I have been having quite a few parents ask about “taper”. Some parents have a general idea, some parents know a great detail of what they used to do as swimmers, and some have no idea. Either way, it is a good thing for all parents to understand what taper is, and what type of taper . . . → Read More: What Is Taper?
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 Leave a comment  Practice Updates, Swimming Tips  hamden north haven swim team, hamden north haven ymca, hamden north haven ymca swim team, hamden swim team, Hamden/North Haven Typhoons, linear taper, north haven swim team, progressive taper, step taper, swimming taper, taper in swimming, Typhoon Swim Team, ymca swim team I wanted to post this video for our swimmers (and other swimmers out there) to watch. This is the arm technique that needs to happen in butterfly in order to obtain/maintain max velocity in the pull. Notice in the video that the arms enter the water around shoulder-width and Ian Crocker goes right into an EVF . . . → Read More: Butterfly Arm Technique This is a great article that one of my Twitter folks added to their updates, and I’m really happy that they did. It’s not only a great article for our Hamden North Haven Swim Team swimmers, but it’s also an excellent article for anybody else as well! I hope you enjoy and take something out of . . . → Read More: How Much Water Should You Drink I was recently (yesterday) approached regarding breathing technique and frequency for the butterfly stroke. As a swim coach, I like to see as little stroke and velocity altering movements as possible. In other words, breath as little as possible. However, if you are going to breath (which is somewhat inevitable), try to stay as low profile as . . . → Read More: Breathing for Butterfly Throughout the next couple of weeks and probably through our Pre-Season Clinic, I will be giving a little bit of info on the practices and practice sets that we’ll be swimming throughout the upcoming Short Course Season for the Hamden North Haven YMCA Swim Team. A lot of these innovative practices came from experimental sets throughout . . . → Read More: Practice Preview – One Arm Swims I absolutely love this workout; it includes thinking outside the box, and is truly the direction that our Hamden North Haven YMCA Swim Team Juniors and Seniors will be going in the next year or so with a couple of their practices! Swimming Videos on Floswimming Share . . . → Read More: Eric Hansen’s Workout Our Hamden North Haven Swim Team (the YMCA Typhoons) will always hear us, as we coach our Juniors and Seniors, that there are a lot of factors that go into swimming a faster time. The easiest change for swimmers, in my opinion, is the speed, efficiency, and power of the flip turn. If you look at a . . . → Read More: Flip Turns and How To Get Swimming Faster Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls, children of all ages…..your Hamden North Haven Swim Team Coach is back with another freestyle technique drill! In a previous post regarding freestyle drills, I discussed the 3 Touch Drill which is a great addition to your drill sets when you want to work on a high elbow recovery for freestyle . . . → Read More: Freestyle Drill – Finger Drag There are always multiple ways to extend, modify, or add on to a swimming drill. The 3 touch drill is a great example of how to modify an existing freestyle drill in order to cultivate a more exagerated movement. That being said, let’s go into the variations of the 3 touch freestyle drill. The purpose of this . . . → Read More: Freestyle Drill: 3 Touch I was asked by one of our Hamden North Haven Swim Team members this past week about DPS (Distance Per Stroke), and why we do this drill in practice. His thought was that DPS was essentially a pulling set and therefore we should just go into a pulling set and not do DPS. My thought was, . . . → Read More: Freestyle Drill – Distance Per Stroke |
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