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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October 11th, 2022 College, News, Pac-12, Practice + Pancakes, Training, Video
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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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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.
Durden an absolute legend.
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
“Hunter we gotta get off the wall brother” 😂
Coleman,
I enjoyed the video. Nice to see the men and women enjoying racing. Impressive groups.
How Durden isn’t hoarse all the time, I have no idea
He is, you’ve just never heard his real voice
Shields dolphin kick in fins is just not fair lol
Boring P&P episode and Durden needs to learn not to scream too much…