

One-on-one &
Video Analysis
One-on-one and Video Analysis coaching sessions are available to swimmers of all abilities. Sessions range from sixty minutes to two hours in duration.
Coaching sessions are held on Saturdays & Sundays at Christ Church Grammar School Pool. For weekday and group bookings, please contact me directly.
Standard sessions include brief session notes and an above and below-water voice-over review of your key swimming focus areas.
Specialist Coaching Sessions include a tailored program and a range of resources for you to use during your practice to improve your understanding of essential swimming fundamentals.
Elite Video Analysis Coaching Session
$1260
- Coached video analysis session - Swimming stroke stress test - Technique analysis report - Practice PDF laminates - One month training program - Personally tailored training guide - Follow-up progress call - Call with world record swimmer Andy Donaldson This coaching session is the ultimate technique development and training resource designed to align your technique development with your swimming training, whether training to become more comfortable in the water or training for a 90km open water crossing.

Video Analysis Coaching Session
$397
Your 1.5 hour video analysis session is designed to improve your control and perception of your swimming mechanisms by giving you a live view of your swimming through out your coaching session. Your swimming will be recorded before and after you develop your technique. After recording your improved form, we will review your swimming with you on the pool deck. Any remaining time is spent back in the water to enhance your swimming further. After your session, you will receive: - Session notes summary - Annotated analysis video with voice-over guide for each fundamental focus area - Future development recommendation video

Video Recording Session
$250
The video recording session provides a full video analysis of your swimming technique without the coaching session. Your purchase includes a 15-minute video recording session at Christ Church Grammar School on Saturday or Sunday, depending on lane availability. With each video recording session, you will receive an annotated analysis video with a voice-over guide for each fundamental focus area and a future development recommendation video.

Standard Coaching Session
$187
Your 60-minute one-on-one coaching session focuses on developing your ability to become more comfortable in the water while increasing your swimming stroke yield. Each session aims to increase your knowledge of swimming fundamentals and improve your ability to read your body mechanics in water. Your Standard One-on-one Coaching Session includes summaries session notes and voice-over video review of your key swimming focus areas.

Follow-up Coaching Session
$75
All returning customers can schedule a 30-minute follow-up session. This coaching session allows you to check up on your development and receive further guidance. Please note that these sessions do not include post-session video reviews or coaching notes. Video review or coaching notes can be added to your follow-up session for $75.

Why do Standard One-on-one
Sessions include a video review?
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.


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.
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.