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Summary: Swimming accessories include kick boards, pool buoys, paddles, nose clips and ear plugs. Use swimming equipment to improve strength and swimming comfort with tips from the owner of a swimwear shop in this free video on swimming accessories.

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By Hector Inga
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Hector Inga started Lane Four Swim Shop in Austin, Texas in 1989. Since its inception as an outlet for local swimmers to buy competitive swimwear, Lane Four has expanded to the Houston...read more

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"Hello, my name is Hector Inga, owner of Lane Four swim shop in Austin, Texas and we're going to talk a little bit about swimming accessories. There's just a big variety of accessories for swimmers. Let's start with a kick board, and you would use this on some of your training sets where you would just hold on to the board and you would be using your legs to kick and getting a good leg work out. Also, you would use what is called a pool buoy. They come in a single piece, or in a two piece pool buoy and you would put this between your legs and these would keep your legs afloat without kicking and that way you can use your arms for your swimming. That will get you a upper body work outs. Also there are paddles. You would use paddles to also for upper body strength. It will also help you develop your stroke, will make you, actually will force you into having a good entry and a good exit on the stroke. Also you can have, you can have nose pieces or nose clips if you're having problems getting water up your nose. Also we have ear plugs so to prevent ear...swimmer's ear. Also we have little towels that we have, this is called a Sammy towel. This is you know, about a foot and a half, by a foot and a half towel that would dry you quickly. You can wring the towel out and use it over and over again. Also in the accessories, you can also consider maybe goggles or caps, fins and a lot of them are actually training accessories."

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