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 | What's your tune? |
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| Posted By: Gareth Livingstone on 2009-11-16 00:20:13 EST | Email Story | Flag As Spam | Comments (0) |
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I don't know if all competititive swimmers do this, but the one's I've spoken to seem to do it. We all have a couple of favourite tunes that run around in your head during swimming. For training and sets, they vary from Brian Adams- "I'm gona win" to Slipnot depending on the mood I'm in. Foo Fighters "Your a pretender" gets in during racing sometimes. AC-DC "Thunderstruck" is an ever popular one that really pumps you up.
So, what's your tune or tunes? Those who think about Barry Manilow etc can keep that to themselves! |
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| Tags: Tunes, in your head, pump up the adrenilin, during sets |
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| Posted in swimming, high school sports, men's athletics |
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| Don't foget the black curtains! |
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| Posted By: Gareth Livingstone on 2009-11-12 00:35:32 EST | Email Story | Flag As Spam | Comments (0) |
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After a year of training hard and swimming tired, we are finally coming up to our year end Champs. Now the time to really focus begins. Just as I get on the blocks before a race, I try to imagine a set of black curtains have been pulled down either side of my lane, blocking out any other swimmer. In this way, it's just me against myself and the clock. It's like swimming in your own dark corridor, towards the goal of the finish.
Intimidation and gamesmanship is rife when it comes to swimming. If you block them out and concentrate solely on your own race, they can't affect you.
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| Tags: Intimidation, gamesmanship, black curtains, dark corridors, winning |
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| Posted in swimming, high school sports, men's athletics |
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| The end of the full body suit. |
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| Posted By: Gareth Livingstone on 2009-11-07 04:35:26 EST | Email Story | Flag As Spam | Comments (0) |
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With the apparent ban of the full body suit about to be implemented next year, it poses some interesting questions. Those records held and broken by athletes wearing the suits, are they to be set apart or stand alongside the unsuited swimmers? The athletes were fully sanctioned at the time so they cannot be blamed. There is also a lot of uncertainty still surrounding the "new' types of materials. It seems that there is somewhat of a power struggle between the swimming world body and not wishing to upset big sponsors such as Speedo or Arena.
If the suits improved performance and were available to all swimmers, why ban them?
The manufacturers of golf equipment spend millions every year researching and developing, new club shafts, heads, faces, grips, golf balls etc, in order that top golfers and of course every other golfer, will use or purchase their product. Should they now be banned in favour of a one size fits all mentality?
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| Tags: The end of the full body suit, what about golf? |
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| Posted in swimming, high school sports, men's athletics |
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| Nenad Milos has joined our squad as coach |
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| Posted By: Gareth Livingstone on 2009-11-03 02:42:08 EST | Email Story | Flag As Spam | Comments (0) |
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We are pleased to have a great new coach join the squad. He is Nenad Milos formally of Yugoslavia, and he brings with him a whole host of experience from both International and Olympic levels.
Already his impact on the squad is evident and we are raising the bar even higher as far as performance goes. I enjoy his "no nonsense" approach and even though people from the Eastern block can come across a liitle cold and abrasive, the end results speak for themselves.
As he says "In the pool, I'm not your friend, so don't expect me to be
friendly!"
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| Tags: Nenad Milos is our new coach |
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| Posted in swimming, high school sports, men's athletics |
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| Untapered and swimming tired |
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| Posted By: Gareth Livingstone on 2009-10-20 04:49:28 EST | Email Story | Flag As Spam | Comments (0) |
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We have just had our Interprovincial meet at hillcrest in Pretoria and our coach and technical director Ryk Neethling has us swimming tired and untapered. Whilst it can be a little disappointing from a time perspective, it does make for a stronger more competetive squad in the long run. As he says, "you are not always going to feel great on race days and you will tire over a long meet". Swimming tired prepares you for those days, so that when you are tapered and fired up, you should come off the blocks like a shot from a gun and burn the opposition away.
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| Tags: Swimming untapered and tired! |
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| Posted in swimming, high school sports, men's athletics |
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