Swimming Video is courtesy of SwimMAC Elite & David Marsh Performance Swim Camps.
Dutch Olympian Dion Dreesens has joined SwimMAC Carolina Team Elite to train under swimming coach David Marsh, and Dion’s gotten the SwimMAC Elite welcome. Marsh is all about power, specifically your power to weight ratio, and nothing tests that more than climbing the SwimMAC Elite ropes.
SwimSwam visited SwimMAC Elite’s HQ back in 2011, just to be a fly on the wall, and this is what we captured; Olympians Nick Thoman and Cullen Jones cranking out rope climb after rope climb.
Dion Dreesens, only 20, should see big gains after training under Coach Marsh. Here’s where he stands right now, his PBs:
- 23.65 – 50 free
- 49.73 – 100 free
- 1:47.61 – 200 free
- 3:51.83 – 400 free
Join David Marsh at the Queens University of Charlotte and David Marsh Performance Camp.
CAMP DATES
CAMP OVERVIEW
Camp Focus: The focus of this camp is technique and training with all four strokes, turns, and starts. Our goal is to challenge you physically and mentally, and teach you the best ways to approach training sessions and seasons.
What to Expect: During your stay at Queens your drills and workouts will be designed with your summer goals in mind so that we can best prepare you for success at your championship meets.
Who This Camp Is For: Registered competitive swimmers looking for a training challenge. For the best results, swimmers ages 11-18 are best suited for this camp.
CAMP REGISTRATION
Register at these links:
• There is a $100 non-refundable deposit at the time of registration and the remaining balance will be due by April 1, 2014.
• All registrations must be done online. No registrations will be accepted by mail
• No refunds of any kind will be accepted after May 15th
• Deposits are non-refundable
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BONUS ROUND – MADISON KENNEDY CLIMBS ROPE VIA “THE SWIM CALENDAR”
David Marsh Performance is a SwimSwam Parnter. David Marsh also coached Mel Stewart.
this is nothing new, Mr Shoulberg had his swimmers doing this as far back as 1980. I know because I was there. He had 2 ropes about arm’s width apart and I vividly recall watching Bart Schneider climb to the top with a rope in each hand. Jeff, and I can’t remember his last name, went up the rope upside down.
VULCANSWIM, I’ve been in or around swim practices most of my life, and I have never seen anything like what SwimMAC does. I “think” Cal and Trojan does similar cross swim/training, but climbing ropes is a very small part of it for SwimMAC. Their workouts are intense.
…also, here’s SwimMAC’s Madison Kennedy climbing rope upside down and making it look very, very easy…since you mentioned it…
https://vimeo.com/69781553
Gold Medal Mel, contact Mr Shoulberg for more info. Jane Boyland went up the rope upside down as a junior in high school in the summer of 1980.
Vulcanswim if all the glory you have is bragging about who climbed up a rope sideways 30 years ago you must have such an interesting life
Almost got the lane line on the way down. Must be some relationship between swimswam and David Marsh. Lots of publicity for his swim camp on here.
Marsh Performance (& Queens University of Charlotte) is a partner. Their swim camp will be a part of our Swim Camp Channel launching next week. Also, Marsh coached me, and he’s very active on social media…which makes it easy to create interesting training posts…. We post a lot on all coaches, but it really comes down to who engages us. Garrett McCaffrey is fantastic about reaching a lot of coaches on his COACH LOG series…. If any swimmer or coach submits content, we typically run it. It’s has to be strong or interesting, something of value to the community. I’ve learned a lot reading coach submissions that have become SwimSwam posts. So, the door’s open.
Swimswam posts quite a few articles on here that double as adverts, and while it is somewhat annoying they have to pay the bills.
Ha! Yes Sean, we need to earn some rev. It’s a lot of work that never, ever ends. 24/7 365 days a year, we have to be thinking about what’s next or have our ear to the ground for news.