Year: 2011
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Breakout! Swim Clinic with Ryan Lochte
A Mutual of Omaha Breakout! Swim Clinic here hosted by the Blue Dolfins in Oviedo, Florida. Coaches Great Gobat and Charlie Rose, plus Ryan Lochte and Josh Davis. “Repeat after me: Thumb by thigh, elbow high, gliding on my side, streamline makes you fly!”
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Canada gets tough on still involved life-ban coach
Wow, wild story here on thestar.com, about life-banned Canadian coach Cecil Russell who apparently has continued to coach ever since being banned for life in first 1997 and then 2007. Right, his own kids are of Olympic quality, his daughter a finalist in this year’s world championship, and the Dolphin Swim Club parents are supporting…
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Cameron van der Burgh presents Junk In My Trunk
South Africa’s world record holder Cameron van der Burgh presents the crap stuff that he keeps in the trunk of his Audi A1, including swim stuff (of course) and golf clubs. Sponsored by Audi, yes, but also truly fond of his car. Funny story about Cameron and his car: After competing in the South African…
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Paulus Wildeboer on elite swimming training
Paulus Wildeboer, national coach of Denmark, describes here to local folks in high altitude Leadville how his Olympic swimmers train. That the old myth in his view is wrong, that ‘the harder you work, the better you become’. That it instead should be ‘the better you work, the better you become’, which doesn’t necessarily mean…
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The Race Club interviews David Marsh
Gary Hall Sr discusses swimming with world renowned head coach of Mecklenburg Aquatic Club David Marsh. Among other things an interesting theory that backstrokers like Nick Thoman are more prone to hit blue lane lines than red ones.
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Speedo Fist Drill with Dave Salo and Jessica Hardy
Great explanation and footage, more to be seen on Speedo Pace Club
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Can you guess this famous face?
Four hints: It is a swimmer turned singer Her husband is also a famous singer She’s had success in a band and as solo artist She has her very own fashion line Go to Aol.Music to get the answer
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Kayaker captures amazing GoPro video of blue whale
Earlier this month, Rick Coleman and his wife were kayaking off Redondo Beach coast when a nearly 50-foot blue whale began eating lunch at the side of his boat. Coleman had his new waterproof GoPro head-mounted video camera with him, and well, then decided to just jump in to film the whale also underwater. Here…
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Awww, Joey the otter is afraid to swim
Joey is a young river otter at the Museum of Discovery and Science in Fort Lauderdale who won’t jump into the water, probably because he was separated from his mother before he learned to swim. He is making progress though, so go Joey. Read and see videos for instance on ABC 7 and RightThisMinute