Swimmer's Daily

  • 🏊 Swimming is a fun and simple way to get active! September is Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, so we visited the Elk Grove Aquatics Center to learn about some of the health benefits of swimming. Watch and find out how swimming has contributed to wellness in these swimmers’ lives.

    https://youtu.be/iTFcrxRkzYk

  • Helen Yee is the Founder of Eyes On The Game and is one half of The Schmozone Podcast.

    “Every week Dave ‘The Schmo’ Schmulenson and Helen Yee bring you the latest from MMA and combat sports from the world’s fight capital, Las Vegas. A behind the scenes look at covering sports through hustle and heart.”

    How did you create your own sports show?

    Take us back to growing up in Southern California swimming competitively.

    Having parents that put too much pressure on her as a young age grouper.

    Growing up swimming with Cody Miller, Cindy Tran, Coach Laurel Hill, and more.

    Making a comeback! Goal is to make Olympic Trials in 2024 in the 50 Free.

    And much more!

  • Rowdy Gaines’s passion for swimming is evident.

    “The reason why I keep doing the broadcast and NBC hires me, is the fact that I really show my passion,” NBC Olympic Swimming analyst and USA Swimming Director of Community Engagement Rowdy Gaines says.

    “I was so frustrated… To be able to reach out to those policymakers and those public officials and say, ‘It’s OK. We can do this safely.’ And all we’re trying to do is to prioritize opening pools for instructional purpose-driven aquatics, that’s the key in all this. We’re not saying ‘hey, swing open the doors and let all these large crowds come in.’ We’re saying we can do this, and we can do it safely,” Rowdy Gaines says.

    And now, he tries to educate parents and the public, on the safety of swimming.

    “It’s the only sport in the world, that can literally save your life,” Gaines says. “You’re talking especially about our underserved communities, where an African-American child is five times more likely to drown than a Caucasian child. To me? That’s important to do something about it.”

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  • This week’s video from Propulsion Swimming is a butterfly tutorial on a drill called Biondi. This swim drill is a fun and effective way to learn the butterfly swimming technique and one of the best butterfly drills for competitive swimmers.

    Biondi is a butterfly drill named after American swimmer, 11-time Olympic medallist and former world record holder, Matt Biondi.

    Anchoring your forearms is one of the main aims of swimming butterfly. This improves your fly technique and gets you to know how to enhance your powerful butterfly swimming.

    As well as the arm pull, the butterfly kick is also very important. Having a strong dolphin kick and a good dolphin kick technique will help greatly with your butterfly swimming and will improve your butterfly technique very quickly.

  • 6-1-6 Drill is one of my favourite drills for improving body position, balance and rotation, but often swimmers will make THESE mistake crucial mistakes when doing the drill.

  • Nadia Cruz, 4th Olympic Swimmer from Angola is a Candidate to Treasure position on World Olympians Association, Executive Board Elections for 2020 to 2024

    https://youtu.be/B8ZTveYxHJk