Check out our eight part series on open water swimming designed to get you key tips to improve all aspects of your open water swimming. Conquer crashing waves during your entry or exit, focus breathing, understand the importance of drafting during a race and more.
OPEN WATER SWIM TIPS
IMPROVE YOUR SWIM: VIDEO SERIES
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SWIM EXIT
Lose the apprehension of exiting the water amid crashing waves. Coach Bryan Mineo offers tips to help adjust your breathing and sighting to keep an eye on incoming sets, as well as when to act to avoid getting rolled by the surf. Exit the water with easy!
CHOPPY CONDITIONS
Choppy conditions can make any swim frustrating. Get the key tips to change your swim style in order to keep swimming despite the ocean conditions.
RACE DAY PREP
Preview your swim course, get in a good warm up, know the buoys and other natural sighting markers. Coach Brian Mineo takes you through key tips for ensuring you are ready to crush the competition during the swim on race day.
SIGHTING
Sighting is as important as breathing for an open water swimmer or you could end up swimming out to sea. Coach Bryan Mineo gives us the key points to successful sighting during your swim.
DRAFTING
An easy speed gain and energy saver during an open water swim is achieved through drafting. In this video Coach Bryan Mineo lays out the key things to know and triathlete Kevin Portmann offers his insight from an athlete's perspective.
BREATHING
Breathing is fundamental to life, but in the water we lose our natural rhythm. Coach Bryan Mineo offers his insight into proper breathing technique during open water swimming.
SURF ENTRY
Big waves freak you out? Take a breath and relax, we've got your back with three important tips to conquer the surf entry and improve the speed and comfort of getting through the waves with ease.
TECHNIQUE
Open Water Technique varies from pool swimming. Get the key foundations on stroke, breathing and style from Coach Bryan Mineo.
WELCOME
We're dropping key open water swim tips from super coach Bryan Mineo to kick of 2020. Check back weekly for the next 8 weeks for each new video.