Check out some of our favourite tips and tricks for swimming teachers. We’ll keep this page updated, so visit us weekly for new ideas and drills…
- Tips for timing: Here is a link to a little video showing a useful stopwatch app Tabata Stopwatch Pro. If you have swimmers doing USRPT or leaving on intervals and you don’t have a pace clock, this is a cheap alternative. Have a good weekend everyone. Stay safe.
2. Here’s a FUN way to teach body dolphins underwater. Place a sinker inside a fishing squid. Place the squids on the floor. Swimmers do body dolphins underwater in a relay. It’s a challenging work out, but super FUN!
3. This drone footage highlights a common error in butterfly: the hands enter the water too close together. If the hands enter in line with the head, then the only option is for them to sweep outwards. What you really want is for the hands to enter in line with the shoulders, then catch water and push water back and slightly inward towards the hips.
Let us know what common errors you notice in butterfly.
The way you approach a lesson and engage with swimmers can have a huge impact on the enjoyments levels (for you as a teacher and for the swimmers themselves) Click below for some insight into and considerations for your own Teaching Approaches: