Most swimmers know they’re “supposed” to be streamlined.

Very few can hold good alignment when they try to go fast or when they start getting tired.

 

When alignment gets better, swimmers can hold speed with less effort and keep their strokes together deeper into races.

 

This volume shows you exactly how to train Alignment as a skill, not a suggestion.

 

You’ll learn how to help swimmers:

 

• Ride higher and flatter in the water 

• Reduce drag while staying relaxed

• Maintain line and control when they sprint and when they’re tired 

 

 

 

 

Who This Is For

 

This guide is for coaches who:

 

• Are tired of seeing beautiful strokes fall apart in races when swimmers lose their body position 

• Want more than “head down, hips up” to improve alignment

• Work with swimmers who struggle with:

  • Sinking legs 

  • Wobbling side‑to‑side 

  • Lifting the head to breathe and throwing everything off

 

If you’ve ever thought, “If they could just stay in a good line, they’d be so much faster,” this is for you.

 

What You’ll Learn

 

Inside Building The Key Skills, Vol II – Alignment, you’ll learn:

 

• What Alignment really is (beyond “be streamlined”) 

• How poor alignment shows up in each stroke and in underwater work 

• How to use constraints and tools (stroke counts, drills, resistance, stroke rates, training aids, hand postures) to:

  • Improve body position 

  • Reduce drag 

  • Build stability and control in real swimming, not just in drills

 

What You Get

 

1. Alignment Manual (PDF)

 

You’ll get:

 

• A clear explanation of Alignment and why it’s one of the core drivers of speed 

• Common alignment problems and how to spot them quickly 

• A framework for prioritizing which alignment issues to attack first

 

2. ~75 Example Sets – With 1 Video Per Set

 

You also get roughly 75 example sets focused on Alignment across:

 

• All four strokes and underwater work 

• Different training types and speeds

 

For every set, you get:

 

• The written set 

• A short ~90‑second video walkthrough (mp4 + YouTube) where I explain:

  • Why the set is written that way 

  • What alignment problem it targets 

 

You can:

 

• Drop sets straight into practice, or 

• Use them as starting points to build your own alignment‑focused progressions

 

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Pricing & Best Value

 

• Building The Key Skills, Vol II – Alignment (this volume): $69 

• Best value: get all three Key Skills volumes (Propulsion, Alignment, Timing) – including this one – with ~225 sets and videos, in the Building The Key Skills Collection for $99 during launch (or $197 afterward).

 

If you know you’ll want to address all three race skills, it usually makes sense to grab the full collection instead of just one piece.

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