As a coach working in San Antonio and with the past president of the American Swimming Coaches Association, George Block, our staff worked extremely hard on trying to improve our swimmer’s stroke efficiency. Great breaststrokers, backstrokers, butterflyers, and freestylers, all have a great feel for the water.
I remember attending workshop after workshop, looking for devices or gimmicks, as Coach Bob Steele called them, that would get swimmers to focus on and improve their catch. After years of trial and error, the forearm paddle we now call the techpaddle was born and patented in the summer of 2004.