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Swimming outside the box, escaping the pool for the limitless horizons of open water is
the ultimate reward for being a kaizen or continuous improvement swimmer.
The opportunity for exploration and self discovery can take you places few
swimmers ever go.
Imagine being able to swim in warm clear tropics seas
or in natural refreshing mountain lake.
Would you like to swim smoothly and efficiently through churning seas?
Or a crowd of churning bodies?
What would it be like to swim from one land mass to another instead of from one
wall to another?
In short, to swim any distance anywhere.
These and all the rewards of open water are yours when you learn to take your
best pull stroke and swim with equal ease, comfort and
confidence in open water.
In this self-improvement video we'll outline a practical sensible program for
adapting your pool ready skills to swimming without walls or lines.
We'll also introduced skills and abilities beyond those that you can
learn in the pool
which only open water practice can develop.
Part One: Perpetual motion freestyle highlights the techniques you've
practiced in the pool
that are most critical in open water.
These skills improve your control went swimming and waves and chop.
They also teach you techniques essential for tirelessly swimming long distances
without the restful breaks that turns provide.
You'll also learn how to use open water practice
to develop the and imprint efficiency faster.
Park Two: Swim with friends helps you escape from swimming in circles to swim
in imaginative and very patterns and formations in the company of friends.
Each will develop new competence and new confidence,
and each will prepare you for the situations and settings that make open
water swimming and racing unique.
Swim in single file,
or side by side.
Swim in close quarters,
or get together with a group of friends to swim for simple enjoyment.
Learn how to be comfortable in the controlled chaos of a race start,
or to round a course marker buoy more efficiently.
Even learn new patterns for practicing in the pool.
Best of all open water rehearsals also help build powers of concentration
that may become your secret weapon.