Stroke Rehabilitation: What The Physio Doesn’t Tell You
“ It doesn't make sense to advise anybody to do anything in water, without knowing what that person’s relationship with the water is like, and how ...
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Attention, Please! One to One Works
“ The process of learning to swim properly requires brain work and redirection of energy, from both teacher and pupil. As a teacher, you can only d...
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A Timeless Swim
You can't beat the sea... “ The water wasn’t any less cold a century ago when people skinny dipped without thinking twice. And this spot has bee...
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What Are You Training For?
Escaping Busy Pools, Buzzing Changing Rooms, Wetsuits and Camaraderie Swimming is more popular than ever before. As a swimming teacher and selle...
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Easy Adaptation
A Happy Sea Swimmer Improves Her Strokes... “ People who are happy in water, who have a feel for water, find it much easier to learn new movemen...
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Watching Where You’re Going With Your Crawl?
Thoughts on Front Crawl Head Position “ When you look forward in crawl, your neck shortens and your head goes back. So it seems impossible to sw...
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Positions and Decisions
Learning to swim is all in your head... It's about making friends with the water, trusting it to support us, or trusting ourselves to let ...
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Waste of Space?
Allowing Time To Grow... Have you ever been called ‘a waste of space,’ by someone trying to get you to work harder, act faster, get off your...
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Swim, Bike, Walk – Exercising Caution
“ Too many people throw themselves into triathlon training without the first idea of what they're doing to their general coordination in the proces...
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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...
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It’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 ...
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Don’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...
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Changing 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...
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Floating 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...
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He 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...
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