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Swimming Faster is Fun

 

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We are constantly growing and improving. Not a day goes by without a new product or product idea or collaboration with a great company like Finis and Stroops and amazing coaches and swimmers. Join us in our passionate pursuit of better solutions and opportunities.

Make your solution reality or share a problem or opportunity. Just call us and we will make your idea into a training tool that will give you the competitive advantage you dream of.

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Find your voice and help others find theirs. From tech software to mental toughness; it’s all here.

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Specific Stroke Solutions

Because of you, people swim better. They swim faster. They have fun improving. You build the environment for this. We support you because we have the exact same mission. Every product you see here makes swimmers faster around the world. The reason they do is we understand our mission isn’t swim suits -- it’s making swimming faster fun. It’s helping people learn this great sport from lessons to mastery. It’s helping them measure where they are and giving them tools to get measurably better.

Core Training Products

Pool Equipment

Just Released!

  1. Vertical Kicker

  2. MiniBoards

  3. RANGS Kit

  4. Hanging White Board for EyeCart +

1. Snorkel Mirrors force perfect head alignment, 2. Goggle Mirrors look down to see forward 3. EyeCart Rolls to video top down, underwater, side, front, and back with HD camera or ipad 4. EyeCoach rolling HD video fits in your bag 5. EyeSwim -- empower swimmers 6. Bottoms Up, 7. FAST Paddles bent SPRINT Paddles (five stroke-perfecting sizes), 8. Thornton Paddles Hand Paddles balance shoulder force 9. Thornton Arm Paddles, 10. RANGS Kit -- the far smarter pull buoy now a full system 11. KickMinder for perfect whip kick every kick 12. CoreKicks stop bent knee kicking and build core 13. FinWings: progression for your fins 14. Fankle: the ONLY way to build strong flexible ankles 15. Fankle Mini: use it anywhere 16. Hankle: a Fankle for breaststrokers 17. Backstroke Paddles, 18. Breaststroke Яeversible Paddles, 19. BackStart stops start slips 20. The Sweeper for lateral power 21. The Kicker: build both sides of dolphin and flutter on land 22. otating Swim Bench with accommodating resistance 23. Lane Mind, 24. Custom Swim Teaching Platforms, 25. The Perfect Shot (polo), 26. Team Ankle Stretcher (four at a time) 27. Acrylic Underwater Custom Mirrors any size; even the whole lane! 28. Rods build underwater streamline 29. Tubes for controlled breathing with longer strokes 30. Start Hoops teach perfect starts 31. Snorkel Mirror for Finis, Tyr, Ylon, etc. 32. Cool Coach Software: over 100 interactive functions make coaching simpler, smarter, and easier to communicate 33. Cool Swimmer, 34. Twenty-two Cool Digital Stroke, stretching, land, game, and motivational videos. 35. The Vertical Kicker 36. The Pits: making dropped elbows in practice impossible 37: 2015 Workbook for Advanced Swimmers. 38. Cool Digital Swim Meet: a balanced fun meet in seconds calculates points for place and time! Every swim matters, 39. One Hand Kick Boards empower side kicking and fit in your bag.

   

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1. Finis Snorkels, 4 types plus dry top and cardio caps 2. Finis Fins: Seven Kinds including mono-fins plus socks 3. Finis TechToc: feedback for body rotation 4. Finis HydroHip: Force your hips to rotate 5. Finis Paddles Six kinds 7. Finis Alignment Kickboard 8. Finis Foam Pull Buoy 9. Finis Standard Kickboard 10. Finis Dryland Cord: It simply works 11. Finis ROM Strap: Simplifies stretching 12. Finis Swim Parachutes 13. Finis Drag Suits 14. Finis Technique Training Belt 16. Finis Swimwear normal and custom 17. Finis Neptune MP3 18. Finis Swimsense: Calculates distance per stroke, etc. 19. Finis Tempo Trainer 20. Finis Hydro Tracker for open water swimmers 21. Finis Stopwatches 22. Finis Aquapulse -- “talks” your pusle into your ear as you swim 23. Finis Goggles: nineteen kinds 24. Finis Swim Mirror 25. Finis Turnmaster Pro: four sizes 26. Finis Swim Teaching Platforms 27. Finis Floating Island 28. Finis Waterpolo Balls and Caps 29. Finis swim caps pre-made and custom 30. Finis products for swim lessons 32. Minigym Leaper: For starts, turns and breaststroke 33. Minigym 101 and 190 wall mounted iso and dozens of straps and bars 34. Minigym swim bench used by Spitz through Phelps 35. Minigym wall-mounted swim bench (without the bench -- use your own) 36. Myrtha Pace Lights: pace every stroke, rate, etc. six colors for six swimmers in one lane! 37: DMC Fins 38. Stroops covered safety training rubber tubing 39. Fun safe Inner Tubes for pool polo 40. Lifeproof Cases 41. SwimOvate swim computer 42. Bright LCD waterproof Pace clocks 43. Blucore Corsuit. If it makes people swim faster we can help you get it and use it to make swimming faster fun.

   

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Coaches

Land

Vision (they improve what they see)

All our Inventions Make Swimming Faster Fun

Samples of Other Tech Products we sell and Support

CompetitiveSwimmer.com is the modern site of Tropical Penguin, Inc. We love swimming. We focus on those who love to be fitter, stronger, faster, and more successful. It’s not about the suit or the pool -- it’s about the heart and passion of people who strive to become the best at what they love. We serve every gold medal winning country on earth, but all Tropical Penguin products are custom designed, manufactured, and technically supported in the United States. Let us help you, wherever you are, make swimming faster fun.   Steve Friederang, Head Coach

Basics of competitive Swimming this really works!


  1. Bullet    “Swimming” “Faster” is “Fun” -- each word is essential

  2. Bullet    Goggles -- choosing, adjusting, what champions see

  3. Bullet    Suits -- they why, what, how, and how much

  4. Bullet    Beat the clock


Principles OF COMPETITIVE TRAINING -- no just philosophy


  1. Bullet    3 Main Principles -- Specificity, specificity, specificity

  2. Bullet    Repeat this as you practice: “3 degrees, 3 degrees, 3 degrees...”

  3. Bullet    Only what gets measured gets mastered

  4. Bullet    Principles can’t be broken but every swimmer is unique

  5. Bullet    Learn from the worst; ignore the best (sometimes)

  6. Bullet    Never, ever, get wet without a goal

  7. Bullet    Never leave a training wall without a reason

  8. Bullet    Win daily/Lose daily

  9. Bullet    How to leave a wall -- streamline

  10. Bullet    Measure the first stroke - distance, time, breakout

  11. Bullet    Increase power or reduce drag --- can I have both?

  12. Bullet    Video underwater and watch all practices that matter (they all matter)

  13. Bullet    What have you done between practices?

  14. Bullet    One stroke is all that matters -- direction, length, velocity.

  15. Bullet    Rhythm, the chapter usually left out, ta da da; daa-da-dup

  16. Bullet    How to swim fingernails to toenails, phalanges to phalanges

  17. Bullet    Under 4 in the 5 -- set dream goals and pursue them with passion.

  18. Bullet    Swim suits lie

  19. Bullet    Eat, sleep, learn, bleed -- do you swim or are you a swimmer?

  20. Bullet    10 Habits, the short lesson in fun living

  21. Bullet    Physical, Mental, Spiritual -- leave no stone unturned


Equip Excellence


  1. Bullet    Measuring equipment

  2. Bullet    The right books; the right aps

  3. Bullet    Specificity revisited; Why pull-ups don’t matter

  4. Bullet    Are kickboards and pull buoys good? No. Yes. It depends.

  5. Bullet    In-water-overload and adaptation to imposed demands

  6. Bullet    Out-of water advantages -- see, hear, isolate, summate, re-create

  7. Bullet    Why and why not Racks, towers and small paddles

  8. Bullet    Does it work? Charting correlation for you

  9. Bullet    Competing with the world; competing with yourself

  10. Bullet    Mirror mirror on the head, in the pool, behind the computer, in the gym

  11. Bullet    Video: hands free, coach free, or coached. It’s not just cool but do it right.

  12. Bullet    Pace equipment --

  13. Bullet    Benches and “3 degrees”

  14. Bullet    Paddles and rhythm

  15. Bullet    Paddles and specificity

  16. Bullet    Paddles and progression

  17. Bullet    Fins and specificity, rhythm, and progression

  18. Bullet    Stroke by stroke, kick by kick inventions

  19. Bullet    Motion by motion inventions

  20. Bullet    The myth and genius of core training

  21. Bullet    Cross training without wasting time and building useless bulk

  22. Bullet    Creativity by aligning core principles with effective feedback.


The Mind of Mastery Last but First

  1. Bullet    Ten DVD’s that help you train and perform best when it counts most.

  2. Bullet    Top books and clinicians






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