New Windows
The Croft Farm pool is getting new windows and we're off to Paris for a couple of nights at the Molitor Hotel with its famous art deco pool. I'm lo...
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Learning to Swim Like a Robot
After Christmas I shared a post from a few years ago, Swimming with a Hangover, where I wrote at the end: “It’s more than just exercise. It ...
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Want to Swim Like Shinji?
For most people it’s unusual not to create disintegration in the back or gasp for breath when 1, learning strokes or swimming for fitness and 2, in...
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Flip Side of Front Crawl for Fitness
“I need front crawl for aerobic fitness,” said Joe today. He doesn’t believe his beautifully coordinated breaststroke gives him enough of a workout...
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Quality Time
Are you a recreational swimmer who needs to be more relaxed?.. “ Spending more time underwater, then more time getting air in, is easier tha...
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Authentic Movement In Water
Getting into water and exploring movement, without knowing what you're going to do next... “ Authentic Movement is a simple form of self-directe...
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Can You Have Your Cake and Eat It?
'Let go and float like an embryo/ learn to move forwards with some kind of flow'. I came up with that line whilst in the woods with the dogs a...
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Want to Relax? What Swimming on Your Back Lacks
Why you can't free your neck on your back like you can face down, and how to deal with it... Picture a person lying back in sparkling water, smi...
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Getting a View on Front Crawl Sighting
I saw a video on Instagram of someone swimming in the most exquisite of locations, the canyons of the American wild west. With his bright swimming ...
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Searching for Still Water
Does too much head movement negate the benefits of swimming for people with sensitive vestibular systems? I was disturbed recently to come acros...
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