Practice + Pancakes: Durden Leads Cal Men Through Friday PM 15m Power Efforts

We took a visit to Cal Berkeley, where the 2020 Men’s Olympic coach Dave Durden was taking his men’s team through a typical Friday afternoon. After their PM session in the weight room, the Cal men hop in the pool and race. This Friday, Durden gave them 15m efforts, either all underwater or all on top of the water. Durden has mastered this format, making it exciting by banging on a flagpole to signal the start of the race and yelling out the winner after each heat.

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Michael Andrew Wilson
2 years ago

Very entertaining stuff. For every person who found it more monotonous than a 51 second Joe Schooling 100 fly in practice, I think just as many were mesmerized.

Jonny Newsom
2 years ago

Durden an absolute legend.

VikingSteve
2 years ago

Great post Coleman… for those that didn’t like the long edit… perhaps you should have taken the complicated step of stopping the video… deep thoughts

Michael Andrew Wilson
2 years ago

“Hunter we gotta get off the wall brother” 😂

h2olover
2 years ago

Coleman,

I enjoyed the video. Nice to see the men and women enjoying racing. Impressive groups.

M L
2 years ago

How Durden isn’t hoarse all the time, I have no idea

maximum mchuge
Reply to  M L
2 years ago

He is, you’ve just never heard his real voice

uwk
2 years ago

Shields dolphin kick in fins is just not fair lol

Dressel GOAT
2 years ago

Boring P&P episode and Durden needs to learn not to scream too much…

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Coleman Hodges

Coleman started his journey in the water at age 1, and although he actually has no memory of that, something must have stuck. A Missouri native, he joined the Columbia Swim Club at age 9, where he is still remembered for his stylish dragon swim trunks. After giving up on …

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