Tag Archives: 2 beat kick

Bilateral Breathing

By tjfry | November 2, 2011

After spending some time helping some people with their stroke, I wanted to chime in on the importance of bilateral breathing. Most would agree that it’s an important thing to learn, although there are people out there that think it’s a waste of time and argue the restricted breathing that it creates. That’s what’s so [...]

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Analyzing Jay’s Freestyle

By tjfry | October 17, 2010

Jay contacted me around a week ago after reading the site, looking for a little swimming help. Happy to get beat up in a public forum, he sent me a couple of videos to look over. So here goes…. The first thing that I have to mention is that these swim videos are done with [...]

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Pay No Attention to that Man Behind the Curtain

By tjfry | February 19, 2010

I was filming a friend of mine the other day (his post is in the hopper) and he thought that I should post my own swimming as a point of reference for others. While I have posted myself on here swimming before, I will admit it has been a while, so if you haven’t been [...]

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The Two-Beat Kick

By tjfry | June 21, 2009

Back in February, I wrote about the importance of the kick and what you can do to improve it. (If you missed it here’s the link). Recently, I have been getting a number of questions about the frequncy and timing of the kick, and more specifically, the two beat kick. Generally speaking, when someone starts [...]

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