Swim Smooth's Catch Masterclass DVD

Transform Your Catch And Feel For The Water!

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Developing a good catch technique and feel for the water is extremely elusive for most swimmers but is the key to improving your speed and efficiency in the water. In this detailed coaching DVD program we show you exactly how elite swimmers develop efficient and powerful propulsion, and how to make these changes in your stroke too.

Two years in the making, Swim Smooth's Catch Masterclass features never before seen footage of amazing clarity taken with our new Hollywood inspired hi-def filming rig in Perth, Australia. Take a fascinating look at the strokes of 7 time World Champion Shelley Taylor-Smith, Olympian Jono Van Hazel and elite open water swimmer Melissa Benson as we unlock and share their propulsion secrets.

Swim Smooth's Head Coach Paul Newsome takes you through all the easy to follow steps, drills and techniques in the clear, insightful style that Swim Smooth is famous for.

Broken down into 3 stages, suitable for anyone who can swim freestyle to follow, this program shows you where you're going wrong at the moment and exactly why a good catch has been so elusive to you up until now. The Catch Masterclass is designed to complement our DVD Boxset - taking things to the next level of detail, clarity and insight.

Stills Taken From The DVD (click to enlarge):

Paul Newsome takes you through the Catch Masterclass: zoom	Discover Jono's super-smooth secrets : zoom	Instant pop-ups help make demonstrations real: zoom
Shelley Taylor Smith - still the best: zoom	New drills: zoom	Putting the Masterclass into practise yourself: zoom
Clearly understand the key focus of each drill: zoom	Warning: DVD may contain images of extremely bright swimsuits: zoom	Understand how Jono swims sub-50 seconds for 100m: zoom
Advanced level drills to perfect your rhythm and timing: zoom	Avoiding common pitfalls: zoom	Different stroke styles, same great catch mechanics: zoom
Dryland conditioning: zoom	Every angle covered leaving no question unanswered: zoom	Sorry, swimming pool not included: zoom

The program includes six easy to follow sessions to take poolside.

Included Development Sessions for the pool

With the Catch Masterclass we've included six Development Sessions for you to take to the pool and follow to work on your catch and feel for the water. These are in the form of PDF documents which you can print from your computer to take poolside.

Each easy to follow session focuses you on a particular area of your catch development - reminding you of the points and drills from the main DVD.

swim smooth Catch masterclass and our DVD boxset

The Swim Smooth Catch Masterclass overlaps slightly with our DVD Boxset in the area of catch development but offers a never seen before level of clarity, insight and detail over any other DVD on the market. The DVD Boxset was released in 2004 and is still our best selling product - since 2004 we've fine tuned and developed our methods and explanations with new drills and hi-def footage of elite swimmers. In the Catch Masterclass we have more time to focus in and explore all the subtleties, misconceptions and pitfalls which are holding back your catch development.

The result is a DVD which stands alone as a stroke development program but complements the DVD Boxset perfectly: If you like the DVD Boxset, you'll absolutely love the Catch Masterclass!

our Elite Swimmers

During The Catch Masterclass production we filmed and analysed the strokes of three world class swimmers:

Seven Time World Marathon Swimming Champion Shelley Taylor Smith, an incredibly fast and efficient distance swimmer with amazing catch mechanics. Her underwater stroke mechanics are near perfect and are something to behold.

Quick fact: During her career Shelley used to regularly beat the whole mens field and was ranked world number one for women and men in marathon swimming!

Shelley has retired from competitive swimming and is now a very successful motivational speaker and coach, find out more (and be inspired!) here: www.championmindset.com.au

Jono Van Hazel, Athens Olympian. With a personal best of 49.1 sec for 100m freestyle, Jono was known to have an exceptionally smooth, symmetrical and efficient freestyle stroke, even amongst the elite swimming ranks. Find out how he develops such a long smooth stroke and still maintains great rhythm and timing.

Quick fact: Jono is our poster-boy for the 'Smooth' swim type on our Swim Types microsite: www.swimtypes.com/smooth.html

Australian Elite Swimmer Melissa Benson, a devastatingly fast open water swimmer who perfectly epitomises the refined Swinger style of swimming. Although a pure swimmer, Mel shows us the style of stroke used by the vast majority of elite triathletes. Even with a very high stroke rate she still maintains a fantastic catch technique - in fact a great catch is the secret of the exceptional rhythm in her stroke.

Quick fact: Faster than any elite female triathlete, Mel's PB for 5km is under 60 minutes, equivalent to a 3.8km Ironman swim split of sub-45 minutes (without a wetsuit).

Our Money Back Guarantee

We're so confident you'll love the Catch Masterclass we guarantee your complete satisfaction. If you are dissatisfied with the Masterclass in any way, return it to us and we'll give you a full no-quibble refund. Simple as that.