Terry Laughlin, who educates coaches from around the world, describes his central premise on how best to coach individuals on how to swim optimally, “…mindfulness is far more essential to open water, than pool, swimming because the absence of familiarity, and structure, has such enormous potential to throw you off your game.

And while many people are tempted to think of mindfulness as sort of a gauzy new age concept, it works best when structured as rigorously as anything tangible or visible.

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