A Brief Intro & Resources to my Swim Classes

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Swim Skills & Policies

  • (6) Swim Skills - Streamlining


    http://www.swimsmooth.com/beginner.php.


    The video at the link below has a drill to practice streamlining on land. An explanation is as follows:

    Start lying on your back in a streamline position. Now raise your feet, hands, head and shoulders off the ground.

    Using your hips roll yourself onto your stomach WITHOUT letting your feet or hands touch the ground.  

    Continue this a few times in one direction and then switch. Keep your feet and hands together at all times, focus on just using your core and hip rotation to get the job done.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i60QLJitn7Q

  • (7) Swim Skills -Back Float with Flutter Kick


    Equally important is the skill to float on your back and kick to the wall after jumping into the water.  The video at the link below is of children learning to backfloat.

    What I like most about this is the instructor's use of the kickboard--a tool that I have yet to find in videos for adults. The streamline land exercises are designed to support the backfloat too.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbXmNr068ks

  • Simulation Videos of the 4 Swim Strokes


    "Until recently, there have been no studies of the musculoskeletal analysis for swimming because of the difficulty to estimate the fluid force acting on the swimmer's whole body, although such analysis could prove to be valuable information for the athlete swimmer's training and coaching.

    Now, a full-body musculo-skeletal simulator for swimming has been developed for the AnyBody Modeling System, which enables to calculate fluid force acting on the whole body during swimming. The model presents 4 swimming styles: Crawl, Breaststroke, Backstroke, and Butterfly."

    This link http://www.swum.org/index.html has videos that highlight the muscles used for the swimming strokes. The information is intended to assist with honing your swimming skills.

    This research on swimming has been conducted by a research group at Tokyo Institute of Technology, led by Dr. Nakashima. You can visit the research homepage here:

    See Dr. Nakashima's previously held webcast on Development of a Musculoskeletal Simulator for Swimming here: http://www.anybodytech.com/199.0.html

    For more info, visit:
    1. AnyBody Technology Website:
    http://www.anybodytech.com

    2. AnyBody Research Project:
    http://anybody.auc.dk/
    Category
    Science & Technology
    License
    Standard YouTube License

  • Cost & Cancellation Terms


    Cost is $60 for about a half hour.

    Cancellation terms are as follows: If a class needs to be cancelled, each party will notify the other 24 hours in advance.  If a party does not notify the other to cancel a class in advance, then the party who did not notify in advance shall compensate that party with a lesson gratis if it is the instructor or be paid the cost of the lesson if it is the family/student taking my swim lessons.

    These terms are flexible and can be renegotiated at any time.

  • Contact Info:

    Mary Gallagher, B.Sc.

    Water Safety & Swim Instructor
    650-683-7102 (cell)

    May the joy and peace of swimming be with you.

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