Swimmer's Daily

Category: Technique

  • Kaitlin Sandeno After The Olympics

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    After making the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Team, Kaitlin Sandeno battled injury and missed qualifying for the 2008 squad. She sought other opportunities, but is now back in the sport of swimming, giving private lessons to kids looking to improve and hone their stroke. By gosh, I think someone has a shorter pool than we…

  • Arena presents: Swimming Clinic with Lotte Friis

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    Lotte Friis has in my opinion one of the most perfect kayaking crawl techniques in the World, as taught by Estonian professor Rein Haljand.

  • Catch up drill with a ball

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    Interesting catch up drill demonstrated here by coach Brian Brown and Mike Smit of Hydro Swim Team.

  • Keri-Anne Payne on breathing patterns

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    Olympic 10km silver medalist and world champion Keri-Anne Payne explains the two major kinds of breathing patterns here, breathing bilaterally or only to one side. I personally don’t agree that you cannot switch between the two kinds of breathing patterns during a long distance event, for instance if single-laterally breathing swimmers want to catch a…

  • The Race Club on sustaining speed with a strong kick

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    Gary Hall Senior explains the law of inertia here, which is the tendency of an object in motion to remain in motion, or an object at rest to remain at rest, which is one of the reasons that we need a strong kick. Great drills too. Via www.theraceclub.net.

  • Teach your kids to swim with uSwim

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    Australian based uSwim offers learn-to-swim lessons for free on www.uswim.com and www.youtube.com/user/UswimAustralia, plus now with an iPhone app. Their philosophy is sound, that the best solution is to seek quality professional lessons, but that they are too expensive or not available, their step-by-step instructions are better than guessing or poor lessons. Via SwimmingScience.net.

  • Britons focus on turns and dolphin kicks

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    Today’s British 200 medley champion James Goddard admits accordingly to SwimNews.com that the americans have been killing them underwater, and that they are therefore focusing hard on turns and dolphin kicks. “We compared my backstroke to Ryan Lochte’s backstroke. The swimming speed was exactly the same. He just took 1.3 or 1.4 out of me…

  • How Australians Use CFD To Better Swimming

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    Western Australian Institute of Sport (WAIS) and the University of Western Australia can determine whether a change is beneficial without actually changing a swimmer’s technique, by inputting the 3D kinematics (body movements) of the swimmer, and then calculate the way the water moves around this 3D animation using ‘computational fluid dynamics’. This takes the ‘trial…

  • This Is One Cool Kid

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    Sometimes we forget that swimming is more than just a sport. See www.infantswim.com to learn more about this particular program.