Category: Training
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USA Swimming Deck Pass promo
This looks interesting, maybe USA Swimming exclusive but inspirational when it comes to giving everyone something to strive for. Nice mobile app too, see www.usaswimming.org/deckpass. USA Swimming Deck Pass Video from Gregg Goodwin on Vimeo.
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Videos from the 2011 US World Championships Training Camp
SwimmingWorld has posted several interesting videos here on tv.swimmingworldmagazine.com, from the 2011 USA World Championships Training Camp in the Gold Coast Aquatic Center in Queensland, Australia. Here below it is Michael Phelps being interviewed on Media Day.
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Graeme Moore trying out a Disney-class ice bath
Great picture of South Africa’s Graeme Moore, here in Roland Schoeman’s Lockerz-photos. I wonder what kind of kid gets that kind of tall and narrow pool, so yes, lets’ buy them all and make ice baths out of them :-) Who needs a $6000 ice bath when you can rock the $50 Disney version like…
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Canada preparing for Shanghai in Singapore
Singapore is definitely a hotspot for world class swim training at the moment, with the national teams of Australia, Sweden, South Africa, Canada, Iceland and our own Pál Joensen from the Faroe Islands preparing there for the 14th FINA World Swimming Championships. Here is a nice video from the Canadian camp.
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Chinese slang for swimming is “boiling dumplings”
In China the public swimming pools are generally too crowded for swimming, leaving ordinary people no option but to stand on the spot, “boiling dumplings” as they say. Regular schools do not have swim teams and there is no network of community swimming clubs so the majority of training and racing in Chinese pools is…
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90-year-old coaching legend Forbes Carlile still going strong
A Channel Nine portrait of Australian coaching legend Forbes Carlile, who just recently turned 90, and though still walks the deck on occasions at Carlisle Swimming. Nice historical videos in this video.
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Head Coach Job Opening at Tórshavn’s Swim Club
Tórshavn Swim Club in the Faroe Islands is seeking a Head Coach, who will coach the elite teams and supervise the competitive sector of the club in whole ensuring that the coaching of all teams is consistent and applies to the overall philosophy of the club. See hs.fo. Currently the competitive swimmers of the club…
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Faroe Islands and Iceland hitting the heat in Singapore
An insightful video here from the joint Icelandic and Faroese training camp in Singapore, preparing for the Shanghai World Championships. A lot of the speak is in Faroese and Icelandic, but lucky for you, their coach Jacky Pellerin is French (former coach of Franck Esposito), and the communication with him therefore in English. The subject…
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Cotterell tips China as major player in the pool
Australian swim coach Denis Cotterell is in a unique position to evaluate the strength of Chinese swimming, given that he has in recent years trained a number of the country’s best swimmers in his Gold Coast-based squad, including fastest man in the world for this year in the 200, 400, 800 & 1500 freestyle, Sun…