Masters 2010:
18 Jul East Region Open Water Championships
18 Sep NEC Masters - Middlesborough - Entry Form
29-31 Oct ASA SC Nationals
?? Dec South Yorkshires
Running:
Tri:
The Faulty Flipper is the informal home of the BOK Masters Squad. Masters swimming is for adult swimmers who do not mind getting their hair wet, want to get very fit, and to swim hard hoping to improve technique, get a bit faster, and have a laugh between gasps for air.

Weather

Weather observation for Huddersfield at 21:00 BST.

Temperature: 16°C
Wind Direction: E
Wind Speed: 23mph
Relative Humidity: 66%
Pressure: 1004mb falling
Visibility: Good

Weather information derived from data from bbc.co.uk.

Phelps’ Free-Style

A good video is at

Michale Phelps.

I can’t embed the video, but is very well [...]

FS drill

This [...]

An easy one

I get complaints that sometimes not all my posts are understood. Hmm. .

an easy one. An EVF [...]

Freestyle - catch drill

Another free-style drill from goswim.tv. See their page at http://www.goswim.tv/entries/5943/freestyle—mega-catch-up-drill.html for an explanatory text (more or less the text from the video).

I seem to think that during the entire demonstration, not one swimmer took a breath. This always seems suspicious. There is always a risk, perhaps, that those who learn to breath through their ar*e, might [...]

Freestyle - TI style

Less is more, slower is faster, smoother is . . well smoother. No splishy splashy – more wishy washy . .
Total Immersion swimming is a thoughtful approach to proper free-style [...]

Flip Turns - hands

Goswim.tv have produced many very useful videos which are then published online. This one concentrates on the way hands move during a flip turn. It dates from 2007, and goes a long way to explaining the turn to the semi-initiated.

TURNS/WALLS – Far-Hands Flip Turn from Glenn Mills on Vimeo.

A supporting explanation is available at: http://www.goswim.tv/entries/4042/freestyle-flip-turn—far-hands-flip-turn.html

For myself, [...]

Head Down Free drill

This drill looks to be a good way of re-learning or re-enforcing the need for and feeling of maintaining a neutral body. From USA swimming:

It is also known as the ostrich drill. Somehow I think that our squad members would be good [...]