Diagnostic Video Review
+ $67
A short video overview of the key topics and focus areas from your session, with emailed notes on what to work on.
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Short video recap of your key focus areas
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Emailed notes covering your focus areas and how to practise them
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Video jumps straight to your main focus, with instructions on what to develop.
Add your Diagnostic Video Review to your booking when you check out.
Focus Video Review
+ $154
An in-depth review of everything we covered: your symptoms, the theory behind your focus areas, and the instructions to develop them. It’s your baseline for everything you need to practise.
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2 to 3 short videos as a mini masterclass
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One-sheet with your root cause, main focus and practice instructions
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Symptoms identified in your analysis, and the theory behind your focus areas.
Add your Diagnostic Video Review to your booking when you check out.
Blueprint Analysis
+ $560
A full video analysis of your stroke, delivered as a masterclass of short videos. It shows you how your stroke works now and gives you a master plan for developing it, in order.
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8 to 10 bite-sized masterclass videos covering everything we’ve looked at
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Indepth biomechanic analysis
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PDF instructions to take to the pool deck
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One-sheet as your one-stop reference
Add your Diagnostic Video Review to your booking when you check out.
Your Post Session Resources
Diagnostic Video Review
Add-on to your one-on-one session
What it is
A short video and emailed notes that recap the key focus areas from your session, so you leave with a clear reminder of what to work on and how.
Who it’s for
Swimmers who want a simple, affordable record of the session. It suits you if you’re confident applying the feedback and mainly need a reference. It also works as a check-in point as you progress.
What it helps you achieve
You remember what we covered, you know exactly what your main focus is, and you don’t lose the detail between the session and your next swim.
How it works
After your session, Dan records a short video overview of the key topics we covered and emails it to you with written notes.
What’s included
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A short video overview of the key topics and focus areas from your session
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Emailed notes with the video, covering the key focus areas we spoke about and how to work on them
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A section of the video that goes straight to your main focus area, with instructions on what to develop and work on
How it ties to your session
It’s a condensed version of your session, focused on the one or two things that matter most right now.
Focus Video Review
Add-on to your one-on-one session
What it is
An in-depth review of everything we covered in your session, written up and recorded so you have it all in one place. It covers the symptoms identified in your analysis, the theory behind your focus areas, and the instructions to develop them.
Who it’s for
Swimmers who want to understand why, not just what. It suits you if you want a solid baseline to practise from, or if you’re considering the full Blueprint and want to start smaller.
What it helps you achieve
You understand your root cause and main focus well enough to practise them yourself, with clear instructions for what to develop as you move forward. It’s the baseline for everything you need to practise.
How it works
After your session, Dan reviews your footage and the session and records 2 to 3 short videos, plus a one-sheet, which are sent to you by email.
What’s included
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2 to 3 short videos as a mini masterclass
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The symptoms we identified in your initial analysis
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The theory behind your focus areas
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A one-sheet with your root cause, your main focus and the instructions to practise it
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The instructions to develop what you need to work on as you move forward
How it ties to your session
It takes everything we covered in the session and turns it into something you can return to as you practise. You get the full reasoning behind what we worked on, not just a summary.
Blueprint Video Analysis
Premium add-on to your one-on-one session
What it is
A full video analysis of your stroke, turned into a custom masterclass. It shows you exactly how your stroke works now, what’s driving what, and the order to develop it in.
Who it’s for
Swimmers who want the whole picture and a plan to follow. It suits you if you’re serious about long-term progress, have plateaued, or want to be able to read your own stroke rather than rely on feedback.
What it helps you achieve
You understand your exact stroke as it is now and everything it can develop into. You get a master plan for moving forward, with the components in the right order, so you aren’t working on the right thing at the wrong time.
How it works
After your session, Dan completes a full analysis of your footage and builds your masterclass. It’s delivered in short videos you can watch as you need them, alongside your PDFs.
What’s included
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A masterclass of 8 to 10 short videos covering everything we’ve looked at, in detail, in bite-sized pieces. You can come back to them as you need them.
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PDF instructions to use on the pool deck, with exactly what you need to do
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A one-sheet, so you have a one-stop place for everything
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Your root cause, the fundamentals to develop, the theory behind them, and the order to build in
How it ties to your session
Your session identifies where to start. The Blueprint maps the whole path from there. It covers everything you’re working on now and everything that comes next.
Standard one-on-one coaching session
Duration: 45 mins
Location: Bold Park Aquatic
Price: $187
Fix the cause of your stroke problems, not the symptoms.
Most coaching corrects what you can see above the water. During your session, we will find the underlying mechanical cause and teach you to read and control it, so you can continue to develop after our session without guesswork.
You’ll learn the key fundamentals behind your control and required development, what to change first, and how to tell when a change is working. You’ll leave understanding your stroke, not just following cues or common drills.
Level up your practice after the session. Explore the range of resources below, from a quick video check to a full stroke blueprint.
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.
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.
