Keeping It Simple: A Different Approach To Changing Strokes
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 ...
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Black Men Can’t Swim?
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...
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Look On The Bright Side!
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...
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Open To Change
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...
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Swimming Gala Stress
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...
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Sento – a trip to the bath house
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...
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Mark Discovers An Affinity With Water – After Cracking The Breathing
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...
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Cross Pattern Crawl
Kicking our opposite hand forwards is a pattern that's already there, waiting to be discovered! A lot of Alexander Technique teachers encour...
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Your stay
We have exclusive use of the pool at Croft Farm for your lessons, which makes a big difference to your learning experience – privacy, peace and quiet
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Where we teach
You’re a long way from the usual distractions, with time and space for new experiences.
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Between Lessons
There’s nothing to do. That’s the beauty of leaving the stimuli of home life behind. A quiet head and relaxed atmosphere make for a perfect lear...
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Drift And Swish…
Non- Doing On Your Back Helps Your Other Strokes... If you want to improve any stroke, try practising this one. We call it the ‘Old English’. ...
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On Your Back! For Basic Coordination Patterns
The importance of learning to swim on the back is often overlooked. Being supine with the support of water is a great way to release and expand. Yo...
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Rotation Rotation Rotation
Why we should roll around like kids and strokes shouldn’t be taught too soon.. Four simple rotations are the foundations for all swimming moveme...
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Swimming ‘Up’ (Not Up And Down)
On Holiday Swim Slow and Find Your Flow! We've just returned from a trip to Gibraltar. It's difficult to find beaches as nice as the ones on our...
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