A few weeks ago, my old friend, Laercio, e-mailed me with an intriguing question. He inquired whether I was familiar with a long out-of-print document from either the American Swim Coaches Association or perhaps the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation entitled "What Science Tells the Coach about Swimming?" He also wondered whether anyone had written a similar summary document oriented toward scientific evidence for swimming instructors. I was not familiar with the original document, nor was I familiar with any more recent instructionally-based documents. When one peruses the aquatic literature, indeed most of the "scientific" articles are focused on competitive swimming rather than on the pedagogy of swimming instruction. Every time I have done an online search using the search terms "science" and "swimming," all the citations indeed end up referring to competitive swimming and how typically physiological and biomechanical principles apply ...
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