GoSwim GoldTurns - Tennessee Targets
4 commentsOur last in a fun series from Pine Crest School in Ft. Lauderdale. We continue to use the stretch cord as a target with an old standby drill, Tennessee Turns.
Starts - Entry-Point Variations
Where you land in the water for a start can have significant impact on how fast you transition to swimming.
Turns - Pushoff Target
We can never stress enough the importance of good streamlining and push offs. Here's a quick trick to demand focus from your swimmers, both in and out of the walls.
Turns - Stable Pushoffs
When many younger and older swimmers come off a flip turn, they're sometimes disoriented and push off incorrectly. In order to learn a great line, and stable exit from a flip, here's a good sequence to help.
Turns - Tech Suit Turns. The last hurrah!
This drill is sent out to all our friends heading to US Masters Nationals in Atlanta this week. This will be pretty much the last weekend for the tech-suit era and, love 'em or hate 'em, they've made quite an impact on the sport.
Eric Shanteau Back - Breast Crossover Turn
On the road shooting more video, we got Eric Shanteau to do a quick demonstration of a back-to-breast crossover turn. Much more to come on his upcoming DVD.
Turns - Late-Hands Flip
When first learning how to do an effective flip turn, many people try to use the hands to help them get the turn started. But then they get caught, and are unable to finish the rotation.
Turns - Learning the Underwater Dolphin - Step 5
In moving up the ladder in mastering the underwater dolphin, more fine points come out. The quickest way to work through these, is to focus on one.
Turns - Learning the Underwater Dolphin - Step 4
Continuing our series in learning the underwater dolphin, it's time to make things dynamic.
Turns - Learning the Underwater Dolphin - Step 3
In the next steps to learning the underwater dolphin, it's finally time to take it underwater.
Turns - Learning the Underwater Dolphin - Step 2
Here's Step 2 in our simple progression for learning the underwater dolphin.
Turns - Learning the Underwater Dolphin - Step 1
There are few things in swimming that cross the lines of all strokes, but learning the underwater dolphin is certainly the most important.
Freestyle - Ultra-Fast Turns
The concept of "working your turns" is something all swimmers know about, but few swimmers take seriously. Maybe they think they don't have time, or are too tired to create QUICK and FAST walls. Here's a drill that will help. For the younger swimmers especially, this proves to be a good drill, and fun.
Turns - Two-Handed Freestyle
If you're like most competitive swimmers, the majority of your training is freestyle. This is great, but it doesn't give you much chance to practice your butterfly or breaststroke turns. This drill can be incorporated into any standard freestyle set. It provides the benefits of distance training, and allows you to practice your two-handed turns.
Turns - Weighted Flips
Every part of your race is important but flip turns carry a little extra weight because, pure and simple, fast turns mean fast times.
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