Alain Bernard's freestyle catch compared with Jason Lezak's catch!

Now let's look at Jason Lezak:



I am lovin' both but I think Jason Lezak has better technique.

Federica Pellegrini is tracking almost as high as Angelina Jolie in Google searches in Italy!

Since the 2009 FINA World Championships, Federica Pellegrini, is tracking almost as high as Angelina Jolie in Google searches in most Italian regions. In some cities, such as Naples, she is tracking equal or higher. Jennifer Aniston can't touch either of them. [Google trends is my source]

The First photo is Federica Pellegrini at the Venice Film Festival with her friend Luca Marin.

Photo source: M&C.com: [Link]

In the next photo and to the left is the current Italian President, Silvio Berlusconi, making an ass of himself overly "eyeballing" Federica Pellegrini as he greeted her at a gathering of "young supporters in Rome." The guy is actually well liked in Italy despite scandal and a challenged economy.

I swear, I think 80% of politics is making up a good story.

From Metro.co.uk:

Silvio Berlusconi just can't help himself, can he? Most politicians mired in a sex scandal might keep a low profile and not give the enemy any further ammunition. But not the Italian prime minister, who is never far away from trouble when it comes to women.

[Link]

These two photos presented certainly demonstrate how much power and prestige swimming has in the Italian universe. The French and the Australians are treated in this fashion as well. I suggest American pros spend more time racing where they are appreciated and learning the languages where they are admired as well.

Imagine, Jason Lezak, trash talking Alain Bernard, Amauary Leveaux, Frederick Bousquet, and Fabien Gilot in French and challenging them to a pay-for-view meet with all the strokes on neutral ground at the Montreal Olympic Pool in French Canada? The French would be all over it like an Italian President on a "party goer!"

I could dip my keyboard in poison and be Lezak's writer; of course Maly would have to help me translate and obviously I would not mean any of it...

I kid you not. This is the stuff American swimming needs.

'Go Swim Freestyle with Jason Lezak' is now available! - I suspect this will be the best selling swim technique video ever!

I have a metric ton of swim DVDs and I find that no matter how good the coaches are that are instructing or how good the swim talent is, what makes a swim technique DVD a valuable resource is how well the swim talent is filmed.

The vast majority of technique DVDs I own generally provide only two points-of-view: Front, and side. If the technique filming is exceptionally generous, they may film from a 3/4-view once in awhile but even that is not the norm.

Glenn Mills knows swimming and he has an eye for capturing it on video. This, Go Swim with Jason Lezak, trailer alone practically covers Jason Lezak, our finest 100-meter swimmer ever, from nearly 360-degree views.

I play the Go Swim: Freestyle with Kara Lynn Joyce video at least every other month and I am looking forward to adding this to my library.

Here is a link to the Go Swim with Jason Lezak page: [Link]


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