Letting Go Of ‘Sinky Legs’
Sinking Legs Aren’t A Problem, Holding On To Them Is. Everybody likes to float. Some people, elderly ladies for example, float perfectly h...
Read moreIt’s All Right Once You’re In – Five Minutes In The Frigidarium
A room for cold water immersion was the least popular place at the Costa Calero Thalasso and Spa I visited twice last week. Numbers were ...
Read moreDon’t Pass It Up, Pass It On!
Family fun for five-year olds… All parents recognise learning to swim, alongside things like literacy, numeracy, drawing pictures and riding...
Read moreChanging Lanes
If you're struggling in the slow lane, can you help make it a better place? "Feeling not fighting the water, being aware of your neck and yo...
Read moreFloating Foundations
Learning to swim is all in the basics. The less you do in water, the easier it is to change your reaction to it, especially at the learning st...
Read moreHe Ain’t Heavy
How to make a sinker lighter... "Don't relax on me,” a senior Alexander Technique teacher used to tell me. My idea of relaxing made me stif...
Read moreTips On Choosing Swimming Goggles
If any of the questions below apply to you, check out our recommendations... We teach swimming every day and help a lot of people to choose ...
Read moreClock Sucker!
Calling time on chasing the red needle... Last Saturday I had a terrible swim. I hadn't tested myself against the clock for a while. ...
Read moreThree Strokes and You’re Out
Enjoying small achievements and an afternoon nap... When we get a new skill for the first time, we may be greedy to repeat the experience. Be...
Read moreKnowing Your S**t Or Knowing You’re S**t
How Self Aware Are You? For my birthday today, I got a mug with this on: GRAMMAR: THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN KNOWING YOUR SHIT AND KNOWIN...
Read moreTwo Weeks To Thailand
John Learns To Swim Just In Time... 26 year old civil servant John badly wanted to swim before a big holiday to Thailand. Here's his account...
Read moreSwimming with Swans – Open Water 7 review
Swans UK asked us to try the latest edition to their range, the Open Water Seven and we received it just in time for our holiday to Rhode...
Read moreBeing vertical, for a change
If we're not too busy getting from one end of the pool to the other, it's good to practise staying vertical and in the same place. Since w...
Read morePlay Comes First, But What Next?
On Teaching Children... I don't work with many children these days. But it's good to keep your hand in. This week I gave five short lessons to O...
Read morePosture And Alignment Or Awareness And Prevention?
Ian isn't interested in 'strengthening the core'. People who don't know very much about the Alexander Technique tend to think it's all about pos...
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