Swimmer's Daily

Category: Technique

  • Teach your kids to swim with uSwim

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    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.

  • Britons focus on turns and dolphin kicks

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    Today’s British 200 medley champion James Goddard admits accordingly to SwimNews.com that the americans have been killing them underwater, and that they are therefore focusing hard on turns and dolphin kicks. “We compared my backstroke to Ryan Lochte’s backstroke. The swimming speed was exactly the same. He just took 1.3 or 1.4 out of me…

  • How Australians Use CFD To Better Swimming

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    Western Australian Institute of Sport (WAIS) and the University of Western Australia can determine whether a change is beneficial without actually changing a swimmer’s technique, by inputting the 3D kinematics (body movements) of the swimmer, and then calculate the way the water moves around this 3D animation using ‘computational fluid dynamics’. This takes the ‘trial…

  • This Is One Cool Kid

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    Sometimes we forget that swimming is more than just a sport. See www.infantswim.com to learn more about this particular program.

  • The 100 Is Now More Power Than Technique

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    Bernard broke the opposition and softened up the record with the fierce speed of his first length. “I always went out very fast. If you think before the race that the end will be tiring you’ll never make it,” he said. He acknowledged there had been a change in approach to the classic 100m race,…

  • Eindhoven 2008 Analysis Available At Swim.ee

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    In case you didn’t know, the complete European Swimming Championships competition analysis is available here at swim.ee, alongside LEN competition analyses dating back to Helsinki 2000. An interesting addition this time is the summary statistics, which summarizes tendencies in swimming tactics and technique at Eindhoven 2008.

  • Beautiful Shots From Eindhoven

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    Just take a look at these underwater shots from the European Swimming Championships in Eindhoven, and read here on Reuters about how he did it.