Triathon and Swimming Technique

We have been looking for the Holy Grail all this time.  We worked with Total Immersion at the beginning of our journey –Terry Laughlin, Glenn Mills and the rest of coaches, in many clinics around Mexico.  We went to learn more watching and listening to Dave Salo, always searching for the mystery –trying to feel the water.  We invited Paul Bergen to come to our town to learn from him.  We decided to look someplace else and went to see Gennadi Tourestki (Popov’s mastermind).  We learned a lot about kayaks, using the shoulders to propel the body, and the understanding of swimming on top of the wave from Touretski.  Tourestki let us know that the search should continue when he took Ian Thorpe.  Thorpe tried to return to competitive swimming after long hiatus then.  We never found the Holy Grail until we saw Gregorio Paltrinieri swimming.  The analysis done by Effortless Swimming helps to understand what feeling the water means in the case of Gregorio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vjs6b5OHbI

Gregorio developed his own style by feeling the water.  Fortunately, his coach did not modify much and let him feel water.  Gregorio knew and understood by feeling the water that the Holy Grail of swimming was to project the body to the front the most effective way.  He found his own fulcrum and front there projects his body trying to perturb the water the least possible.  He also knew that without kicking he can reach and sustain 90 strokes per minute, moving his body as Michelangelo moving his brush.  The Holy Grail is feeling the water; but unfortunately, we need to be like Michelangelo to be able to perform well.

I let you with my favorite player, Judith Polgar, who knows that to be like Michelangelo we need three things: work, perseverance and passion.

https://www.google.com/search?q=judit+polgar+ted+talk&oq=judith+polgar+ted&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l4.11248j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8