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"WHY DO WE DO IT"

 During practice on Monday I was asked why we were doing open turns.  For the past couple of weeks we have work through sets that involved some open turns while doing 75's (50 free/ 25 back and 50 free/ 24 breast or fly). Why do we do them?  I have notice during the last few meets that some of us are losing momentum at the walls on our exchanges.  We our not getting our hips and legs into the walls fast enough which hurts our speed coming off of them.  I wanted to come up with something that would help our speed  into the walls with the hope of helping you all get your hips and legs into the walls.   I decided that if we swim in free which is faster and perform open turns the result might be faster exchanges for the breast and fly, and also for the IM events.   Think about it there are seven turns in swimming and two of them are flips (free and back) which we do all the time.  The other five turns involve the IM, breast and fly Oh,and by the way are open turns.  Alot of time when w

HOW TO TAKE OWNERSHIP

The very first step in this process you actually learned from your parents at a very young age and that is honesty.  Make no mistake about it everything begins with truth and that includes your swimming.  When you are ready to be honest with yourself it will require one very critical thing that swimmers often overlook, and that is “What do ?I really want?"   Over the years I have seen many swimmers just “Dive In” and start swimming without really understanding the process or why they are doing it.  Without understanding the process they have no roadmap to their final destination.  They develop habits that will carry them throughout their swimming years.  Some of these habits are GOOD, but some tend to be bad also.  Often swimmers will get sucked into just swimming laps and will forget to focus on the little things coaches are teaching within the set.  For instance the other day all three of our groups did a set that looked like this; 12 or 8 x75 (50 free-25 back) or 8x50 (25 fre

OWWNERSHIP and JO EVENTS

I have been asked a lot of questions about choosing Your JO events, and that is awesome that some of you are thinking about them.  First off JO’s is where our plan and all your hard work come together, and the time of the year you should be at your best both physically and mentally.  Use the next feel weeks to fine tune all the small details in your events, catch up and get ahead in your school work, get the proper rest and nutrition and above all stay healthy, so you place yourself in the best possible situation to swim fast.  For our 14 year olds this will b e your last JO’meet so enjoy it!   CHOOSING YOUR EVENTS   This is a 4 day trials and finals meet.  The first step is break the meet into 4 days and write ALL the events for the day in your age group on a piece of paper in the order they fell including relays.  Step two place an asterisk next to all there events that you have qualified for.  Step three place a second asterisk next to your very best events.  We would really lik

IMX MEET WRAP UP

On Monday Coach Heather asked if this meet was one that we should do in the future.  I told her to give me a few days to think about it because there are advantages and disadvantages.   I know the parking was an issue but on Friday the university thought we were starting at four so they were prepared and on Sunday they had a basketball game so we had to park a distance.  In fact it took me over an hour to find my car Sunday night and when I did it had a ticket on it, I guess I had the wrong lot. Sunday morning it was dark and raining so I just wanted to be on time.  Oh by the way you can bet I am passing that ticket off to Coach Heather one way or another. Disadvantages that I took from this meet were that it was a long day for some coaches who spent 12 hours at the pool all three days, but then again it was not much different then any other meet if you attended all three sessions, just an extra day.  I know for the parents the events were long ones to watch and I really appreciate t

IMX ACTION

Our 12 and under's at the IMX meet after warm ups getting ready for the first of their three events Saturday done the 200 fly and the 200 IM.  Looks like theyare excited for the 200 breast.