🎬 Your Filming Guide
Filming Guide
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Side-on view is essential – aim to capture at least 10 full strokes, ideally underwater.
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Multiple angles help: above water, front, or aerial if available, but as long as you capture your swimming side on, we have everything we need.
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You can have a friend film you using a GoPro on a pole or a selfie stick. A friend can film from the poolside or in the water.
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Many swimmers use the mid-pool ledge for stable wide-angle shots. Wide-angle cameras like a GoPro are great for this.
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Film at different speeds to show stroke changes. For example, race pace and steady warm-up pace.
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Name your files clearly (e.g., side_underwater_racepace.mp4).
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Choose Your Level of Detail
Premium Video Analysis
$590 AUD
The complete coaching experience—personalised and professional. Perfect for: Swimmers committed to improvement, seeking a complete technical development plan with high-touch support. - Pre-analysis consultation call - Multiple video segments with voiceover - Focus-specific technical breakdowns - On-screen annotation and coaching guidance - Future recommendation video - Summary email + downloadable PDF of your key focus areas - Post-analysis walkthrough call - Customised training swim sets for each focus area - Step-by-step coaching PDFs - Theory and instruction documents tailored to your stroke Our most in-depth option adds a pre-analysis consultation call to understand your goals and background, plus a follow-up call to walk through your results. You’ll receive everything from the standard analysis plus a detailed step-by-step PDF for each focus area, technique swim sets for skill reinforcement, and written theory guides covering the relevant swimming principles. This is ideal for swimmers who want a fully customised technical development package.
Core Video Analysis
$360 AUD
Perfect for: Swimmers seeking a full technique analysis they can relay on and refer to again and again. - Multiple video segments with voiceover - Focus-specific technical breakdowns - On-screen annotation and coaching guidance - Future recommendation video - Summary email + downloadable PDF of your key focus areas Delivery is designed to give you detailed technique analysis and implementable instruction videos you can quickly revisit before each practice. This expanded service includes multiple video segments: a full technique overview, individual videos for each key technical focus area, and a future recommendation guide. All videos include voiceover guidance and detailed on-screen annotations. You will also receive a summary email and a downloadable PDF outlining your key focus areas.
Standard Video Review
$177 AUD
Perfect for: Swimmers seeking quick expert feedback. - Quick, clear and effective. - 10–15 minute annotated video review - Focus on your main technique issues - Key swimming fundamentals - Ideal for identifying primary stroke errors - Covers technique, training, or race footage Includes summary email of key focus areas I’ll highlight your key technique issues, recommend targeted improvements, and explain the stroke fundamentals affecting your propulsion and balance. This review can also cover race footage, starts, or tactics. You will receive a single video review as well as a brief summary email with your main focus points.
🎥 How It Works
- How Online Analysis Works
📤 Submit Footage
Choose your scheduled review date before uploading your swim clips (ideally above & below water) 👉 See our filming guide.
🧠 Expert Review
I personally analyse your stroke in depth, creating onscreen annotations and voice-over guides.
📩 Get Your Results
You receive annotated videos, training notes, and improvement guides.
Benefits of Video Review &
Video Analysis
Swimming has an added challenge over most sports; you can not turn your head to see your technique.
The most common challenge we see swimmers experience is misinterpreting their control in the water. We have found that when swimmers review footage of their swim, they can align the feel of their swimming stroke with the reality of their orientation in the water.
Video review is often perceived as a very technical approach to coaching, a method usually reserved for elite, high-performing s. However, we believe it is such a valuable tool that it should be available to swimmers of all abilities.
Since offering video reviews to every swimmer we work with, we have witnessed swimmers improve their control and perception of their form significantly faster.
Learn more about
Technique Development
When redeveloping your swimming technique, your goal is to reorientate your stroke to move the largest body of water for the least effort. Most often, swimmers struggle to maximise technique efficiency and increase yield per stroke for two reasons: poor balance or overloading.
Balance
Balance refers to a swimmer's ability to remain stable at the surface of the water. If a swimmer is not balanced, then some proportion of their propulsion is used to remain level instead of propelling forward. Common signs of poor balance include a dropping leading arm, collapsing pulling arm, short stroke, splicing kick, fishtailing torso or difficulty implementing rotation or the stroke catch. After working with many swimmers, we have found swimmers who improve balance see these discrepancies disappear and increase yield per stroke. We even see high-performance swimmers improve their pace by addressing balance.
Overloading
Overloading refers to the fatiguing load your limbs and body encounter as each stroke moves water. If the load your stroke engages is too much, your mechanics reorientate to decrease propulsion to maintain stroke rhythm and perceived pace. This process most often happens without the swimmer realising. Experienced swimmers are likely to encounter overload if their stroke has insufficient leverage due to changes in control over rotation or the catch phase. Lack of balance tends to diminish a swimmer's ability to control leverage.
Common Errors
Common errors include:
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Cross-over entry
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Splicing kick
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Poor rotation
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Loss of catch phase
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Sinking legs and hips and sinking during the breath
All common errors are a byproduct of poor balance and overloading. These errors are usually identified when comparing the swimming stroke to performance swimmers rather than identifying discrepancies in control over biomechanics in water.