Tag Archives: kicking help

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 Dana’s Stroke

By tjfry | March 18, 2010

 So next on the list of strokes that I pick apart is Dana’s. You might notice that Dana is no slouch. He’s a heck of an athlete. He’s raced in Kona among other places, but swimming is relatively new to him. He was a duathlete for a long time before he hit the pool. As [...]

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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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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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