Hey guys, last summer I posted some video of my novice son swimming and many of you were kind enough to give feedback and some ideas. Well, now 9 years-old, he has improved a ton (now he gets points for his team) but still has plenty of room for improvement. This fall he will start a DC area program called Curl-Burke (not sure if any of you are familiar with this and can give some insight), which hopefully will help his fitness and stroke. Swimming is really about the only exercise he gets because he doesn't enjoy other sports and is busy with piano. Anyhow, this summer I'm working with him (they don't do any stroke development on the summer neighborhood team), and I would appreciate your input.
A little background; in the 50M freestyle his time is about 46 sec with a very weak start and weak turns. I don't know his butterfly time (he DQ'd in time trials due to non-simultaneous touch). His *** stroke is by far his weakest, doing the 50 in 1:15. Here are some videos. Thanks.
Freestyle (medium pace):
YouTube - 004
YouTube - 005
YouTube - 007
YouTube - 008
***:
YouTube - 010
YouTube - 011
Butterfly:
YouTube - 013
YouTube - 015
Thanks.
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I was at the pool yesterday and watched workouts for children and then after that a master swimming group, with the same coach. The workouts were identical used the same workout boards. The coach was there and the instructions given were, don't stop, follow the workout. There was not a single stroke correction except the word go, thats good, and keep it moving. I saw so many blatant stroke faults and not a word said about stroke correction. Just keep moving. Read the workout posted.
I was at the pool yesterday and watched workouts for children and then after that a master swimming group, with the same coach. The workouts were identical used the same workout boards. The coach was there and the instructions given were, don't stop, follow the workout. There was not a single stroke correction except the word go, thats good, and keep it moving. I saw so many blatant stroke faults and not a word said about stroke correction. Just keep moving. Read the workout posted.
