TWST STROKE and START/TURN CLINICS

TWST offers occassional clinics to give swimmers an extra focus on strokes, starts and turns.  All clinics are staffed by TWST Coaches.  Check the events section and the team calendar to see when the next clinic is scheduled. 

There will be 4 coaches on the stroke work portion of the clinic.  Each coach will focus on one stroke. So for instance, Susy starts in freestyle with Coach Ross, he will work on freestyle drills with 4 swimmers at a time for 15 minutes.  He will work on their strokes and give them things they need to improve on.  Then, Susy and 3 other swimmers will move onto backstroke where Coach Jennie will work on their backstroke the same way.  Then, onto breaststroke and freestyle until they have completed all 4 strokes.

The start and turn portion goes the same way with 2 coaches for the 8 swimmers signed up.  One coach will do starts with 4 of the swimmers and one coach doing turns with the other 4 swimmers for 15 minutes and then switching ends and working on the other area.

None of the TWST coaches want you to feel these stroke clinics are the only place to get stroke improvements.  We work on strokes daily and will continue to make corrections - however, this is one way to get a little more help on your strokes in a smaller group with a much smaller swimmer/coach ratio and a chance for some swimmers to work with a different coach. Sometimes a different coach says the magic word and a swimmer gets the correction.  All of our coaches have different ways of making corrections and see different things in strokes, which is what makes our TWST coaching staff so strong.