Category: Technique
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The Race Club’s secret tip on breathing
“So the point is, we need as much oxygen as we can get!” Read more here on theraceclub.net
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Glen doing good in Libanon
Former Olympian and Swedish national coach Glen Christiansen visited Lebanon this week, for the second time this year, leading a 6 day training camp for Lebanese youth, 40 in total aged 8 to 17, spanning from relative beginners to elite swimmers. Plus had two-hour sessions for adults in the evening, in addition to the all-day…
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Arena presents: Swimming Clinic with Francesca Halsall
European and Commonwealth champion Francesca Halsall putting a group of kids through their paces at the Manchester Aquatics Centre. And shock, horror, she reveals that she doesn’t keep a log book (!)
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Kaitlin Sandeno After The Olympics
After making the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Team, Kaitlin Sandeno battled injury and missed qualifying for the 2008 squad. She sought other opportunities, but is now back in the sport of swimming, giving private lessons to kids looking to improve and hone their stroke. By gosh, I think someone has a shorter pool than we…
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Arena presents: Swimming Clinic with Lotte Friis
Lotte Friis has in my opinion one of the most perfect kayaking crawl techniques in the World, as taught by Estonian professor Rein Haljand.
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Catch up drill with a ball
Interesting catch up drill demonstrated here by coach Brian Brown and Mike Smit of Hydro Swim Team.
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Keri-Anne Payne on breathing patterns
Olympic 10km silver medalist and world champion Keri-Anne Payne explains the two major kinds of breathing patterns here, breathing bilaterally or only to one side. I personally don’t agree that you cannot switch between the two kinds of breathing patterns during a long distance event, for instance if single-laterally breathing swimmers want to catch a…
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The Race Club on sustaining speed with a strong kick
Gary Hall Senior explains the law of inertia here, which is the tendency of an object in motion to remain in motion, or an object at rest to remain at rest, which is one of the reasons that we need a strong kick. Great drills too. Via www.theraceclub.net.
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Teach your kids to swim with uSwim
Australian based uSwim offers learn-to-swim lessons for free on www.uswim.com and www.youtube.com/user/UswimAustralia, plus now with an iPhone app. Their philosophy is sound, that the best solution is to seek quality professional lessons, but that they are too expensive or not available, their step-by-step instructions are better than guessing or poor lessons. Via SwimmingScience.net.