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…

Recorded a video for ya below! 👇 The message is this: BE YOURSELF. Because you are good enough the way you are. Because you don't have to impress anyone. Which should make it very easy to talk to each other and connect. Watch the video I'll show you how to make friends easily 😉 Then share some fun camp life games that you've played in the past in the comments below. PS: A surprise for both camps just happened 🔥 🔥 🔥 you'll find out soon enough!

We're meeting for important camp updates today: - Summer Camp 1 (Aug 4-14): 9pm Zürich time - Summer Camp 2 (Aug 17-27): 9:30pm Zürich time The Link is in the Swimpros Calendar. Best if you can make it live. But the recordings will be provided. There is no Academy training tonight. And congrats to all the fast swims. Saw some results and I'm proud of you!! 😎 Please share with the community. Good and bad. Pretty and ugly doesn't matter. See ya tonight!