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Hi I'm Nick Baker. I'm the head coach at Peak Performance Swim Camp. And I've just recently
finished a book called The Swimming Triangle. And part of the book stresses the importance
of technique and both in The Swimming Triangle and Peak Performance, technique is all important.
And I want to introduce to you today to a theory that's part of the book, and basically,
it involves 385 concepts that I've developed and work on within the camp.
Now there's three starts in competitive swimming. There's a front start, a back start, and a
relay start. Each start has four parts. Launchpad, that's when you're on the block. Blast-Off,
that's leaving the block. Splashdown, when you enter the water, and Breakout. So . . . three
starts, four parts.
I could easily give swimmers five concepts for each part. So if you take three starts,
four parts, five concepts, that equals sixty concepts all together on the starts. There's
four strokes. Each stroke consists of five parts. The first part is body position. The
second part is the kick cycle.
The third part is the arm cycle. The fourth part is the breathing cycle and the fifth
part is timing and flow.
I could easily give swimmers ten concepts for each part.
So if you take four strokes, five parts, ten concepts . . . together that equals 200 concepts
on stroke technique that are in the book and also emphasized within the camp.
Now there are seven turns in swimming. There's fly turn, back turn, breast turn, free turn,
fly to back, back to breast, breast to free. Okay, I divide each turn into three parts:
before the wall, at the wall, after the wall. I could easily give swimmers five concepts
on each part. So if you take seven turns, three parts, five concepts each: that's a
hundred and five concepts.
Okay, now there are four finishes. There's the fly, back, breast and freestyle finish.
Each finish I break into one part. I could easily give swimmers five concepts for each
part. So if you take four finishes, one part each, five concepts each part, that equals
twenty.
So if you add that all together you get 385 technical concepts that I believe swimmers
need to know in order to realize their peak potential.