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Dorothy Hong, one of the athletes I was coaching this year in the Florida Keys with the Race Club is on the cover of the October/November issue of Swim Philippines. Check out the article on Dorothy starting on page 12.
I will attend the grand opening of the new indoor swimming pool in Martigny along with some swimmers from Vevey Natation. They’re going to do some exhibition swims and I will do a finswimming presentation. Martigny s’apprête à inaugurer pour sa nouvelle piscine couverte et je ferai une démonstration de nage avec palmes avec quelques …
Daniel Coakley, who is recognized as the Philippines fastest sprinter in its history, has come to The Race Club for 10 days of specialty training. Daniel lives in Hawaii and has been training recently at Bolles School in Jacksonville, Florida. Daniel has posted a personal best 50 LCM freestyle time of 22.60 and hopes to …
A couple pictures from my most recent trip to the Florida Keys.
The Boyd and Dietrich families, who spent a week down in the Florida Keys for a Race Club Swim Camp put together a short video for us. It’s a must see!
Last Friday afternoon and Saturday morning I was leading two workouts for the Florida Keys Swim Club while Head Coach Jon Olsen was out of town. We were gearing up for some fast swimming during the Saturday morning session. You can download those two workouts from ProSwimWorkouts for your use. Friday’s workout: FKSC100813 – Saturday’s workout: FKSC100814
On Friday, July 30 and Saturday, July 31 I was on deck coaching the Fighting Manatee Masters. Thought I share those two really basic workouts. Friday morning was shorter with 3300m and drill and stroke oriented. Saturday morning was a bit longer with 5100m and equipment heavy. You can get the two workouts at ProSwimWorkouts using the following links: FMSC100730 – FMSC100731
Just a couple shots from our afternoon on the boat. Gary and I caught a 19lbs black grouper.
At last week’s Junior Nationals in Lancy I got my hands on a interesting flyer. A group of coaches are about to start a great project for all swim coaches in Switzerland. Some of you might have heard of ASCA (American Swimming Coaches Association) and they’re about to start SCAS (Swimming Coaches Association Switzerland). This is a great idea and this is my way of helping them to get the word out. What follows is the French version of the flyer.
If you heard about Mike Bottom’s Three Style of Freestyle DVD you might as well like this short complementary video to the Shoulder Driven freestyle technique. It looks like Club Wolverine is going to publish more videos in the future as they just opened a YouTube Channel.