Championship Productions MD-04106 DVD sku-323649619

Championship Productions All Access Swimming Practice with Sam Freas, model MD-04106, SKU sku-323649619, UPC 798576600365, is listed under Documentaries. This 342-minute instructional release contains 3 DVDs and is dated 2012. It follows 3 days of live morning and afternoon practices, with pool work, dry-land training, weight-room work and team meetings. Freas demonstrates drills for body position, kicking, breath control, underwater work, turns and finishes. He also discusses stretching, aerobic and explosive exercise, recovery-pulse-based training, injury prevention and communication with swimmers. The All Access format shows practices unedited and in real time, including how coaches run drills and work with athletes and staff. Freas started Oklahoma Baptist University's swimming program in 2012. In its first season, the men's team set four NAIA records and won a national title; the women's team won two event titles and finished as national runners-up. The men won consecutive NAIA titles from 2012-14, and the women won titles in 2012 and 2014. Freas has been named conference coach of the year nine times. His swimmers include 19 Olympians and a world champion, and he coached South Africa's Olympic swim team. Swimmers in his Arkansas and LSU programs set seven US records and three world records. His coaching maxim is, "The art of coaching is to make the best of what you have."