Off to Oslo...

Greatings water lovers!
The weekend has started early for me. It's 6AM here in Denmark as i am writing this post, and i am on the train to Copenhagen where i should catch a flight to Oslo, Norway, later this morning. This weekend, me and a couple of other athletes from the danish national team in Naval Pentathlon are meeting with the norwegian team, to train together. All of this is a part of the great friendship and coorperation among the scandinavian national teams. Hopefully the norwegians will be able to visit Copenhagen later this spring.
I will probably not be able to blog during the weekend, but i plan on taking some pictures and hopefully capture myself doing the "walk under water" WOD on video for you guys to watch later.

I want to take a moment to talk about stroke efficiency and a nice drill to improve it. Those of you who are familiar with swimming, probably know the drill "sculling". Sculling is a drill intending to give you a better "feel" and "grab" of the water. If you got a pullbuoy/leg-float you can place between your thighs, do so. We want to isolate the forward motion, to only being created by the scull.
I found a video that i hope will illustrate how it is done. You simply move your arm back and forth, diagonally to the direction in which you are moving, creating forward motion through the water resistance against the angle of your hand. This is a great exersice and you can play around with it in a lot of ways, sculling overhead, below your shoulders, hips or going legs first on your back. Try to do a test/re-test with this drill. Notice your feel for the water before and after you did your sculling and you should be able to tell a difference.
Now i will try to catch a little sleep since it is way to early for my liking!
/Kasper