One of the aspects of swimming which has really sunk it's claws into me the past few years is the seemingly endless progression of skill acquisition which I had been reluctant to tackle for decades. I was first in line when Nerd Cards were handed out so the cerebral aspects of swimming really speak to me as much as the brutal physical demands....I thoroughly enjoy all of it. Recently I had a big bump in fly performance from something so small it was comical, but the net effect was the difference in finishing a 100 strong or riding home the last 25 with a piano on my back. Now I'm entertaining tackling the 200 at some point simply b/c of a tiny thought that triggers an entire chain of events. One goofy thought took 2.6 seconds off my 50fly pr!

So, with the endless thoughts and threads on swimming I thought it might be fun or a good idea to start a thread that has nothing but collections of 'a ha' moments that took you to the next level. I think we can safely assume swimming really really hard is a given. The effort level and consistency has to be there for performance so 'increasing from 1 1,000 yard swim a week to 3 2,000 yard swims really helped!' is kind of obvious;)

Looking forward to learning some cool stuff from some of our fishbeasts on ST. I think sometimes there are some really awesome nuggets that get lost in unrelated threads. That's my hope here is to maybe create a neat repository of tweaks that took you to the next level. Maybe this thread is a big flop, maybe it's a hit. If it helps one person say 'a ha' it's a win in my book!

Fly, back, breast, free and dolphin....let 'er rip!