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 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.
Coaching Package
$1937
1 x Specialist Video Analysis Session (Value $539) 1 x Standard Video Analysis Session (Value $374) 4 x Standard One-on-one Session (Value $748) 3-Month Dynamic Program (Value $1167) Your Coaching Package is designed to align your technique development with your swimming training, whether training to become more comfortable in the water or training for a 70km open water crossing. Coaching packages for longer programs are available.
Specialist Video Analysis
$539
Specialist Video Analysis Sessions included a bonus: - Technique analysis recommendations report - Swimming fundamentals guide - Practice one-sheet laminates - One-month training program Video analysis sessions are designed to improve your control and perception of your swimming mechanisms by giving you a live view of your swimming during your coaching session. During your two-hour 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
Standard Video Analysis
$374
Video analysis sessions are designed to improve your control and perception of your swimming mechanisms by giving you a live view of your swimming during your coaching session. During your two-hour 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
Specialist Coaching Session
$357
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. Specialist Coaching Sessions included a bonus: -Technique analysis recommendations report -Swimming fundamentals guide -Practice one-sheet laminates -One-month training program
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.
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.
Oct - Jan Availability
Please note that one-on-one coaching will be unavailable from 2nd Oct 2024 - 13 Jan 2025.
For programming and online video analysis, please contact me directly.
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