Our goal is to create videos that breakdown not only the fundamentals of the sport, but more advanced concepts as well. We want to make it easy for students to learn, coaches to teach, and parents to watch the game. We have instructional videos for the beginner level, intermediate, and advanced players. Coach David has been a youth water polo coach for over 20 years and has developed and taught thousands of students. Coach Brittany has been teaching for over 10 years and brings the perspective from the women's side of the sport.
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I got two water polo teenagers in my house who have been trying to teach me eggbeaters for a year and this is the advice that finally made everything click for me
This video was so reassuring! My (almost) 4 year old was so afraid of swimming and has been very slow to acclimate. This gave me the patience and reassurance I needed to just let him take his time. We tried some of the Spiderman tricks that Coach Brittany suggested, and he's suddenly pushing me away in the pool so he can "Spiderman swing" on his own! It made a huge difference. Thank you!!!
This is from Coach Brittany: This warms my heart to read this, thank you for the great comment, so happy to hear he's improving. Please let me know if you have any more questions, and hopefully your son will be swimming soon.
I have a new swim student who has experienced near drowning that is ok with putting her head under water, blows bubbles even gets toys from the bottom but is terrified of floating. Both front and back. Any tips?
I have two thoughts, since they are terrified of floating you could skip the floating and just go straight to going through the water holding them while they kick. Two, with back floating I like to make sure there is lots of contact with me, I put their head on my shoulder and I almost hug them so they feel really secure and then I just move backwards through the water, it's okay if they are not in the proper floating position with their hips up. If they are ok with that you can slowly work your way into the proper position. You can also try and use noodles. Let me know how it goes and if any of those things work. Good luck!
Tried to learn the Eggbeater while in the pool a few times but I would just not understand how you did the actual motion. Like my brain could not make my legs move the way it was supposed to look like. That jump exercise finally made me understand, and it feels so natural now.
You made my night, thanks for the feedback. You never know what drill will click with the student and that’s why we do so many different one’s, so I’m glad this one clicked for you. All the best and thanks for taking the time to tell us.
I was wondering how it would be to try water polo out, however I have not a lot of experience in water in general, I’ve been watching some of your videos and they are really helpful, I’m going into tryout tomorrow and I have no idea what to expect. I’m very nervous I’m trying out for 12U waterpolo girls. I have no idea how bad/good I’m going to do, so if you could do a video on what waterpolo tryouts look like so I know what to expect? This is probably not going to get to you in time because I’m going to try outs tomorrow but oh well.
Yeah I’m not going to be able to get a video out, but I’ll give you my thoughts. Tryouts will vary by coach and the type of program, however there will be some common basics all coaches will want to see. The first is swimming, head down freestyle or some kind of time trial where they time you swimming a 100 yards or something. Next they are going to see if you can tread (eggbeater), from there they will go to any polo skills they want like passing technique. Swimming and eggbeater are the number 1 and number 2 things. Good luck!
I don’t love that call because I don’t think the ref would have made it if he scored. However if you watch the help defender he does come down on the guys shoulder right before he shoots and as per the new rules that’s a penalty shot.
David, I know you have a lot of petitions but could you please make a video on how to play as wing (position 4/5) any of those positions. Sometimes I dont know where I have to be and I want to score more goals
I've actually thought about how I could do something like what you're talking about. I will write it down and figure out how best to do that. I think it would be great if we could do something like that for all the positions. Don't ever worry about asking for stuff, it gives me an idea of what people want and need. Thanks.
David, do you suggest any drills or anything i can do at home to improve.Because im 14 in greece and in the next couple of months i will try out mens team.(i was a goalie and i wanna transition as an outfield player)
David, could you please create a video on how to draw exclusion fouls at the Center/2Meter Position? While watching games, it's not always clear to me, so I have trouble drawing them during gameplay. I know holding can get you ejected, but sometimes I see centers drawing regular fouls after getting the ball and the defender guarding them gets excluded. Thank you for your videos and making water polo easier to understand.
Yes, I’ll add that to our list, thank you for the kind words. Just two things pop to mind to think about in the meantime is the offensive player has to show the hold and then we all need to remember that polo is a tough sport to referee so sometimes you may do everything right and still not get the call.
