I AM LOVING IT! 😚💞 Everything is so much better. The people, the trainings, the EVERYTHING! I do not regret that I left, and I am saying that respectfully. I’ll be starting morning practices at 06:00 tomorrow morning and im very excited to start again. We used to have them in the previous club, but then it stopped at some point. The swimmers are a little faster than me at some sets, but it gives me the motivation to wanting to be at the same level as them. Im feeling every single day like that I’ve learned something new, and it wasn’t like that in my last club, I felt like I was stuck in place all the time. And it’s surprisingly similar to the Tenerife camp, the trainings and stretchings, and it’s good to continue/learned what I did in Tenerife here in Iceland, so this move was very successful. I’ve done one week with them already 🥹💕. Also, surprising plot twist, I’ve gotten a new guy in my class. He’s nice to talk to and an okay guy. When I went to swim practice after school that Friday, he appeared suddenly and started talking to my coach about the program. I was pretty stunned as the guy never mentioned to me before that he was a swimmer, and we did the whole thing “get to know each other” in school. I mean, im not against it obviously, I love meeting swimmers 🫶. It’s exciting and we will basically be stuck together the whole day/s. I mean, this is just a fun fact I wanted to share out there 🫠. Alright, now I gotta get some rest for the morning training tomorrow LOL. ✨💤

The two fastest 100 freestylers in history now train in the same lane every single day… Our friend Fares from Myswimpro goes inside Popovici's pool in Romania and breaks down the friendship, the rivalry, and the technique behind the fastest swimming ever recorded. Here's what's inside: 👉 The gentleman's agreement they had to make before a fast 100 👉 Why two completely different strokes produce almost identical speed 👉 What "easy mode" looks like on the clock for these two 👉 The one thing Popovici's coach says most coaches forget Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAn-eST16qY PS: Hope you're all having a great summer!! 🌴🔥🏊 We'll be back with our own content after the summer camps. If you wanna follow the action, here are the links to follow: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@swimpros Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/myswimpros/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/myswimpros TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@myswimpros LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidraphaelkarasek/

Fares (the guy who interviews Popovici here) is a colleague of mine and sent me this exclusive video interview he did. I really liked it so sharing it here. At minute 23 Popivici starts talking about.... SCULLING!! What they do, how often they do it. Get ready for camp cuz we gonna do loooooads of it too.🔥 And cast your vote below👇

Went pretty well and I'm happy with the results considering I was sick at this gala 100 back 1.16 took off 1 and a half second It felt pretty strong but the last 25 wasn't great, so I'm working on that 100IM 1.17 took 2 seconds off, focused especially on technique and had the best breaststroke I've ever felt at a gala 50 fly 34.3 took off a second too, focused on technique instead of speed on this one, and focusing on that actually helped my speed far more than the last time I swam the 50 fly 50 free 29.10 last event of the day and all my energy was drained and at this point I was functioning off panados, so I added 1.5 secs. I didnt have the best start, and I breathed way too many times than necessary. But it's ok, I'm not upset about it. And know I can learn from the whole gala and what to focus on.

Just wanted to put it out there for @David Karasek and @Yul Münger that it’s official that after the swimming camp in Tene, I’ll be moving to a new club. This club is basically very close to my previous club, as we share the same pool and used to collab in some competitions together, including trainings. Why I made this decision is because I haven’t been very included with my teammates, many don’t even come anymore and there are more unserious than serious, it’s more like me, my friend, and some other guy who’s actually taking swimming seriously… so I wanted to grow the circle a bit more. I know some girls and boys from the club I’m going to move in (It’s called Ármann) and I really like how everybody motivates everybody. I’ll finally (I hope) have a good circle of competitive swimmers who want more in swimming. Not only that, their trainings are very good, I really like them. I sometimes had the chance to swim in their trainings as our coach was coming late or some emergency came up, and that the other club coach took us in. It’s similar to what we did in the last camp, and it’s great because it means that I’ll keep doing what I was doing in camp in Iceland, because to be honest with you, my coach would have had some other kinds of trainings, way off from what I did in camp last year. I’m going to have to tell my coach about the decision and I am hoping that he’ll approve (and I don’t think that would be a problem because he had done the same thing at this age, so). Most nervous is about how im going to tell my friend, Emily, because she’s going to be the only serious girl there and she’ll be alone without me to push her. I have asked her many times about changing clubs, but she’s certain that she will never change (we’ll see 🤷‍♀️). It’s not like she alone ALONE, like there are other girls there too but they don’t take swimming easily, so I’ll have to call her and tell her the decision, because I’d tell her in person but I’m not in Iceland right now. I hope she understands…