The custom, detailed breakdown designed to help sprint backstrokers find explosive time drops, break through plateaus, and build momentum that lasts a career.
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✔︎ You've dropped time before, but now you feel stuck.
✔︎ You've had technical feedback, but don't know how to feel it.
✔︎ The work you do in practice isn't paying off like it should.
✔︎ You don't want an all-new training plan or a new coach.
It's time for something new.
I've watched thousands of hours of swimming, including hundreds of hours of my own races.
Why?
I've always been a perfectionist and swim nerd, obsessed with technique and optimization.
And yet... my 50 back started to plateau after high school.
I was spending hours a day in the pool, plus watching every video I could find on elite-level backstrokers.
When I compared their races to my own, I knew I wasn't going as fast as they were.
But the problem is, there were probably 137 things that I was doing worse than the best-of-the-best.
I tried to fix too many things at once, without a plan.
I was training harder than ever, but since I didn't know the best things to work on, I was leaving speed on the table.
. . .
In June before my senior year, I had the sudden realization:
"I've only got one year left."
I'd been stuck at 22- for over 4 years. At conferences my junior year, I felt like I was at my 100%, and I swam it 4 times between prelims, finals, relays, and time trials. I went, consecutively:
22.06
22.02
22.02
22.08
I couldn't afford to waste another season trying to fix things without a clear plan.
I forced myself to focus on calculating which improvements would give me the biggest drops, for the least effort, using data and evidence.
My senior year, two weeks before conferences, I shaved and suited up, and went - 22.09.....
I really thought I'd found my limit.
But in just those last two weeks, I got lucky. I found a couple brand-new tweaks to try.
Suddenly, it clicked.
First night of conferences - 21.60
Third night of conferences - 21.23
I dropped 0.42 within the span of a few weeks. Then ANOTHER 0.37 in the next couple days, for the fastest time in NCAA DIII history at that point.
After struggling to drop ANY time over the previous 4 years.
Because I finally understood how it was supposed to feel.
My college career ended that year, but I wonder what would've happened if I'd known those magical things to focus on all along.
Now that I know the tweaks that work best (and the tons more that don't), I've helped high schoolers, triathletes, and collegiate sprinters see progress they never thought possible.
So many coaches out there focus on what it's supposed to look like.
And they use abstract terms that can be hard to understand.
What if you had the perspective of someone who knows what it feels like?
The exact mental cues, easy fixes, and personalized feedback to drop time, that nobody else is talking about.
All it takes is:
Learn what changes will drop you the most time
Learn the easiest ways to actually make those changes
Focus on one at a time
Continue stacking the results for the rest of your career
You only get so many seasons. Don't spend another one guessing what to fix.
Submit a race video (or several), and I will send you an in-depth video breakdown with guidance on the EXACT things that I think you would benefit from the most.
Plus, the exact mental cues, drills, and images that will help you actually get there.
Time doesn't drop overnight. It compounds over time when building the right habits.
Instead of just giving you a laundry list of feedback, I provide a full plan (over whatever time frame you choose) of which things to do, in what order, for the best long-term results.
To ensure I'm able to make each breakdown the highest quality possible, I only work on one at a time until it's finished. If there are a lot of applications in a short time, it may take up to a few weeks to receive yours.
If you're serious about getting faster, don't wait.
I'm confident this breakdown will be new, impactful, and personalized. But if you don't feel it gave you clear, actionable insight, just let me know within 14 days of receiving it and I'll refund you completely.
Take a look at the average sprinter's improvement curve below, taken from a real study of thousands of individual swimmers from the ages of 10-26:
They all tell the same story:
Diminishing returns.
As swimmers get older, they put in more and more effort, and drop less and less time.
Especially once they get to college - most people don't drop any more time at all.
What if, instead, you could finish your career with a bang?
Here's the actual curve I was able to create my senior year:
(with the thousands of improvement curves overlaid)
Not only that.
By packing everything I learned into a personalized video breakdown...
Here are the actual results my first student achieved after receiving it and implementing his plan:
I can help:
✔︎ Sprint backstrokers (or freestylers in a pinch)
✔︎ Committed swimmers who want to drop time
✔︎ Swim nerds who love talking technique
✔︎ Experimenters who love to try new things
✔︎ Intermediate to advanced swimmers, who already know the basics and want more.
I can't help:
✘ Breaststrokers, butterfliers, or IM-ers
✘ Swimmers with no videos of themselves
✘ Complete beginners
✘ Swimmers who prefer to crank out tons of yards, rather than making tweaks
FAQs
You'll receive a completely personalized, 30-50 minute deep-dive video analysis of your race submission(s). This includes the most useful tips and tricks that helped get me down to 46.8 and 21.1 in the 100 back and 50 back respectively, tailored specifically to what you need most.
Every aspect of your race is covered - start, underwaters, breakout, stroke, turn, finish, and race strategy.
Every point comes with clear, specific cues and direct actions you can take to improve that aspect of your race.
At the end of the video, I will show you a summary of your "Master Plan" going forward. It will show the feedback I talked about, as well as a clear, laid-out plan for when & how to make each change for the best long-term result, over whatever time frame you specify in your application.
The breakdown will be in the form of an unlisted YouTube video, which you will be emailed the link to. The "Master Plan" document will also be linked in the video description.
While I can't guarantee the results of your athletic performance, here's what to expect, depending on your situation:
Swimming casually 3 days/week or less:
Swimming is a high-volume sport, and progress takes time (often at the end of the season with a taper). Improvement happens best when training consecutive days consistently. That way, you don't lose your feel of the water between practices, and you can pick up right where you left off.
It may be more difficult to drop time if you have fewer days in the week to work on making impactful changes, or if you're not training with the intensity of competition in your mind.
Swimming on a competitive team (e.g., college):
You've got training under your belt, you know the basics, and you care deeply about the result at the end of the season. You most likely train 5 or 6 days out of the week, plus some mornings.
It's very likely that you will drop time - If you implement the changes suggested in the breakdown, and continue working on them consistently.
Just be patient - don't expect to drop time at your very next meet. When improving technique, things often get slightly worse before they get better, because you're doing things you're not used to. Don't get discouraged.
The best time to get a breakdown is in summer or early fall. That way, you have time throughout the season to make changes, and have it all come together at a shave/taper championship meet in February, March, or April.
If you get a breakdown towards the end of the season, you may expect the real results to start coming the season after. If you're a swimmer, you already know you're in it for the long game.
Elite international competitor
If you're already at the point where you're pushing the limits of human performance, you probably won't drop almost 2 seconds in your 100 in a single season, directly from this breakdown.
What I am confident it will give you, is some new mental cues and ways of thinking about your technique that you hadn't heard before. That alone, combined with your world-class coaching and training program, could lead to unexpected drops in the future.
Each breakdown is a multi-day creation. That's because I don't just watch your race video(s), sit down, and record the breakdown.
After I study them and get some ideas, I like to use a couple of my own practices (I still swim almost every day) to have your stroke in my head, while I go through the changes and mental cues I want to suggest. This way, I make sure I'm giving you the most effective feedback for you. And typically, this is when I come up with completely new ways to teach things just right.
Then, I like to find evidence where I can. That means going frame-by-frame, calculating your speeds at different points in your race, so I can approximately quantify the EXACT time drops that are possible if you make certain changes.
Only then do I hit record.
Because of this ultra-personalized system, if I have no pending bookings, I should have it to you within a week. But it's possible I may be booked out a few weeks in advance, before I can give your breakdown the focus it deserves. When your application is accepted, it will be accompanied by an estimated delivery date. If I get booked out too far, I will temporarily pause accepting any new applications and new potential applicants will be able to join the waitlist instead.
At least one video is required, and it's preferred that you submit genuine race videos - not you at practice.
You can submit up to 5 videos - any combination of 50 back, 100 back, etc. The better the video quality, the better I'll be able to see and break it down.
If you have an underwater video, extra credit. You probably wouldn't have that from a race, but if you have it from practice, feel free to add it.
Swimming is an international sport! That being said, I only speak English myself. So as long as you're okay with communicating with Google Translate, I will absolutely do my best to accommodate.
I offer a 100%, 14-day money-back guarantee. I'm confident that this breakdown will give you value you haven't gotten elsewhere. But if you receive your breakdown, and you don't feel like it gave you new, actionable steps that would make you faster, go ahead and let me know within 14 days and I'll give you a full refund. I may just ask for a few casual lines of feedback so I can keep making this better, but that's it.
It's designed that way! Most people who swim competitively have an existing coach and training program. I don't want you to have to change that. I'm just an extra set of eyes to help you get where you want to go.
Your breakdown will include things that you'll be able to work on yourself during the practices you're already doing, with the coach you already have.
Every practice you swim without focusing on the right things is time left on the table. If you want improvements to show up in your next championship season, the sooner you start, the better. Plus, I only take a few swimmers at a time to keep the quality as high as possible.
Feel free to apply anyway - there's no risk. If I don't think I can give you meaningful value, I'll refund you completely. And if you receive a breakdown but don't think it's given you actionable steps that will help you drop time, let me know within 14 days and I'll refund you too.