Speed is a Skill

By Chris Webb on SwimSwam
By Chris Webb · Director, GAINswim
If you are not fast, you cannot compete.
That sentence is more true at the elite level today than it has ever been. Which raises a question most clubs do not answer well:
Where does speed actually come from?
The honest answer is that speed is a skill.
Not a gift. Not a genetic ceiling you either have or do not have. It is a teachable, trainable, and developable quality that begins in the nervous system of a young child and conti