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Tips for Sprinting with Backstroke

Last Update: March 12, 2009

Video By: eHow.com

Learn how to swim a competitive backstroke race in this free video clip. Get swimming lessons from an expert on health and fitness.

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Phillip Toriello was a competitive swimmer for Salinas High School, USAFE Swim Team and Cuesta College. He has also been a surfer, a lifeguard, a swim instructor and a junior lifeguard instructor. Combined with his passion for the water, Toriello has taken his years of experience and has made aquatics instruction a full time profession. With his innate talent with children and their varying personalities in and around the water, Toriello has taken the initiative to write a five part children's book series entitled "Phill The Flying Fish and Friends".

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Video Transcript

PHILLIP TORIELLO: Hello and welcome to Expert Village, I'm Phillip Toriello from the Avila Bay Athletic Club. Just as with any sprints, your backstroke sprint events are going to be 50 and 100 meter events. In these particular events, you're not going to be taking--I mean, while technique is important and I stress technique no matter what stroke you're doing. Technique is important. You're going to be having--you're going to be performing a higher turnover for this particular event because you want to get there first. There's no two ways about it. There's no pacing, it's all about racing and knees. So, your turnover is going to be high but not by compromising your thumb out, pinky in, bending and push and following all the way through. You're still going to maintain technique but you really going to focus on getting there first.

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