Recently I had a meet and with David's breathing technique I didn't have pre race anxiety anymore and felt confident and calm before the race especially before the 200 fly and minused 3 seconds from it and had 2 races before as well. I recommend the breathing technique to swimmers that go through pre race anxiety and being scared before a race because it really helped a lot.

Hi, today I want to say that today, training I hit 28 seconds in a 50 freestyle, I am very happy, because I have 33 in competition and that means I am improving, because sometimes, I am so tired of trainig that I think I am not improving, but this things make me feel more confident.

Here's what I'd do if I wanted my girl to suffer from bad pre-race anxiety: Tell her... 1) That she's very, VERY talented. And do it often! 2) To relax and just have fun! (oh yeeee, we've all been there. Backfires!) 3) You got this, you can PB! 4) I KNOW you can win this thing! 5) Just do what you practiced. 6) You're better than the others. 7) BONUS: I compare her to other age-groupers all day long (I see you parents 🙈) Got any other terrible advice? Drop them below in the comment section.

Hey my name is Mina from Norway. I’m 17 years old and I swim for my home club. I started my swim career at 6 years old and have swam since. I have good hope in this group to get better and learn new things.

Amira had a good start in her first "normal" swim competition. Usually she swims lifesaving disciplins. She got a first place in 100m IM: 1,45.01 a third in freestyle 50m: 00,37.34 and a fourth in back 50m : 00,49.07 In two weeks she will swim regionals now. Wonder how that will work out. Amira is 11 years.