Blog for our thoughts and advice on learning to swim, and technique.

Don’t Just Do It!

October 8, 2014

Avoid the swimming by numbers trap In Total Swimming Harvey Wiener writes about visualising a big number on the bottom of the pool corresponding...

Coming up for air

October 7, 2014

Jacquie had been meaning to learn to swim properly for years but her work hadn't allowed her the time. Learning to breathe was a revelati...

Oops!..I Did it Again

September 14, 2014

Wouldn't it be nice never to have a bad swim? Swimming with the Alexander Technique is more about an approach to being in water, an attitude to ...

Tame Swimming – on an August afternoon

August 7, 2014

I tend to avoid the term 'wild swimming' which we hear and read about so much these days. I don't want to get in touch with my wild side when I sli...

“Kick! Kick! Kick!”

July 7, 2014

Parents: Stop Using the K- Word... We have the pool to ourselves for our residential swimming courses and we don't teach during school ...

Keeping It Simple: A Different Approach To Changing Strokes

May 22, 2014

If you want to improve your stroke, there's so much information out there on technique, where do you start? As a teacher, there are lots of things ...

Black Men Can’t Swim?

May 16, 2014

Why can so few black people swim compared to the UK population as a whole? In this programme on BBC Radio 4, October 2nd 2009, Matt Blaize explo...

Look On The Bright Side!

May 10, 2014

Front Crawl Breathing Doesn't Have To Be A Struggle If front crawl breathing's a bit of a struggle, go back to basics and work on the key el...

Open To Change

April 2, 2014

Ellie Enjoys Encountering Her Unconscious Habits I've been swimming off and on for years, having spent long summers as a child in Ireland dippin...

Swimming Gala Stress

March 25, 2014

A Need For Speed And A Need For Balance... I must be getting old, because time seems to be different now – it goes faster! I don’t think I’m...

Sento – a trip to the bath house

March 9, 2014

When I was in Tokyo in my early twenties, the importance of water in Japanese culture made an impression on me. Temples with miniature fountains a...

Mark Discovers An Affinity With Water – After Cracking The Breathing

January 3, 2014

Mark came to Croft Farm for the 8-lesson Swimming Without Stress Residential Course. He was a non-swimmer facing a particular difficulty learning t...