Month: November 2020

How good it is to watch an international swimming competition courtesy of the International Swimming League.

We have seen eight new world record marks set in ISL 2020, great presentation of the meets, incredibly good photography and a team based competition. Records are subject to ratification by FINA.

ISL includes innovative events such as the skins racing format – 8 competitors with 4 eliminated, a further two eliminated in the next race and finally the last 2 remaining race head to head in the final. Rounds of the skin event are held every three minutes.

The stroke of the skins race is picked by the winners of the women’s 400 medley relay and the same for the men. Great to see stokes other than freestyle swum in a skins event.

SWIMMING FAST – WORLD RECORDS

Name	Country	Team	Event	Time
Caeleb Dressel	US	Cali Condors	100m Butterfly	47.78
Caeleb Dressel	US	Cali Condors	100m Individual Medley	49.28
Caeleb Dressel	US	Cali Condors	50m Freestyle	20.16
Adam Peaty	UK	London Roar	100m Breaststroke	55.49
Adam Peaty	UK	London Roar	100m Breaststroke	55.41
Kliment Kolesnikov	RU	Energy Standard	100m Backstoke	48.58
Kira Toussaint	NL	London Roar	50m Backstroke	25.60
Women	US	Cali Condors	400 Medley Relay	3:44.52

A full listing of all results is on the ISL Results web page.

In Australia you can catch the ISL on the 7Plus app. As it is a team competition, each of the two day sessions are called a “Match” by ISL and are all on the 7Plus app.

A further ISL format innovation is being introduced to address the need for a distance event – the 800 free.

The proposed format includes three checkpoints – at the 100m 400m and 800m marks. Contestants will win points at each of the checkpoints which has both jackpot times and an event cutoff time. The details of the points system are set out toward the end of the official ISL announcement.
– ISL Trials new race ahead of season 2020 finale – 19 November 2020

Today mywaterworld launches its Professional Development resources page. Our first technical reference is to a paper by Brent S. Rushall, PhD on sprint training. Its relevance is far wider than its title as it covers a vastly broader area including technique. The Conditioning section of the paper sets out the parameters for the design of ultra short sprint training set. Sprint – Ultra Short Race Pace Training : Training for 50-m races

Heard the one about someone “swimming fast” and silently wondered what was meant by that comment? mywaterworld looks at that type of observation in a 2 part story.

In Part 1, consideration is given to exploring what may be meant by that observation. We also take a look at swimming speeds to understand what is actually “fast” and consider the need for a frame of reference for that type of observation.

In Part 2 we look at the FINA points system, how it works and allows us to understand how fast someone is actually swimming within a frame of reference.

Members of masters swimming clubs from Tasmania have competed at FINA world masters swimming championships with the first podium finish in 1990 at the 3rd edition (as FINA calls them) of the championships held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

You can read all the details in our podium finishers roundup.