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How To Plan Your First Self-Guided Practice
Here is an article in our library that breaks down the basic steps to planning your own practice, when working on the fundamental stroke skills. https://dojo.mediterraswim.com/forums/topic/instr-plan-first-self-guided-practice/ *** One of the main objectives of the...
Why Keep The Entry So Close?
One of our Dojo swimmers received a video analysis report recently, and one of the improvement opportunities I gave him was to make his entry closer to the shoulder. He was ready to accept this but still wondered why this was more advantageous than extending a bit...
Learn More About Using Tempo
Just as a musician may use a metronome to practice playing a song at a consistent speed, or a dancer may practice the moves to the beat of music, in our swimming too, we want to practice moving with precision through the stroke cycle over and over again and perfect...
Interpreting Stroke Examples In Context
When we are viewing swimmers who are suppose to be examples for how we are to swim, we need to make sure we understand the context in which that person is swimming. Among the features that we may imitate, some features of the stroke might be suitable only for that...
A Good Warm Up = A Better Swim
There is a basic training principle you need to keep in mind: The better your warm up, the better your swim will be - a practice, a race, or a long recreational cruise. It does not fail - when I am disciplined to swim gently and quietly for a certain number of...
Fine Tune Your Synchronization
By the end of a series of live lessons in Level 1 I hope to have a chance to introduce you to the synchronization of the propulsive pieces of your stroke. Up to that point you have worked on shaping the individual sections of body position and movement patterns, and...
Emphasize The Exhale
To improve your capabilities and comfort with breathing, here are a few more encouragements and ideas for you... Make sure you emphasize the exhale in your non-breathing moments of the stroke. Contrary to instincts, this urgency and 'breathlessness' you feel while...
Competition Between Skill Projects
I should address this concern I have heard from several lately when working on breathing skills... You start investing your practice time on breathing skills and you notice other skills (like kick, recovery, and catch) that still require your focus seem to degrade....
Learning The 2 Beat Kick
Some of you have been drawn to develop your 2 Beat Kick lately. I would like to call your attention to some resources that may help you. First, if you are new to this kicking style called the 2 Beat Kick, then you may first want to view some of our stroke...
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