Haiku Are In!

July 27, 2021

We had a great response to our Haiku competition, inspired by Simon Armitage in his shed with Johnny Marr. Here are our favourites: Inhale, p...

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Confidence In A Free Neck

May 18, 2021

Breathing out comfortably into the water is the cornerstone of water confidence. And the key to being able to breathe into the water is relaxing yo...

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Cheryl, Swimming Without Stress

Do you still work with swimmers?

April 28, 2021

We just had a call from someone who had front crawl lessons with us over ten years ago. She said learning to free her neck and lengthening her stro...

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Inhibition v excitation

Trying Not To Get Too Excited

March 11, 2021

Inhibition, the key to the Alexander Technique, is easy to understand when you think of it in terms of its opposite, which is excitation. Ov...

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when you can't swim

When You Can’t Swim

January 30, 2021

From childhood, related to my genetically weak vestibular system (poor balance), I've had a kind of kink in my nervous system where my head goes to...

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Top Tips For Dips

October 24, 2020

If there's magic in the water, three simple activities may help you find it. 1. Floating face down 2, Sitting, letting yourself drop ...

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Swim Your Own Swim

October 17, 2020

In The Madness of Crowds Douglas Murray is clear on problems of identity politics and social media. We latch on to popular ideas without thinking t...

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When does the ‘Without Stress’ bit start?

September 8, 2020

For many years, after training as a swimming teacher, and especially a Shaw Method one, I laboured under the idea that every person taking lessons ...

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Looking For A Challenge?

August 25, 2020

Challenge. 'A call to someone to participate in a competitive situation or fight to decide who is superior in terms of ability or strength.' ...

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Visit Wales. Later

August 2, 2020

When arranging courses I'm often talking to two people about the same vacancy, a salesman, hurrying people along to place their deposit for lessons...

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making bubbles

Missing Bubbles?

July 23, 2020

We've had a few dips in the sea during the last four months without access to the pool. Being in saltwater has many obvious, and celebrated, sellin...

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Conquer Your Fear of Water

July 9, 2020

The title of this post might be a good one for attracting people to our website. 'You've got a problem and we've got the solution'.  I had s...

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Coming to Quiet

June 11, 2020

JA Thompson, a Scottish expert on soft corals wrote, over 100 years ago, "One of the dangers of our civilization is that one function of the nervou...

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Roundup

June 11, 2020

Today we went to Ceibwr Bay The sea was quiet and cold Gordon found a rotting seal He ate a bit and rolled. I hosed him down, he's patient W...

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Follow Us Off Instagram

June 2, 2020

As we haven't been more than a couple of miles away from home for the last few months, we're lucky to be surrounded by so much natural beauty.   ...

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