THE WARRIOR CALLING ELITE PERFORMANCE COACHING

Don’t let your lack of guiding practice be the reason you fail an ocean swim. Too many people under-prepare when it comes to long-distance swimming. It takes time and dedicated effort to achieve the endurance and skill necessary to be successful.

If you don’t learn how to guide correctly and swim in a straight line, then you will add extra time to your swim. Ultimately, you may fail a swim when you get to selection if you show up unprepared.

Here are some open water swimming points of performance that we hammer with our team:👇

1. Guiding: Start by finding a fixed and prominent point (target) in the distance, in the direction that you need to swim towards. Use the object in the distance as a reference point to guide to until the official turn around buoy or target comes into view. Don’t spend too much time on the surface finding your guiding object. Your momentum in the water is slowed the more time you spend on the surface. Determine how many strokes you can take before you need to come up to guide again, ensuring you stay in a straight line. The best swimmers are the ones conditioned for endurance, able to guide, and swim in a straight line.

2. Buddy Work: Learn how to communicate with your swim buddy and be in-sync with them in the water. Communication is key when you’re on open water swims.

3. Learn how to swim on both your right and left side while swimming the sidestroke. That way you can face your buddy during the swim, communicate with and keep tabs on him.

👉Train for the 1,000m, 1 and 2 nautical mile swims BEFORE arriving at selection. These are all tested distances at BUD/S and many other selection pipelines. Arrive ready to perform.

The time to train is NOW. Rather than play catch-up…while drinking through a fire hose when you arrive at selection. Train like you want the job. Prepare like a pro. 🔱

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