A Breaststroke Clinic Sunday, November 5, 2017; 8:30 am–12:30 pm in Oregon City, Oregon This Breaststroke clinic, offered by Oregon Masters Swimming coaches, will help fitness swimmers learn important swimming drills that will improve stroke technique. Learn how to be efficient in the water and enjoy your swimming experience. […]
Breathing
1 Most swimmers know that swimming fast requires excellent technique. Having good technique requires using your body in the correct manner to minimize drag and maximize propulsion, and to maintain speed off the blocks and walls. But in addition to controlling your body and being technically sound in the water, it […]
Mindful Swimming
I’m all about optimization… especially in swimming. It’s great when swimmers get the biggest returns possible on the efforts they put into swimming. As such, the first two technical articles I’ve written as the Co-Coaches Chair, have focused on two of the most common and fairly easily fixed technical issues […]
Rotate the Body, but Still the Head!
Setting the Pace with Coach Tim by Coach Tim Waud Now that Summer Nationals are over, it’s time to get back into the water and get ready for a new year of swimming fast. After a couple of weeks out of the water, I like to start training with some […]
Back to the Basics
Be Careful of Hypoxic Breathing By Coach Dennis Baker When I was young we did a lot of breath control sets, or hypoxic breathing sets. Usually we were sprinting and not breathing very much at all. This type of training in repetition can lead to shallow water blackout which is […]