Swimmer, Coach & Parent Guide to Swimming Technique

If you are serious about getting technique right – this guide is for you. A comprehensive, understandable, no-nonsense approach for brilliant swimming technique including over 50 different illustrations and solutions to 120 common faults. The guide covers all 4 strokes and helps identify common faults and stroke issues. More importantly, it suggests ways to correct those faults through changes in technique, in-pool drills and out of the water activities. Body position and timing, head, arm entry, breathing, catch, pull, exit and recovery and legs all covered. Technique is the foundation to good swimming. This guide allows swimmers to self diagnose their faults, parents to help their swimmers and understand how it all fits together and for coaches to work with swimmers to put things right. Contains stroke cards against which to assess the swimmer’s technique, stroke actions and key timing points. Once faults have been identified, find the likely cause and how to correct them through drills and out of the water activity. Each stroke section details the theory, key drill set, key flexibility requirements, out of the water activities, text and illustrations on each of the key components of the stroke (body position and timing, head, arm entry, breathing, catch, pull, exit and recovery and legs) and a case study. Written by a high level competitive swimmer who was taught by international coaches, this guide provides you with a comprehensive, understandable, no-nonsense approach for brilliant technique – ideal for elite and club swimmers, triathletes, bi-athletes, all other aquatic competitors and fitness swimmers. This book is published as a smaller version called 'Swimming Technique Illustrated'