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6 New Swimming DVDs featuring the Ohio State Coaching Staff!

By nate.landas - Last updated: Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Combined, the Ohio State swim team coaching staff has won 13 Big Ten Championships and has coached 118 NCAA Champions! Discover the keys to swimming faster in every stroke with this series of Swimming DVDs. You will also get top notch instruction and demonstration for both men’s and women’s swimming. See how you or your swimmers can knock time off your next race!

Purchase any 3 regular priced ($39.99 or less) Swimming DVDs for $99.99, when you use promo code SW99BY at checkout!

Filed in Swimming & Diving • Tags: Bill Dorenkott, Bill Wadley, Ohio State, Swimming

Congratulations to Sam Freas & the Oklahoma Baptist Swim Team!

By nate.landas - Last updated: Thursday, March 7, 2013

We would like to congratulate Sam Freas & the Oklahoma Baptist Swim Team on winning the 2013 National Championship! In this instructional swimming DVD, legendary coach Sam Freas gives you unfiltered access to all aspects of his program, including dry-land training, pool training, mental training, and work in the weight room. Discover what it takes to be a championship level swim team with the DVD below:

All Access Swimming Practice with Sam Freas

See how a National Championship coach designs practices both in and out of the pool–live!
Learn small adjustments you can make in practice to improve meet performance
Acheive maximum results with minimal facilities and equipment available
Get innovative drills to build strength, power and quickness in your swimmers

Filed in Swimming & Diving • Tags: Sam Freas, Swimming

Swimming Instruction from some of the World’s Best Coaches and Athletes!

By nate.landas - Last updated: Monday, August 6, 2012

Check out some of the world’s best swimming instructors and athletes. These Swimming DVDs feature Michael Phelps, winner of 22 Olympic medals, and Matt Kredich, University of Tennessee Head Swimming Coach. Take a look at four Swimming DVDs to improve your swimming team!

Personal Best – Butterfly

This DVD provides swimming fans of all ages with unprecedented camera angles and commentary to capture every detail that makes the duo of Phelps and Bowman the best in the world. The DVD includes expert instruction from Bowman on the specifics techniques of the butterfly stroke that he reinforces with Phelps on a daily basis: basic tips for beginning swimmers and advanced instruction for developed swimmers; and commentary from Phelps about his world-record setting swims.

Go Swim Backstroke with Aaron Peirsol

Gold medalist and world record holder Aaron Peirsol shares the key focus points that he uses to develop his awesome backstroke technique. Peirsol’s six focus points work for every level of swimmer – novice to elite – and you don’t have to learn drills or change your normal workout routine in order to incorporate them into your stroke. The extraordinary swimming footage of Peirsol, combined with clear, step-by-step instruction, will help take your backstroke to the next level.

Josh Davis on Everything Swimming: All 4 Strokes, Starts and Turns

Learn how to incorporate the streamline into every aspect of swimming: strokes, starts, and turns
Lower your PR with the latest techniques in all four strokes to maximize stroke efficiency and speed
Get the techniques needed to maximize explosiveness on your starts
Learn turn techniques for getting off of the wall faster

All Access Butterfly with Matt Kredich featuring Christine Magnuson

Over 3 hours of butterfly instruction
Innovative approaches to teaching the butterfly
Includes butterfly stroke, start and turn instruction
Learn Christine Magnuson’s personal butterfly insights

Also learn from other former & current Olympics Coaches:

All Access Swimming Practice with Sam Freas
Jeff Huber’s Championship Diving Series

Gettin’ Better with David Marsh: Tips, Drills and Skills for Faster Swimming!

Ian Pope’s Swimming Down Under Series

Becoming a Champion Swimmer Series

In the Fast Lane with Frank Busch

Start to Finish Women’s Swimming Technique Series

Eddie Reese on Swimming

Filed in Swimming & Diving • Tags: Aaron Peirsol, Bob Bowman, Josh Davis, Matt Kredich, Michael Phelps, Swimming

Swimming Down Under with Ian Pope (Olympic Head Coach)!

By mike.oconnell - Last updated: Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Check out the new Swimming Down Under series featuring Ian Pope! Pope is the Melbourne Vicentre Swimming Club Head Coach and has been an Australian Olympic and National Team Coach since the 2000 Olympics. Pope has been named “Victorian Swimming Coach of the Year” nine times since 1998. Ian was awarded the 2006 “Vicsport Coach of the Year” across all sports as well as the 2003 & 2004 “Australian Swimming Teachers and Coaches Association National Swimming Coach of the Year.”

Ian Pope’s Swimming Down Under: Freestyle

Presentation compares distance and sprint freestyle
Demonstration and video breakdown of Olympians Grant Hackett and Matt Targett
Includes start and turn instruction
Added feature: coaching young freestylers!

Ian Pope’s Swimming Down Under: Backstroke

Drills to groove a great feel for the stroke
Train your swimmers to enter and catch in the “power zone”
Includes a segment on coaching young backstrokers

Ian Pope’s Swimming Down Under: Breaststroke

Over 35 drills to enhance breaststroke performance
Learn the key components for swimming great breaststroke
Includes start and turn instruction
Includes a segment on coaching breaststroke with younger swimmers

Ian Pope’s Swimming Down Under: Butterfly

Get complete instruction for swimming a faster butterfly
Butterfly-specific start and turn instruction included
Includes segment for coaching younger butterflyers
features stroke demonstration by World Record Butterflyer Marieke Guerher

“Finally – a complete series that features one of the world’s most progressive leaders in swimming technique. The attention to detail that Pope provides is incredible. Not only am I able to apply the drills and techniques with my advanced swimmers, but I really enjoyed the segments that focused on teaching to the less experienced swimmers.”

- Aaron W. (High School & Club Swim Coach)

Filed in Swimming & Diving • Tags: Ian Pope, Swimming, Swimming Drills, Swimming DVDs, Swimming Instruction