These swimming links provide a variety of articles, pictures and videos about how to swim front crawl better - I've built them up over the last year of improving my swimming for tri:
Coach Gordo - his swim tips and some sessions - Link (roll over me to see where I go) (originally sent to me by The Count)
Loads and loads of drills to try - possibly too many! - Link (roll over me to see where I go)
- they also have an excellent article on cramping in swimming - Link (roll over me to see where I go)
An excellent German Total Immersion site - Link (roll over me to see where I go) - can't recall who sent it to me - there are even more excellent articles at Link (roll over me to see where I go)
There are some swim drills listed in "The Triathletes Training Diary" and a few other tri books I now own - some other peeps have recommended the "swim workouts in a binder" but some others have dissed it!
The BBC Sport Academy has some excellent videos - e.g. Mark Foster is my coach - Link (roll over me to see where I go)
Swimming videos galore of "proper swimmers" in competition at Link (roll over me to see where I go)
Yet more really videos of good swimmers at Link (roll over me to see where I go)
More swimming videos (Bear found them) - Link (roll over me to see where I go)
A good list of swim drills - Link (roll over me to see where I go) - useful as a glossary
Some more swim videos - Olympics action - Link (roll over me to see where I go) - these show some excellent angles on swimming
Some "easy to moderate" workouts (your mileage may vary) from a university in the states. expatria sent these to me - used them last summer and likes them a lot -Link (roll over me to see where I go)
These Flash videos are really useful - they're from the main US Total Immersion website - a few peeps have recommended the DVD training from TI - Link (roll over me to see where I go)
This one shows some excellent slow mo training videos - check out Thorpedo from all angles - Link (roll over me to see where I go) - special note for me (Hollywood) - look at his head angle (mine always points to the bottom of the pool...)
This woman has a very very very annoying voice but seems OK for short snappy videos... Link (roll over me to see where I go)
And if you need to buy kit then.... www.swimshop.co.uk is normally quite good - watch out for 2.50 off every 25 quid you spend. Also I buy goggles at Tescos - very good for the price!
Swimming Links
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SummaryWelcome to part one of the tri sideThis article is owned by Hollywoof! |
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| Nov 2006 | Hollywoof! | Added cramping article! |
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| Sep 2006 | Hollywoof! | Added yet another link :-) |
| Sep 2006 | Hollywoof! | Added another video set of videos! |
| Aug 2006 | Hollywoof! | addin annoying US woman |
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| Aug 2006 | Hollywoof! | Article created |