I'm Back!

Sorry i haven't been posting stuff. I'm back now and I'm going to post more than ever before.

The website below is about the Olympics. There's a complete section just for swimming. It talks about what happened at these games and what happened at previous ones. It talks about the history of swimming and how it developed. Along with that it has videos and pictures from that event.

http://www.olympic.org/swimming
Here is a great website if you feel these videos aren't enough, they'll take you in depth more to what happened and also what happened at previous Olympics.

Here's the 4x200 Women's relay as they won gold in this event in an Olympic Record. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gALADAnOAhI
Australia go the Silver.
France got the Bronze.

Michael Phelps's Quest for 8

Here are all the links to Michael Phelps's videos on his quest to his historic 8 gold medals in one Olympic game.
1st Gold
2nd Gold
3rd Gold
4th Gold
5th Gold
6th Gold
7th Gold
8th Gold

Thank you jacklondon5111 for organizing these videos so neatly. I give complete credit to him for this footage. 

Have you noticed that the 2012 Olympics had a bunch of errors? For instance the beeper went off before the even said take your mark in the Women's 100 BR. Here everyone thought the far favorite of the mile was about to be DQ'd...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5FlDy3YmDQ

Sorry I had a swim meet for the last couple of days and I was unable to upload the tips I'm having another tomorrow but 2 tip posts from Olympians is coming Monday.

100 PAGE VIEWS!!! Thank you guys so much, we've got to now keep looking forward as we expand and grow. I'll send out an extra tip post today as a reward but once again thank you.

I know most of you guys don't like butterfly but that can't take away from the fact that Jiao Liuyang had nerves of steel going down into this last stretch of the 200 Fly. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgUq42uGtnw

Here's the youngest swimmer to make the Olympic team in all of U.S. delegation. Here she wins the 800 Free. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHbNKX3VkIM

5 Tips to the 100 Free

Here they are the 5 tips to the 100 Free from Nathan Adrian. These were taken out of the edition of Splash Lessons from the Masters. Hope you all enjoy.

• Do not go all out on the entire time
• Know the landmarks of the pool so you know how far away you are from a certain point
• Concentrate on the turn(s)
• Create a breathing pattern, don't just breathe when you think you need to
• Learn from your mistakes(and correct them next time)

4x100 Medley Relay Links and Picture!

Here's the 4x100 Medley Relay from London after they won gold. 
To watch the whole video click here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IMI3P_NlPk
Here's the original source of the picture http://reachforthewall.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/512858028.jpg

Cameron Van Der Burgh wins the gold in the 100 Breaststroke in London. If your interested in the USA Brendan Hansen picked up a bronze in this race also. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g7oRASpJO0

Later today I'm going to upload some tips from Olympians that won individual gold last year. There tips are going to be specific to the race(s) they won.

These tips were taken from an edition of Splash I love their magazine and the type of things they post there so look into that. I hope you guys realize I want to give full credit to Splash for these tips because without their magazine I wouldn't be able to find such great tips from Olympians. 

IF YOU THINK YOU KNOW SWIMMING YOU MUST WATCH THIS VIDEO- This is Jason Lezak clocking a 46.06 relay split I personally can't believe how fast that is but here it is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=sxy920Nd7yY&NR=1
By the way all of these videos aren't to promote these certain YouTubers I try to find the best quality videos for you guys. (I know this isn't the best quality but its the best I can find.)

I see you guys like backstroke here is the 100 Back from the Olympics last summer.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nTv7p64pQA

If you haven't noticed yet I love posting these types of things for you guys so here comes another here I have Dana Vollmer swimming the 100 Fly. I hope you all enjoy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2L12bpUsSs

I'm going to continue uploading Olympic videos if you guys all like them so here's Michael Phelps in his historic last individual race (The 100 Fly) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7bj_LUIY7Y

Did you know Nathan Adrian showed on a Myth-busters. It was do different liquids affect performance? Here's a video of that. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=750B86RIros

This is a video of Nathan Adrian swimming his 100 Free the video itself is too long to upload but here's a link to the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO7y41uBdUA

Remember when your at your first swim meet that you'll be fine. Sometimes people get worried about their swims but just remember what you practiced, surely you've done starts before in practice so it shouldn't be difficult at all. You've trained so hard to swim well and now's the time to show-off what you can do so just go out and do that.

When going to your first swim meet you'll need to bring

• All your swimming gear-(swimsuits, caps, goggles)
• An extra pair of clothes (you'll need it when you get cold to put on so your muscles don't get cold-that way you can swim faster)
• Snacks-I personally bring bottles of Gatorade and water, energy bars, crackers and nuts, and honey for quick energy (you can drink it before a race for some quick and simple carbohydrates, I recommend drinking it if you choose 15 minutes before you swim.)
• Music- I personally don't listen to music that often but sure you can definitely bring headphones and an I-pod or something like that to listen to, I know it helps people sometimes :)
• Blankets or Sleeping Bags- Trust me it'll keep you warm and you'll need that.
• Towels- Your going to have to dry of sometime right?
• I bring a bag to carry this all in you can buy these at amazon.com just look up swim backpacks after that.

Alright I know how nervous everyone is during their first swim meet so I'm creating a new folder containing all you'll ever need to know about that first swim meet

Alright I'm probably going to tell this to you anyways so I might as well tell you now. I got started in swimming because my sister was on the JV swim team for the high school I'm going to. She helps teach me things along with my dad and she and my dad probably have been one of the biggest contributors to my swimming success so far. Behind all that my mother is a great supporter of me too.

I'm just starting my new blogger account on swimming and this is going to be my first post. My blogger from here will be grow and I'm happy that this is how we'll start.