Stroke Builder
By Hemingsby Limited
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Description
Stroke Builder from thetrilife.com is the definitive guide to swimming front crawl and correcting faults using swimming drills. The app features videos narrated by Great Britain Olympic triathlon coach Dan Salcedo. It is an invaluable tool for developing swimmers and coaches alike.
To get you started the free app contains the first 4 videos. The rest of the content is offered as In-App purchases. This content is split into 3 sections
- stroke builder, fault fixer and drills database, so you can choose the section that suits your current level of swimming or get all 3 to complete this comprehensive guide to front crawl.
Novice swimmers should start with the stroke builder section which will lead them step-by-step to developing an efficient front crawl.
Intermediate swimmers will benefit from the fault fixer and drills database to help them fix issues with their stroke and provide variety to their training sessions.
Coaches can use all the sections as a demonstration tool to show correct technique to their swimmers.
Full App Features:
• Stroke Builder – this section of the app provides a 10 part step-by-step guide to developing your front crawl stroke. The free app includes the introduction and first chapter - “Introduction - The Perfect Stroke” and “Reducing Resistance - Body Position”.
• Fault Fixer – analyses the 24 most common front crawl faults providing answers to fixing them. The free app includes the first fault - “Body Not Streamlined”.
• Drills Database – a collection of 20 swimming drills clearly demonstrated by former elite triathlete Andrea Whitcombe with details of when to use them. The free app includes the first drill - “Catch Up”.
• Every section contains video and supporting text from the expert coaches of thetrilife.com.
Customer Reviews
Drill videos are great
I've only paid $3 for the drill vids.
But pretty good and detailed. Helpful instruction to help vary training.
So Far So Good...Except For One Little Thing
Really like the training plan and initial videos. Not letting me download the others. Getting an error. Once that is fixed, I'll buy the rest of the packages.
Frustrating In-App Purchase
The app itself is mostly just a teaser for an in-app purchase of video content. That, unfortunately, is a frustrating experience. There are 3 separate purchases totaling about 500 MBytes. That takes a long time to download, even on a flawless connection. But I've never found the downloads to be flawless. Whether it's the Internet, local WiFi, or the vendor's servers, the downloads keep failing and starting over again. Even worse, the app doesn't keep the videos once they're downloaded. It blames Apple's "cacheing policy" but the result is you have to keep restoring your purchases, which means going through the whole download process all over again.
Vendor needs to do 2 things to make this product usable:
1. Break the content up into smaller pieces so there's a good chance that each can be downloaded without failure the first time.
2. Figure out how to work with iOS so that content, once purchased, isn't deleted.
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- Free
- Category: Health & Fitness
- Released: Dec 31, 2011
- Version: 1.0
- Size: 70.5 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Hemingsby Limited
- © 2011 Hemingsby Limited and The Trilife Ltd
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
Top In-App Purchases
- Stroke Builder Bundle$2.99
- Drills Database Bundle$2.99
- Fault Fixer Bundle$2.99
