Two 5 year olds with great expectations.
Swim like Spiderman!
Today we opened the first SwimStars swim school in Hamburg with 40 children. all eager to learn to swim (better) according to the SwimStars method. I think it was a success, at least from judging the smiles on the childrens and the parents faces after the lessons today. Thank you for coming! And thank you Henriette and Axel for doing such a great job.
Rowdy Gaines, a true american hero!
5 time Nordic Masters Champion Barbro Grufman (left)
Barbro Grufman, who trains online managed, despite difficulties with her health the last three weeks before the competition win 5 individual titles at the Nordic Masters Championships in Finland. A clean sweep as she won the 50m-100m-200m-400m-800m freestyle. Congratulations!
Masters Camp members in their new t-shirts in Hamburg Olympic Performance Center
The 25th of October was an intensive day for the 22 Masters camp members with 2 swimsessions, ( new type of training for most) 2 hours seminar about how to train and about the World Masters Championships 2010 in Göteborg, stroke analysis over and under water and a great lunch at the Aqua sport hotel, still the members were all smiles as the day was over and promised they would all try to make it to Göteborg next summer if there would be good catering at the pools with pasta, snacks and strong coffee!!!
Vladislav Bragin brakes increadible World Masters records in Finland at the Nordic Championships agegroup 35-39. The swimmer from Ducks Creek, St. Petersburg, the same club as my opponent Timour Podmarew, swam 28, 47 in the 50m breast and 1.02,72 (LC) in the 100m breast! The times are amazing and Bragin will be tough challenge for our own champion Per Svanberg in Göteborg at the World Masters next year in Göteborg. Ducks Creek in St. Petersburg are really good at producing breaststroke champions!
Today masters swimmers from all over north Germany gather at OSP (the Olympic Performance Center) in Hamburg for a Swimstars World Masters Camp! Swimtraining, stroke advices, seminars on training for masters and the World Masters Championships. I´m looking foward to meet new and old masters swimmers and share my experiences and information!
Henrik Bodén, Danny Davini, Jukka Laikari in Göteborg at World Masters Camp
Congratualations to World Masters camp members Jukka Laikari and Henrik Bodén who won gold and silver at the Nordic Championships in Finland! Unfortunatly I couldn´t make it to the championships in Finland but it is great to follow the results in internet and see some of the swimmers that I know and coached swim so well. Good on you and we see each other soon at another competition, a camp or at the latest at the World Masters Championships!
Feeling comfortable under water is important.
Focus: Technique, speed
200 freestyle breathing every 3-5-7-9
8 x 50 (25m butterfly kick under water + 25m sculling) start 1.15”
4 x 75 (1.30”) 25m easy+25m fast+25m easy
4 x 100 Kick 2.10” 1-2 Main stroke and no kickboard
8 x 50m. one main stroke 90%, one freestyle 75% start 1.10”
100 easy double arm backstroke
4 x 100 Technique (2.00”) Main stroke or stroke of choice
4 x 25 m swim Fast as possible, No Breath or/and under water 45”
8 x 50 pull, main stroke (1.05”)
200 easy
Anne Morrissey from Ireland
Anne Morrissey went to the World Masters Camp in Göteborg last August and felt really good about the training there. After my seminar on the 9 week training cykle she asked if I could make her a personalized training plan that she could follow in Ireland since she has not improved her results at all the last years. She has been getting slower and slower. Well, said and done! We worked out an 9 week plan out for her and I have since then coached her “online”. Yesterday, after only 9 weeks of training came the first competition. She swam the best times ever in 9 years! Great job Anne, Congratulations! I am proud of you! Now she is looking foward to swim even faster!