Flip Turn Drill
Good Teachers Know They Can Learn from Their Students
by Beth Baker >>> Photos by David Balch
Good teachers are aware of the potential to learn something valuable from their students, and Beth Baker is a swim coach who takes this idea quite seriously while teaching age-group, collegiate and Masters swimmers. Here’s a way to improve flip-turn technique – inspired by a 9-year-old playing around in the pool.

A Swimmer in the Wild
Tom Landis Finds A Pathway for His Natural Talents
by Amy Wu >>> Photos by David Balch
One of the fastest 66-year-old swimmers on the planet lives in a log cabin surrounded by pet llamas. Here in the hills east of Oregon’s Cascades, Tom Landis’s community has only several hundred people. There is no swimming pool either, but somehow Landis gets faster and faster.

Swimming And Longevity
Will the Feel-Good Sport Help You Live Longer?
by Margaret Phillips >>> Illustrated by Andrea Owens, Rick Gutierrez
Why do some swimmers decide to retire while others keep going on forever? Researchers are still trying to determine whether swimming can increase a human’s life expectancy, but either way, many are convinced that the sport can make one’s later years more satisfying. Hear what some of the experts have to say about swimming and longevity.

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