Becoming a Faster Swimmer Butterfly Stroke featuring Coach Tom Jager

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In this video, five-time Olympic Gold Medalist Tom Jager teaches a young swim team training tips and drills designed to develop a faster competitive butterfly stroke. The topics covered in this program include: undulation and developmental drills; streamlining, body and head position; kicking, recovery and breathing techniques; common errors and corrections, and more.1 Introduction 1:47 2 Undulation Drill 5:27 3 Single Arm Butterfly 2:34 4 3-2-1 Drill 11:50 5 Dolphin Dives 1:11 6 Streamline Exercise 1:02 7 Head Position 0:38 8 Kicking 1:41 9 Full Stroke Butterfly 3:14 10 Faults and Corrections 4:24 11 Closing Comments 1:36Tom Jager is one of the most decorated US Olympians of all-time. He earned seven Olympic medals (five of which were gold), and six-times broke the 50 meter freestyle world record. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and won NCAA individual national championships in the 100-yard freestyle (1983, 1984), the 50-yard freestyle (1984, 1985), and the 100-yard backstroke (1985). He was also an eleven-time United States national open champion. Tom Jager was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 2001. In 2004, Jager became the head coach of the University of Idaho’s Idaho Vandals women’s swim team. Jager then accepted the head coaching position for the Washington State Cougars swim team from 2011-2018. In 2019, Tom and his wife Becky took over coaching duties at the Aspen Swim Club in Aspen, Colorado.