Content: - Introduction - Integrating Distance Per Stroke Technique, Drills, and Concepts into Training Sessions - Use of Ongoing Assessment and Periodic Formal Testing - Examples of Collected Data, Suggested Graphs, and Comments to Swimmers - Examples and Suggested Graphs and Comments to Swimmers - Utilisation of Distance Improvement Per Stroke in Competition - Concluding Points Stroke length may be the biggest influence on swimming speed and efficiency. Given that velocity (swimming speed) equals stroke rate times distance per stroke (V = R x DPS) if the stroke rate is maintained while increasing the distance per stroke the result will be faster swimming. The starting points in teaching distance improvement per stroke (D.I.P.S.) are stroke development drills/exercises and training drills designed specifically to reduce the number of strokes per length. However, it can't be assumed that teaching these skills will automatically translate to increased stroke length during competition. A conscious effort must be made to teach a swimmer how to utilise the principles of distance improvement per stroke and to assess his/her progress. This article will address how to integrate stroke development and training drills and concepts into training, the use of on-going assessment and formal testing and introducing the principles of D.I.P.S. into competition. Concluding Points: Each of the areas mentioned in this article as well as the previous article are equal in importance and require coaching input. Isolated drills allow for the most input. Feedback during the integration into training sets should be geared to teaching the 'feeling' of correct stroke length, mechanics or pace and teaching swimmers 'self-coaching' techniques. During competition, swimmers need to be 'self-correcting'. However, coaching input should precede and follow each race. The need to emphasise stroke length never diminishes and should not be stagnant. When stroke length is successfully learned, integrated into training, and utilised in competition, it can be expanded, refined, or changed, but never eliminated. Although this article addresses freestyle, distance per stroke is also extremely important to the other three competitive strokes. In fact, it may even be more important to the short axis strokes (butterfly and breaststroke). The same principles can be readily adapted to backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly. Distance per stroke is so important that it should be the primary consideration in stroke development technique, precision drills, integration into training, and utilization during competition despite the level of the athlete. ALL SWIMMERS MUST CONCENTRATE ON TAKING FEWER STROKES WITH PRECISE EFFORT.