Inside with Brett Hawke

Diogo Ribeiro is an absolute beast. This summer he won a Bronze medal at European Championships and 3 gold medals at World Junior Championships.   At just 17 years old, Diogo went 22.9 in the 50 LCM Fly, breaking the Junior World Record and the only one ever under 23.    He's also been 21.9/48.5 in the 50 & 100 LCM Free and 51.61 in the 100 LCM Fly.   All of this after a sc...

Mary T. Meagher (now Plant) is a 3x Olympian (1980/1984/1988), 3x Olympic gold medalist (1984), and Bronze medalist (1988) for the United States of America. Madame Butterfly, as she was affectionately nicknamed, took the 100 (57.9) and 200 Butterfly (2.05.9) events to new heights. Mary's World Records stood for 18 & 19 years, respectively!   Her career wasn't all flowers and frosting, tho...

Jessica Jackson (née Abbott) is Australian Dolphin #564 (World Champs, Com Games medalist, Pan Pacs). During her rise, she contracted glandular fever aka mono and it stuck with her for years making training nearly impossible.  Today Jess is a wife, mum, and dietitian. She is also a mental health advocate specifically for people in the medical field. Her sister Chloe, a member of the Australia...

Henri Hooft is the owner and head trainer of Kill Cliff Fight Club in Deerfield Beach, Florida. He is the creator of the Hkickboxing striking system.    As an athlete, Henri fought in over 100 professional fights.   Henri has worked with some of the worlds best fighters including Tyrone Spong, Rashad Evans, Vitor Belfort, Anthony Johnson, Michael Johnson, Eddie Alvarez, Kamaru Usman...

Emily Seebohm has swum in 4 Olympic Games for Australia. Emily is a 7x Olympic medalist. She has won individual medals in both the 100 and 200 Backstrokes. She has set World Records in backstroke. Emily knows how to swim backstroke fast.   In this clip from Inside with Brett Hawke, Emily provides backstroke tips on everything including the backstroke start, rotation in backstroke, the backstr...

A native of England, Steve Mellor has spent most of the 2000's in the US as a collegiate swimmer and swim coach. He then moved into coaching full time and spent almost a decade as the Associate Head Coach at LSU. During his swim coaching career he guided athletes to the heights of NCAA and was able to guide LSU's first ever American swimmer to an Olympic team in Brooks Curry who went on to win an...

Todd DeSorbo is the Head Coach of the University of Virginia's Swimming & Diving program. Our Sponsors: BRATTER PA IMMIGRATION LAW : Exclusive immigration representation of athletes, entrepreneurs, artists, investors, and entertainers. SWIM ANGELFISH: Receive the tools and skills needed to teach swimmers with autism, physical disabilities, anxiety, sensory and motor conditions with Swim Angelf...

Bonnie Tsui is an award winning journalist & author, receiving the Jane Rainie Opel Young Alumna Award from Harvard University, the Lowell Thomas Gold Award, and a National Press Foundation Fellowship. Bonnie is a lifelong swimmer and the author of, " Why We Swim ". Buy the book, here! And, check out her newest novel, " Sarah and the Big Wave The True Story of the First Woman to Surf Mavericks...

Swimming World Announces Official Partnership With Inside with Brett Hawke Podcast   Today marks an exciting milestone for Swimming World and the International Swimming Hall of Fame, as they announce an official partnership with two-time Australian Olympian Brett Hawke and his highly successful podcast, Inside with Brett Hawke. While Swimming World and Hawke have worked together in the past t...

Jeff Natalizio is the National Coach for Evolution Racing Club in South Orange County, California. He also runs his own business (Zio Fit) training athletes to master longevity and unlock their full potential.    As an athlete, he swam for the University of California. Jeff is clearly a disciple of the late, great Nort Thornton, as you will see and hear in this interview.    In...

Noè Ponti won the Bronze medal in the Men's 100 Fly at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. Along with Jeremy Desplanches (200 IM), Switzerland took home two swimming medals in Japan.   He is coached by Massimo Meloni, can speak 4 languages, and is sponsored by Arena.    In today's episode, Noe talks all about butterfly. Head position in butterfly. Hips and rhythm in butterfly. Breathing i...

Jon Rudd is the National Performance Director for Swim Ireland. His swimmers have won Olympic gold medals and broken World Records. He is also the President of the World Swim Coaches Association (WSCA).    In this hour long interview he hits on everything from the psychology of swimming to working with Ben Proud and Rūta Meilutytė. 00:00 Bratter PA, Immigration Law 00:05 Hello Coach Jon...

Glenn Mills is the Founder of GoSwim. TV and a 1980 US Olympian. He won NCAA's in 1983 swimming for Don Gambril at the University of Alabama, but Brett doesn't hold that against him.  Subscribe to GoSwim and get access to thousands of videos that will help teach you the techniques and drills to you build your stroke for optimal performance. Plus, you get their new augmented reality race analy...

Michael Klim is back! In this episode he discusses his journey being diagnosed with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) and how it has affected his life.    He also talks about David Popovici, Ian Thorpe, Pieter van den Hoogenband, and being inducted into the 2022 International Swimming Hall of Fame. 00:00 Bratter PA Immigration Law 00:15 Diagnosed with CIDP 03:15 Co...

Live with superstar Summer McIntosh!  At the 2022 World Championships, Summer McIntosh took home gold in the 200 Fly and 400 IM, as well as silver in the 400 Free behind the one and only Katie Ledecky.    The teenager from Canada holds the 200 IM, 400 IM, 200 Free, and 200 Fly World Junior Records.    In this interview she discusses her schedule, her dryland & weight t...

Cesar Cielo qualified in 8th place after Semi Finals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In fact, he didn't even think he had made it back to Finals. He had already left the pool.    Cesar says that this is probably the race he likes the most - even more than the 50 Free victory.    Because this is where it all started - his ability to manipulate his own mind. This was his super powe...

Brent Hayden won Bronze in the 100 Free at the 2012 London Olympics. He recently just retired retired. He sits down with Brett for 5 minutes to talk about David Popovici and the 100 Freestyle.  00:00 Bratter PA Immigration Law 01:00 Meeting David in Tokyo 02:15 Advice to David 03:00 2nd 50 of the 100 Free 04:40 23 2nd 50? Our Sponsors: BRATTER PA IMMIGRATION LAW : Exclusive immigration repres...

César Cielo is one of swimming's greatest sprinters of all time. At the 2008 Olympics, he won the 50 Freestyle and scored Bronze in the 100 Free after barely qualifying for the Final.  He didn't lose much after that. César won World titles in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014. He won everything there is to win.  At the 2009 World Championships in Rome, César set the World Records in...

2x Back-to-Back Olympic Champ, Alexander Popov, calls Brett to catch up after David Popovici's 100 Free World Record. 00:00 Hello Alex Popov 01:00 Popov on Popovici 04:00 17 years old 06:10 Ideal split for 100 Free 07:00 Popovici 46.8 09:30 Psychological vs Physical 10:50 Hello from David Popovici 11:25 Water Polo 12:10 Gustavo Borges 12:40 Ready Room 13:30 Room for Improvement 15:30 50 & 400...

Ragga Ragnars (Ragnheiður Ragnarsdóttir) is a 2x Olympic swimmer and actress from Iceland. You might recognise her from the hit television show, Vikings .  Brett & Raggna talk about swimming in Iceland, manifesting goals, using the discipline she learned from swimming in her acting, and how to swing a sword.    Iceland has the world's best swimming curriculum. One third of...

Romanian David Popovici is the fastest human in history over 100 meters freestyle. At the 2022 European Championships in Rome, the 17 year old Popovici blasted a 46.86 in the 100 Freestyle to break Cesar Cielo's long standing world record.    Popovici also dropped the hammer in the 200 Freestyle, becoming the 3rd fastest ever behind Michael Phelps and Paul Biedermann. He broke the 1:43 b...

John Lohn is the Editor-in-Chief of Swimming World Magazine. He has covered the sport at the national and international levels since 2000, including the last 4 Olympic Games. John is the author of Historical Dictionary of Competitive Swimming, The Most Memorable Moments in Olympic Swimming, and The 100 Greatest Swimmers in History. Our Sponsors: BRATTER PA IMMIGRATION LAW : Exclusive immigration r...

Mike Norment has been an Assistant Coach at Georgia Tech since 2018. He co-founded The Swim With A Purpose Swim School (SWAP) and The Metro Atlanta Aquatic Club (MAAC) in 2013. As a young high school swimmer, Mike moved from Hempstead to Philadelphia to swim for Jim Ellis and the vaunted Philadelphia Department of Recreation (PDR) team.  Mike went on to win the 100 Breast at SEC's for the Uni...

Coach David Marsh and 5x Olympian George Bovell joins Brett to breakdown David Popovici's 46.86 - the new World Record in the Men's 100 Freestyle. Our Sponsors: BRATTER PA IMMIGRATION LAW : Exclusive immigration representation of athletes, entrepreneurs, artists, investors, and entertainers. SWIM ANGELFISH: Receive the tools and skills needed to teach swimmers with autism, physical disabilities, a...

Viktoria Gunes is a 2x Olympian and 5x World Junior Champion. Born and raised in Ukraine, she moved across the Black Sea to Turkey when she was 15 years old, fleeing Crimea. She most recently won the 400 IM at SC European Championships in Kazan. 00:00 Bratter PA, Immigration Law 00:05 Hello Viktoria Gunes 02:00 Swim coach Mom 04:38 Leaving Crimea for Turkey 07:30 Learning English 10:20 Ukraine tod...