We have many swimmers who are developing beautiful, efficient, balanced, technically gorgeous strokes. This is what we strive for every practice. This is what we coach for, train for, race for. We see an incredible progression in skill, comfort, ease and speed as swimmers go from Learn to Swim to the Age Group Lanes, through the levels of USA swimming competitions and middle/high school seasons. We are so proud of the work our athletes are doing, every practice, every day.
Here is a 10 year old swimmer who has been working on freestyle, body balance, posture, line, and head position. She is swimming 25m, the first half of the length the way she swam normally before (which wasn't exactly slow or bad, she swims a 50 free in :29) and the second half of the length is her "new" stroke.
Can you tell the difference? Which stroke do you think looks more comfortable, like it could be super fast if she gradually put some power into it? By the way, her normal stroke count per length was around 20. Now it's around 15. Her backstroke dropped to 13 strokes per length. (Mostly due to controlling her exhale in the underwater dolphin kick off the wall). Wow.
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