Past Clinic: Comprehensive Butterfly Racing Swim Camp (Ages 12 & Over)
Empire Swimming
Hackley School-Johnson Center 293 Benedict Ave,
Tarrytown,
NY 10591
A description of what was covered at this past clinic is below the upcoming clinics.
Upcoming Swim Clinics and Camps
Within 250 miles of Tarrytown, NY.
Past Clinic
Introduction
Important Update: Day 1 of this camp has been cancelled due to inclement weather.
Fitter & Faster is producing a swim camp for competitive swimmers ages 12 & Over at Empire Swimming in Tarrytown, New York, on December 28th, 2025! Please click here for the swim camp page for swimmers ages 9 to 11.
COMPREHENSIVE BUTTERFLY RACING SWIM CAMP (Ages 12 & Over)
- > DAY 1 (Saturday, December 27): Butterfly Technique Cancelled due to inclement weather
-> DAY 2 (Sunday, December 28): Butterfly Racing & Training Skills
🔽 Scroll down for details on the curriculum!
✔️ This session has limited availability to provide a focused, high-quality learning environment.
🕘 SESSION START TIME: Check in 10 AM. Camp 10:15-1:15 PM
Suggested Participants
Our top priority is to provide a world-class learning experience for all participants at all of our camps. This camp has sessions for swimmers ages 12 & over. Participants will range from one year of competitive swimming experience to AAAA times and faster. Please click here for the swim camp page for swimmers ages 9 to 11.
Curriculum
(Sunday, December 28): BUTTERFLY RACING AND TRAINING SKILLS
On the first day of this camp swimmers worked on techniques to implement an efficient butterfly stroke. On Day 2 we will work on applying speed to their butterfly! Our objective is to get your swimmer to maintain their technique with distance per stroke, tempo, and flowing speed.
- LENGTH OF STROKE: Lengthening your swimmer’s butterfly stroke will enable them to “catch” and hold onto more water to propel them as they swim. In butterfly, it is particularly important to establish a “rhythmic flow”. We will teach participants how to stay long and avoid a short butterfly stroke that is inefficient and not sustainable for very long. The clinicians will work with participants on this important skill for swimming fast butterfly.
- TEMPO: Tempo in butterfly is the rate at which a swimmer is moving their arms and hips. When swimming butterfly races many athletes tend to take too many short strokes (“spin their wheels”) and not “hold onto the water”. At this camp we will explore different tempos that are sustainable for any distance your swimmer is racing.
- POWERFUL UNDERWATER DOLPHIN KICKING: There are a few different techniques that swimmers use when underwater dolphin kicking. The common theme of these techniques is that the best swimmers kick up and down with equal power. We will show your swimmer the different techniques that elite swimmers use and teach them how to implement.
- SPEED SET: At the end of this session your swimmer will do a short and fast swim set to practice everything they have learned over the past two days.
ASK QUESTIONS
Swimmers and parents are invited to ask the clinicians questions during a Q&A session. Gain insight into their training regimen, diet and nutrition, and recovery tactics.
WATCH THE CLINICIANS
Observe clinicians swim at full speed and demonstrate a progression of perfectly executed drills to achieve powerful, efficient and fast swimming.
PUT YOUR SKILLS TO THE TEST
Throughout the camp, swimmers will practice what they've learned with some of the world's most elite Swimmer Clinicians and coaches!
Take a photo, get autographs, and chat with your clinicians!
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