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It’s All About Kicking
Impressed by Texas? Follow Eddie Reese’s advice and concentrate on the kick. We got a kick out of the butterfly. It’s all about kicking. You gotta be able to kick. There are five strokes now: kick is one of them. It the second fastest stroke. You’ve got to do it. Eddie Reese, NCAA 2015, after…
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Chuck Batchelor – Bluefish Swim Club
DragSox – SCY: 6x25s flutter kick with a board @403x25s Under water dolphin kick @.503x25s fly race 8 kicks off the wall no breath at brake out @303X through Focus on fastest feet on the flutter kick and dolphin kick. And then the 25s fly 8 fast kicks and then focus on the kick tempo…
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Benefits of Fun
We often do things in the pool that might appear to have little, if anything, to do with actual swimming–like the photo shown here. It was taken last week while we were doing crazy experiments, just playing in the water. It looks almost unreal and it definitely doesn’t look like swimming[1]. (Just for fun, try…
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VoloBlades 30: The Smallest Sibling in the VoloBlades Family
Today we are releasing a new size of VoloBlades: VoloBlades 30, the smallest paddles in our VoloBlades family. We created this smaller size to meet three important criteria, explained in detail below. We wanted the swim paddles to fit swimmers with smaller hands, to be effective for breaststroke, and during sprint. Swim paddles for smaller…
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Weight vs Resistance
Weight and resistance during training have different impacts—both negative and positive—on swimming mechanics. It’s important to be able to differentiate between the helpful benefits of added resistance and the potential negative impact of additional weight. There seems to be confusion about this in the swimming world, or perhaps just a sloppiness in use of terminology.…
