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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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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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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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Underwater Pull – The High Elbow

By tjfry | January 27, 2009

It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been swimming, working on improving your technique is never ending. One of the biggest problems that swimmers of all abilities run into is that they drop their elbow as they pull underwater. If you’ve been swimming for a while you’ve heard about this many times. If you’re relatively new [...]

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