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Breaststroke Lesson - How About Them Legs?
The breaststroke kick is powerful, complex, and often the hardest part of the stroke to master. You've probably been told to "kick like a frog," but the real motion is much more nuanced. This lesson will break down the mechanics of a proper breaststroke kick, moving past the frog analogy to teach...
The Javelin Start: Mastering Your Entry, Underwater, and Breakout
In our previous lesson, we covered the on-block mechanics of a great start: reaction time and a powerful push-off. Now, it's time to master what happens after you leave the block. A powerful dive is useless if you lose all your speed in the water. This lesson will break down the three crucial...
How to Keep Water Out of Your Nose: The Soft Palate Technique
How to Stop Water from Going Up Your Nose When Swimming The efficient movement of our bodies in the water while swimming does not come naturally to most people. But splashing around with your face in the water should not pose an unnecessary hurdle. For many, holding your breath underwater is s...
How To Breathe With Swimmer's Snorkel (Front/Center Mount Snorkel)?
Since I am on the topic of breathing while swimming, let me explain, what seems like an obvious procedure, how to breathe through the swimmer's snorkel. Before we get to that, perhaps a bit of an introduction of what the swimmer's snorkel is and how it can help you improve your swimming techniq...
Three Tips For Learning To Float (Set Yourself Up For A Floating Success)
Learning to float can be a daunting task for many novice swimmers. If you are just starting out or got discouraged because you couldn't get past the floating stage, perhaps this advice will help. This guide will give you three simple, foundational tips to ease your transition from standing to floa...
The Commuter Core Workout: Get Fit on Public Transportation
Feeling like there aren't enough hours in the day? Struggling to squeeze in your beloved swimming workout between the never-ending demands of work and life? You're not alone. But what if you could reclaim some of that lost time? What if you could turn your idle commute into a productive workout?...
The Swimmer's Code: An Insider's Guide to Pool Etiquette
Every niche community, be it formed around a sport like swimming or another hobby, has its own code of conduct. These unwritten rules are followed by insiders, while outsiders trying to get in can stick out like a sore thumb. What I am talking about could range from special attire to body manner...
How To Do Back To Breast Turns (Open vs. Bucket vs. Cross-Over)
In the individual medley races, there are a lot of transitions between strokes: fly to back, back to breast, breast to free where each swimmer could either gain or lose time on the opponents. Usually, the most complex turn is the one from backstroke to breaststroke. In the history of swimming,...
8 Ways To Use Your Hand Paddles
Hand paddles are commonly used in swimming pools around the world. In fact, you hardly ever see a pool deck or the infamous Lost and Found basket (yes, they do exist) without a pair of them laying around. They are either loved or hated. The main rudimentary idea behind the original hand padd...
How to Do a Flip Turn: Part 1 - Mastering the Flip
For many swimmers, the freestyle flip turn can seem like a complex and intimidating skill. But with a little patience and a step-by-step approach, you can master it in no time. This is the first lesson in our series on the flip turn. Before we even think about the wall, we are going to focus on th...
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How to Improve Body Rotation in Freestyle and Backstroke
Introduction: Why Posture Matters in Swimming When it comes to swimming efficiently, technique trumps brute strength. One of the most important yet often misunderstood elements of technique is body posture. In other words, how you hold and move your body in the water. Whether you are swimming...
3D-Printed Swim Gear: Level Up Your Swim Training with DIY Accessories
Have you ever wished you could customize your swim gear without breaking the bank or impatiently staring out the window, waiting days for delivery? Good news, the future is here, and it's called 3D printing. And no, you do not need an engineering degree or a NASA-sized budget to get started, just a...
The Viking Legacy - One goggle to rule them all
It was in the 1970s in a small village in Sweden that the swimming goggle industry changed forever. Jan Malmsten, an avid swimmer and entrepreneur, designed simplistic, sleek, and affordable swimming goggles that were adopted by the majority of elite swimmers around the world. These goggles, commo...
Airofit PRO 2.0 Review: How Stronger Breathing Makes You A Faster Swimmer
Breathing is as crucial to your life as water is to your swimming. You draw a breath thousands of times per day, yet how often do you actually stop and examine your vital breathing pattern? Similarly, when training, you more than likely tend to focus on endurance and muscular strength. If you ar...
The Ultimate Gift Guide for Swimmers and Triathletes
Trying to find the perfect, thoughtful gift for the swimmer or triathlete in your life can be a challenge. You want something unique and useful that won't just sit in the back of their closet. Whether they are a beginner, a seasoned triathlete, swimrunner or an avid open water explorer, this guide...
Xmetrics: The Device That Tried to Revolutionize Swim Tracking
"All you have to do is swim." That was the bold claim made by Xmetrics, a technology company that aimed to disrupt the swimming world with a new wearable gadget. While the landscape of swim tech has evolved since this device was announced, the core philosophy behind Xmetrics remains incredibly r...
The Lost Art of Tactile Feedback: Lessons from the BluCore Corsuit
Every superhero needs a gadget. For a brief time in the swimming world, that gadget was the BluCore Corsuit. While this unique device is no longer on the market, the problem it solved, poor body posture, is timeless. The Corsuit offered a brilliant solution: tactile feedback. It forced you to...
11 Ways To Enjoy Swimming In A Crowded Lane
It is one of those days. The swimming lane you're about to plunge into is overcrowded. Even though it's marked "FAST SWIMMERS," it's plagued with leisurely head-up breaststrokers and people discussing politics by the wall. Your mood is ruined... or is it? Instead of getting angry, it's time to mak...
Stop Making These 4 Freestyle Mistakes: A Video Analysis Guide
Recognizing flaws in a swimming stroke is the first step to fixing them. Often, what feels right in the water looks very different on video. This article breaks down a video analysis of a swimmer with four common but critical freestyle mistakes. By learning to spot these errors, from a deep kick t...
8 Ways To Use Your Hand Paddles
Hand paddles are commonly used in swimming pools around the world. In fact, you hardly ever see a pool deck or the infamous Lost and Found basket (yes, they do exist) without a pair of them laying around. They are either loved or hated. The main rudimentary idea behind the original hand padd...
Swimming Gear Reviews
Zoomers Gold Review: Improve Your Freestyle Kick In A Soft Rubber Comfort!
One of the toughest things to learn in swimming is a proper effective and efficient kick. Many coaches can tell you that having a great kick is the essence of fast swimming, however, they also struggle with teaching the proper kicking technique. No wonder though, the right kicking movement, wh...
The Viking Legacy - One goggle to rule them all
It was in the 1970s in a small village in Sweden that the swimming goggle industry changed forever. Jan Malmsten, an avid swimmer and entrepreneur, designed simplistic, sleek, and affordable swimming goggles that were adopted by the majority of elite swimmers around the world. These goggles, commo...
3 Swim Tools That Force You to Have Better Technique
We all long for that elusive, smooth swimming stroke. While practice is essential, sometimes you need a little help to feel what "correct" actually feels like. The problem with most swim gear is that it makes swimming easier (like fins) without teaching you anything. Today, I want to share three...
Dry Case Review: Mobile Swimming Tips At The Pool (Underwater Angry Birds)
Whether we like it or not, we live in a fast-paced modern technology world where what happened 5 minutes ago is old news. It is extremely hard to keep up with new information and even harder to distinguish between good and bad information. Since everybody and their grandmother are online sharing t...
Palm Paddle Review - The World's Smallest Hand Paddle
This post is long overdue, but finally, I kicked myself to introduce you to the wonderful world of the Palm Paddle. I am not kidding when I say it is the world’s smallest hand paddle. At first sight, they’re so tiny and cute that you just want to cuddle them in your palm :). But don’t let the...
Wetronome - The Metronome For Swimmers
I've had a few swimmers comment on this blog about their struggle to find the right stroke rhythm, and as it happens, there is a tool for that. Years ago, a revolutionary little device called the Wetronome changed how we train stroke rate. Today, that legacy lives on in modern tools like the Fi...
What's Your Swim Type? (Custom Tailored Swim Classes)
The guys over at SwimSmooth have done it again. After introducing us to the Wetronome (a tech gadget to help you with your stroke rate) and Mr. Smooth (an app that shows swimming technique from all angles at all speeds), SwimSmooth has now produced SwimTypes.com. Let me show you what it is...
Aquaspotter Review: Swimming Safety In Open Water
Roaring speed boats, slowly churning fishing barges, a crazy youngster on jet skis, all of these have one thing in common: they are a danger to swimmers. When you do not have the luxury of swimming in a protected zone, staying visible is your number one priority. While a brightly colored swimmi...
