Category: Competition
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ISL 2020 Review | This Is The Future Of Swimming | Propulsion Swimming
After 6 amazing weeks of racing in Budapest, the International Swimming League has come to a close. On this week’s Propulsion Swimming Podcast we review the final and ISL as a whole. We look back on our highlights of the final, what went wrong with London Roar, which swimmers impressed the most, and of course,…
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Adam Peaty & Kira Toussaint on their new Short Course World Records
During the ISL semi-finals in Budapest, Kira Touissant broke the women’s 50m Backstroke SC World Record with Adam Peaty breaking the men’s 100m Breaststroke World Record, a record that has stood for 11 years.
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Lessons From Legends: Bob Bowman on Butterfly Conditioning; Age Group Progression
Check out this clip from Coach Bob Bowman on a favorite Butterfly conditioning set that he’s used over the years. Coach Bowman shares a few splits Michael Phelps would post and cautions age group coaches with using appropriate variations of the set. As Coaches, we’re always looking for new ideas and we love hearing about…
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Why I Missed A Match At ISL And How I Keep Busy | Adam Peaty Vlogs
I filmed this before our last prelims match which I didn’t swim in. I hope you enjoy seeing what myself and the London Roar Team gets up to when we aren’t training or racing! I hope you will be supporting us to take the ISL victory over Cali, LA and Energy!
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ISL Season 2 Pool Tour | Adam Peaty Vlogs
Here is a quick tour of the ISL Season 2 complex! The final of the second season of the ISL is in less than 3 days so make sure you get behind London Roar!
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Power in Poetry: To the Swimmer
Join us as we celebrate a few of the amazing Black poets whose work can be found in the LA County Library collection. Read by My Brother’s Keeper Peer Advocate, Darius, listen to and learn more about, “To the Swimmer” by Countee Cullen. For teens.
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Dana Vollmer vs Alicia Coutts – 7 hundredths of a second between Gold & Silver!
Today we take you back to the Women’s 100m Butterfly final at the 2011 edition of the FINA World Championships in Shanghai, where four incredible swimmmers USA’s Vollmer, Australia’s Coutts, China’s LU and Sjostrom from Sweden battled for the Gold medal. With only 7 hundredths of a second between Gold and Silver, this final deserves…
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Difficult lessons for the Simley swim team (2008)
Boyd Huppert shares the difficult life lessons faced by the Simley swim team, after losing one of their own.