Comments on: Day 9: Getting Technical http://reachforthewall.com/2009/07/28/day-9-getting-technical/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:06:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: HMswim http://reachforthewall.com/2009/07/28/day-9-getting-technical/comment-page-1/#comment-412 HMswim Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:21:58 +0000 http://reachforthewall.com/?p=2404#comment-412 Enjoy the column. Thank you. Between your column and Dara Torres' book wonder what it would take for a 40+ former summer league swimmer to get into Masters and not be a total flop. To improve your times, please have the Post spring for an X-Glide suit. It would be interesting to have a first hand account of putting on the suit and how it improves your times. Enjoy the column. Thank you.

Between your column and Dara Torres’ book wonder what it would take for a 40+ former summer league swimmer to get into Masters and not be a total flop.

To improve your times, please have the Post spring for an X-Glide suit. It would be interesting to have a first hand account of putting on the suit and how it improves your times.

]]> By: Matt from Bethesda http://reachforthewall.com/2009/07/28/day-9-getting-technical/comment-page-1/#comment-344 Matt from Bethesda Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:14:21 +0000 http://reachforthewall.com/?p=2404#comment-344 As you go into the wall on your flip turn...put your chin right against your chest as you flip...it'll help you get your feet over the top and keep you squared to the wall. You said; "I am starting to see the results in my every day life." How 'bout an example. Hang in there! As you go into the wall on your flip turn…put your chin right against your chest as you flip…it’ll help you get your feet over the top and keep you squared to the wall.

You said; “I am starting to see the results in my every day life.” How ’bout an example.

Hang in there!

]]> By: Jim Thompson http://reachforthewall.com/2009/07/28/day-9-getting-technical/comment-page-1/#comment-339 Jim Thompson Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:36:14 +0000 http://reachforthewall.com/?p=2404#comment-339 As a parent of swimmers (kids now grown up), your photos reminded me of what my windows looked like when I went to bed and waking up to drive my kids to swim practice at "O Dark 30". One memory I have of driving to early morning practice is shoveling snow at 4:30 in the morning to get out of the driveway. That time the snow plow cleared the street several hours before and formed a snow pile in front of the drive way. My son and I tried to break apart the snow, or more accurately, frozen ice. After about 10 minutes of loud banging at the snow bank and not making very much of a dent in the pile, I told my son let's just skip practice that morning and go back to bed. :-) As a parent of swimmers (kids now grown up), your photos reminded me of what my windows looked like when I went to bed and waking up to drive my kids to swim practice at “O Dark 30″.

One memory I have of driving to early morning practice is shoveling snow at 4:30 in the morning to get out of the driveway. That time the snow plow cleared the street several hours before and formed a snow pile in front of the drive way. My son and I tried to break apart the snow, or more accurately, frozen ice. After about 10 minutes of loud banging at the snow bank and not making very much of a dent in the pile, I told my son let’s just skip practice that morning and go back to bed. :-)

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