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Hearne Siblings Sign 5-Unit Deal with Big Blue Swim School

Courtesy: Big Blue Swim School CHICAGO — Leading children’s swim instruction brand Big Blue Swim School is officially coming to…

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When Your Self-Confidence Drops Right Before the Big Race

A common issue swimmers experience is that last moment free-fall of confidence on race day. Here is how to manage your self-confidence so you can swim fast.

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FINIS Set of the Week: A Little Bitta Everything, A Whole Lotta Work

From Jill Bennett, FINIS Director of Sales & Marketing, this set is for the coach or athlete that’s ready for a happy medium of technique work and yardage.

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See 1614 New Swim Jobs You Might Love

If you don’t like the career you’re in, you might want to work in the swimming community and be a part of our swimming family! Go here to see 2304 Swim Jobs.

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FINIS Set of the Week: Persistent Resistance

Set of the Week is courtesy of FINIS, a SwimSwam partner. This week’s set comes from Jill Bennett, Director of Sales…

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FINIS Set of the Week: Mile Fly Club

This set from Jill Bennett, FINIS Director of Sales & Marketing, comes complete with bragging rights. For even more street cred, do this set long course.

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See 1612 New Swim Jobs You Might Love

If you don’t like the career you’re in, you might want to work in the swimming community and be a part of our swimming family! Go here to see 2302 Swim Jobs.

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Why Use a High Octane Freestyle Technique?

At The Race Club, we advocate using High Octane Freestyle recovery in the sprint (50 meter) event and at the end of all freestyle (and IM) races.

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Practice + Pancakes: Michael Andrew Goes Surfing, Trains Overspeed

Less than a week out from Andrew leaving for the World Champs training camp in Singapore, we caught him on a normal training day.

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FINIS Set of the Week: Broken Breakdown

This set is built to drive quality speed. The sharp increases in effort should be challenging! Also makes for a great test set for distance swimmers.

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See 1604 New Swim Jobs You Might Love

If you don’t like the career you’re in, you might want to work in the swimming community and be a part of our swimming family! Go here to see 2294 Swim Jobs.

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The Squeezline – Every Streamline … Ever Time

The first thing we teach swimmers is the streamline, and yet every day on every pool deck in the world a coach is yelling… “Fix your streamline!”

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SwimmersBest Drill of the Month: Spin Backstroke, with a Twist

June’s drill comes to us from Jan Charles Mittemeyer, head coach and owner of TNT Swimming in Daphne, Alabama.

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Practice + Pancakes: Texas Men Taper Practice for WUGs

The main WUG group included John Shebat, Austin Katz, Dean Farris, Tate Jackson, Jeff Newkirk, and Townley Haas (World Champs)

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Hall Jr., Klim Set to Lead Fitterand Faster Butterfly, Freestyle Academy

The Butterfly and Freestyle Legendary Rivals Academy, set for July 8-12, will be led by Olympians Brett Hawke, Gary Hall Jr., and Michael Klim.

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