A memoir of a boy's love of swimming and his quest to become an Underwater Demolition Team (UDT) frogman. Black describes the mentors of his youth who became his models for swimming. He provides a history of the UDT and SEALs. He tells of an injury while in UDT training that denied him his life-long dream, but led to a life-long profession. The story also tells of how high achievers---such as Andre Agassi, Tiger Woods, and Julia Child---dedicated themselves to a work ethic which led to the fulfillment of their dreams and goals. The book recounts the author's experience in the Vietnam War, including the Tonkin Gulf incident, Marine raids, and the historic Danang beach landings. Black describes how and why we must "put in the time" if we are going to have any chance of success. With himself as the model, he explains how average people can be successful if they are dedicated to their efforts. He analyzes Malcolm Gladwell's outlier concept and David Brooks' comments on Gladwell's views on social determinism.

How To Swim Faster will show you everything you need to know about swimming faster.

Once you have learnt how to swim, the next stage is how to swim faster. I will reveal the valuable secrets you must know to quickly achieve success.

Swimming lessons will give you the basics. This book will go further than your swimming lessons and give you the winning advantage.

Dive into this challenge and make the most of your effort. Don't miss your chance to discover the techniques used by professionals.

Swim faster. Train better. Win more often. Achieve your goals.

Topics covered in How To Swim Faster include:
- What speeds you should be aiming for
- Techniques to improve your individual strokes
- Overcoming drag to increase your speed
- How to increase propulsion
- A better catch and pull technique
- What should you do with your recoving hand
- How often should you include speedwork in your training for maximum results
- How to position yourself for a great dive to give you a lead from the start
- Outdoor swimming and open water swimming
- AND SO MUCH MORE

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No one who has ever seen Matthew Mitcham perform one of his heartstopping dives or make Olympic history would ever guess the obstacles he had to overcome just to be a contender. 'People kept remarking on how they were surprised that a gold medal and fame hadn't changed me. I always responded, "Why would I change? Being me is the easiest person to be." I was lying. It wasn't.' At the Beijing Olympic Games, Matthew Mitcham made history with an unforgettable dive, scoring perfect tens, and winning gold for Australia. there was no hint of the harrowing battle this talented young dynamo had fought with clinical depression, self-harm, and his addiction to alcohol and drugs including crystal meth (also known as Ice). Joyously out and proud, Matthew was a role model for his courage both in and out of the pool. Yet even after Beijing and ranking No 1 in the world, beneath that cheeky, fun-loving exterior he was painfully aware of how easily it could unravel. Unbeknownst to everyone, even those closest to him, Matthew turned to crystal meth as a way of dealing with his personal demons some of which stemmed from his childhood. When injury further threatened his London Olympic hopes, he struggled to overcome his addictions, and balance his perfectionism with the old fear of self-doubt. He may not have won gold but he triumphed over his physical and emotional pain - and showed us the true meaning of sportsmanship. twists and turns is an inspiring story of a true champion, in and out of the pool. "A searingly frank memoir" - Deborah Snow, the Sydney Morning Herald

The Swimming Triangle: A Holistic Approach to Competitive Swimming is a unique, innovative, and essential guide to achieving superior mental, technical, and physical fitness in one of the world's greatest sports. Whether you're a coach or a swimmer, former Olympic coach Nick Baker's wholly integrated approach can help you maximize your true potential. In this book Coach Baker offers proven, results- oriented methods for gaining-and keeping-a competitive edge, including: 75 winning mental concepts to use in training and competition 75 elite-level technical concepts A complete breakdown of all starts, strokes, turns, and finishes More than 100 stroke errors to avoid 100 progressive stroke drills 30 sample practices for novice-, junior-, and senior-level swimmers Intensive dry-land training circuits More than 100 strength and flexibility exercises

Use your weight to help you swim, while you lose that weight with swimming and triathlon training. Buy this book for your triathlete, adult swimmer, or you. Learn the applied physics behind swimming as you learn to use your mass with your stroke velocity to create the momentum that you want while swimming. Learn to see, breathe, position your weight and use your arms to guide your swim while you protect your head when swimming with others. Learn to swim your size and shape. Learn to swim given your flexibility and level of coordination. Learn what natural swimmers take for granted and don't really think about while they swim.

Whatever happens on your dives they won't be as colourful as the Ultimate Diver's Log Book. With 200 high-quality colour pages at a low price this log book is like no other. There are two pages for each dive so there is plenty of room - no more cramped information. The Ultimate Diver's Log Book can help speed up logging a dive or ensure you keep every detail you might find useful in future. It has pre-filled units (both metric and imperial). There's a section to record any kit configuration you want to remember. It can accommodate multiple gas mixes (for the techier ones among us). A guided calculation will also help you work out your breathing rate. The graph paper can be used to draw dive profiles or scale drawings. There's a large plain area for comments, sketches and stamps. And if anything goes wrong, there's even a section for that too. The Visibility Scale is a range of colours - circle or tick the one closest to the water colour on the dive. Then compare this with the depth and visibility on other dives. There are also pages at the front for personal details and some lined note pages at the back for general use. Easy-use colour-coded pages.Space for 100 dives with two pages per dive. Log depth, time, buddies, gases and consumption. Plus kit, issues, conditions - Innovative Visibility Scale. The ultimate recreational diver's log book is the ideal gift for any serious diver.

Learn how eight of the greatest male swimmers in recent swimming history progressed from summer league swimming to collectively win 28 Olympic Gold Medals. Included are technique tips from the swimmers themselves and practice samples from each stage of their development. The legendary swimmers included are: Matt Biondi - Olympics 84, 88, 92 Dave Berkoff - Olympics 88, 92 Mike Barrowman - Olympics 88, 92 Josh Davis - Olympics 96, 2000 Lenny Krayzelburg - Olympics 2000, 2004 Ian Crocker - Olympics 2000, 04, 08 Grant Hackett - Olympics 2000, 04, 08 Aaron Peirsol - Olympics 2000, 04, 08

The Essential Diver's Log Book is a good value book-format easy-to-use scuba diving log book. It contains boxes for all the essential details a sport diver might like to record after a dive in a clean simple layout. There is room for 50 dives - each with a two page spread. At the front you can record personal details and at the back there's lined paper for notes. Each individual log has boxes for key details - depth, time, cylinder size, gas in/out etc. There's also space for notes on equipment used, conditions and any issues encountered. You'll find graph paper for drawing dive profiles or scale drawings. There's also plenty of space for sketching or writing about the things seen on the dive. Two pages per dive. Space for 50 dives. Log depths, times, buddies, gases, consumption etc - Small, lightweight, ideal for the travelling recreational diver this is the paperback Essential Diver's Log Book.

"Synchro Swimwear" is the first in Marie Porter's "Spandex Simplified" series, and is all about designing and creating spectacular and durable competitive synchronized swim costumes. This book is appropriate for beginner to advanced levels of sewing ability, and is written from both a designer, and former "performance" athlete's point of view. It will teach everything from the basics, to tricks of the trade. "Spandex Simplified: Synchro Swimwear" will prepare the reader to design and make almost any design of competitive synchro swim suit imaginable. Given the cost of decent competition suits, this manual will more than pay for itself with the savings from just one project The entire book is written completely in layman terms and carefully explained, step by step. Only basic sewing knowledge and talent is required. Learn everything from measuring, to easily creating ornate applique designs, to embellishing the finished suit in one book

Teach Yourself (or your kids) To Swim In One Minute Steps is the new science of swimming instruction based on physics and psychology of learning principles. You start to learn how to swim at home without a pool with 30 easy steps using a wash basin, dressing mirror, mattress, and bath tub. 1046 pictures in skill sequences and easy to read instructions teach you how in easy-to-master steps you can learn and practice at your own pace. You can reference and share this resource book with family, relatives, friends, neighbors, and co-workers to help save more lives. Learn correctly from a master swim instructor's instructor. The curriculum includes advanced floating skills, freestyle with breathing, backstroke, water safety resting skills, water safety concerns, elementary backstroke, and breastroke. Several advanced competitive skills are included after you master the basic fundamentals.

Created by a Divemaster this Dive Log is simple to use with graphical locations for all the important information that divers want to keep track of. Included is a graphical weighting chart designed to help divers get their weighting perfect for every dive configuration. Additionally there are custom designed pages used to track multiple day repetitive dives.

Anyone Can Learn to Swim Swimming is a healthful and rewarding sport. It provides as much fun and exercise for young people as it does for grownups. And anyone can learn In fact, some babies have been taught how to swim before they were one year old If you don't know how to swim, then now is the time to start learning. And even if you already swim, you can always learn to be a better, more proficient swimmer with added practice.The best way to learn is through personal instruction. Many communities have learn-to-swim programs where instruction is given by experts. You can easily obtain information about these classes, where and when they are held, and how you can join them. If you do join such a class, you can use this book as a study aid at home.However, if a learn-to-swim program is not available in your community, or if you don't want to wait until one is held, then you can learn to swim by carefully following the instructions in this unique guide. But there is one rule in learning to swim that you must never break: Always have someone with you when you take a lesson. This person must know how to swim so that he can help you practice and correct anything you are doing wrong. This manual is divided into three main parts. The first tells you about the fundamentals of swimming, such things as water safety, breath control, kicking, and floating. The second will tell about the different strokes, that is, the ways of moving yourself through the water. The third discusses swimming in organized racing. If you want to learn how to swim, then this book is for yo

This book will help parents understand the unique risks of their own pool environment and how to build a robust system of protection.

When the Roisum family moved to Florida in 2005 they decided to install a new pool in their back yard. Everyone was excited about the aquatic fun they would enjoy for years to come. It was just another day in March when Jenna, kissed her 2 year old son Mason goodbye as she left for work. Not long after, Mason found his way to the pool and drowned. Every year, hundreds of children and infants fall victim to accidental drowning- accidents that are preventable with proper precautions.

In "The Pool Safety Resource," author and pool safety consultant Geoff Dawson guides parents and pool owners through the dangers and risks and helps them identify and make educated choices regarding swimming pools and other bodies of water. He offers realworld advice and solutions to help increase safety. He discusses - understanding, evaluating, and mitigating risks;- building layers of protection;- constructing a safe, new pool;- providing aquatic survival skills and swimming lessons;- establishing and communicating pool rules;- enjoying the pool safely;- preparing for emergencies;- being a pool safety advocate.

Owning a pool is a huge responsibility, but the benefits to health, happiness, and family life are immeasurable. "The Pool Safety Resource" provides a wealth of information to help families enjoy their swimming pools safely.

This book is not exactly a textbook or a manual giving divers D-I-Y advice on the specifics of technical diving, but it is essential reading for anyone wanting to venture beyond weekend-warrior status. While the six skills include some hard and fast physical guidelines, this book's focus is on the things other diving texts leave out. Perfect reading material for any level of scuba diver: even those "not interested" in going tech.

If you're a beginning snorkeler, The Ultimate Snorkeling Book will allay your fears, insure your safety, and help you snorkel like an expert. If you're already an expert, you'll learn practical new tips and gear upgrades that you will use as soon as you push off into the water. The Ultimate Snorkeling Book explains each piece of snorkeling gear and what to buy at every price range. You'll learn how to upgrade and maintain your equipment so it performs like expensive professional gear. The Ultimate Snorkeling Book focuses on safety. It explains how to protect against storms, lightening, currents, burning sun, fatigue, exposure, leaky masks, tiny jellyfish, and big scary fish. You'll learn how to care for children in the water so that everybody has a fun trip. The Ultimate Snorkeling Book is like a personal mentorship with an experienced snorkeler and zoologist who will help you identify reef creatures, understand their appearance and behavior, and learn to protect our fragile shoreline ecosystem. Pre-trip checklists make sure you arrive with everything you need. This book will help insure that your snorkeling trip will be a success. YOU can have a great time snorkeling Let's start right now

Reprint of the original 1940 edition. "The story you are about to read is a recital of my work for thirty-five years as a diver, on many types of assignments and in many kinds of circumstances and conditions. You will learn what I did; why, how, and for whom I did it. You will lean about others, associated with me in this fascinating profession, and some of their experiences. In giving you this account, in this way, I sincerely hope that I shall have painted a picture which will not only prove entertaining and instructive in itself, but will serve to offset the all too many inaccuracies and false impressions created by some whose experience is insufficient, or whose imaginations exceed their knowledge of the subject."- Preface to 1940 edition.

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. WOBBLES spans the physical, psychological and spiritual growth of an athlete from childhood into her stature as a fierce, Olympic competitor. When Nadine Neumann decides that she wants to be an Olympic swimmer at age eight, she trades a normal life of school friends and parties for the rigors of elite sports training. With acute honesty, wisdom and humour, Nadine spins readers through the heartaches and loneliness of a different kind of adolescence. Enduring and overcoming Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, a life-threatening accident and imposed breaks from her passion, Nadine pursues her dream as only an Olympian can--with the rarest of intensity and focus. Sweeping from Perth to Germany, India to Sydney, Brisbane to Hong Kong, the reader is invited along this journey of a remarkable young woman who stops at nothing to achieve her goals.

This is a complete guide to learning all of the basic strokes and perfecting techniques, for children and teens. Includes swimming terms and drills, how to perform each of the strokes, and learning how to lessen drag and improve your time.

Many of the short stories in Swimming Lessons have appeared in slightly different versions in literary journals; some, including the title story, have won awards in contests sponsored by these journals and other organizations. The two stories in the last section, KADDISH and THE BOX, are inspired by true happenings. The others are fiction.

A MUST-READ, LOADED RESOURCE GUIDE
More Than Swim Lessons is true to its name. This is a comprehensive guide
for swimmers, parents, and coaches, designed to help explain what works and
why in the sport of competitive swimming. It contains the nuts and bolts of
sound, effective practices that work! You'll also fi nd insight into this sport,
including training programs designed to alleviate the learning curve, and how
to help swimming organizations grow into smoothly functioning and successful
programs.
A wealth of experience, knowledge, and sound organizational concepts is
contained in this easy-to-follow guide, guaranteed to help everyone--not just
athletes--develop successful life skills, embrace a higher standard of moral
behavior, and become well-rounded individuals.