Consciousness and Competence
I’d like to take a different perspective on one of the commonly accepted paradigms in motor learning. If we’re going to be effective in...
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Jun 9, 2020
Technical Foundations- Part VII
PART I PART II PART III PART IV PART V PART VI In parts I-VI, we explored the three basic tasks of effective technical executions...
Jun 2, 2020
Technical Foundations- Part VI
PART I PART II PART III PART IV PART V As described in part V LINK, rhythm and timing is greatly underappreciated and seldom addressed in...
Jun 1, 2020
Technical Foundations Part V
PART I PART II PART III PART IV In part IV, we started to get practical with several approaches to help swimmers learn to minimize drag...
May 19, 2020
Technical Foundations- Part IV
Part I Part II Part III Getting Practical In the first three sections of this series, we took a look at the fundamentals of great...
May 12, 2020
Technical Foundations Part III
In parts I and II, I outlined the fundamentals of great swimming technique. These are the skills that coaches need to understand, and...
May 6, 2020
Technical Foundations Part II
In part I, I laid out the case for an understanding of the foundations of effective swimming. The foundational tasks for swimming fast...
Apr 28, 2020
Technical Foundations Part I
Swimmers swim fast because of their superior technique. While there are exceptions to this statement, those individuals are by definition...
Feb 18, 2020
Shapes and Skills Part III
In part I and part II, we explored how innate characteristics can determine how swimmers move through the water, and distinguished...
Nov 26, 2019
Breaking the Cycle
In swimming, the same motions are repeated over and over again. They happen in a cycle, and as implicit in the definition, there is no...
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