Other Swim Smooth Resources

This book stands alone as a great resource to develop your swimming, however, it becomes even more effective when used in tandem with Swim Smooth’s other coaching resources, many of which are free:

Our Stroke Technique Website: www.swimsmooth.com

The Swim Smooth website contains a wealth of interesting articles about developing your swimming. In relation to this book you will find the animations and video clips very insightful – in fact in some chapters we have given you links to the website to follow for just this reason.

Mr Smooth and Miss Smooth Animations

Available for free at our main website www.swimsmooth.com, our animated swimmers ‘Mr Smooth’ and ‘Miss Smooth’ show you two ideal freestyle strokes in action. They demonstrate one of the two ideal Swim Types each, the Smooth (Mr Smooth) and the refined-Swinger (Miss Smooth). These animations are extremely powerful visualisation tools and we highly recommend downloading the free application to your desktop so that you can view them from any angle or at any speed. For best effect, watch them just before you go for a swim and jump in the water and reproduce their strokes! Many swimmers have taken minutes off their times just by doing that.

The Swim Types Website: www.swimtypes.com

Our dedicated website explaining the Swim Type system is well worth viewing in relation to Chapters 17 to 23 of this book as it shows you video clips of each of the Swim Types in action. We hope you benefit from the Swim Type development processes in Appendix B; if you do, consider going on and purchasing the Swim Type Development Guide for your type. This is supplied as a PDF digital download to your computer and contains an even more detailed development process over and above that contained in this book.

Swim Smooth Certified Coaches

At the time of writing Swim Smooth is training hand-picked coaches around the world to pass on our methods and help you to swim faster and more efficiently than ever before. Our network of certified coaches will develop over time – find out if we already have a Certified Coach in your area at: www.swimsmooth.com/certifi edcoaches. If you are a coach and would like to explore the possibility of becoming a Swim Smooth Certified Coach, then please do so from that webpage. Becoming a Swim Smooth Certified Coach involves a rigorous training process and candidates are selected based upon their education, experience, skill, passion and approach to coaching swimming.

The Swim Smooth Forum: www.swimsmoothforum.com

Want to ask us a question or interact with other swimmers? Then join our forum! It’s a great place to share your experiences, find out about other swimmers in your area and get direct access to Head Coaches Paul and Adam, and other Swim Smooth coaches around the world.

Give Us Direct Feedback

As well as posting on our forum, feel free to send us an email at feedback@swimsmooth.com. Tell us how you are getting on with this book or suggest an idea you have that would help you and other swimmers. We get inspired by hearing your stories so please let us know!

Coaching DVDs

If you have enjoyed this book then an excellent accompaniment to it would be one of our coaching DVDs, which cover many of the drills and techniques here but in a visual format. In the DVDs we are able to show you great swimmers (including Olympic champions) in action, and visualising their strokes in the water can be hugely beneficial for your own stroke. At the time of writing we have three DVDs to offer you:

1. The Learn To Swim Programme is a fantastic way to learn freestyle from scratch with no prior swimming experience. We build up your stroke technique and confidence one step at a time, helping you adjust to having your face in the water, developing your breathing technique and constructing your stroke piece by piece. You will be amazed at how quickly you develop and you will soon be swimming your first laps of smooth relaxed freestyle – exhilarating! This DVD covers your first strokes in freestyle in much more depth than we have scope to do in this book.
2. Perfect for intermediate swimmers, The DVD Boxset is actually two DVDs and a CD ROM taking you through all aspects of stroke technique; all the drills you need to improve; open water swimming development and techniques, and a full 25-session training plan to follow in the pool. Featuring Olympic Gold Medallist Bill Kirby who has an extremely smooth stroke for you to watch and recreate yourself.
3. The Catch Masterclass is our latest DVD and features amazing footage from our new ‘Hollywood style’ filming rig in Perth. Three top-flight swimmers show us the secrets of their catch technique in incredible detail as we explain exactly what they’re doing, how to improve your own catch technique and where you might have gone wrong in the past. Five star reviews aplenty!

All these DVDs are available in our store at www.swimsmooth.com/products