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Why Some Swimmers Struggle With Swimming Better

by | 13 Feb, 2023

I’ve observed some differences between how one person can arrange their body to execute a skill in the water and create the desired effect – like forming the frame with their whole body and sliding it along the surface for meters –  and another...
Gaining Control Over Your Attention and Energy Flow

Gaining Control Over Your Attention and Energy Flow

by | 15 Apr, 2022

The mind and the body develop together and where one goes the other is pulled along. If you are training the body to become capable of something extraordinary, are you training the mind for its role in this as well? There is a saying, most notably promoted by Daniel...
Trust Supports Skill… At Every Level Of Performance

Trust Supports Skill… At Every Level Of Performance

by | 19 Mar, 2022

One of my favorite scenarios in coaching is to guide a non-swimmer from a tense and fearful relationship with water to a relaxed and confident relationship as a capable swimmer. With an understanding of what’s happening deep in the body’s autonomic nervous...
Differentiating Your Thinking from Awareness and Attention

Differentiating Your Thinking from Awareness and Attention

by | 7 Jan, 2022

At one time or another, you may have received the rebuke, “Don’t think about it so much. Just do it!” In some consequential situations where self-control is needed, slowing down to think is a really good thing to do. In others, where a different kind of control is...
Accept What Is In Order To Change It

Accept What Is In Order To Change It

by | 6 Feb, 2021

Do you notice, as I do, that rarely are we the same person in the same condition in today’s practice that we were the day before? Every day presents the likely possibility that something is different in our bodies, in our minds, in our personal conditions, which...
Stacking Your Movement At Home

Stacking Your Movement At Home

by | 30 Jan, 2021

Under these global circumstances most of us are staying at home perhaps more than we ever have as adults. With all this time stuck in one place, we may look at our habitats and imagine how they could possibly serve our bodies and minds better. How many of us have...
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