Using our coaching you will experience a sensible way to build (or remodel) your stroke. Whether you desire to swim for the first time, for fitness and recreation, competition, or preparing for a channel swim. You’ll learn how to position your body to cooperate better with water and gravity, how to shape and stabilize your body to more easily slide forward, and how to move in a way that greatly lowers risk of injury and increases your strength and efficiency.
You’ll learn what to practice and how to practice. Our instruction is suitable for adult swimmers new to freestyle, including older adults and intermediate swimmers. Our methods are also suitable for older children with water experience. Our coaching is mature, highly skilled and encouraging, guiding your technical and mental development as a masterful swimmer.
Our philosophy is Eclectic and Holistic. We combine the latest insights and evidence-based methods from physics, physiology, and psychology to guide what we teach, how we teach, and the mindsets we form around our practice. Join us for a transformational swim training experience.
Mindful Swimming coaches the WHOLE INDIVIDUAL and creates MENTAL TOUGHNESS. We coach the Art Of Performing Swimming Skills, and Skill Effectiveness For Performance simultaneously.
I encounter adults who are uneasy about being filmed. I also speak to adults who are reluctant to have their child filmed at anytime. At MindfulSwimming LLC, I fully respect their desires. As a result, I offer the service, but it is never mandatory. I have included an opt out method as part of our registration and waiver forms.
Swimming is a sport that does not lend itself to casual observation. I always say that the coordination of different body parts simultaneously is the closest to perpetual motion our body will achieve. So the tools of above and below water video and analysis are fundamental to understanding the “what is factors” for skill development, competence and progress.
But let me take a moment, and explain how I believe the results from video can be best used.
First off, I do not video every session. Regardless of the sport, I’ve observed that the use of video can lead both, coaches and swimmers, to misinterpret results. Most often the interpretation is created with a negative backdrop, “what is being done wrong, or what I’m doing wrong.”
So this interpretation does not include what skill is being completed well. Speaking just for myself, I would encourage coaches and swimmers to use a more positive approach and address the corrective action (s) necessary. As in “do this” as opposed to “don’t do this.” I believe it is essential for the coach to positively guide the swimmer through the interpretative phase of video analysis for them to receive the maximin benefit. I have heard it repeated often that…”It is easier to do a do, than it is, to do a don’t.”
Enjoy your water adventures.
~ Coach David
407 Bridgewater Dr.
Greenville, SC 29615
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