Thank you for stopping by. My name is Sergio Lopez Miro and I have been involved in the swimming world as a swimmer or as a coach for almost 40 years. Swimming has given me a path in life and my goal is to share some of my thoughts and experiences here with you. Let me know what you think and enjoy!
I am very impressed with the great job that Florida Swim Network is doing to promote swimming in our community and really make our sport more exciting for al of us. With all these interviews, pictures, twitting and facebooking FSN has creating a great excitement with our young Florida swimmers, parents and followers. Keep up the Great Work!
I just want to Thank Joe Auer and the crew of Florida Swim Network for the great coverage of the Orlando Grand Prix this past three days at the YMCA at International Drive in Orlando.
Here are few of the videos and picture that you can see in their website:
My daughter Harley's interview ;-) Not Bad on camera
Florida Swim Network will be covering our Florida Senior Champs this weekend at the YMCA in Orlando, so make sure that you follow the meet by connecting with them and telling your friends about it.
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What has helped you develop that passion burning inside of you?
Have you ever asked yourself what was one of the main things that helped you be passionate about your life? I do that a lot and I have come to the conclusion that it is always developing and there are certain moments that happen randomly that have a profound effect on my outlook at my life and the way I will do things from that moment on. Sometimes that moment in time just brings me back to how I felt when I was young and trying to understand myself and what I wanted to accomplish in my life (still trying to figure it out ;-).
Well the other day when I was at the Austin Grand Prix I had one of those moments. The meet went great since I only had two swimmers (one pro and one high school) and I was able to spend a lot of quality time with the high school swimmer. I always feel that when I can travel with a small number of swimmers like this time I can connect, teach and understand the swimmers better. I felt this time was a very good growing moment for the swimmer and me as a coach.
Now the “random moment” that made me feel alive and emotional internally was when I was listening to a musician and his band at a bar in Austin. I was already in the hotel and my friend Mark texted me and said that a friend of his (ex-swimmer) was playing at an Irish Pub in the infamous 6th street in downtown Austin. So I said “sure I will be there in few minutes”, I did not think twice and don’t ask me why. I get there and the music is already going on. The band’s name is Trent Turner and the Moontowers. We had a table right in front of the stage and watching Trent Turner play the guitar and sing just brought Goosebumps all over me. I don’t listen to Blues (I don’t know why) but watching Trent playing and signing with such passion made me feel very good. This guy was in his own world with his eyes closed and just letting everything that he had inside of him come out in the form of music.
What a "Great Moment in Time!!!!"
If every day I was able to be that passionate about my coaching and my swimmers understood and appreciated their talent the way Trent was playing the guitar at that moment in time THE SKY WOULD BE THE LIMIT!
INSPIRING and I can only say THANK YOU to Trent Turner and the Moontowers for sharing that moment with all of us at the bar.
One of the songs that made me buy their CD at the bar is “Billy Badass”. When Trent was just playing this song he just took me back in time to my beautiful city of Barcelona when I was young and then my city gave me a reason to be who I am. Thank You!
Now I sure hope some of my swimmers make it this summer to the 2013 World Swimming Championships in Barcelona not just to compete but to see, feel and understand the magic that a city like Barcelona has for everyone to embrace.
Austin-Barcelona THANK YOU for giving us the opportunity to feel that we belong somewhere no matter how far away we may be.
Here are a couple of things for you to see and listen. Enjoy and never stop living and appreciating “that moment in time” that happens randomly and has a profound effect on who you are and the direction your life takes. It is one of the most beautiful things about this life we live and that many times we don’t understand or we are afraid to feel and listen.
Video Youtube of Billy Badass song from last year. Not great quality of video but you can appreciate what i mean
Just Listen, Feel and Don’t Be afraid of what is inside of you. You will be surprised with what that moment brings you and also where it takes you. Enjoy the great Journey you live when you are passionate about what your life!
Thank you for reading this long!
My name is Sergio Lopez Miro and I come from Barcelona, Spain!
Here we are ready for the great Spanish Tradition of eating 12 grapes and making 12 wishes the first 12 seconds of this great year that we are about to start.
I will be thinking of you with my wishes!!!!
;-) Enjoy the night my friends and open the New Year the right way.
To everyone I just want to wish you the "BEST OF THE BEST" in everything you and your families do. I also want to take this opportunity to THANK everyone for everything. I feel very fortunate to have the World of Swimming as my way of life and I thank everyone who has helped me and my family have such a great year. Thanks!!!
Not every day is a "Happy day" but even on the worst days if I take a few minutes of quiet time and think about the life I have I feel very good and very fortunate. I sure hope you feel the same way ;-)
Keep being Passionate about Swimming and DON'T STOP DREAMING!
These past few days we had three of our Bolles Sharks represented three different countries at the 2012 Short Course World Championships here in Istanbul, Turkey. Anderson Lim (Brunei), Joseph Schooling (Singapore) and Ryan Murphy (USA) have done a very good job these past five days here in Istanbul.
Today has been the most exciting day of all. Ryan Murphy had the day of his life today here in Istanbul by winning two Medals at the 2012 Short Course World Championships. Ryan won a Bronze Medal in the 200 Backstroke in an Epic Race with Ryan Lochte and Radoslaw Kawecki from Poland. The race came down to the last 25 and Ryan came 0.4 short from winning the Gold. Amazing swim making him the third fastest All-Time Textile swimmer, and he is only 17!
Here are the splits and the video of his race tonight:
Here you have the video of the Medal Ceremony for the 200 Backstroke:
Ryan this morning swam a very comfortable 1:50.60 in the 200 Backstroke to qualify 2nd overall for tonight’s final. I believe he swam the fourth fastest time of the year this morning. Very good time for being the first time swimming in his life in short course meters. His splits: 25.69 / 2.42 (54.11) / 28.75 / 27.74].
Here is the video of the Men’s 200 Back Prelims:
After the 200 Back Ryan was given the opportunity to be part of the 400 Medley Relay for the Prelims swim for USA. That gave him an opportunity to swim for the first time the 100 Backstroke in short course meters. He swam next the current World Record Holder and did an excellent job with a 50.91 split that I believe is very good too for being the first time. He would had been top eight in the Finals of the 100 Back here in Istanbul.
Here is the Video:
CONGRATS RYAN!!!
Joseph Schooling swam three Singapore National Records, one in the 50 Fly, one in the 100 Fly and another one in the 200 Fly. His 100 Fly placed him 22nd with a 51.84 and the 50 Fly placed him 17th with a 23.58. In the 50 Fly he missed the SemiFinals by 0.01. Joseph also helped Singapore in the 400 Medley Relay, 400 and 800 Free Relays.
I will post the videos of the 100 Fly and 50 Fly as soon as I get them from Singapore Swimming.
Joseph did not have a very good swim today and I think mainly because of really hurting his ankle over two weeks ago and not being able to really train properly and push his kicking. His time was: 1:59.44 [26.18 / 29.87 (56.06) / 31.06 / 32.32].
Here is the Video of his race:
Anderson Lim did not have the best meet ever but he swam an almost Personal Best in the 200 Free with a 2:00.74 and he added a couple of seconds in the 400 with a 4:23.37. In my opinion his strokes were good but he needed to push harder both events from the beginning and really push hard in the middle of his races. Very young and with a great future ahead of him.
Amazing Finish by our Sharks and by Ryan Murphy of this first part of the 2012-13 season. I am proud of all the swimmers, coaches and parents for making Bolles the great place it is.
Sergio Lopez Miro
