Michael Belmes Drill Progressions” is a set of 4 Advanced Stroke Drills for each stroke, 16 Advanced Drills in all, including the proper, step by step way to learn the Wave Breaststroke and Racing Butterfly.  Each drill leads to the next drill in the progression with the beginning/intermediate drills leading to the advance drills. A Drill Progression is all 4 stroke drills in a certain distance.  A 100m Drill Progression is 25m of each drill.  A 400m Drill IM is 25m of each butterfly drill, then 25m of each backstroke drill and so on for breaststroke and freestyle.  Each drill focuses on 1 aspect of the stroke while the next drill in the progression combines the learned aspect with the new aspect.  The resulting full stroke combined with an attentive, physically coordinated students can approach perfection.  The swimmers not only learn properly, they learn why they are doing it.  In races, key words can keep swimmers focused. While some coaches yell “Go” or “Faster,” my swimmers will hear “Hips” (when they forget to use their core or “Reach” or “Finish” when they are taking too many strokes. There is no better teaching system.

 

Drill videos in the Members Section.