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How the Clinics Work
The PowerStarts(R) Training SystemTM gives swimmers defined launch angle, peak height, target distance, angle of entry, and body position throughout the Start.
Accelerated Progress
In less than an hour of exposure to the PowerStarts(R) Training SystemTM, swimmers who have been frustrated for years by poor starting techniques can dramatically improve their starts. A process that is virtually impossible by practicing your mistakes. The swimmer's senses have done the learning for them, hugely accelerating their progress by taking "snapshots" of sensations that great starters feel consistently as they knife through the water.
Instant Gratification
PowerStarts(R) Training SystemTM takes the haphazard and painfully slow process of learning the most efficient start technique, and organizes it into a step-by-step learning system. It brings instant gratification by letting the swimmer feel a surge of power as they enter the water, a surge that they may never have felt before. Instead of making the swimmer stumble onto these feelings themselves, the System automatically defines the positions that are necessary for a powerful surge.
On-Site Coaching
The clinics cover the latest techniques for quicker, more powerful starts, that are producing amazing results. The clinics introduce the swimmers to the newest techniques in the racing start and relay starts for all block-start strokes. Your PowerStarts(R) coach provides verbal analysis and adjustment to each swimmer as the clinic progresses, enhancing the tactile feedback delivered by the Training System.
Digital Video Analysis
Effective study of the start-dive execution can ONLY be accomplished with the aid of the PowerStarts(R) Video Analysis Software SolutionsTM. PowerStarts(R) provides this solution to coaches and swimmers in CD-ROM or DVD format, with frame-by-frame analysis of digital video footage shot by PowerStarts(R) or by Certified PowerStarts(R) Coaches.
Each swimmer's starts are video taped before any training and then again after some instruction. The swimmer is photographed with high-speed video and then digitized into computer-captured-photos. The videos are shot while training with the PowerStarts(R) Training SystemTM.
Each swimmer will take a minimum of five-to-six start-dives utilizing the Training SystemTM. We use a limited number of start-dives for each swimmer, then analyze the swimmer's video to make recommendations and changes. This prevents over-use and eliminates the potential for developing new bad habits
While we are video-taping we are looking at the First 9 Stages of a Powerful Start. These positions will be isolated in a computerized frame-by-frame analysis using our proprietary video capture and computer software analysis process. The start-coach will spend time with each swimmer individually before they step up to the starting block and after they have taken two or three practice starts using the PowerStarts(R) Training SystemTM. We also use classroom time where technique and Safety are discussed and videos are reviewed.
