One-on-one &
Video Analysis
One-on-one and Video Analysis coaching sessions are available to swimmers of all abilities. Sessions range from 30 minutes to 90 minutes in duration.
Coaching sessions are held at Christ Church Grammar School Pool or at Bold Park, depending on lane availability. For group bookings, please contact me directly.
Standard Coaching
Session
$187
60-minute one-on-one coaching builds comfort in the water, improves stroke yield, and sharpens your awareness of body mechanics, with session notes and a voice-over video review to guide your key focus areas.
Includes:
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60 min Coaching Session
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Underwater Video Review voice-over
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Session Notes via email
Follow Up Coaching
Session
$110
This 30-minute follow-up session is designed to review your progress and fine-tune technique in your main focus areas. Please note: you must have completed a Standard or Video Analysis coaching session before booking.
Includes:
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30 min Coaching Session
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Underwater Video Review voice-over
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Session Notes via email
Video Analysis
Coaching Session
$397
Our 90-minute Video Analysis Coaching is perfect for swimmers and triathletes who want clear, professional feedback to transform their technique, improve efficiency, and build lasting confidence and performance in the water.
Includes:
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90 min Coaching Session
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Above and Below-water Video Analysis
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Multiple Video Segments
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Focus-specific technical breakdowns
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On-screen annotation and coaching guidance
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Future recommendation video
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Summary email + PDF guide of your key focus areas
Premium Video Analysis
Coachng Session
$647
Our 90-minute Premium Video Analysis is ideal for swimmers and triathletes who want the highest level of personalised feedback, structured training resources, and ongoing support to accelerate technical development and performance.
Includes Standard VA Features +:
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90 min Coaching Session
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Analysis consultation call
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Theory and technique fundamentals video breakdown
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Post practice session call
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Detailed practice guides for each focus area
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Customised training swim sets for each focus area
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One-month interactive technique program
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.
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
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
$110
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.
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.
