John Konrads swimming blog

Earlier this year I moved to Sunrise Beach, near Noosa. I’ve been coming here on family holidays for some 30 years, [as well as for business when I was with Ansett '88 to '91,]. It’s a rewarding lifestyle and now I don’t need to go on holidays anymore!!! Swim Clinics. I’m therefore running my Swim [...]

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This is one of the most beautiful ocean swims in the world and recently the hot shot swimmers felt inferior alongside a pod of porpoises! I have been doing this swim for 6 years now and as announced in my January newsletter I have moved here (see below). Registration is through http://www.usmevents.com.au Noosa Swim Easy [...]

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This month’s swimming tip: ‘The freestyle kick’ The kick is inherently an inefficient movement because you’re trying to make fishtails of your feet and they’re not built like fishtails! Only about 1% of swimmers have a good kick and that’s because they trained as kids and have flexible ankles. They get about 5% of propulsion [...]

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This month’s swimming tip: The ‘Catch Up’ All good swimmers use the catch up technique which delivers a more efficient, gliding stroke. Probably a better description would be “delayed pull” because catch up suggests rushing the stroke, which is bad. The swimmer delays the “pull” phase of the stroke till the other hand enters the [...]

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Why ‘Swim Easy’? In all sports, technique is designed for optimum effectiveness. “The right way is the easy way and the easy way is the right way.” It’s about getting the best performance with the least use or “waste” of energy. Swimming is a very technical sport. The human body is designed to run, jump, [...]

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