Welcome to FreeStyle Swimming blog !

Jul 16, 2009

Dear Readers,

Right from my childhood days, I was always fascinated by water ..but for love of commitments
in life never had a chance to realize this fascination. After so many years now, life has offered an
opportunity to do so.

Its been a few months since I picked up free style swimming at my local YMCA . Since, then
I have been training by myself reading resources, watching videos etc. Not that I would not go
to a professional coach, but given my style of my learning and the time I take to catch up,
learning swimming myself with tips and guidance from several sources became a natural choice...
the journey has so far has been a enjoyable one... and hope it will continue to be so till I reach
my goal of becoming an open water Marathon swimmer :) ...


I started this blog, to collect useful information spread across the web related to freestyle
swimming that I have been coming across.. Yes, there is an ocean of information on swimming...
quiet easy to get overwhelmed.... also there is a lot to swimming as an endeavor,
right from training, equipments, physical and mental fitness levels.

Hope this blog can serve as a resource of the inside scoop related to swimming... You will find
tons of tips, drills, discussion/links to best swimming gear and beyond... Hope you will
enjoy it.


Finally, it would not be just on my part, to not dedicate this blog to some Titanic swimmers like :

1. Mihir Sen who swum in seven seas of the five continents and was the first in the world to do
so. more info about this Titan can be found at : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihir_Sen

2. Terry Laughlin - for introducing the Total Immersion technique to the
world swimming ... which is based on common sense, laws of physics and
non-wrestling way to learning swimming. Swimming world would have never
advanced and thrived without his ground breaking research books and DVDs.
Terry can be cited as the Einstien of Swimming. Thanks Terry.


3. Ian Thorpe, Dave Scott, Alex Popov and several other known and unknown personalities in the world of swimming.


Readers are welcome to post their thoughts or suggestion or share information.

Thanks, for reading and Happy Swimming !

swimPal