Get An *Online* Swim Smooth Video Analysis Of Your Swimming

Need help with your stroke technique? Did you know you can now beat the lockdown and book in for an Online Video Analysis with a Swim Smooth Certified Coach of your choice! Full analysis including a 30 minute Zoom call with your coach!

Find our exactly what's holding you back in the water, whatever your ability level.

Follow these 3 simple steps to get world-class feedback on your stroke technique from one of our 50 coaches around the world, who are ready and waiting to help you out: 

STEP 1 - Find/Take Video Footage of Your Swimming

If you have access to a pool or open water, head down there to get some footage of your swimming (click here to see angles needed). If you are unable to get to the pool, but have any footage of you swimming, send it in to our coaches and you'll be amazed at how much they can help you with your stroke!

STEP 2 - Upload Your Video To Our Online Video Analysis Website

Follow the link here, to upload your video footage to our website. If you have taken multiple angles/videos you will need to use the software we recommend on our website to splice them together.

STEP 3 -  Choose Your Coach And Send Off Your Video

Select the coach that is nearest to you and then select a suitable time for the analysis to take place. Choosing a coach that is near will make it easier to find a time that suits both of you as there will be less of a time difference. The coach will then take a look through your video and prepare for the full analysis using a zoom call with you.

STEP 4 - Introduce The Changes Recommended By Your Coach

The next time you're back in the water starting working on the improvements to your stroke technique recommended by your coach and take some large strides forwards in speed and efficiency:

As part of this service your coach will talk you through performing specific drills
to focus on important elements of your individual stroke technique.

Get started now: www.swimsmoothvideoanalysis.com

Questions about this service? Let us know on customerservice@swimsmooth.com and we'll get right back to you!

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Open Water Swimming Masterclass

Just getting back to swimming? Swim Smooth founder Paul Newsome, has recently collaborated with Triathlon Victoria to run a Swim Smooth Open Water Masterclass for coaches in Australia.

But, we didn't want you to miss out on all the golden nuggets of information so wanted to share it with you here: www.triathlonvictoria.org.au/performance-centre/swimming_masterclass

This presentation includes Paul's top tips on:

• The difference pool and open water swimming
  
  
• What does true efficiency look like in the open water?
  
  
• Getting your stroke right for open water

• Structuring open water sessions

• Protocols for getting back to the pool
  
  

Enjoy and Swim Smooth!

Open Water Swimming Masterclass

Just getting back to swimming? Swim Smooth founder Paul Newsome, has recently collaborated with Triathlon Victoria to run a Swim Smooth Open Water Masterclass for coaches in Australia.

But, we didn't want you to miss out on all the golden nuggets of information so wanted to share it with you here: www.triathlonvictoria.org.au/performance-centre/swimming_masterclass

This presentation includes Paul's top tips on:

• The difference pool and open water swimming
  
  
• What does true efficiency look like in the open water?
  
  
• Getting your stroke right for open water

• Structuring open water sessions

• Protocols for getting back to the pool
  
  

Enjoy and Swim Smooth!

Our Coaches Are Waiting For You!

As fellow swimming enthusiasts, we completely understand how difficult it has been not being able to dive into the pool or enjoy the open water over the past few months. But we finally have some good news for you - a large number of our Swim Smooth coaches are back up and running! What better way to kickstart your swimming than booking in for a 1-to-1 video analysis session or joining one of our many Swim Smooth squads. 

Swim Smooth St Albans' Coach, Emma MacDonald

See all the services that our coaches all around the world are offering:

Asia

Name: Merle Taviste

Location: Singapore

Services: Squad Sessions, 1-to-1 Video Analysis and Stroke Correction

Contact Details: https://www.swimsmoothsingapore.com/

Name: Paolo Mangilinan

Location: Dubai

Services: Squad Sessions, 1-to-1 Video Analysis and Stroke Correction

Contact Details: www.swimsmoothdubai.com/booking

Australia/New Zealand

Name: Paul Newsome

Location: Perth, Australia

Services: Squad Sessions, 1-to-1 Video Analysis and Stroke Correction

Contact Details: https://www.swimsmoothperth.com

Name: Russell Smith

Location: Hamilton, New Zealand

Services: Squad Sessions, 1-to-1 Video Analysis and Stroke Correction

Contact Details: https://www.swimsmoothhamilton.com/ 

Europe

Name: Anna-Karin Lundin

Location: Gothenburg, Sweden

Services: Squad Sessions, 1-to-1 Video Analysis and Stroke Correction

Contact Details: https://www.simcoachen.se/

Name: Rob Kwaaitaal

Location: Nijmegen, Netherlands

Services: Squad Sessions, 1-to-1 Video Analysis and Stroke Correction

Contact Details: https://snellerzwemmen.nl/

Name: Gabi Minarikova

Location: Prague, Czech Republic

Services: July and August - 1-to-1 Video Analysis and Stroke Correction, Children's Commuter Camp and Camp for Junior Competitive Swimmers. From 1st September - Squad Sessions

Contact Details: http://www.swimsmooth.cz/

Name: Filip Rigole

Location: Belgium

Services: Squad Sessions, 1-to-1 Video Analysis and Stroke Correction (from September)

Contact Details: http://www.swimsmoothbelgie.be/

Name: Maxine Strain

Location: Co. Kildare, Ireland

Services: Open Water Group Coaching, Open Water 1-to-1 Coaching, Open Water Coaching for Triathlon Clubs. 1-to-1 or 2-to-1 Video Analysis and Stroke Correction from mid-August.

Contact Details: info@swimsmooth.ie

Europe (UK)

Name: Laura Ansell

Location: Kent

Services: Introduction to Open Water Group Coaching, Open Water 1-to-1 Coaching, Open Water Coaching for Youth Group. 1-to-1 Video Analysis and Stroke Correction from September 3rd.

Contact Details: info@triswim.co.uk

Name: Lucy Lloyd-Roach

Location: Manchester

Services: Open Water Group Coaching. 1-to-1 Video Analysis and Stroke Correction, Squad Sessions returning soon.

Contact Details: https://www.swimmingmatters.co.uk/

Name: Emma MacDonald

Location: Bedford

Services: Open Water Group Coaching, 1-to-1 Open Water Video Analysis and Stroke Correction. 

Contact Details: https://www.swimdynamics.co.uk/

Name: Julian Nagi

Location: London

Services:  Squad Sessions (from 27th July), 1-to-1 Video Analysis and Stroke Correction. 

Contact Details: http://www.juliannagicoaching.com/

Name: Russ Smith

Location: Guernsey

Services:  Squad Sessions

Contact Details: https://www.3fit.co.uk/our-story

Name: Jason Tait

Location: Swindon

Services:  Squad Sessions, Endless Pool 1-to-1 Video Analysis and Stroke Correction, Open Water 1-to-1 Sessions, 

Contact Details: https://southwestswim.co.uk/

Name: Morgan Williams

Location: Yorkshire

Services:  Open Water Sessions, Open Water 1-2-1 video analysis and stroke correction. 

Contact Details: https://www.evolveendurance.co.uk/

Name: Brent Perkins

Location: East Midlands

Services:  Training Camps (October 2020)

Contact Details: www.swimsmootheastmidlands.co.uk

North America 

Name: Gemma Hollis

Location: Woodlands, Texas

Services:  1-to-1 Video Analysis and Stroke Correction (in person and via Zoom), Virtual Squad Coaching.

Contact Details: www.swimsmoothlouisville.com

Name: Mike Jotautas

Location: Louisville, Kentucky

Services:  1-to-1 Video Analysis and Stroke Correction (in person and via Zoom), Virtual Squad Coaching.

Contact Details: www.swimsmoothlouisville.com

Name: Penny Mullan

Location: British Columbia, Canada

Services:  'Get Back In The Pool' Swim Session Series (6 sessions), 1-to-1 video analysis and stroke correction. 

Contact Details: https://www.swimsmoothbc.com/

Draw This On Your Hand To Improve Your Swimming

Here's a super-simple visualisation to improve your swimming - it might seem really basic but it can help any level of swimmer from beginner right through to elite competitor:

The Smiley Face Visualisation

Start by grabbing a sharpie to draw a smiley face on the palm of your hand:

Now, when you jump in the water and swim, think about where that smiley face is pointing. During your pull through underwater, focus on keeping the palm of your hand showing the smiley face directly back behind you, to the wall you pushed off from:

By pressing the water backwards in this way you are propelling yourself forwards. Press water to the side, down (or even up) and you will working hard but not gaining any forward movement from the effort.

Keep Things Super Simple

Compared to other sports, it's extremely easy to over-coach swimming with too much over-complicated advice. Having too much to think about at any one time is a sure fire recipe for slow progress.

Much better to work on one simple thing at a time and really focus on it. That's why visualisations like this are so effective.

Try it the next time you swim!

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Short Swim Sessions To Get Your Training Back On Track

For many of us we are starting to get a glimpse of normal life in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. From the regular contact we have had with the 50 Swim Smooth Certified Coaches across the world, the situation is looking more optimistic for our coaches and swimmers. It has been great to hear that some of our coaches are now able to offer some sort of swim training, whether that is Seamus Bennett,  (Felixstowe, UK) and Lucy Lloyd-Roach (Manchester, UK) running open water sessions or Merle Taviste (Singapore) and Linda Bostic (Florida, US) running reduced capacity squad sessions at the pool. 

Swim Smooth Dubai are back in the pool

In a recent conversation, Mary Jessey, from Swim Smooth Calgary, said pools were beginning to open up in Canada but are only offering 30 minute slots for swimmers to book onto. Even though Mary's squad swimmers are jumping at the opportunity to get back into the water, they have asked for some inspiration to get the most out of their short training session. 

Swim Smooth Suffolk's open water sea swim

At Swim Smooth, we have just the thing for a short, sharp, intense training session with minimal equipment. Exactly what you need to get back into the swing of things!

The Perfect Pyramid

Equipment: Tempo Trainer set at CSS pace

Complete each of these swims at CSS pace with 5-6s rest in between. If you finish before the 30 minutes is up, repeat with 50m intervals (50m, 100m, 150m etc). See how far you can get and try to beat your distance in your next swim. 

1) 100m 

2) 200m

3) 300m

4) 400m

5) 300m

6) 200m

7) 100m

If you need more ideas to keep you improving in your short training sessions, check out our "Quick 'n' Easy Lunchtime Swims" on the Swim Smooth Guru (subscription required).  

We'd love to hear how you are getting on with your return back to swimming, so email customerservice@swimsmooth.com or tag us in your posts on Facebook (Swim Smooth: The World's Most Passionate Swim Coaching!) and Instagram (@swimsmooth). 

Swim Smooth!