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Get Inspired (Like We Do) From Swim Smooth's Instagram
It's hard to believe but it's been over 15 years since Swim Smooth started! We've managed to pack a lot in over the years, travelling around the globe many times running swim clinics and coach...
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Training To Train (To Train)
Here's a good way to think about your training, particularly if you're getting back into your swimming (or any other sort of exercise) after a lockdown lay-off:We all want to get to a fitness level...
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The World's First All Female Channel Medley Relay Team
Last week, Swim Smooth Manchester coach Lucy Lloyd-Roach and her team broke the world record as the first ever all female English Channel Medley Relay Team. Lucy, Mel, Claire and Sarah started out from...
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Rotate *Less* When You Breathe
One of our coaching maxims at Swim Smooth is: If something's going to go wrong in your stroke it will go wrong when you breathe.Here's a common example of that (so common in fact it's very likely to be...
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Why Do Sprinters Pull Through With A Straighter Arm?
Noa Markou just asked us a great question on Instagram:I read your article (www.feelforthewater.com/2012/08/bent-it-like-becky.html) and would greatly value your opinion on the following. It states...
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What To Do In A Quick Lunchtime Swim?
As much as we'd all love limitless training time, the reality is that you might just need to squeeze in a quick swim as and when you can around your busy life.Covid has made that even more the case as...
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When Wrong Feels Right - Part 2
Back in 2016 we posted our classic blog Why A Good Catch Is So Elusive: Wrong Can Feel Right - if you missed it first time around it's well worth a read, it's one of those posts we refer swimmers back...
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This Diesel Engine Is Just Getting Started
Have you noticed that most swim sessions are very stop-start in nature? They tend to include lots of short swims with significant recovery between each? Swim-rest-swim-rest-swim-rest. Stopping every...
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Introducing the 45 minute "Dense Mist" Session
During the pandemic many pools around the world are operating on an hourly rotation, giving you 45-50 minutes in the water then emptying the pool and ushering you out of the changing rooms before the...
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Five *Super Simple* Tips To Develop Your Freestyle
If you are new to swimming freestyle (or front crawl) everything can seem a bit overwhelming with so many things to think about. For that reason it's really important to keep things super-simple when...
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Become The Best Version Of Your Swimming Self
When you look at elite swimmers in action you see incredible variation in how they move through the water. Here's five areas of stroke technique where there's almost no consistency in elite swimmers*...
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Paolo's Marathon Swim x30 Day Challenge
Swim Smooth Dubai coach, Paolo Mangilinan is currently on day 14 of his 30 day marathon swim challenge. He's swimming a whopping 10km swim every day for 30 days running! The magnitude of this challenge...
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Improve Your Swimming With Five Of Our Best YouTube Videos
Whether you are in lockdown or not, there's never a bad time to learn something new and improve your understanding of swimming.With that in mind we've delved into our YouTube archives over the last 10...
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Update - Paolo's 10km x 30 Day Swim Challenge
Paolo Mangilinan, Swim Smooth Dubai coach is coming to the end of his 30 day Dubai Fitness Challenge. He's been swimming an incredible 10km every day for the past 30 days. We wanted to catch up with...
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Best Christmas Presents For Swimming Enthusiasts
Can you believe it is less than three weeks until Christmas? As the 25th gets nearer, the pressure is on to make sure that presents are ready, wrapped and under the tree. But are you still struggling...
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Is There A Link Between How You Move And How You Think?
The Swim Types system is a way of understanding your individual swimming by identifying six fundamental stroke styles all the way from beginner to elite competitor. Identify your type and we can give...
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The Value of Swimming in Uncertain Times
Hi SwimmersFirstly, apologies for the radio silence over the last few weeks on the blog - we’ve had the whole team busily engaged in a complete revamp of the entire www.swimsmooth.com website and...
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When Doing The Wrong Thing Can Help You Learn The Right Thing Easier
Coach Rob Kwaaitaal in The Netherlands instructs a swimmer on how to do the side kick drill correctly using a radio headsetOne of our favourite tools to use as Swim Smooth Certified Coaches is a...
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Using Heatmaps To Improve Your Swimming
Our new digital platform at swimsmooth.com includes some very special new features to improve your swimming. One of which is the ability to monitor your stroke technique just by wearing an Apple Watch...
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The Secret to a Life of Happiness and Longevity
Justyn Barnes, author of the brilliant book “Ikigai - the Japanese secret to a life of happiness and longevity” states that the word 'ikigai' in the simplest terms describes “value in living” or...
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HUUB wins Queen's Award for Innovation!
Here at Swim Smooth, we're super excited to announce that our wetsuit partner, HUUB, has just received the coveted Queen's Award for Innovation. Amazing! We'd love to take this opportunity to tell you...
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How To Teach Children To Swim Smoothly - We Need Your Support!
Swim Smooth Coach Gabriela Minarikova is Swim Smooth's specialist in kids coaching and has written a unique book How To Teach Children To Swim Smoothly.This is a richly illustrated book, with rhymes...
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What Goes Through Your Head In Those 30 Seconds Before You Commence Your Swim?
What goes through your head in those 30 seconds before you commence your swim, be it in the #swimmingpool or #openwater?Is if fear? Fear about what? How you’ll feel? How you’ll perform? Whether it’s...
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What Can A Swim Smooth Coach Do For Your Swimming?
At Swim Smooth our mission is to help everyone of any level swim better, wherever they are in the world. In a nutshell the world needs better swimming!But what make a Swim Smooth coach different from...
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How We Blew-up YouTube With Our Viral Analysis Of Ariarne Titmus vs. Katie...
Watch below and remember to give us a “like” and a subscribe for our analysis of Australian Ariarne Titmus’s triumphant first victory over the legendary Katie Ledecky.Listen in as Head Coach Paul...
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