Swimming in Place
Try it.
For each action, you have to create an equal and opposite reaction.
There are many lessons to be learned.
I cannot promise that it will improve your swimming.
However, it is an awesome experiment.
Try it.
For each action, you have to create an equal and opposite reaction.
There are many lessons to be learned.
I cannot promise that it will improve your swimming.
However, it is an awesome experiment.
I remember thinking that I knew pretty much everything I needed to know about coaching swimming (or that I could look up anything that I didn’t know)—and then strutting into Fundamental Skills Coach Training only to realize that there was a whole body of knowledge that I had not previously considered (that I wouldn’t have…
As the leaves start to fall in Southern Oregon and the crisp air lasts well into late morning before the sun shines bright to warm things up, the idea of an open water swim is less and less appealing. Where we live, it is down right hard to swim in the open water this time…
Try floating on your back and gently kicking, do your knees pop up over the surface of the water? If so, you’re trying to run or ride a bike in the pool. This can wear you out and sap valuable energy! Continue practicing in a back float, bend your knees back, slightly, towards the bottom…
I don’t like to call it work because I love it. Just because I love it doesn’t mean it’s easy to get in the water and practice. But I get in the water to practice because there is work to be done.
Not to compare and contrast. But to wonder and awe! All of the bodies going hither and yon. Whether their ability is known or unknown. Busy doing the best that they can with their accumulated knowledge, life experiences, and understanding. Take a moment, or three — just look around you. What do you see? How…
Make a point to begin again. There is no going back—just like we can’t go back in time—only forward. Sometimes in learning it feels like one step forward, two steps back. But the truth is that we can never have the same experience twice. Make it a deliberate practice. Take the opportunity to review what…