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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 how elite...
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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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Swim Smooth Podcast Episode 26 - Paolo Swims 300km in 30 days
Swim Smooth Dubai coach Paolo Mangilinan 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 Swim Smooth team busily engaged in a complete revamp of the entire www.swimsmooth.com...
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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 perform 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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7 Effective Strategies to get you back to your swimming post-COVID: lessons...
A sad sight: many swimming pools all around the world have been closed now for nearly 12 months - hopefully, an end is now in sight!It seems like an age ago since we posted this video describing how...
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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 “reason...
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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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The Virtuous Feeling of an Early Morning Swim, or the Comfort of Your Covers...
Here in Perth, we are starting to go into our colder winter months, and this morning saw one of the first spiralling mists off the gorgeous Claremont Pool. This is an experience our swimmers here are...
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The Ticking Time Bomb
As you’re probably aware if you’ve been following Swim Smooth for a while now, a key piece of gadgetry for many of our sessions over the last 10 or so years, is the humble Finis Tempo Trainer Pro. This...
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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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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.Whilst currently only available in the Czech...
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"Gather the water" - Your Key Visualisation To A Better Catch!
Have you ever been taught to lengthen your stroke as much as possible in order to be more efficient? We bet you have - it might have been by your well-meaning master's swim coach, or you may have even...
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What Can A Swim Smooth Coach Do For Your Swimming?
At Swim Smooth our mission is to help everyone swim better, wherever they are in the world and whatever their level of swimming. In a nutshell the world needs better swimming!But what make a Swim...
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