by Coach Mat | 29 Nov, 2020
What role does trust play in our swimming? I see it as the foundation to everything we are doing in the water. Here are many of the ways trust plays a vital role… Trust the Water For those who have experienced fear of the water and want to learn to swim...
by Coach Mat | 22 Nov, 2020
We continue this exploration of what Jon Kabat-Zinn calls the Attitudes of Mindfulness with a discussion on how patience plays an important role in our swimming practice. You may enjoy hearing Kabat Zinn briefly describe this attitude. Mindfulness for our swimming...
by Coach Mat | 14 Nov, 2020
Despite COVID restrictions, no travel and very slow local swim coaching work, I’ve remained quite busy behind the scenes building SwimMastery with my co-founder, Tracey Baumann in UK. I am genuinely more pleased and more hopeful for the future as the months go...
by Coach Mat | 8 Nov, 2020
The Joy of a Beginner It is a great pleasure to work with a new swimmer or one who is totally new to our way of swimming and training and have them be so open and excited at the new possibilities and see hope emerging in their mind. Their joy of discovery becomes my...
by Coach Mat | 1 Nov, 2020
My recent deeper study on the attitudes of mindfulness have brought me to the topic of evaluation, and in particular, self-evaluation. A question I have asked somewhere before now has popped back into my mind with more importance than I understood previously, so I...
