Category: Technique
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CC photo #153: The surfing left hand of Paul Biedermann
A lucky shot during the Debrecen 2012 men’s 400 freestyle final, from top to bottom Italy’s Gabriele Detti, Hungary’s Gergo Kis, Italy’s Samuel Pizzetti and Germany’s Paul Biedermann. Notice how Biedermann’s left hand surfs on the water – I’ve heard that this is deliberate, that he tries to surf on his left arm for a…
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Excelade, the hot thing on deck this morning
So Danish / Icelandic coach Mads Claussen of Reach Elite showed me this new iPhone / iPad app this morning called Excelade, that allows you to video record and analyse technique in sports, and share it online from within the app, with precision slow-motion, side-by-side comparison and ability to record a review. At the cost…
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CC photo #138: Rein Haljand and Pál Joensen at the Kalev Spa
Pál Joensen being instructed by Rein Haljand, Professor of Kinesiology at Tallinn University in Estonia. This from when we visited them in Estonia, back in January 2009. Pool is the Kalev Spa in Tallinn.
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11th Nordic Conference in Elementary Swimming Teaching launched
So I’m a bit busy filming and doing other stuff, and it seems that at the same time this website is struggling because of going over the allocated memory resources (read: too much success :-). But the conference is on, first lecturer Jens Bruun is speaking, see www.neg2012.com. And by the way, I’m putting pictures…
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On the Waterfront – a Professor Barrow’s Maths in Sports lecture
“Swimming is, I always believe the most technical, scientifically technical of all the common sports”. I like you already, Mr. Professor! :-)
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The Race Club on Head Position
In this two part series Gary Hall Sr explores some drills and what happens to the body position when the head is too high vs. the proper head position. Notice it differs from some other theories, I’m sticking with the Olympian (and common world-class practice) though. Via The Race Club on Twitter Source: The Race…
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Video: The Berlin 1936 Olympic 200 breaststroke final
Wow, AMAZING footage here courtesy of the International Swimming Hall of Fame: “The 1936 Olympic final of the 200 meter breaststroke showcased three distinct styles of swimming the stroke at the time. American, John Higgins demonstrated the butterfly arm pull with the frog kick. Hamuro and Koike of Japan, and Sietas of Germany all used…
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Misty Swim: Greg Burgess demonstrating the backstroke
Wow, great shot here on the United States Marine Corps Official (Flickr) Page, CC BY-NC 2.0. Major Greg Burgess won a silver medal in the 200 IM at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics, joined the U.S. Marine Corps in 1997 and has among other things served two tours of duty in Iraq. Here is a…
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CC photo #38: Pál Joensen being tested by Rein Haljand in Tórshavn
Pál Joensen taking a short breather while being instructed by Estonian kinesiology professor Rein Haljand about his next swim, back in 2009 in the swimming pool of Tórshavn, Faroe Islands. That guy with the trolley in the white t-shirt is Haljand’s son and assistant, Holger, the other two are a Faroese TV crew.