Poor swimming technique? Didn’t grow up swimming in high school or college? Then there are many key swimming technique principals that need to be learned and ingrained into your brain! As an adult, just like learning golf or any other technical sport, it can be a real challenge to get these elements to become second nature. The biggest challenge for coaches today, when teaching adults freestyle swimming technique, is to show and explain why certain parts of stroke mechanics are significantly more important than others. Kids pick it all up very quickly and if they don’t, they tend to move on to another sport and coaches don’t have to deal with the students who constantly struggle.

Quick Tip for today
When you reach forward with one arm and slip your hand into the water, try to reach out in front of you as far as you can. Make sure you don’t cross over in front. Many people say to keep your point of entry about shoulder width apart, from one side to the other. If you are swimming “flat” on top of the water, that would be the case.

However, as your shoulder rotation improves and your body begins to roll from side to side, the reach will initiate from one shoulder out of the water (while the other is submerged), the reach will be more “over the top” and therefore much narrower. More like a neck width.

Try to brush your ear with your bicep each time you reach forward for the pull. It will improve shoulder and hip rotation. The pull should really start more on your side than flat. Give it a try!


With  adults, there is often a burning desire for even the weakest of  swimmers to get better, Whether a triathlete who has a weak link in  their three disciplines or struggling masters swimmer who always wanted to glide through the water with ease and enjoy a stroke other than the dreaded “Doggy Paddle”. Many coaches cannot seem to help these more mature students. They didn’t ever have to deal with such a situation in their junior programs. Someone who just won’t seem to give up and continues to fight their way up and down the pool lane, never making any significant  progress. That person becomes ignored and they remain in the slowest  lane for many years with all the other poor souls who can’t figure it  out for themselves.  This site is about helping the
adult “enquiring mind” not only implement  the changes needed to improve to the next level, but to EXPLAIN WHY! We  are a group of swimmers who didn’t grow up as collegiate swimmers. We  are swimmers who mostly learned through the famous “University of Hard  Knox”. We can help you if you truly are willing to make changes and want  to learn.  If a student learns “the why”, it will also provide  motivation to stick with it, when things seem to be awkward or when a  student feels down. Let’s get to it! Plan to improve your swimming technique now!

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