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Posts Tagged ‘Mastery’
Why “Weightlessness” Is Essential
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on June 15th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on June 15th, 2010
Relaxing into Weightlessness replaces an inborn reflex to fight gravity with a calmly considered choice to cooperate with it. That saves physical, but it saves even more mental energy. Which you’ll use to acquire other skills.
Swimming Lessons from Soccer
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on June 14th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on June 14th, 2010
A leading soccer program in the Netherlands is a model for athlete development for any sport, any where. Including youth and Masters swim programs.
Butterfly for Mind-Body Health
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on June 8th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on June 8th, 2010
Learning to swim butterfly as an adult can be an exercise in Problem-Solving, Challenging Assumptions and Deep Practice, rather than Working Harder. This benefits both brain and body.
Learning new skills: Repeat, repeat, repeat.
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on June 3rd, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on June 3rd, 2010
Adults learn new skills more slowly than kids. But they learn them better over time.
Can You Learn (EZ) Butterfly at Any Age?
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on June 1st, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on June 1st, 2010
How to swim Butterfly, without fatigue, at any age.
Mastery in P.J. Clarke’s . . . a saloon
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 27th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 27th, 2010
Mastery is where you find it, yet always has lessons to teach.
USE practice time. Don’t use it UP!
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 25th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 25th, 2010
The best way to improve your swimming is to shift from following arbitrary “formulas” for training, to planning sets that produce insight and steadily expand your “critical framework” for planning practices.
When pain or injury is a gift
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 24th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 24th, 2010
Pain or injury occur more frequently as we age. They don’t have to be an inconvenience. Instead we can use them to guide us toward more mindful movement.
Will you be Swimming-to-Improve at 87?
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 18th, 2010
by Terry Laughlin
Posted on May 18th, 2010
Jazz pianist Hank Jones, who died Sunday at age 91, was still learning new material and trying to ‘make his lines flow smoothly’ at age 87, if not later. Do you practice swimming like Hank practiced music?