When Your Coach Makes You Train Your ‘Off’ Stroke

We all have the things we excel at — and things we don’t — in the water. Strokes included. Here is why coach is having you train them. We all have our strong strokes and distances.

They are our bread and butter. It’s the stroke that we lean on to carry us through the tough sets in practice, the stroke we automatically default to when coach scribbles “choice” or “best stroke” on the whiteboard.