| June 9th, 2024 | Swimmer Profile

Competitive Swimmers and Technique Focus

When I am approached by the parents of competitive swimmers for 1-1 Coaching the initial enquiry has a similar tone, here are a couple of examples.   My daughter swims [...]

| March 14th, 2024 | Swimmer Profile

The Power of Water

When you swim on a regular basis, you improve your cardiovascular endurance, whilst also building muscular strength, swimming uses a wide range of muscle groups and most muscles in the [...]

| 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 [...]

| 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 [...]

| 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 [...]

| November 20th, 2022 | Swimmer Profile

Development of a PE Teacher

Physical education teaches pupils skills, problem solving and an understanding of themselves and others far beyond the physical activity. Physical Education is described as the planned, progressive teaching delivered to [...]