DVD Review: Richard Quick's Championship Starts

Richard Quick has numerous accomplishments: Championship titles, has been an Olympic team coach many times, has produced NCAA All Americans, produced Olympians, and has contributed greatly to the sport of swimming. Hence, whn I got Richard Quick's DVD on Championship Starts I wanted to like it and learn something but I am really dissapointed. My two big issues were, I feel the drills are summarily dangerous and there is no way I am oing to try them, and he only focusd on the track start without any explanation as to why this should be the de facto start model. (Now, the DVD they sent me has a a minute or two glitch in it and I may of missed something here but the DVD only addresses the track start and the backstroke start. I would have at least liked to have heard an explanation as to why this is the best model.) Though I am not worthy enough to swim 25 miles near him and that Olympian Gabrielle Rose and many others think very highly of him, I found nothing remarkable about anything he said in this DVD which I couldn't get ay USMS or Go Swim. Another peeve I had was when he had an artist draw stick-women up on the blocks and then give a tutorial on where the "energy" should be. (Hello, it's a stick figure. Why bother with stick figures when you can show a film in slow-mo and draw on top of a video monitor like that slob John Madden does during a football game or at least use a live model and stop motion? For $35 way more effort should have been put into this DVD. i.e. When you can buy a 40-million-dollar film on a DVD for $15, Championship sports could at least spend 40-thousand dollars on high-def video and several models/swimmers or perhaps license films famous Olympians and critique each start model.) Ialso bought his tape on underwater swimming. I will review that later. BTW, I want to like this one too.