One of the things that never ceases to amaze me about the sport of swimming is the number of different ‘swimming tips’.
Many coaches have their favorites:
"Reach as far as you can each stroke"
"Push right through to the
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As I’ve documented previously, I have been swimming on the Masters team at the Kerr YMCA. It seems I am continously learning how to utilize TI technique into these workouts, which run about 2250 yds. One continuous challenge for me …
Today I got this email from a customer who did a workshop back in September.
"Hi Dunstan,
Just wanted to let you know I swam in the 1km North Bondi Ocean Classic yesterday and came 36…
This weekend we have our monthly workshop in Sydney.
Our aim for the workshop is to help each of the participants to achieve their goals. At the start of a workshop I ask each participant to introduce themselves and say …
Here is an enquiry and my response:
Received: 23/01/2009
Name: Nick
Message: Hi, If I am a very poor swimmer (but fit and healthy and do a lot of running)
but I struggle to swim more than …
I’m very excited about the workout I enjoyed this am at Kerr Y Masters. It was a long set of 2000 yds. I joined the faster half of the group, in the slower of those two lanes. The set was …
Old School
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January 23, 2009
About half of the regulars at my masters practice (including me) are preparing for the USMS One Hour Postal Challenge. To participate, a competitor swims for one hour in a short course pool, with an adult …
During the masters workouts in which I’ve participated, the key has been not reverting back to traditional swim methods, when everyone else utilizes them. What has helped is the coach is into TI and understands why I am not using …
Well, a couple months since my last entry, and I can say with confidence that a good portion of the "Channel weight" is gone. I am actually getting cold in the water again, which is actually a good thing.
While …