30 Swim Coaching Videos You Need to Watch

Many of these have been featured in “the wake-up swim.” Here I put them all in one spot so you can binge-watch them if you wish.  -RW

Drill Videos:

1. “Paddlehead” drill for perfecting freestyle breathing technique.

2. Backstroke Start Progression with Georgia Davies:

3. Breaststroke Speed Drill

4. Start Drill with Tyler McGill and Brett Hawke:

5. Breaststroke Single-leg kicking

6. The “Plunge for Distance”

7. Early Vertical Forearm Drill with Beth Winkowski

8. One-arm scoop drill. Classic. Simple. Helpful.

9. Freestyle catch drill with coach Steve Jungbluth:

10. Backstroke weight drill:

11. Backstroke cues:

12. Tow-in turns:

13. Stay tight for the turns:

Motivational/Philosophical Videos:

14. The great coach-player relationship between Steve Kerr and Steph Curry:

15. WHY do you coach?

16. Billy Donovan on building the best teams:

17. David Cutcliffe on confidence:

18. How NOT to motivate the lazy athlete with Brett Bartholomew:

Example Videos (to show your swimmers great technique):

19. Butterfly technique

20. Getting tight on a freestyle flip turn:

21. Dolphin Kicking and a Backstroke breakout:

22. Breaststroke Turn example with Nic Fink:

23. Freestyle from all angles:

24. Adam Peaty breaststroke:

25. Breaststroke from a head-on angle:

26. Backstroke head-on:

27. Kim Vandenberg’s Streamline and breakout:

28. Dana Vollmer’s Butterfly:

29. Butterfly from a side angle:

30. Breaststroke, “hiding” the kick behind the body