Best of Championship Productions: 70 Drills for Backstroke Swimming

featuring:

• Richard Quick,former Head Coach at Texas (W), Auburn (M/W) and Stanford (W) Universities; 3x Olympic Coach; 12 NCAA Team Championships, 5x NCAA Coach of the Year
• David Marsh,Head Coach, SwimMAC Carolina; 2016 USA Women's Olympic Team Head Coach, 12x NCAA Championship and 8x NCAA Coach of the Year (Auburn), 3x USA Men's Olympic Team Assistant
• Frank Busch,USA Swimming National Team Director; 2x U.S. Olympic Swim Coach, former University of Arizona Head Coach; 2x NCAA Championship Coach; 6x National Coach of the Year; member of the American Swim Coaches Association (ASCA) Hall of Fame (2008)
• Ian Pope,Melbourne Vicentre Swimming Club Head Coach, Olympic and National Team Coach for Australia; has coached a Gold Medalist in 6 consecutive World Championships ('98 to '09)
• Bill Dorenkott,Ohio State's Women's Head Swimming Coach; has coached 28 student-athletes to 34 Big Ten individual championships
• Bill Wadley,Head Coach for Ohio State's men's swim team, 2010 Big Ten Conference Coach of the Year
• Coley Stickels,University of Alabama Head Men's & Women's Swimming & Diving Coach; was USA National Team Coach; former Head Coach of Canyons Aquatic Club
• Matt Kredich,University of Tennessee Head Coach; 2x SEC Women's Coach of the Year, 4x Ivy League Coach of the Year
• Eddie Reese,University of Texas Head Men's Swimming Coach; 2018 NCAA Champions; 3x Olympic Head Coach, 14 NCAA Championships, 8x NCAA Coach of the Year; member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame
• Ray Looze,Indiana University Head Coach; 2016 Men's & Women's Big 10 Coach of the Year - first coach in Big 10 history to win both honors in the same year; 2016 U.S. Women's Olympic Swim Team Assistant Coach

This comprehensive collection of over 70 drills by top swimming coaches will revolutionize the way you approach backstroke with your swimmers. You will learn drills and progressions to teach and train championship backstroke at every level. Elite swimmers demonstrate the drills while some of the most successful swimming coaches in history describe how the drills should be done and what you should look for to improve every aspect of your swimmers' races.

This video contains a massive selection of backstroke drills ranging from basic fundamentals to technical training to fine tune the more advanced swimmers to achieve their full potential. It will give you everything you need to:

Body Position

Today's elite backstrokers ride higher in the water than ever before. Learn drills to get the best head position and core-driven body shape to ride higher in the water to minimize drag.

• Challenge swimmers with Richard Quick's Pencil Progression to build perfect backstroke posture, line and balance for swimmers of all levels
• Build core strength and body position awareness with drills from Ian Pope, Coley Stickels and David Marsh

The Kick

Great backstroke starts with a kick that is small enough to avoid drag, fast enough to generate speed, and steady enough to generate a sturdy base to anchor today's higher tempo arm recovery. Over 16 different drills focus on using a small, quick kick in correct alignment to improve a swimmer's power and speed:

• From David Marsh, learn to use an ankle strap at knees and at ankles to generate a kick that produces forceful down and up kicks while minimizing knee lifting and fishtailing from a kick that is not tethered to an engaged core
• Learn from Ohio State University coaches as they demonstrate kick drills that will help your swimmers drive a powerful kick from their cores without sacrificing ideal body position

Catch, Pull, and Recovery

Twenty drills focus on the correct hand and body position for the backstroke catch and recovery. Hand-entry position and pausing on the recovery are two common stroke errors that can be frustrating to correct. See how great coaches use drills to develop championship backstroke pulls. Learn the similarities and differences in amount of rotation entry width, depth of pull, turnover rate and aggressiveness of kick between 100 and 200 backstroke styles

Full Stroke and Tempo

Finally, putting the stroke together, you'll see many coaches' progressions of how these drills tie together into a complete, powerful backstroke. With the catch, rotation and recovery coupled with a strong kick, you can see a few complete backstroke drills focusing on power and speed for a complete backstroke. Adding a few breakout drills and the always-important underwater, this video contains everything a coach or swimmer may need to incorporate drills to work on backstroke in part or in whole.

Many swimmers deal with the same drills over and over throughout a season until they become mindless. The drills found in this video do a great job of explaining and demonstrating so you can reciprocate this understanding for your team. The differences of coach explanations demonstrate a large diversity of knowledge found within this visual repository.

Whether you are looking to get your novice athletes started in their career with the best foundational technique, looking to liven up your practice with innovative drill progressions done by the masters, or trying to balance the quality of your athletes' training session at a rapid training pace, this comprehensive library of drills and progressions for backstroke will meet your coaching needs.

120 minutes. 2017.