In this Gold Medal Minute takeover of the SwimSwam Podcast, we dive deep on butterfly with Coach Bob Bowman.
During this pandemic, the COVID (coronavirus) shutdown has impact my brain chemistry in a bad way, bringing me down. Talking with The Butterfly Guru, the man behind Michael Phelps, was the perfect medicine. I hope it’s good medicine for you too. We cover age group butterfly challenges to elite training to what swimmers and coaches need to be thinking when striving for butterfly mastery.
We all know Bob’s fly knowledge runs deep. We know Bob’s an Olympic coach, a hall of famer, and that he helms Arizona State University, but did you know Bob was a flyer his entire competitive career? “I swam it going back to summer league,” Bob explained. I loved learning that and more in this 30-minute butterfly clinic.
SWIMNERD QUESTION
Where did Bob swim in college and how fast was his 100 yard butterfly?
Also, if you have butterfly questions you’d like to ask Bob, share them here. I’ll ask Bob to drop back in. I think this is a topic we could cover again and again.
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This is a Gold Medal Media production presented by SwimOutlet.com. Host Gold Medal Mel Stewart is a 3-time Olympic medalist and the co-founder of SwimSwam.com, a Swimming News website.
Thanks, Mel. I really enjoyed listening to his approach to training, from age grouper to elite. Good interview
I am so disturbed seeing so many down-votes to so many reasonable, thoughtful comments. (I.e. Mel’s responses) What is the point of the down and upvotes? Other than for trolls to feed their miserable egos?
Genuinely excellent. But I am now curious to know examples of things Angel could do in practice that even Michael might not have been able to match?
….maybe that one year with so much talent is one topic alone?
Speak French.
Would love to see more long interviews with swimmers and coaches, particularly coaches. Would be amazing if international coaches could be interviews as well!
Great interview – thank you for this
Mel with his head in the gold “O” at the beginning has a Handmaid Tales vibe.
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Dude…. I’m a huge Handmaid Tales fan… Not what I was going for, but I’m onboard…
Great interview!!
Love the longer format, so why the strict time limit? Some of my favorite podcasts run two hours regularly. This one is entertaining and filled with gems of information from start to finish. Certainly could go much longer without dying the last ten meters.
noted….working on it on our side for the future….
Mel, I would respectfully advocate that the interview has to come from you (or from a fellow elite, master swimmer). This segment was so special not only because of the the longer time but also the granular, high-level questions that you asked. Eye opening for non-elite swimmers hoping to gain inside information in order to reach that next level. Thanks again so much!!