Category: Technique
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The Race Club interviews David Marsh
Gary Hall Sr discusses swimming with world renowned head coach of Mecklenburg Aquatic Club David Marsh. Among other things an interesting theory that backstrokers like Nick Thoman are more prone to hit blue lane lines than red ones.
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Speedo Fist Drill with Dave Salo and Jessica Hardy
Great explanation and footage, more to be seen on Speedo Pace Club
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The gliding butterfly style of Ida Marko-Varga
Interesting video here about Swedish butterfly-ace Ida Marko-Varga’s one kick per cycle gliding butterfly style, that has seen her drop 9 seconds of her personal best since started working on it, and enabled her to swim a lot more butterfly in practice. She placed 16th at this year’s World Championships, gunning for a lane in…
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The Race Club: Secret Tip – Rangs Jr.
Gary Hall Senior shares a Race Club secret with us, to use the Rangs Jr by Finis as upper arm flotation devices supporting high elbow position, instead of the original purpose.
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Swim lesson with Jason Lezak
Nice video with Jason Lezak giving a young kid some swimming tips, including a short “how-to-beat-the-French” lesson in drafting. Good one Lezak, you earned another ribbon in my book :-)
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Take note, the 2012 WADC in Lund on January 12-15
On 12-15 January 2012, Stadshallen/Högevallsbadet in Lund, Sweden will host the 1st World Aquatic Development Conference, featuring Bill Boomer, Milt Nelms, Alex Nikitin, Brad Burnham, Chris Martin, US Olympic Head Coach Teri McKeever and multiple Olympic gold medal winner Shane Gould. There will be five tracks, ranging from “Learn to Swim” over “Women in Sports”…
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The Kiwi cat and mouse drill
I’m personally not so fond of catch-up freestyle, but this description is great. From the Northern Arena swimming facility in North Auckland, New Zealand, where they by the way have a spongy bottom in the teaching pool. Never heard of that one, but sounds nice for your knees.
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Wow, the Speedo Pace Club videos & iPhone app
The Speedo Pace Club is commercial yes, but has some really nice technique videos, plus an iPhone app for you to track your training, find pools nearby and do some social thing with your swim friends too. And there are blogs of famous Team USA swimmers. I like. Here it is Dana Vollmer world champion…