Coaching Resources

  • Swim Smooth :- A very useful web-site, with free downloadable animation showing Mr Smooth from lots of angles helping you visualize what you should be doing! Plenty of articles to read as home-work to help improve your stroke technique, open-water skills and pacing.
  • Effortless Swimming. Please take a look at their Youtube videos – you can subscribe for free. Lots of great free videos and information on how to improve your technique.
  • Swimming biomechanics and injury prevention :- This is a great article that explains why we coach freestyle trying very hard to ensure good rotation, middle-finger first hand entry with a straight pull in a scapula retracted position and trying to avoid thumb entry, internal shoulder rotation with unsymmetrical stroke.