Fast Starts, Underwaters & Breakouts Swim Clinic
Yorba Linda High School Aquatics Center
4175 Fairmont Blvd,
Yorba Linda,
CA 92886
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Introduction
Fitter & Faster is producing a high-performance swim clinic at Yorba Linda High School Aquatics Center on May 3rd, 2025! Swimmers will sharpen their starts, underwaters, and breakouts with world-class coaching, elite technique instruction, and personalized feedback to boost race-day speed.
LIMITED SPOTS AVAILABLE: Sessions are limited to 24 participants, ensuring individualized attention and optimal learning.
SESSION START TIMES:
Ages 9 to 11: Check in 8 AM, Clinic 8:15-10:45 AM
Ages 12 & over: Check in 11:30 AM, Clinic 11:45-2:45 PM
Scroll down for curriculum details.
Suggested Participants
Our top priority is to provide a world-class learning experience for all participants at all of our camps. This clinic has sessions for swimmers ages 9 to 11 and 12 & older. Participants will range from one-year of competitive swimming experience to AAAA times and faster. If you are the parent of a swimmer under the age of 9 and would like for your swimmer to be considered for the younger session of this clinic, please complete this questionnaire.
Curriculum
The better a swimmer’s technique is off the starting block, the more speed they will carry into the water. This clinic will help your swimmer improve their start, underwater dolphin kicking, and breakouts! This sequence is not only the fastest part of every race, but it is also the part of the race in which elite swimmers cover the most ground with the most efficiency.
- BLOCK STARTS: To ensure an explosive start, a swimmer needs to set themselves up properly on the block. The elite clinicians will work with participants on the optimal positioning of your swimmer’s entire body to allow for a quick reaction time and optimal speed.
- WATER ENTRY: Starting the race with a smooth entry into the water will boost your swimmer's speed and carry the momentum generated off the block or wall. Becoming skilled at the water entry is crucial for any start and significantly contributes to your swimmers' overall race!
- STREAMLINE: The streamline - when done properly - is the fastest a swimmer travels while in the water. Proper streamlines are even faster than underwater dolphin kicking. Even the most elite swimmers in the world are constantly working on improving their streamline. Your swimmer will get tips to improve their streamline and a better appreciation of what they need to do on every single wall in practice and in races.
- INITIATING UNDERWATER DOLPHIN KICKING: Top age group and elite swimmers maximize their streamline on every single lap. They don’t start their underwater dolphin kicking while they’re still achieving maximum speed in their streamline! They also don’t want to start the underwater dolphin kicking after their streamline has begun to slow. Your swimmer is going to learn how to time when to begin their underwater dolphin kicking.
- POWERFUL UNDERWATER DOLPHIN KICKING: There are a few different techniques that swimmers use when underwater dolphin kicking. The common theme of these techniques is that the best swimmers kick up and down with equal power. We will show your swimmer the different techniques that elite swimmers use and teach them how to implement.
- NUMBER OF UNDERWATER DOLPHIN KICKS: Figuring out the optimal number of kicks off each wall, for each race, is essential to fast swimming. Elite swimmers want to spend only the absolute necessary amount of time underwater to establish speed with each length. They want to avoid losing their breath and taking weak kicks.
- BREAKOUTS: Many swimmers unintentionally add movements in their breakouts that reduce speed by creating drag. In this clinic, participants will focus on perfecting their breakout timing to maintain momentum and power into each lap.
ASK QUESTIONS
Swimmers and parents are invited to ask the clinicians questions during a Q&A session. Gain insight into their training regimen, diet and nutrition, and recovery tactics.
WATCH THE CLINICIANS
Observe clinicians swim at full speed and demonstrate a progression of perfectly executed drills to achieve powerful, efficient and fast swimming.
PUT YOUR SKILLS TO THE TEST
Throughout the clinic, swimmers will practice what they've learned with some of the world's most elite Swimmer Clinicians and coaches!
Take a photo, get autographs, and chat with your clinicians!
Inquisitive, Educated Swimmers are Faster Swimmers! Sign up today!
