Drills Archive

2010 Pan Pacs Day 4: Instant Analysis of the Last (and Best) Finals Session

Posted on August 22, 2010 | 5 Comments
As I mentioned in the preview, this is the finals session that I am the most excited to watch. Between two WR attempts (Lochte and Soni), the medley relay, and the always excrutiatingly tight 50 free, there will be some excellent racing tonight and a...
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Butterfly Drill: One-Armed Fly, The RIGHT Way

Posted on July 10, 2010 | 3 Comments
One of the most popular butterfly drills, where I come from, is the one-armed butterfly. This drill comes in a few different forms: Right arm down, left arm back. 3-3-3 drill, where a swimmer takes three strokes with his right arm, three with his left...
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Drilling – Scull vs. Paddle

Posted on May 19, 2010 | 3 Comments
Through one of our drill posts about the importance of sculling, we have driven a little bit of controversy regarding the proper way to teach a high catch. The lingering theory behind sculling is that it creates a delayed catch and therefore is not promoting...
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All-Strokes “Drill”: Empire Practice

Posted on May 18, 2010 | 1 Comment
Every swimming website in the world has an article about swimming ettiquette, rules of the pools, etc. The number 1 rule is usually, let’s say it together: swim on the right side of the lane! Even our website is named after this idea of “circle...
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The Ben and Jerry’s of Swimming: Sculling

Posted on May 4, 2010 | 2 Comments
By popular request from a gathering of the local swim coaches, we will be taking a look at the wide world of sculling in this post. Like Ben and Jerry’s which has a plethora of ice cream flavors, swimming has almost an infinite way to...
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Eric Shanteau on GoSwim.tv

Posted on April 26, 2010 | No Comments
The IM’s are one of the trickiest races to truly master. In yesterday’s swimming world you could be a 3 stroke IM’er, but in today’s competitive atmosphere, you have to (as closely as possible) master all 4 strokes and fine tune three different turns and/or...
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Underwater Backstroke Kick with David Marsh and Nick Thoman

Posted on April 13, 2010 | No Comments
If you follow swimming closely, one name that will pop up during backstroke events is Nick Thoman. Nick has evolved into one of the premier backstrokers in the competitive world of swimming and David Marsh (in this video) takes us through his version of the...
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TSC’s Turn Progression

Posted on April 12, 2010 | No Comments
The bottom line of short course swimming…”starts and turns win races”. You will hear that mantra in almost every swimming organization out there, but the proof is in the pudding (per se); just look at the “Phelpsian” starts and turns with the enormous underwater work....
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My Golden Method for Teaching Butterfly

Posted on March 10, 2010 | No Comments
Over the past few months, I’ve been working on developing a methodology for teaching strokes, because when I first started teaching, especially butterfly and breaststroke, I didn’t have a clue where to start. Sure, I could swim all of the strokes very well, and could...
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Video: The Orca Start, with Coach Matt Wunderlin

Posted on February 20, 2010 | 8 Comments
Any of our readers who are members of the ASCA, which is probably many of you, may have read Matt Wunderlin of the Waunakee Orcas team in Wisconsin tell his story about the new start he developed in the most recent issue of the ASCA’s American...
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