Product Details

• Actors: Tom Jager
• Directors: Bill Richardson
• Format: NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: SportVideos.com
• DVD Release Date: October 1, 2004
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00063E77I
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #58,692 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

About the Actor

For nearly a decade, Tom Jager was the world record holder in the 50 Meter Freestyle. Tom competed in the 1984, 1988, and 1992 Olympic games, and earned five Gold Medals, one Silver Medal, and one Bronze Medal. Currently, Tom is the head coach for the women's swimming team at the University of Idaho.

Product Description

Races are often decided by fractions of seconds, so attention to every detail is imperative. In this DVD, Tom Jager teaches the essential details of the freestyle stroke to a young swim team. He shares many important training tips and drills that will help swimmers of all levels. The topics covered in this program include: sculling, streamlining, kicking, head position, body position, arm position, breathing, and more. The Special Features section provides additional tips and advice for swimmers, parents, and coaches.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

69 of 70 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It could have been better, August 9, 2005

By	Victor Tellez Garza (Mexico) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I'm a runner that recently turned to compete also in triathlons, so I've been training freestyle for about 2 years, with coach, following the guides of total immersion (Terry Laughlin).

I looked for this DVD trying to complement my knowledge on freestyle. Tom Jager isn't only a great swimmer, but also very good in teaching the 'howtos'. Everything viewed in the DVD is very important and crucial for maintaining an efficient stroke, it doesn't miss any of the basic details about.

I learned some drills I never imagined before (which by the way amazed me). Some of the explanations are great, for example regarding water physics, like how to "manage" water with hands, legs, etc, why do we have to keep elbows up (explanations!, not just 'doits'!), so it has been very useful for me in that matters, to understand why do I have to do things how I must.

What I didn't like and missed were things apart from Tom Jager: the direction of the video and the team. The video doesn't capture good enough Jager's demos, because the camera is always still; we just see him pass by and look most of the time his feet from the back. To really appreciate his style the camera should have moved along with him (sadly it's a very low budget film). The other thing, about the team, they are kids!, "good swimmers", but I think the best for a class video would have been to put professional swimmers there! (imagine a Jane Fonda's workout video with kids doing the routines, giving them more time than her)... bad idea! If the DVD was intended for coaches only, I would have understood, but it's not.

For the basics it's fine.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great for kids, April 13, 2006

By	L. Addoms "laddoms" (Northeast USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The DVD is actually pretty good for both kids and adults if you can get past his inability to finish a sentence and his arrogance in the first scene. It seems to be a low budget instructional video mostly aimed at kids but helpful for adults too. He uses children swimmers as teaching subjects, some of which are good swimmers that can actually demonstrate fairly well. Overall effective. Helped me improve my technique. I like his way of letting you know that his principals and methods are not the only way of doing it well and that each swimmer has individual technique that could be just as good as his.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific!, June 10, 2006

By	Nia Angelina (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews

I really learned to swim. I feel as I took a class. The best insturctor possible- very easy to understand and to follow. I'm buying now the other DVDs of the group as well.