What is your swimming background and experience? Rather bad experience with school swimming instructor as a kid. He was rude which didn't help getting comfortable in the water nor to [...]

Our three person Channel Relay has now been ratified by two members of the CS&PF Committee and is now an officially recognised Channel Relay swim. I love the report, precise [...]

Like a musician, a swimmer needs to practice and fine tune their own skills.   Learning to swim and train as a competitive swimmer was the same for me as [...]

Experience shows that whatever the standard of swimmer we are never far from the basics fundamentals. Fundamentals of balance and streamlining are at the forefront of a swimmers skill development, [...]

The biggest challenge we face as land mammas is that swimming efficiently is not hard wired in to our DNA, we are four limbed mammals,  we have no gills or [...]

Many swimmers and triathletes wear Garmin watches  to track their sessions.  Data is undeniably an important way to measure progress and speed and pacing are both metrics.  It is important [...]