John Konrad’s Swim Easy DVD has just been released. A must for adult beginner swimmers as well as teachers or instructors. Produced in assosciation with the Australian Swim Coaches and Teachers Association (ASCTA). While this DVD has new features including ocean swimming tips it still goes back to John’s 7 basic principles. Find out more [...]
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Swimming is a technical sport. Our champions have all of the above but they wouldn’t be there if they didn’t have optimum technique. Technique is critically important! That’s why this years fastest men’s 100 is held by 19 year old Aussie James Magnussen at 48.29. Thorpies best time was 48.56 and his new coach, the [...]
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WHY DO OUR CHAMPIONS NEED STROKE WORK WEEKLY? Humans aren’t built for swimming. We can’t breathe at anytime we want to and there’s nothing firm to hold on to. This leads to the “fight/flight” part of our brain sending out danger signals when we get into water. Brain surgeons from St Vincent’s Sydney at one [...]
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SWIM EASY CLINICS AT $100 [$60 OFF] UNTIL CHRISTMAS. PRIVATE SESSIONS AND CLUB OR GROUP DEALS WITH JOHN KONRADS! CONTACT ME VIA EMAIL or CALL ME DIRECT 0407 560 568 for further information. I have just launched new programs: Private lessons, including teenagers and competent children. Special deals for Clubs or Groups, such as Master [...]
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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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