Swimming Technique January 2002

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• Increasing Ankle Flexibility: Swimmers at Cal have discovered a tremendous increase in range of motion of the ankle–stronger kick with less resistant drag—-over a short period of time. By Nod Thornton …9

• Learn From the Olympians: My Favorite Drill: The Fly to Breast Kick Drill – Olympic gold medalist and American record holder Amanda Beard describes her favorite training drill, with helpful and instructive comments from coaches Dave Salo and Matt Rankin. By Amanda Beard … 10

• New Waves in Swim Technology: Three of the more innovative and emerging tools available today to help athletes’ performance are the Aquapacer TM, Speed Matrix Analysis and the StrokeStar TM Anti.Paddle. By Michael J. Stott … 16

• For the Beginner: Understanding the Pace Clock: The pace clock is fundamental to any workout. If you understand the basics, you’ll learn how to survive a workout–even if you hate math! By Scott Rabalais