Becoming A Faster Swimmer: Freestyle Swimming

Starring:Tom Jager
Studio: SportVideos.com
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
Description
Races are often decided by fractions of seconds, so attention to detail is imperative. In this DVD, Five-Time Olympic Gold Medalist and former 50 meter World Record holder Tom Jager teaches a young swim team the essential details of the freestyle stroke. He shares several important training tips and drills that will help swimmers of all levels. The topics covered in this program include: sculling, streamlining, kicking, head position, body position, arm position, breathing, and more. 100 minutes. 2004.

The Special Features section provides additional tips and advice for swimmers, parents, and coaches.

Product Description

Races are often decided by fractions of seconds, so attention to detail is imperative. In this DVD, Five-Time Olympic Gold Medalist and former 50 meter World Record holder Tom Jager teaches a young swim team the essential details of the freestyle stroke. He shares several important training tips and drills that will help swimmers of all levels. The topics covered in this program include: sculling, streamlining, kicking, head position, body position, arm position, breathing, and more. 100 minutes. 2004. The Special Features section provides additional tips and advice for swimmers, parents, and coaches.

Customer Reviews:

require inteligent guess.......2007-06-28

This DVD offers lots of informations but you do need to know the basic swimming knowledge. I had to get a book to read up on some of the techniques and instructions mentioned on ths DVD. The DVD is not for a complete beginner. The production quality (editting)is not as good as most of those DYI TV programs, and the instructor keeps switching what he was about to say in the middle of the sentence. He is definately not reading off of a script and I wish he did.
If you are not good at picking up instruction information from unique speach pattern, this DVD may not be right for you.

great for beginners.......2007-01-22

I am not a fast swimmer and usually my first hundred meters was about 2:05 which is slow. don't laugh.

But after working on the drills, I went to 1:52. I am drilling everytime I go into the pool and slowly working all the steps together. But beware, swimming properly is more tiring than swimming poorly....

Very helpful.......2006-10-17

I thought this was a helpful DVD. It taught me lots of useful tips and techniques that I use in my workouts.I thought the underwater camera work was useful. It was great to see what the stroke looked like beneath the surface.

Terrific!.......2006-06-11

I really learned to swim. I feel as I took a class. The best insturctor possible- very easy to understand and to follow. I'm buying now the other DVDs of the group as well.

Great for kids.......2006-04-13

The DVD is actually pretty good for both kids and adults if you can get past his inability to finish a sentence and his arrogance in the first scene. It seems to be a low budget instructional video mostly aimed at kids but helpful for adults too. He uses children swimmers as teaching subjects, some of which are good swimmers that can actually demonstrate fairly well. Overall effective. Helped me improve my technique. I like his way of letting you know that his principals and methods are not the only way of doing it well and that each swimmer has individual technique that could be just as good as his.

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