What is your definition of the word swim?  Here are some examples of some Bancroft’s students and teachers.   "The definition of swimming is how to not panic when going [...]

Water is incapable of prejudice, yet swimming comes with plenty of cultural and social history, accessibility issues and misconceptions, which has lead to generations of families unable to swim, many [...]

  Swimming can be overly tiring, even for fit individuals with good endurance levels.  Sound familiar? Swimming is the most efficiency intensive activity.  How well you swim is determined 80% [...]

One thing that irritates me about my partner is the way he gives directions.  So detailed, so precise, so exact. I switch off, my brain wanders and I get lost! Coaches [...]

Post the COVID lockdown I invited a couple of my swimmers to attend a one day workshop to allow them a recap on our previous lessons.  This experience really highlighted [...]

Swim & Tonic signed up to do swim the English Channel in 2019 as a relay team of six;  swimandtonic.org are a movement of people who connect by swimming.  For [...]