Teaching a non-swimmer with a unique approach to swimming using kickboards and hyperventilation techniques.

Teaching a Non-Swimmer

Introducing the use of arms in swimming after the non-swimmer is able to kick for 25 yards.

Introduction of Arms

Receiving a postcard from a client who successfully learned to swim and ventured into the Mediterranean Sea.

Postcard from the Mediterranean Sea

The journey of inventing dual boards and seeking guidance from a business development center.

Invention of Dual Boards

Expanding the market for dual boards and making strategic contacts with potential customers and coaches.

Market Expansion

Exploring the use of dual boards in water polo and successful sales to coaches and teams.

Breakthrough in Water Polo

Highlighting the benefits of using dual boards for vertical kicking and swimming techniques.

Benefits of Dual Boards

Discussing the marketing strategy, sales approach, and future plans for product demonstrations and sales.

Marketing Strategy

Providing a technical explanation of the benefits and functionality of dual boards in swimming and training.

Technical Explanation

Sharing the practical application of dual boards in swim training and the impact on swimmers' performance.

Application in Training

Explaining the teaching method and the IHM positions for using dual boards in swim training.

Teaching Method and IHM Positions

Discussing the creation of a promotional video featuring a 10-year-old swimmer and customer testimonials.

Promotional Video and Customer Testimonials

**Introducing the Dual Boards: A Game Changer for Swimming**

*Helping Swimmers Overcome Challenges*

In our latest video, we shared the inspiring story of a hairdresser who overcame her fear of water and learned how to swim. With dedication and the use of our dual boards, she was able to achieve her goal of swimming in the Mediterranean Sea. This is just one example of how our innovative dual boards have helped individuals with physical challenges or unique learning needs to become confident swimmers. 

**Innovation and Success**

The journey of developing the dual boards began with the goal of creating a tool that could revolutionize the way swimmers train and improve their technique. Through strategic partnerships and guidance from experts in entrepreneurship, we were able to bring the dual boards to market. Since then, we have sold over 420 sets and expanded to 30 different states. Our success has also led to the development of how-to videos, which have been well-received by the swimming community.

**Breaking Barriers in Swimming**

One of the key features of the dual boards is their versatility in training. They have been embraced by various swimming coaches and programs, including ISCA and ASCA members. The dual boards have proven to be a game-changer for vertical kicking, providing swimmers with a unique and effective way to improve their technique and endurance. We have received positive feedback from coaches and swimmers alike, with many recognizing the benefits of using the dual boards in their training routines.

**Expanding Reach and Impact**

As we continue to grow, we are dedicated to reaching more coaches and programs to showcase the benefits of the dual boards. Through free demos and local events, we aim to provide hands-on experiences for coaches and swimmers to see the impact of the dual boards firsthand. Our goal is to make the dual boards accessible to a wide range of swimmers, from beginners to competitive athletes, and to continue breaking barriers in the world of swimming training.

**Join the Dual Boards Movement**

We invite you to visit our website, ripcurrentsports.com, to learn more about the dual boards and explore our resources, including how-to videos and informational PDF files. Follow us on Instagram at rip current sports for engaging content and updates on our latest developments. Whether you're a coach, swim instructor, or a swimmer looking to enhance your training, the dual boards offer a unique and effective approach to improving your swimming technique.

**Stay Connected**

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Join us in the dual boards movement and experience the difference in your swimming training.

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Revolutionize Your Swimming Training with Dual Boards!

- The speaker taught a retired hairdresser how to swim using a unique method with kickboards
- The hairdresser eventually learned to swim and sent a postcard from the Mediterranean Sea
- The speaker then invented dual boards to improve swimming technique
- The dual boards have been successful and are being sold to various swim coaches and clubs
- The speaker plans to continue promoting the dual boards through demos and local events

- The speaker discusses the success of selling tortillas and applies the concept to selling swimming equipment
- They describe their approach to selling demo equipment and how they engage with coaches and swimmers
- The speaker emphasizes the effectiveness of using dual boards for swimming training and encourages people to visit their website for more information

- The speaker discusses the importance of head position in swimming and how using dual boards can improve technique
- They emphasize the specific body positions and teaching angles that the dual boards offer
- The speaker mentions the effectiveness of dual boards in teaching beginners and improving confidence
- They also mention the endorsement of dual boards by an ESPN reporter and the impact of word of mouth in promoting the product

A retired hairdresser learned to swim using a unique kickboard method and sent a postcard from the Mediterranean Sea. The speaker then invented dual boards for swimming technique improvement, which are now being sold to coaches and clubs. The speaker plans to continue promoting the dual boards through demos and local events. They emphasize the effectiveness of using dual boards for swimming training and encourage people to visit their website for more information. The dual boards offer specific body positions, teaching angles, and are effective for teaching beginners and improving confidence. An ESPN reporter has endorsed the dual boards, and word of mouth has been impactful in promoting the product.

I was teaching a client who was reaching retirement age and she was a hairdresser.

She cut hair all day and her leg would fall asleep as she was trying to learn how to swim.

She did not like to be on her back and she only wanted to learn freestyle.

Obviously, this person was a non-swimmer.

And I would arrive 30 minutes before our private lesson to just try and figure out what it is I was going to do to get her swimming and then 1 day I grabbed 2 kickboards because you know that firmness and the buoyancy of those old-school long kickboards would just allow her to hyperventilate without like actually choking on water.

She could side read, she could apply pressure down on the kickboards with her fingers and like this part of her hand as she grabbed the board.

And then as she was hyperventilating, she got sick of hyperventilating and eventually she would just kick her face into the water.

And then obviously she was uncomfortable as she started learning how to breathe and kick, but she eventually was able to rest her ear on her shoulder and then repeat that process.

And as soon as she was able to kick for 25 yards with that process, I was ready to then introduce the arms.

2 months after we started, you know, 2 to 3 days a week, She was hardcore.

And she was, if she missed, she made up the lesson.

And 2 months later, this is in 2017, the summer of 2017, I received a postcard from the Mediterranean Sea saying, I've stared at this sea all of my life.

I have 50% of my clients were at that time were physically challenged or they had ADHD or you know, they had something.

1 client I remember had a concussion and I was like, And then my main client, Sarah Muragatis-Bofinger, we ended up just using this double board method and we got her onto the 2019-2020 Hera Team USA C-Team.

And then COVID hit and I lost everything basically.

So after about 6 months of gardening, I was like, you know what I'm gonna do?

Because my clients were, you know, we had a double board method going.

They would be, you know, flipping the board around so that the nose of the board would go through that water as they double boarded, you know, like, instead of a boat going through the water, it was 1 boat and then the back end of a boat going through the water, and then they'd have to flip it around.

And I was like, no, we don't need to flip anything around anymore because I'm going to invent dual boards.

And what my vision was at that time is the board needs to be like a hockey rink shape to start, so that whenever the hand, like, moves, it's always going through the water with the same or very darn near similar hydrodynamics.

I made some strategic contacts with the Small Business Development Center, met a key advisor, Kevin Fulmer, over at the Alex Brown, Alex Dot Brown School of Entrepreneurship at UMBC, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

And Kevin had been there and done that, sold millions of something, was competing against our Under Armour when Under Armour first started.

He guided me towards how to take a product from the idea stage and then take it to the next level essentially.

And so what you see there, that's like the fourth iteration, which became what they call the MVP, the minimally viable product.

We've sold around more than 420 sets now.

We also sell videos, how-to videos, right?

You know, we're selling to ISCA members, we're selling to ASCA members, we're selling to masters coaches, we're selling to people who love like water aerobics or stuff like that.

What I'm looking to do is break into water polo folks, to tell you honestly, and I know you're a good contact because essentially the dual boards is a game changer for vertical kicking.

I can sit or stand really in deep water and just sandwich the boards on my side and I can kick even with a very mediocre kick all day long.

So meaning if somebody has just almost no kick at all, They can then be coached towards technically kicking well because their ears are out of the water because the boards keep their ears out of the water as the boards are underwater sandwiching their hips essentially.

We've broken in to ISCA coaches such as Rob Fox.

They're like, why would I need that when I have this.

And Rob Fox, for example, did not like kickboards at all and actually went from the kickboard to the triangle board, the finesse alignment board.

And even though Rob Fox had a bunch of those alignment boards, which is probably the closest thing to what the dual boards are, it's got that genius, it's a genius technology, Got the rubber single hand strap, right?

Now the thing is with that board, if you try to double up, it's a little bit thicker too.

If you try to double up on that board, again, you'd run into that problem if you're getting into what I call the letter I position, that that triangle is the back end of the triangle is going through the water, as opposed to the nose of the triangle.

So Rob Fox had a bunch of those triangle boards.

I did a demo, all of his kids were smiles.

And I remember 1 kid saying, you know that the triangle board gives me more, what do you call it?

You know, they're like, and so Rob Fox bought 50 sets.

So that's our biggest sale of ever since, since we started, which was, we started selling back in January of 2022, pre-sales.

And then our website went live in June of 2022.

You're sort of young as far as the marketplace, right?

So what was your experience as a new vendor at the ASCA clinic and then the Eastern States Clinic?

And tell us where you're going to go for future clinics.

I would say we had like a 95% talking, talking success rate.

And then there were those 5% that were just like, that's not going to do it for us.

You know, but most people were like, you know, either intrigued, or they just purchased, right?

Now obviously those folks who have a lot at stake, you know, those learn to swimmers, and also those people who don't want to get in the water.

And obviously, we're showing videos and stuff like that.

And then over with Ask, we sold out our on-site inventory at the World Clinic.

So what we're doing now is we're dedicating to doing free demos.

And we're going through that coach Rob Fox of the Fox Swim Club scenario where we're gonna do this demo for you for free.

You know, he's a neighbor of ours, you know, he's like an hour, an hour away.

And so our advisors like, you've spent a lot of money on going out there, getting the word out, selling.

Now I think it's time to stay home because you've had that success, right?

And we're thinking, you know, we will, we'll leak into Delaware with these demos.

We'll leak into Philadelphia with these demos.

Because I'm in the DC area, kind of like in between Baltimore and DC.

I remember once I wanted to sell tortillas and this guy said when you start selling these tortillas They sell like water He's a Mexican guy, you know Como si fuera agua, right?

It's like once you start getting used to selling them, they sell like water cells, right?

You're trying to target or talk to teams or programs and go in for a practice and bring a duffel bag of goods.

Those little glitches we'll take, we'll make them demos.

We'll negotiate with the manufacturer discount, right, obviously.

And then we'll just dedicate those boards to doing demos.

I will get in the water with the swimmers if, if allowed, obviously.

And, And then I will get out of the water and let the coaches Run the show essentially because a lot of coaches.

They just don't get in the water Right, but obviously they're smart enough to be like this is what I want you guys to do, because if we're going to think about purchasing these things, I need to know how and I need to drive the bus essentially.

So what I do is I get in when the coaches are like, yeah, please get in.

And then once I see that the kids are like, you know, rocking and rolling, then I'll just kind of sneak out, stand behind the coaches and let the coaches drive the bus.

And then if I see a low in the demo, I'm not equipped to give each kit a set of boards yet, right?

Because we're selling them and then we also sell the demos.

So We ran a demo with 6 sets of dual boards 3 lanes so 2 sets of dual boards per lane all right, and Then so I would have to go in there and just kind of keep the train rolling, right?

Because you know how kids are a little bit shy, it's a new thing, what do I do?

I latch on a little bit, I learn from going to like ASCA, I learn from folks like, well, you know, world renowned coaches.

And 1 of them, Bob Bowman, right, he's saying vertical kicking is the fifth stroke, right?

So that's what we're that's what we're saying.

Yo, okay, if Bob Bowman saying vertical kicking is the fifth stroke, man, then just put these here, get in the deep water and start kicking.

You can you and you can kick however slowly you wish and you're not going to sink.

But if you transfer that into like water polo, you take 1 of the boards off, you just put 1 board in and if you think about the goalie, oh, he's gonna egg beat that kick, but he's also gonna have a nice, buoyant piece of foam made out of car bumper foam, right?

Attached to his hand that's deep in the water, like probably a good 18 inches under near his side.

And so you think about that, he's going to be able to train just the block.

Swimming was 1 of them, but I trained soccer, basketball, and then a lot of martial arts.

But really, I don't need a pool buoy because the dual board doubles as a pool buoy.

You put that in between your knees, right?

And the thing is, it's so thin, and it's not as buoyant as a regular kickboard.

It just goes through the water kind of like a Ferrari.

Granted, the tubes are attached, but a lot of people don't care about those tubes going through the water, you know?

So you can put the dual board in between your knees.

You can put the dual board in between your ankles, get a little bit more elevation.

Again, the snorkel's fun, the fins are great, but essentially for swimming, Dual boards get me into a position unlike no other.

If my left arm has a board on it and it's forward and it rides low a little bit, it can't ride low forever.

Eventually it's either going to go down as you kick.

We're not using them for our arm pulls, right?

But if that arm is riding low, which it does for a lot of kids, you know, some kids just like to just turn the water like that, right?

So if it's riding low, the water actually pushes the board up.

So the water actually fixes the positioning of the body, Right?

Because once you tell a learner that this is just a kicking thing, well, as the body tries to go towards its negative tendencies, as that body tries to go towards the tendency, well shoot, it's just a kicking thing.

And what's gonna happen is the water actually pushes the board up.

In other words, like you don't have a super buoyant thing on your hand.

This tool is made for you to find a sweet spot at the speed with which you're kicking.

You're always going to be able to find that sweet spot, the depth of the hand, all right, in the lead hand for that freestyle position, right?

And with the back hand, you can actually jam it down into the water so that your hips rise, so that you feel like you're swimming downhill.

As you increase the speed and the power of your kick, the whole body elevates, which is what we're trying to do, which is why some Olympians, they do it naturally, but some bodies just don't really ever get there.

We can actually get there and get those folks that don't really, that don't really have those natural abilities to feel what it is to be where those people are.

And once they do that, they then gain power, gain endurance, gain confidence and compete.

It's a great catalyst to get the swimmers feeling that ideal body positions and then start to really dip ahead.

We have some nibbles of video on Instagram at rip current sports.

Our website has some PDF files on them explaining what the feel of dual boards gives you in each stroke.

Butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle.

It's something that people may not necessarily have ever tried to articulate, Okay?

And the reason why is because we introduce pressure.

We introduce pressure to the explanation.

We introduce angle of the hand as it applies pressure on a tube as That pressure brings a board down underwater To help the body rise

You know that that we're trying to explain.

Pitch of the hand as it applies pressure downwards and what it does to the entire body.

And that's kind of what we're trying to help people kind of just get into.

We want them to get into it because kicking is just kicking, right?

Everybody knows, you talk to your friend, everybody knows your body's sagging, Everybody seems to say that, oh, the benefit of kicking is the following.

You can get lots of oxygen, but are you teaching your head position anything?

Are you going to be able to do it when you're 57 years old?

Is that neck position going to help you out?

My theory is if Katie Ledecky is using dual boards all the time.

Her career is going to go, and I'm saying right now, right, if she left the traditional kickboard, put it aside, Katie Ledecky is gonna learn so much more, and so is Anthony Neste, as she dedicates to kicking in swimming positions, always.

Now, I don't want Katie to not talk to her friends as she trains, right?

But in reality, what is it giving her in reality as she's kicking with her neck strain?

Neck up, talking to her friend, talking to her friend.

Okay, never really in the actual swim position except maybe breaststroke.

But even when she just shoots that kick and close those legs, her head never goes underwater, right?

Unless she's, I mean, she's not a breaststroker, but she does do the 400 IM every now and then.

Well, those are great comparisons and great examples as to what, you know, your tool, you know, can help the swimmers perform better.

You know, and they can train more specific.

Specificity is a very important concept for swimmers.

It has been for years and you're offering a lot of specific body positions and teaching angles and still allowing that, you know, the leg strength and power and aerobic conditioning to happen too.

I imagine it's a little more difficult to reach the, that learned to swim market, but if you're a teacher, it probably be a good investment to get 4 or 5 sets of dual boards.

And then you could have them at the pool or you could bring them in your car or you know But you're gonna teach lessons.

They're gonna be sometimes you're gonna pull out the dual boards and and get everybody's body tuned up so that's got to be a 1 of your selling points is trying to find those those teachers that are instructing the kids that maybe are a little farried or maybe they're even just a frantic swimmer or making progress, but these I think would help take them to the next level rather quickly.

I know what happens to my body as it's in chlorine, you know, for 8, maybe not 8, let's just say a maximum of 4 hours and 15 minutes per day, right?

I've lost all the hair on my body teaching swimming.

You don't need to do that with dual boards.

You get in the water with a non-swimmer, you put the boards on them, and they freak out a little bit, yes, but then they realize that they're floating and then the fear leaves them.

So think about how quickly they are then doing what you ask them to do.

And so it's the IHM method of learning, okay?

The letter I is where The lead board is a freestyle breathing position.

And then the letter H is with both boards on front of you, more of a traditional position.

And then the letter M, the letter M is actually the boards at your side.

So when you go to our website, you will see an immediate video on our website which introduces the IHM positions on a 2 minute video.

I recommend everybody look at that video.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ A lure video that we made.

A lure video of a 10-year-old local trying to get on to 1 of the most difficult teams having minimal experience, all right, in this area.

And so what we, you know, he's gonna get into a tryout, all right, and what we did is video each stroke And take the buyer, the customer, on a journey of how this 10 year old tried to use dual boards as the main tool to try and get on this team, having minimal experience.

They think getting onto a team is is is either a easy or be like I'm I also try it You know The parents are like you might as well try and get on the best thing, even though you haven't invested that time to actually make the teams.

And so it's a little bit unrealistic to tell you honestly, a lot of parents are right.

But the dual boards, they like ramp up the confidence, right?

And, well, I can't believe he's learning so fast.

And that's what the viewer, the purchaser of the videos is going to see.

And I was like, great, you purchased dual boards.

And it's because of a ISCA Teacher in Tennessee who bought at the ISCA clinic, right?

This ISCA teacher in Tennessee was like, hey, Soon Mean, that's her name, Soon Mean Kimes, hey, Soon Mean, you gotta get these.

I said, hey, Soon Mean, you might as well get the video, too Right and it took her a while but then just 2 days ago.

Yeah, so word of mouth got to be a friend of yours.

And hopefully we can share this as a as an ongoing feature with a with our website and help get the word out.


Speaker 0: I was teaching a client who was reaching retirement age and she was a hairdresser. She cut hair all day and her leg would fall asleep as she was trying to learn how to swim. She did not like to be on her back and she only wanted to learn freestyle. Obviously, this person was a non-swimmer. She was a tough 1.

And I would arrive 30 minutes before our private lesson to just try and figure out what it is I was going to do to get her swimming and then 1 day I grabbed 2 kickboards because you know that firmness and the buoyancy of those old-school long kickboards would just allow her to hyperventilate without like actually choking on water. She could side read, she could apply pressure down on the kickboards with her fingers and like this part of her hand as she grabbed the board. And then as she was hyperventilating, she got sick of hyperventilating and eventually she would just kick her face into the water. And then obviously she was uncomfortable as she started learning how to breathe and kick, but she eventually was able to rest her ear on her shoulder and then repeat that process. And as soon as she was able to kick for 25 yards with that process, I was ready to then introduce the arms.

2 months after we started, you know, 2 to 3 days a week, She was hardcore. She was like, I will do this. Right? And she was, if she missed, she made up the lesson. And 2 months later, this is in 2017, the summer of 2017, I received a postcard from the Mediterranean Sea saying, I've stared at this sea all of my life.

And finally I was able to get in. Thank you. Big thank you. So that's the story. What did I just do?

I have 50% of my clients were at that time were physically challenged or they had ADHD or you know, they had something. 1 client I remember had a concussion and I was like, And then my main client, Sarah Muragatis-Bofinger, we ended up just using this double board method and we got her onto the 2019-2020 Hera Team USA C-Team. And then COVID hit and I lost everything basically. So after about 6 months of gardening, I was like, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna invent the real thing.

Because my clients were, you know, we had a double board method going. They would be, you know, flipping the board around so that the nose of the board would go through that water as they double boarded, you know, like, instead of a boat going through the water, it was 1 boat and then the back end of a boat going through the water, and then they'd have to flip it around. And I was like, no, we don't need to flip anything around anymore because I'm going to invent dual boards. And what my vision was at that time is the board needs to be like a hockey rink shape to start, so that whenever the hand, like, moves, it's always going through the water with the same or very darn near similar hydrodynamics. I made some strategic contacts with the Small Business Development Center, met a key advisor, Kevin Fulmer, over at the Alex Brown, Alex Dot Brown School of Entrepreneurship at UMBC, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

And Kevin had been there and done that, sold millions of something, was competing against our Under Armour when Under Armour first started. He guided me towards how to take a product from the idea stage and then take it to the next level essentially. And so what you see there, that's like the fourth iteration, which became what they call the MVP, the minimally viable product. We took the MVP to market. We've sold around more than 420 sets now.

We're in 30 different states. We also sell videos, how-to videos, right? And we're actually selling video. Can you believe that? Like people are buying videos, right?

You know, we're selling to ISCA members, we're selling to ASCA members, we're selling to masters coaches, we're selling to people who love like water aerobics or stuff like that. What I'm looking to do is break into water polo folks, to tell you honestly, and I know you're a good contact because essentially the dual boards is a game changer for vertical kicking. I can sit or stand really in deep water and just sandwich the boards on my side and I can kick even with a very mediocre kick all day long. So meaning if somebody has just almost no kick at all, They can then be coached towards technically kicking well because their ears are out of the water because the boards keep their ears out of the water as the boards are underwater sandwiching their hips essentially. So in a vertical fashion, right?

We've broken in to ISCA coaches such as Rob Fox. And coaches are tough cookies, right? They're like, why would I need that when I have this. And Rob Fox, for example, did not like kickboards at all and actually went from the kickboard to the triangle board, the finesse alignment board. And even though Rob Fox had a bunch of those alignment boards, which is probably the closest thing to what the dual boards are, it's got that genius, it's a genius technology, Got the rubber single hand strap, right?

Now the thing is with that board, if you try to double up, it's a little bit thicker too. If you try to double up on that board, again, you'd run into that problem if you're getting into what I call the letter I position, that that triangle is the back end of the triangle is going through the water, as opposed to the nose of the triangle. So Rob Fox had a bunch of those triangle boards. I did a demo, all of his kids were smiles. And I remember 1 kid saying, you know that the triangle board gives me more, what do you call it?

More stability. But the dual boards are just like fun. You know, they're like, and so Rob Fox bought 50 sets. So that's our biggest sale of ever since, since we started, which was, we started selling back in January of 2022, pre-sales. And then our website went live in June of 2022.

Speaker 1: Fabulous story. You're sort of young as far as the marketplace, right? You're just making your runs. You attended the clinic. So what was your experience as a new vendor at the ASCA clinic and then the Eastern States Clinic?

And tell us where you're going to go for future clinics.

Speaker 0: ISCA. I'd like to talk about ISCA. I would say we had like a 95% talking, talking success rate. Right. And then there were those 5% that were just like, that's not going to do it for us.

You know, but most people were like, you know, either intrigued, or they just purchased, right? The folks who were like, what? Now obviously those folks who have a lot at stake, you know, those learn to swimmers, and also those people who don't want to get in the water. Right? They're like, oh, what?

Yes. OK. And obviously, we're showing videos and stuff like that. And then over with Ask, we sold out our on-site inventory at the World Clinic. So what we're doing now is we're dedicating to doing free demos.

And we're going through that coach Rob Fox of the Fox Swim Club scenario where we're gonna do this demo for you for free. Cause we're local, right? You know, he's a neighbor of ours, you know, he's like an hour, an hour away. And so our advisors like, you've spent a lot of money on going out there, getting the word out, selling. Now I think it's time to stay home because you've had that success, right?

With that demo. Let's just replicate that locally. And we're thinking, you know, we will, we'll leak into Delaware with these demos. We'll leak into Philadelphia with these demos. Because I'm in the DC area, kind of like in between Baltimore and DC.

I remember once I wanted to sell tortillas and this guy said when you start selling these tortillas They sell like water He's a Mexican guy, you know Como si fuera agua, right? It's like once you start getting used to selling them, they sell like water cells, right? And so, and that's the thing. Sometimes they sell like water, right?

Speaker 1: You're trying to target or talk to teams or programs and go in for a practice and bring a duffel bag of goods.

Speaker 0: And that's exactly it. You know, we have demos, right? Those little glitches we'll take, we'll make them demos. We'll negotiate with the manufacturer discount, right, obviously. And then we'll just dedicate those boards to doing demos.

We'll drive to your locale. I will get in the water with the swimmers if, if allowed, obviously. And, And then I will get out of the water and let the coaches Run the show essentially because a lot of coaches. They just don't get in the water Right, but obviously they're smart enough to be like this is what I want you guys to do, because if we're going to think about purchasing these things, I need to know how and I need to drive the bus essentially. Right.

So what I do is I get in when the coaches are like, yeah, please get in. And then once I see that the kids are like, you know, rocking and rolling, then I'll just kind of sneak out, stand behind the coaches and let the coaches drive the bus. And then if I see a low in the demo, I'm not equipped to give each kit a set of boards yet, right? Because we're selling them and then we also sell the demos. So We ran a demo with 6 sets of dual boards 3 lanes so 2 sets of dual boards per lane all right, and Then so I would have to go in there and just kind of keep the train rolling, right?

Because you know how kids are a little bit shy, it's a new thing, what do I do? Well, why don't you try this, right? I latch on a little bit, I learn from going to like ASCA, I learn from folks like, well, you know, world renowned coaches. And 1 of them, Bob Bowman, right, he's saying vertical kicking is the fifth stroke, right? So that's what we're that's what we're saying.

Yo, okay, if Bob Bowman saying vertical kicking is the fifth stroke, man, then just put these here, get in the deep water and start kicking. You can you and you can kick however slowly you wish and you're not going to sink. Rob Fox heard that and then saw it. He latched onto that as well. But if you transfer that into like water polo, you take 1 of the boards off, you just put 1 board in and if you think about the goalie, oh, he's gonna egg beat that kick, but he's also gonna have a nice, buoyant piece of foam made out of car bumper foam, right?

Attached to his hand that's deep in the water, like probably a good 18 inches under near his side. And so you think about that, he's going to be able to train just the block. I trained kids in lots of sports. Swimming was 1 of them, but I trained soccer, basketball, and then a lot of martial arts. Dual boards is my tool.

I don't need anything else. The snorkel's a nice thing. Fins are nice things. But really, I don't need a pool buoy because the dual board doubles as a pool buoy. You put that in between your knees, right?

And the thing is, it's so thin, and it's not as buoyant as a regular kickboard. It just goes through the water kind of like a Ferrari. Granted, the tubes are attached, but a lot of people don't care about those tubes going through the water, you know? So you can put the dual board in between your knees. You can put the dual board in between your ankles, get a little bit more elevation.

Yeah, dual boards are my go-to. I don't need anything else. Again, the snorkel's fun, the fins are great, but essentially for swimming, Dual boards get me into a position unlike no other. If my left arm has a board on it and it's forward and it rides low a little bit, it can't ride low forever. Eventually it's either going to go down as you kick.

We're just kicking with dual boards. We're not using them for our arm pulls, right? But if that arm is riding low, which it does for a lot of kids, you know, some kids just like to just turn the water like that, right? So if it's riding low, the water actually pushes the board up. So the water actually fixes the positioning of the body, Right?

Because once you tell a learner that this is just a kicking thing, well, as the body tries to go towards its negative tendencies, as that body tries to go towards the tendency, well shoot, it's just a kicking thing. And what's gonna happen is the water actually pushes the board up. So, and it doesn't push it overly up. In other words, like you don't have a super buoyant thing on your hand. This tool is made for you to find a sweet spot at the speed with which you're kicking.

You're always going to be able to find that sweet spot, the depth of the hand, all right, in the lead hand for that freestyle position, right? And with the back hand, you can actually jam it down into the water so that your hips rise, so that you feel like you're swimming downhill. As you increase the speed and the power of your kick, the whole body elevates, which is what we're trying to do, which is why some Olympians, they do it naturally, but some bodies just don't really ever get there. We can actually get there and get those folks that don't really, that don't really have those natural abilities to feel what it is to be where those people are. And once they do that, they then gain power, gain endurance, gain confidence and compete.

Speaker 1: It's a great catalyst to get the swimmers feeling that ideal body positions and then start to really dip ahead. Yeah, so it's a great tool for that.

Speaker 0: The website is ripcurrentsports.com. Please, please go there today. So it's ripcurrentsports.com. We have some nibbles of video on Instagram at rip current sports. Please follow us.

Our website has some PDF files on them explaining what the feel of dual boards gives you in each stroke. Butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle. So we actually try and verbalize it. It's something that people may not necessarily have ever tried to articulate, Okay? Perhaps.

And the reason why is because we introduce pressure. Okay? We introduce pressure to the explanation. We introduce angle of the hand as it applies pressure on a tube as That pressure brings a board down underwater To help the body rise

Speaker 1: Now There's a lot of dimensions there.

Speaker 0: It's there's a lot of dimensions there. You know that that we're trying to explain. There's angular. Pitch of the hand as it applies pressure downwards and what it does to the entire body. Okay?

And that's kind of what we're trying to help people kind of just get into. Right? We want them to get into it because kicking is just kicking, right? You grab a board and here you go, right? Everybody knows, you talk to your friend, everybody knows your body's sagging, Everybody seems to say that, oh, the benefit of kicking is the following.

You get lots of oxygen. Now, great. You can get lots of oxygen, but are you teaching your head position anything? Are you going to be able to do it when you're 57 years old? Is that neck position going to help you out?

My theory is if Katie Ledecky is using dual boards all the time. Her career is going to go, and I'm saying right now, right, if she left the traditional kickboard, put it aside, Katie Ledecky is gonna learn so much more, and so is Anthony Neste, as she dedicates to kicking in swimming positions, always. Now, I don't want Katie to not talk to her friends as she trains, right? But in reality, what is it giving her in reality as she's kicking with her neck strain? Up, right?

Neck up, talking to her friend, talking to her friend. Okay, never really in the actual swim position except maybe breaststroke. But even when she just shoots that kick and close those legs, her head never goes underwater, right? Unless she's, I mean, she's not a breaststroker, but she does do the 400 IM every now and then.

Speaker 1: Sure, yeah. Well, those are great comparisons and great examples as to what, you know, your tool, you know, can help the swimmers perform better. You know, and they can train more specific. Specificity is a very important concept for swimmers. It has been for years and you're offering a lot of specific body positions and teaching angles and still allowing that, you know, the leg strength and power and aerobic conditioning to happen too.

Speaker 0: There you go.

Speaker 1: I imagine it's a little more difficult to reach the, that learned to swim market, but if you're a teacher, it probably be a good investment to get 4 or 5 sets of dual boards. And then you could have them at the pool or you could bring them in your car or you know But you're gonna teach lessons. They're gonna be sometimes you're gonna pull out the dual boards and and get everybody's body tuned up so that's got to be a 1 of your selling points is trying to find those those teachers that are instructing the kids that maybe are a little farried or maybe they're even just a frantic swimmer or making progress, but these I think would help take them to the next level rather quickly.

Speaker 0: I know what happens to my body as it's in chlorine, you know, for 8, maybe not 8, let's just say a maximum of 4 hours and 15 minutes per day, right? I've lost all the hair on my body teaching swimming. You don't need to do that with dual boards. You get in the water with a non-swimmer, you put the boards on them, and they freak out a little bit, yes, but then they realize that they're floating and then the fear leaves them. So think about how quickly they are then doing what you ask them to do.

It's day 1, it's day 1. And so it's the IHM method of learning, okay? The letter I is where The lead board is a freestyle breathing position. Can you see that?

Speaker 1: Yep.

Speaker 0: And then the letter H is with both boards on front of you, more of a traditional position. And then the letter M, the letter M is actually the boards at your side.

Speaker 1: Okay.

Speaker 0: So when you go to our website, you will see an immediate video on our website which introduces the IHM positions on a 2 minute video. I recommend everybody look at that video. Oh. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ A lure video that we made. A lure video of a 10-year-old local trying to get on to 1 of the most difficult teams having minimal experience, all right, in this area.

And so what we, you know, he's gonna get into a tryout, all right, and what we did is video each stroke And take the buyer, the customer, on a journey of how this 10 year old tried to use dual boards as the main tool to try and get on this team, having minimal experience. You know, a lot of those kids out there. They think getting onto a team is is is either a easy or be like I'm I also try it You know The parents are like you might as well try and get on the best thing, even though you haven't invested that time to actually make the teams. Right. And so it's a little bit unrealistic to tell you honestly, a lot of parents are right.

But the dual boards, they like ramp up the confidence, right? And, well, I can't believe he's learning so fast. He's got a chance. And that's what the viewer, the purchaser of the videos is going to see. Meanie Kimes is an ESPN reporter.

Her mother purchased dual boards, right? And I was like, great, you purchased dual boards. And it's because of a ISCA Teacher in Tennessee who bought at the ISCA clinic, right? This ISCA teacher in Tennessee was like, hey, Soon Mean, that's her name, Soon Mean Kimes, hey, Soon Mean, you gotta get these. She bought them.

I said, hey, Soon Mean, you might as well get the video, too Right and it took her a while but then just 2 days ago. She bought the video. All right, that's the freestyle playlist

Speaker 1: Excellent. Yeah, so word of mouth got to be a friend of yours. And hopefully we can share this as a as an ongoing feature with a with our website and help get the word out.

Speaker 0: Oh, we're all about that. We had affiliates.

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