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This time last year, you wouldn’t have called yourself a swimmer. Look at you now. You’ve picked up the lane etiquette. You’ve expanded your repertoire of stroke drills. You’ve nailed all the turns and you streamline off every wall. You learned how to swim butterfly, and Coach says you’re a natural. You joined a workout continue reading
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Welcome to Stroke School If you plan to attend one of our Stroke School programs this summer, chances are you are already motivated to improve your technique. I don’t have to convince you that the fastest swimmers are also the most efficient ones. But even if you aren’t aiming to break any records, it’s still continue reading
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There are swimming families. Jane’s son is about to overtake his mom in the 100 breaststroke. Her cousins can pick her out in the heats from the look of her strokes. At the 2023 Masters Nationals in Calgary, the three of them sit in the stands and cheer for their aunt, who is also competing. continue reading
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You can learn a lot by attending a swim meet. Maybe it’s all new to you: the heats, the whistles, the nerves, what it’s like to race. Everything is unfamiliar, and you are picking it up as you go along. As you become more experienced, your focus shifts to the details — turns, breathing strategy, continue reading
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The idea for this blog occurred to me after a recent Friday morning session with our development group. The group I am talking about is comprised of beginners — which is not to say that the people in this group don’t know how to swim. The swimmers in this group are beginners in the sense continue reading
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It was a small crew, and we couldn’t even assemble a proper relay, but we did our best to represent East Van all the same at the VMSC Long Course Swim Meet in Victoria over the weekend. For Jane, it was her first swim meet in over a decade. Forget about easing back into it: continue reading
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Katy Ledecky, arguably the greatest distance swimmer of all time, recently broke the world record in the women’s short course 1500 metre freestyle at the World Cup in Toronto. If you’ve ever been on deck or in the stands when something like this is transpiring in the pool, you know that the air carries a continue reading
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Ok, I get it. You’re a masters swimmer. Pushing the boundaries of human potential is for the young folks. That ship has sailed – you’re simply here to enjoy yourself and get a little exercise. The workout plan is just a suggestion anyway. Maybe you aren’t feeling it today, and you’d rather hang out on continue reading
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Three weeks into our season, I gave the team an endurance challenge heavy on butterfly. Instructions were minimal: “See how far you can go.” This was the set: 5X300 freestyle/butterfly @ :20-:30 seconds rest as follows: #1 = every 6th length is butterfly #2 = every 4th length is butterfly #3 = every 3rd length continue reading
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