Tag Archives: efficient kick

John’s Stroke

By tjfry | January 21, 2011

  I met with John over at FINS a couple of weeks ago to look over his stroke. A couple of things caught my eye right away. First and foremost, take a look at John’s kick. As he finishes breathing and begins to rotate, you can see a big scissor kick. This isn’t all that [...]

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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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Putting Mark’s Stroke on the Hot Seat

By tjfry | February 13, 2010

For those of you who frequent this site (thank you by the way and tell some friends!!), you may have started noticing a theme here. I have been analyzing a number of people’s strokes, giving pointers, tips and things to avoid. The feedback has been well received and the requests have increased quite a bit [...]

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Breaking Down Sheri’s Stroke

By tjfry | January 10, 2010

Not long after I looked at Ana’s stroke, I jumped in and took a peek at how Sheri was swimming. As you might notice, there are some similarities between Ana’s and Sheri’s stroke. That’s not a huge surprise, because some of the issues I see tend to be common among most swimmers. One of the first [...]

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