Discover 45 drills you can use to train your developing butterfliers!

Russ Kasl delivers a complete butterfly curriculum that has been successful for his SwimMAC Carolina swimmers and can have an immediate impact on your team.

Each technique is taught in a an individual setting and a team setting. This provides you both a detailed view of the stroke and essential techniques for teaching the stroke in a group setting to kids at different ability levels.

STROKE
Kasl breaks down his stroke instruction into seven areas and uses extensive drill work to build the stroke:

• Body Line and Body Balance - Teach your swimmers a tight line undulation.
• Pull - Connect the catch to the arm action and develop timing for the pull.
• Kicking - Train the dolphin kick and teach a tighter, flatter body position that is essential in today's flatter butterfly.
• Recovery - Discover a low profile recovery that accentuates forward movement, precision and "healthy shoulder" arm action.
• Entry - Use three drills to train hand entry and an efficient catch position.
• Breathing - Use this nine-drill progression to teach your swimmers how to get a breath without compromising body position or the timing of the stroke. Kasl addresses how to correct late breathing and also shares strategies for side breathing options in the stroke.
• Rhythm, Timing, and Tempo - Combine all of the previous stroke segments to optimize full stroke efficiency and an awareness of rhythm, timing and tempo.

TURNS
Kasl presents a six-drill progression for the butterfly turn. These drills include teaching a tight spin to optimize change of direction speed, simplified cadences for arm actions and training the swimmer to grab a breath while maintaining a low profile on the wall.

STARTS
Kasl includes block set-up and strategies for an arrow-like, streamlined entry into the water. He also discusses specific strategies for the butterflier to transition from the start entry into the kickout and maintaining optimal speed through the first stroke cycle. Also included in the start segment is a single step relay exchange.

Kasl concludes the DVD with a brief segment detailing race strategies for the butterfly events.

This DVD affords you over 3 hours of butterfly instruction that is sure to assist you in coaching your developing butterflier!

2 DVDs (183 minutes). 2010.

Christine Magnuson,
2008 Olympic Silver Medalist 100M Fly,
2008 Olympic Trials 100 M Fly Champion, 2008 NCAA 100 yd Butterfly Champion

In this break through presentation, Kredich and Magnuson team up to share with you over 3 hours of comprehensive instruction on the butterfly. Get a detailed look at the stroke, start, and turn, along with race day strategies and routines.

This in-depth instruction is broken down into 13 segments:

• Undulation Drills. Kredich takes Magnuson through a front and side undulation sequence that focuses on creating a forward movement on a very tight line.
• Pull Drills: Learn a five-drill sequence that connects the tight line undulation to the propulsion that the pull creates.
• Catch Drills. Discover innovative positional drills that will allow your swimmers to experience the feel of the catch without full stroke swimming.
• Full Stroke and Stroke Inefficiencies. Kredich provides full stroke demonstration and instruction, common stroke errors and full stroke analysis. Learn what to look for as you watch your swimmers swim the butterfly, what errors might be slowing them down, the best angles to view your swimmers, and more.
• The Pull. Kredich utilizes a Vasa Trainer and Swiss balls to breakdown all segments of the pull. He vividly demonstrates how the proper pull technique can effect body position.
• The Kick. Get a complete on-deck instructional breakdown of the timing of each of the two kicks in the butterfly stroke. Engage your swimmers in a variety of multi positional kicking drills.
• Evolution of Christine's butterfly. Listen in as Kredich and Magnuson share a candid conversation on how Christine's stroke evolved to the championship form that it is today; including the decision to switch from front breathing to side breathing.
• The Breath. Learn the timing technique of the breath and get instruction for both front and side breathing and the benefits of each.
• The Start. See a step-by-step breakdown of the block set up, dive execution, entry and breakout of Christine's start.
• The Turn. Kredich focuses on a tight, fast and efficient spin that gives the best opportunity for a fast and efficient change of direction at the wall.
• The Finish. Pick up a highly effective drill that will teach and train your swimmers to shape their body in a position that is optimal for forward momentum.
• Race Day Warm-up. Gain insight and strategies for teaching your swimmers to evaluate their feel and stroke efficiency in sprints and pace work during warm-ups at a meet.

In her technical suit, Magnuson performs her pre race sprints, while Kredich offers a hands-on look into how to enhance the swimmer's meet performance.
• The Race. Magnuson takes you through her pre-race routine from the ready room through the start of a race. She shares her thoughts on how she approaches her race. This segment serves as a great example to swimmers to stay within themselves to attain their best performance.

Now you can use the same techniques that took Christine Magnuson from all conference to Olympic silver medalist in just three years.

190 minutes. (2 DVDs). 2010.

David Marsh feels that "swimming flat" is the first step to Gettin' Better at butterfly. The traditional days of the butterfly's classic up and over and down and under undulation have given away to a forward focused stroke that creates a much smaller and tighter "line" of undulation. Coach Marsh's butterfly instruction features NCAA All-American and Olympian Jeremy Knowles as the demonstrator. Marsh's butterfly instruction moves in sequence from body positioning, to the kick, the pull, the recovery and timing of the full stroke. Marsh first focuses upon establishing a feel for the flat body positioning with drills that focus upon undulating from the chest and core. He then shares drills and tips for a quick and efficient kick before moving into pull and recovery drills. Marsh finishes with timing drills that will help teach you to establish a low-profile flowing butterfly with the goal of going faster more efficiently. Flat is where it's at when it comes to our present day butterfly and with David Marsh's expertise, you will be well on your way to a flat and efficient stroke that will assure you of Gettin' Better at Butterfly.

41 minutes. 2007.

Personal Best - Butterfly provides swimming fans of all ages with unprecedented camera angles and commentary to capture every detail that makes the duo of Phelps and Bowman the best in the world. The DVD includes expert instruction from Bowman on the specifics techniques of the butterfly stroke that he reinforces with Phelps on a daily basis: basic tips for beginning swimmers and advanced instruction for developed swimmers; and commentary from Phelps about his world-record setting swims.

2006.

The focus points of the Arizona philosophy: The catch, finish, kick and the line of the stroke, resound throughout this presentation. Coach Busch begins with drills that will help a swimmer "groove" or feel the catch position and that assist with the rhythm and timing of the catch in the stroke cycle. Busch then connects hip movement to the catch and follows with full stroke demonstrations with a front snorkel to focus upon maintaining a very tight line on the water. Next, Coach Demont focuses upon the dolphin kick and the importance of developing a feel for both the upbeat and downbeat of the kick. Demont presents drills that show his unique insight of how the "angles" and elevations of the hand and body position greatly contribute to a fast stroke. Coach Rhodenbaugh focuses his attention on drills that teach a low profile recovery that assist the swimmer to maintain a flat, forward-focused stroke. He also shares a series of kicking drills that help develop a fast and efficient dolphin kick. Augie Busch shares strategies for the underwater kickout and the breakout stroke. The coaches each take their respective demonstrator through a set of four variable speed 25's that give you a chance to see how their techniques and philosophies fit the individual swimmer.

49 minutes. 2006.