Almost beat Gunnar Larsson
At the beginning of my swimming career I was a breast swimmer and then became district champion in Västerbotten several times. At best, I became the Norrland champion in the 100m breaststroke. I also participated in SM and JSM a few times. At Skol-SM I was at best four. For some reason, I lost the technique in breaststroke. I could not swim fast anymore. I changed to a medley where I at JSM was at best six with Gunnar Larsson a few tenths ahead of me. Considering Gunnar's later career, I usually brag that I almost beat him. :-) At the Swedish Championships I was at best 10th. In backstroke and butterfly swimming, I have some final places at Skol-SM. In addition, a number of DM wins in different swimming modes. In recent years I also have some gold, silver and bronze medals from the Masters-SM.

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From IT to TI
Before I retired in September 2012, I worked at Luleå University of Technology, where I started in January 1973. I have been a teacher in computer science, numerical analysis, mathematics and media technology. I have also worked at the Computer Centre at the university and made a detour to the software industry as a programmer and product manager 1985-1995. In 1995 I returned and remained until retirement. During my last stay at the university, I called myself an e-meeting evangelist and was, among other things, responsible for SUNET's meeting service (SUNET = Sweden's university computer network). E-meetings are meetings over the Internet with, among other things, audio, video, whiteboard and shared documents. I was also one of the founders of Marratech, a company that developed and sold software for meetings. Marratech's software and licenses were acquired by Google in 2008 and Google+ Hangouts and later Google Meet is the result we can see today from that acquisition.

It's a bit funny that it needed a pandemic to make e-meetings popular.

I have some thoughts about what a virtual coaching environment would look like, ie what distance coaching would look like ...

Well, enough about this, now the rest is about swimming.

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How to swim energy efficiently?
I was an active swimmer from 1961 to 1967. In 2004, I started exercising regularly. In 2010 I became interested in swimming in open water and took part in a test race for Luleå Midnight Swim and also swam Vansbro that year. After Vansbro, I felt that I wanted to be able to swim better and faster. The only solution I saw then was to simply make sure to start training hard. To get me more muscle and better condition.

However, I had thought a lot about why some could swim so much faster than others. It was especially a swimmer, Henrik Johansson Berlin who I checked out in our pool. It looked like he was pulling himself through an invisible rope. His swimming was so effective. How the hell did the man behave? Google was my friend who helped me find Shinji's famous clips and thus the solution, namely Total Immersion.