Teaching Tips for Fast Breaststroke and Butterfly Turns
Teaching Tips for Fast Breaststroke and Butterfly Turns
Topics(Teaching Tips for Fast Breaststroke and Butterfly Turns)
n Introduction – Philosophy of Turns
n Coach’s choice
n Concepts common to all turns
n The push off position
n Breast and Fly Turns – Description
n Breast turns training drills
n Breaststroke pullouts
n The Breaststroke dolphin kick
n Fly push off and breakouts
n Fly turns training drills
n Last words
Introductory comments(Teaching Tips for Fast Breaststroke and Butterfly Turns) :
n You can be an average swimmer with excellent turns and win
n Great turns enhance the swim meet experience
n Teaching requires knowing the turns, knowing the progressions, opportunity for athlete practice, and workout discipline
n Turns = acrobatics = excitement
n Turns require fitness, agility, core strength
n Turns are Fun to teach
n Turns can be used for anaerobic and aerobic conditioning
Coach’s Choices (Teaching Tips for Fast Breaststroke and Butterfly Turns):
n Are turns done during sets adequate for teaching proper turns?
n Turns done improperly wall after wall after wall, become harder and harder to correct.
n At what point in career development do you teach turns?
n For high school — 9th graders are “4 year projects”
n In club, teach underwater swimming from day 1, pushoffs later, turns near the transition from novice to age group
Continued…
n Would you ever stop a swimmer, or a set, or a workout to correct turns?
n How much time are you willing to devote to practicing turns?
Concepts common to all turns(Teaching Tips for Fast Breaststroke and Butterfly Turns) :
n Depth off the wall
n Kicking strength
n Leg strength (vertical leaping ability)
n Foot depth is related to push-off angle/depth
n When to begin swimming off the wall?
n For Fly Usually it’s: “Streamline – kick – swim”
n For some it’s: “Streamline – kick/swim”
n Streamlining requires balance
n Which is NOT natural
n Feet quickness
n Core strength
n The pushoff position is common to all turns (next slide)
n How many turns are there?
Push-offs
n Critical but not natural
n “sink, touch, push”
n opportunity to practice push-offs for the entire workout without adding an additional yard
n make every push-off correct
n combine with streamlining skills
Breast and Fly turns – Description
n What the ideal turn should look like
n Pushing the head back with mouth below water level
n The three things that move together
n “One are under, one arm over”
n Why rotate twice as far?
n 2-1- (0) blastoff
Breast and Fly turns
Teaching Techniques
n On Dryland: use a wall or fence
n Rotation, then freeze
n match the push-off position
n Flipping the hand off the edge
n Mid pool turns
Mid Pool Turns
Breast Turns Training Drills*
n 100 approaches
n 40 correct turns, or
n 10 correct heats
n Double pullouts
n Pullouts to the cone
n Pullouts across the pool, or
n Pullouts across to Lane __
* Not the same as a “teaching drill”
Breaststroke Pullouts
n What the ideal pullout should look like
n Timing: 3 – 2 – 1
n Other ideas about the timing
n Simple Progression
n Double pullout swims
n Breaststroke Pullout Contest
Breast Turns – Pull Out
The Breaststroke Dolphin Kick
n It’s a Secondary skill
n The dolphin kick is part of the pulldown sequence, not a separate motion
n The Pulldown becomes more like a butterfly stroke
Fly Pushoffs, Breakouts
n Depth issues
n Alignment issues
n Kick issues
n Discipline issues
Butterfly Turn – Misty Hymen
Butterfly Turns — Olympics
Fly Turns Training Drills
n 100 approaches
n One stroke Butterfly (per length) w/fins
n Fly Kicking through the hoops
n Fly kicking underwater across the pool (under the rest of the workout)
n Kicking to the cone
n Break the rules (kicking 20 meters)
n 30 x 30 fly (from mid-pool to turn and back)
Last Words
n Make the commitment
n Make Turns a training component, no less important than any set
n It’s not learned until it is done correctly under stress
n Develop team pride in turn ability
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