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 [...]

As a Coach it’s important to take myself out of my own comfort zone from time to time.  Having turned down several offers to join English Channel relay teams in [...]

History shows that there are coaches who make a lasting impact on their sport, their impact and knowledge is shared with others and within that sport some gain 'Legend' status. [...]

I’ve reassured several swimmers that they won’t ‘forget how to swim’.  Having diligently been practicing for months, even years with several hundred if not thousands of repetitions forged into their [...]

Coaching has introduced me to swimmers eager to find the ‘efficient & effortless’ within their strokes, conversations with them describing the moment, when from the corner of their eye a [...]