This website wants to offer you a unique and interactive learning environment on swimming. Starting from the idea that every swimmer is different and every swimmer develops a different style, we want to offer you the guidelines to analyse a swimmers’ style and determine which movements are effective and which aren’t.
The objective of this site is to teach you how to recognize movement deviations, their possible causes and consequences and to offer you tips on how to improve the swimming style.
Often textbooks describe the so called “optimal swimming style”. This website deliberately did not do that because what might be “the optimal swimming style” for one swimmer is less effective for the other. Both crawl and breaststroke have variations in movement and the optimal variety depends on specifics like:
- Body features: size, strength and flexibility
- Objectives of the swimmer: long distance swimming vs. sprinting
Notwithstanding these variations in movement there are also movement deviations which are less effective. A coach or swimming instructor should focus on finding the movement deviations in the swimming style because these should always be avoided. You should be able to recognize them, know their possible causes, their consequences and give tips on avoiding them. The making of a correct diagnosis will enhance the learning process of the swimmer considerably.
By means of extensive video footage this website takes you through the different movement deviations and offers you guidelines on how to recognise and deal with them. Under water footage often offers a unique view of the swimmers movements but also the common point of view of the coach or swimming instructor, namely above water, is very important in the learning process of movement analysis.
This site is furthermore equipped with a self test and will be coupled to a student forum. Once you’ve mastered the analyses of movement deviations you can test your newly acquired skills through an extensive self test programme and you can discuss them with your fellow students.
If you are interested in your own under water footage, please contact info@aquademics.be.