Tag Archives: freestyle kick

Breaking Down Ana’s Stroke

By tjfry | January 1, 2010

Before the holidays, I met up with Ana, one of my fellow Ironman Cozumel entrants. She was looking for a few tips on her stroke so I broke the underwater camera to see what I could find. First of all, as it is quite obvious, Ana is clearly a strong swimmer with a good stroke. From [...]

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The Mailbag…

By tjfry | July 8, 2009

Often people email me with questions about something I have written about or a more general question with a problem they are running into. Some of the mail is very similar in nature, so I said to myself, ” Self, I wonder if it would be useful to publish my answers on some of these questions [...]

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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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Breaking Down Mike’s Stroke

By tjfry | March 6, 2009

Not too long ago Mike contacted me from New York with a few questions regarding his swim technique after reading my swim articles.  It’s always easier to comment on something when you can see the stroke, so I asked for a video clip. I thought it might help others if I took Mike’s stroke and critiqued it [...]

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