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Swim Meet Behavior
How to get ready for and how to act at a swim meet, as described by the staff of Edinburough's Warrender Baths Club.

Glide - The Swim Column
The Extreme Tri site's swim column for triathletes; good articles on training and technique.

Swim Tips at Swim and Tennis.com
Variuos technique tips from Jack Madden, swimandtennis.com's competitive swimming consultant.

Swim.EE Swimming Pictures Best of the Net
Sequential breakdowns of starts, strokes, and turns.

Swimming Drills
A good list of skill improvement drills for all four strokes from the home of Swiss Swimming. You may read it in English, German, French or Italian.

The Alexander Technique of Teaching Swimming
Ever notice that poor swimmers tend to pull their heads back and fix the muscles of the neck, but more smooth and elegant swimmers allow their heads and necks to move freely? This is one of the keys of the Alexander Technique; From Positive Health.

The Basics
Simple descriptions and drawings of all four strokes; From Net Swimmer.

Swimming Video Clips - Backstroke
Video clips of some of the best swimmers in the world - Krayzelburg, Welsh, Nakamura, Mocanu, Walker, etc.

The Fastest Swimmers
Cislunar Aerospace's lesson plan to teach how fluid dynamics influence swimming speed.

Swimming Video Clips - Breaststroke
Video clips of some of the best swimmers in the world - Boggiatto, Moses, Fioravanti, Jones, Quann, Kovacs, etc

The Kick
Marty Hull gives his insight into what makes a good kick. A lot of information on something that many people think is very simple.

Swimming Video Clips - Butterfly
Video clips of some of the best swimmers in the world - Hyman, Jacobsen, Malchow, etc.

The Shaw Method of Teaching Swimming
The Shaw Method of Swimming is a new approach based on the Alexander Technique (a method of postural re-education with the aim of learning to use your body more effectively) which helps swimmers of all levels, enhance their experience of being in the water.

Swimming Video Clips - Freestyle or Crawl Best of the Net
Videos of some of the best freestyle swimmers in the world - Bennett, Shealy, Hackett, Popov, Klim, O'Neill, etc.

Training Tips for Open Water Swims
An introduction to open-water swimming and some associated tips.

Swimming Video Clips - Individual Medley
Video clips of some of the best swimmers in the world - Dolan, Klochkova, Myden, Hagiwara, Rolph, etc.

Twenty-one Swimming Laws
Just what it says - things to remember about swimming, from Jerry Heidenreich.

Swimming Video Clips - Starts & Turns Best of the Net
Downloadable clips of the some of the best swimmers in the world in action - Thorpe, Klim, Krayzelburg, and more.

Video Clips of Swimming Strokes Best of the Net
Above and underwater clips of Front Crawl, Back Crawl, Breaststroke, Butterfly, Elementary backstroke, Sidestroke, Overarm Sidestroke, Trudgen Crawl, and Inverted Breaststroke.

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