Freestyle technique · The book · Stroke analysis
Freestyle, taught by a U.S. National Champion
A clear, logical system for learning and improving your freestyle: a book that explains it, and a video analysis that shows you exactly where you are losing efficiency.
Who
About ToddPan American Games gold medalist and six-time U.S. National Champion. The full story.
Read
The BookSwim Like a Champion, with a foreword by Rowdy Gaines. Available now at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Improve
Stroke AnalysisFilm one length, get your corrections and the book chapters that teach them. From $175.
About Me
I grew up in Houston and started swimming seriously as a teenager. By my senior year in high school, I'd won five Texas state titles in the 50 and 100 freestyle and been named the state's 5A Swimmer of the Year, which took me to Southern Methodist University, where I swam for the Mustangs and set a school record in the 50 free.
After college I moved to Fort Lauderdale to train under Jack Nelson, the 1976 Olympic Coach, alongside countless world-ranked swimmers. I swam for the U.S. National Team from 1989 to 1995, competing all over the world. I went on to win six U.S. national titles, and in 1991 won the gold medal in the 50-meter freestyle at the Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba.
I kept swimming in the Masters program, winning multiple national titles. While I have taught swimming to adults and children my whole swimming career, I began to notice that there were so many adult swimmers who loved to swim but were struggling so much in the water. Beginning swimmers all the way to experienced Masters swimmers and triathletes were still making so many mistakes in their strokes that could be easily fixed. Over the past three decades, having taught so many swimmers at all levels, I have developed a step-by-step system to building a great, easy and efficient stroke.
Swim Like a Champion is that system, written down. The stroke analysis service is the same system focusing on each individual swimmer: your freestyle, on video, with the corrections that will make the biggest difference.
The Book
The Essential Guide to Freestyle Swimming, from the basics to the advanced.
"Todd translates world-class technique into clear, actionable steps anyone can follow."Rowdy Gaines, Olympic Gold Medalist & NBC Swimming Commentator
Whether you're a triathlete who wants to swim fast or conserve energy in the swim, an adult learning proper technique for the first time, or a swimmer who wants to learn how elite swimmers make swimming look effortless, this book gives you the system.
Drawing on a career that reached the pinnacle of the sport, Todd Pace distills elite freestyle into a clear, logical framework anyone can learn.
Freestyle Stroke Analysis · Delivered through OnForm
Record one 25-yard freestyle in the free OnForm app. I break your stroke down frame by frame using the system from Swim Like a Champion, show you exactly where you are losing efficiency, and give you the corrections that will fix it, along with the chapters in the book that teach them. Straight technique. No training plans, no subscriptions.
One swim, one expert read, everything you need to start fixing it.
$175
One-time · one 25-yard freestyle
You've made the changes. Let's see if they stuck.
$125
One-time · for swimmers analyzed in the last 6 months
| 30-minute video meeting Walk through your analysis with Todd on video, scheduled after it's delivered | $125 |
| Gift a Stroke Analysis For the swimmer or triathlete in your life | $175 |
After you book, you'll get an invite link to my OnForm workspace. Tap it to install the free OnForm app (iPhone or Android) and you're connected.
Have a friend film one 25-yard freestyle from the side of the pool at mid-pool, waist height. Record it in the OnForm app, or film with your regular camera and import the clip.
Within five business days you'll have my voice-over breakdown, your corrections, and the book chapters to work from waiting in the app. Watch it as many times as you like. Want to talk it through? Add a 30-minute video meeting with Todd.
By booking, you agree to the Terms & Waiver. All analyses are delivered through the OnForm app, which is free for athletes. Prices in U.S. dollars. Video meetings are an optional add-on, scheduled from the times Todd makes available after your analysis is delivered.
You're all set
Your payment went through — you're booked.
You'll receive an invite link to Todd's OnForm workspace by email shortly. Tap it to install the free OnForm app (iPhone or Android) and you're connected.
Have a friend film one 25-yard freestyle from the side of the pool at mid-pool, waist height. Record it in the OnForm app, or film with your regular camera and import the clip.
Your breakdown, corrections, and book chapters will be waiting in the app, usually within 5 business days.
Questions about your booking? Get in touch.
Back to HomeTerms & Waiver
Please read this before booking a stroke analysis. By purchasing an analysis or a video meeting you agree to everything below.
Todd Pace provides technique instruction for freestyle swimming, delivered as a recorded video analysis of footage you supply through the OnForm app, with optional live video meetings. It is instructional feedback on stroke mechanics. It is not a training program, a fitness or health program, medical advice, or supervision of any swim. Todd is not present when you swim and cannot see or control the conditions you swim in.
Swimming carries inherent risks, including drowning, injury, and cardiac or other medical events. By using this service you confirm that you are a competent swimmer, that you are medically fit to swim and to practice the techniques described, and that you have consulted a physician if you have any condition that could make swimming or exertion unsafe for you. You agree to swim only in supervised or otherwise safe conditions, to use your own judgment about what you attempt, and to stop if anything causes pain or discomfort. Technique corrections are suggestions; how, where, and whether you apply them is entirely your decision.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, you assume all risks associated with swimming and with applying any instruction you receive, and you release Todd Pace, his business, and anyone working with him from any claim, liability, or damages arising from your use of the service or from swimming, whether during filming, practice, competition, or otherwise. Todd's total liability for any claim relating to the service will not exceed the amount you paid for the analysis in question.
Every swimmer is different. Todd will give you his honest, expert assessment and his best corrections, but no particular improvement in speed, efficiency, or results is promised or guaranteed.
You confirm that you have the right to share any footage you upload and that anyone else visible in it has consented. Your footage and the analysis are used only to provide the service, and are kept private within OnForm, unless you give separate written permission for Todd to use a clip as an example on the site or in teaching materials.
Analyses are delivered within five business days of receiving usable footage. If footage is unusable (too dark, too far away, the wrong angle), Todd will ask you to re-film rather than deliver a poor analysis. Because each analysis is custom work, payments are non-refundable once the analysis has been delivered; if Todd is unable to deliver for any reason, you will receive a full refund. Follow-Up pricing applies to swimmers who received a full analysis within the previous six months. Video meetings are scheduled from the times Todd makes available and may be rescheduled once with at least 24 hours' notice.
You must be at least 18 to purchase. A parent or legal guardian may purchase an analysis for a swimmer under 18 and, in doing so, accepts these terms on the swimmer's behalf.
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida. If any part is found unenforceable, the rest still applies. Todd may update these terms from time to time; the version posted at the time of your purchase is the one that applies to it.
Last updated September 2026.