - Breath Control
To really excel at breaststroke, you need to be able to control your breathing...and not just the breathing in, but also the breathing OUT!
Breaststroke - Separation Drill
In breaststroke, timing is everything, and knowing when to initiate the kick is a critical element in that timing. Steve Haufler's Separation Drill does a great job in over-teaching this simple step to a great breaststroke.
Breaststroke - Narrow Kick with Roque Santos
If you're going to learn a great breaststroke kick, why not go to the best. Roque Santos, 200 breaststroke U.S. Olympian and multiple masters world record holder, shows us a couple tricks to an effective kick.
Breaststroke - Band Kick
Too often, especially when kicking with a board, many swimmers search for the most power possible, which causes the legs and knees to go too wide.
Breaststroke - Underwaters
Such a simple drill, but carrying a good amount of teaching. Underwaters isn't just about finding out how long you can hold your breath; in fact, these can be quite dangerous if done alone, or to a point beyond discomfort. So, BE CAREFUL.
Breaststroke - Flow with Fins
Using fins - especially a Monofin - can help you simulate race-pace breaststroke in practice. Here's how to do it.
Breaststroke - Underwater Kick
This week's DOTW features Erik Vendt and one of his favorite breaststroke drills for working on the recovery of the kick.
Breaststroke - Double Underwater Pull
Learning to get the most out of every underwater pull can make the difference between winning and losing any race that has breaststroke in it. One of the oldest stand by drills to help with this, is the Double Underwater Pull.
Breaststroke - Pulldown and Arm Recovery
During the breaststroke underwater pullout, the arms pull down during the power phase, and then recover back UP to start the first stroke. This week's drill will help you isolate and work on this move -- the arm recovery after the breaststroke pulldown.
Breaststroke - Shark-Fin Kick
So you've been working on a nice, undulating breaststroke... getting your body to ride up and down and flow through the water. Now along comes a drill that looks like a throwback to the days of waterbug, flat breaststroke.
Breaststroke - 4-Stroke Free Breast
Getting into the groove of a flowing breaststroke isn’t always the easiest thing to do. Mixing up the strokes sometimes gives you an advantage toward this, if only for a few strokes.
Breaststroke - Underwater Pull, Power Phase
Until FINA decides on the rules for the underwater pull, we'll give a quick illustration of what's "legal" in the U.S., as well as a few fine points that need to be considered no matter what the rules end up being.
Breaststroke - Timing the Kick
A great coach recently said that the biggest problem with breaststroke is "the kick." This confirms our belief that working on when and how you initiate the kick is a much bigger concern than most people think.
Breaststroke - The Stroke
Here's a quick example of a complete breaststroke stroke cycle. While the subject isn't exactly contemporary, the technique is, at the very least, solid and should serve as decent reference material.
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Breaststroke - Timing the Kick
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Freestyle - Ball Catch
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Like how her shoulders and hips rotate on a perfectly straight axis, and what a wonderful camera angle. I'll give this drill a try for... more » -
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I only swam a county swim league and high school swimming growing up after that I went to swim at Wabash going from two hour right after ... more » -
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I needed this a month ago, when I hurt my shoulder. I'm in the recovery stage now and foolishly had stayed out of practice. Not advisable... more » -
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Swimming Set of the Week - August 27, 2010
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Agreed! And if you do 2x 2h per day fly kick on your back with arm at the side, you will get yourself an 8-pack in a week, yeah! :) To ... more » -
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