susan | December 28th, 2023 | Swimmer Profile

Challenges and Positive Ripples

People inspire people.  The experiences of others can spread positive ripples. Having coached Monica she has kindly shared her swimming story. As we start 2024, this article reminds us how [...]

susan | December 21st, 2023 | Swimming

The Swimmer – carve and create your own Greek Sculpture

During a lesson Anthony acknowledged not only the improvement of his forward momentum, but his brilliant comment mid practice - it’s like a Greek Statue! Recent visits to  Rome and [...]

susan | December 2nd, 2023 | Swimmer Profile

Self-coaching: The pitfalls and advantages

Search online anything about ‘Swimming’ and you will discover demonstrations, explanations to watch and visualise that you can try to implement and put into practice.  The success of this will [...]

susan | May 8th, 2023 | Swimming

Five Reasons Stroke Efficiency is Invaluable

You don't need to be 'Elite' to move the way Elite swimmers move. Elite swimmers training plans, engines and biomechanics are of course another thing entirely.   We can though [...]

susan | April 29th, 2023 | Swimmer Profile

School swimming – learning for life

“Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” – Chinese Proverb For the pupils at Bancroft's my hope is their experience has not only been enjoyable, but one [...]

susan | April 12th, 2023 | Uncategorized

USP – what makes you unique

As I wrote this, I also started reading ‘Awareness Heals - The Feldenkrais Method for Dynamic Health’ by Steven Shafarman and the introduction reinforced so much of what I had [...]