| December 28th, 2023 | Swimmer Profile

Challenges and Positive Ripples

People inspire people.  The experiences of others can spread positive ripples. Having coached Monica she has kindly shared her swimming story. As we start 2024, this article reminds us how [...]

| December 2nd, 2023 | Swimmer Profile

Self-coaching: The pitfalls and advantages

Search online anything about ‘Swimming’ and you will discover demonstrations, explanations to watch and visualise that you can try to implement and put into practice.  The success of this will [...]

| April 29th, 2023 | Swimmer Profile

School swimming – learning for life

“Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” – Chinese Proverb For the pupils at Bancroft's my hope is their experience has not only been enjoyable, but one [...]

| November 20th, 2022 | Swimmer Profile

Development of a PE Teacher

Physical education teaches pupils skills, problem solving and an understanding of themselves and others far beyond the physical activity. Physical Education is described as the planned, progressive teaching delivered to [...]

| October 22nd, 2022 | Swimmer Profile

My Half Term London Swim Clinic

Sam is a 13 year old Competitive swimmer from Devon, in his early days of coaching his coach promoted TI principles and he was making great foundations, but this came [...]

| October 21st, 2022 | Swimmer Profile

Non Swimmer to Performance Goals

Having known Michael for a few years now, I asked if he would share his experience.  He was nervous and a little fearful when we first met back in 2020, [...]