How to Swim Faster with SmartPaddle

After spending a lifetime in the sport, in 2015 I realized I had many questions about swimming for which very few answers were available.

• How do you explain feel for the water  to a swimmer who doesn’t already have it?
• What is the difference between a distance swimmer and a sprinter?
• Which is more important—pulling or kicking?
• What happens after a few hundred meters, when the initial great feeling wears off?

Looking at the big picture, I thought that myths, beliefs, and traditions weren’t allowing proper development of swimmers, and I was working half-blind trying to improve the athlete’s technique using trial and error. Moreover, the performance of many swimmers was getting worse while I knew for a fact that they were in better shape than ever before.

To help the swimmers progress, I needed to answer the very basic questions that had bothered me for a long time. Therefore, I decided to build a sensor that measures the propulsive force of the hand strokes.

Read more by clicking here. This blog is written by our collegue Ari Auvinen from Trainesense.