Milton Nelms

Swimcoach

Biography

Milton Nelms, an American living in Australia, has an international reputation for his work with elite
swimming athletes, their coaches, and different swimming and sport organizations. His methods in
helping athletes to improve performance led him to develop an interest in the deepest instinctive
responses that human beings have when going into the water.

As a result, he has designed learn to swim programs and swimming improvement programs that use the same principles for anyone of any ability, age, or experience level with the water, including fearful children and elite athletes.

Milton Nelms will present at both Learn to Swim and Competitive Swimming.

At Competitive Swimming he will have two presentations:

Impulses and Spaces

The efficiency Paradigm in swimming.

What does this way of looking at swimming mean in drowning prevention, learn to swim, therapy, and competitive swimming?

First Class Leverage and Second Class Leverage in swimming. How do these phenomena, described by Archimedes over 2000 years ago, apply to all forms of swimming today?

Milton Nelms will discuss how swimming culture is dominated by the force system of second class leverage, and how using the balance system of 1st class leverage in the teaching and training of can make faster and more efficient swimming. He will also discuss how this same approach can help to save lives.

What`s your paradigm

This presentations Milton will have together with Jim Pawelzcyk.

 

At Learn to Swim will he have these two presentations:


The “Creating” Paradigm and the “Elimination” Paradigm

How do these two paradigms relate to Learn to Swim?

This presentation makes the case that competitive swimming styles have an outsized influence on how learn to swim programs are designed. One of these influences would be the value of creating power as a way to make swimming faster. A second approach, rarely seen in competitive swimming, is to value the elimination of drag as a way to swim faster. These paradigms will be compared, with the case being made that the elimination paradigm should be used in learn to swim. Samples of exercises within each paradigm will be shown.


Float to Survive, Float to Thrive

How a new paradigm in drowning prevention, the Float to Live campaign in Britain and the Float to Survive campaign in Australia, can be used in Learn to Swim.

These survival based campaigns for drowning prevention have a focus on duration, where a swimmer in trouble gets more time before their energy reserves are used up. An old concept in swimming, floating, is redefined and then used as the basis for gaining time in the water to save swimmers from drowning. This presentation describes how this same principle could be used as a basis for learn to swim, beginning with the very first immersions, regardless of age.

 

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