How to Improve Your Balance In Swimming…Part 3
By now, your balance in swimming should have improved a great deal. By doing the swimming drills in the previous two posts, you're comfortable being on your side. You can…
7 Secrets to Improving Your Balance in Swimming
As you read in the previous post, having good balance in swimming is important if you want to improve your swimming, especially freestyle and backstroke. Here is why you need…
The Most Shocking Skill for Beginning Swimmers to Have
Want to know the one skill in the water that swimmers should have but rarely focus on? You focus on kicking. Going hard Going faster Going farther But there's one…
How I Approach Teaching Swimming and Why I’m a Great Swim Teacher
I'm a great swim teacher. No brag...just fact. Now, I have lots of faults as a swim coach. I don' have what it takes to be an elite, high level…
Small Changes Lead to Big Swim Improvements
It's funny how things have a tendency to come together at the same time. It's true in life...and in swimming. I've been reading "Atomic Habits" by James Clear and the…
You Gotta Get Pushed to Swim Faster
How do you push yourself to swim faster The other day, I was coaching and teaching a lesson at the same time. The coaching group was two eight year old…
Hand Shape in Swimming
Recently, I've been thinking about hand shape in swimming. I've been coaching beginning to intermediate swimmers and many of them have poor hand shapes in the water. Here are the…
The Easiest Way to Swim Faster
What's the easiest way to get faster? Quick answer...improve your streamlines. The fastest you will every go in the water is when you're in the air on your dive. The…
7 Simple Steps to a Awesome Freestyle Flip Turn
Teach yourself to somersault Do a half somersault on the wall Bring both hands together Push off on your back Rotate slightly to your side Dolphin or flutter kick. Take…