Category: Training
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Backstage with Olympic 100m Breaststroke Queen, Ruta Meilutyte
Footage taken from a recent photoshoot with Olympic & World 100m Breaststroke Champion, Ruta Meilutyte. Ruta talks openly about swimming and her relationship with the water. Watch this video on YouTube
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Danish national coach Nick Juba selects three more Great Danes
See svoem.dk Danish national coach Nick Juba has today selected Frans , Chris Christensen and Niklas Hedegaard for the Great Danes project, in addition to the 10 already pointed out to be specially cared for and challenged  in order to lift the male side of Danish swimming. They are thus 13, meaning Juba isn’t particularily superstitious…
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Lotte Friis to stay with Bow Bowman and NBAC towards Rio 2013
Read for instance BT (in Danish) Lotte Friis will be moving permanently to the U.S. to prepare optimally for the Olympic Games in Rio in 2016 with Michael Phelps’ legendary coach, Bob Bowman. Post by Lotte Friis. A quick and dirty translation follows …
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CC photo #683: Still kicking
Our kids on “FLOT Team 3” working on their crawl kick. Getting there, slowly :-)
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Pernille Blume interviews Danish NTC head coach Shannon Rollason
Danish Olympian Pernille Blume interviewed Danish National Training Center head coach Shannon Rollason yesterday, about the ‘drop taper’ that they are doing now before the Danish Short Course Champs / Herning 2013 Trials that start on Thursday. Via SwimNews.dk Post by Pernille Blume.
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Peter Vanderkaay – use your kicks as a weapon
“One thing that you can always improve upon is your underwater kicks! Making sure you are in the proper position and kicking up and down will get you ahead of your competition!” Peter Vanderkaay – use your kicks as a weapon from Fitter & Faster Swim Tour on Vimeo.
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Danish head coach Juba demands rank jump and courage from Great Danes in return for international opportunities
Read Politiken (in Danish) At the first Great Danes assembly, this weekend, Danish national coach Nick Juba listed up a slew of exciting Team Danmark financed challenges abroad, with support from experts in coaching, nutrition and sports psychology, in return for an investment in courage, positive attitude and ambition from the 10-12 talented young Danish…
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Can swimming make you smarter? (short answer: yes)
See wbtv.com Pools are a child’s playground. Usually swimming is the lesson kids are learning while in the water. But researchers out of Australia say there are other benefits with the simple strokes kids are getting smarter and YMCA aquatics instructor Saunte Bruton agrees. “It teaches them another way of dealing with being afraid of…
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Nick Juba interviewed as Great Danes project launches this weekend
As mentioned in September and October, the Great Danes project is an initiative aiming to strengthen the male side of Danish swimming, by offering a selection of their best young male swimmers the opportunity to step-up on the international stage. Svoem.dk has interviewed Danish national coach Nick Juba, as this project launches this weekend, with…