Tag Archives: Swimming Technique

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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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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