Private Instruction

Spread the learning experience across a greater time frame to suit your personal circumstances and needs. This is your best option if you currently find swimming a challenge or if you want to devote more time to the learning process and maximise the effects of the lessons on your swimming stroke. All SwimShack packages start with multi-camera angled analysis of your swimming recorded to DVD. You also receive ongoing ‘snap-shots’ of your drilling, complete with audio describing the drills & focal points. The DVD is yours to take home and study at your leisure - this has proven to be a significant learning tool for all SwimShack students

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 ‘Fish-Like Freestyle’ 8-hour package: In addition to the drill sequence taught during SwimShack Studio Workshops or the two days of a TI Freestyle Weekend, in this package (an initial two-hour lesson plus a further four 90-minute lessons) you will be taught additional skills that will make you a more complete swimmer

‘Different Strokes’: Instruction for Backstroke, Breaststroke and Butterfly making those strokes easy to learn as well. Starting with your current skill/ability level and build upon it through small, easily-mastered steps to swim any stroke efficiently and well. An initial two hour lesson focusing on core skills essential to all three strokes followed by four ninety-minute lesson - one per stroke plus a final session to consolidate and perhaps focus on your preferred stroke

‘Adult Begin to Swim’: If you’re significantly uncomfortable in or around water …unable to swim more than a short distance…or can’t swim and breathe, this is the package for you. I’ll show you how to be comfortable and confident in the water, how to make aquatic breathing routine and relaxing, how to float effortlessly and slip through the water in “fishlike” body positions, and how to “move like water” with flowing movements. This package consists of six 75-minute lessons

‘TI Finishing School’: This package is only for alumni of SwimShack or TI Workshops and has the same focus presented in the one-day Studio Workshop, only delivered across three 90-minute pool sessions for an enhanced learning experience

‘ High-Performance Swimming’: This is the advanced series of instruction, for graduates of Fish-Like Freestyle, Different-Strokes or TI Weekend Workshops who have already progressed to a higher standard, maybe through the ‘Finishing School’ or because you have been hard at it for some time post-workshop and are now wanting to learn how to swim even faster. Your fee buys you three 90-minute pool sessions

‘Swim Check Plus' - Analyses session: A one off 90 minute session (your choice of stroke) where you stroke is recorded multi-angle'. You receive detailed analysis, with the DVD of your swimming to take away with you. Your DVD also contains the audio of my initial impressions of your swimming from seeing you in real time. This takes around 40 minutes to complete and the remaining time is spent working on a few of the basics to get you on the way to improving your stroke

'Freestyle Fundamentals': Balance, posture, alignment, core rotation, breathing, kick mechanics (and timing). These are all fundamental areas of freestyle that great swimmers do very well indeed. Unfortunately it is at this most basic level that the majority of less competent swimmers seem to fall down badly; simply because when in water human instinct is rarely if ever conducive to developing good freestyle technique. This two-hour session is intended to go a long way towards addressing those freestyle basics for you (please note this is not a 'learn-to-swim' session: some degree of competence assumed)

'Taster Session': Not sure if SwimShack or Total Immersion is for you? Why not take a 45 minute 'taster' session. During the first part of the session you will get to swim in my Endless Pool and have your stroke recorded to DVD, 'multi-angle'. I will then review this footage with you to identify the main problem areas. During the remainder of the session we work on one or two fundamental skills.

Additional information: Although the packages have a suggested format that I’ve found to work well, how you want to take your instruction time is pretty much up to you - it’s all very flexible to suit your needs. Instruction is always paced to cater for individual need, so anyone who progresses through the drill sequence quicker than anticipated will be progressed to more advanced technique work at an earlier stage. By the same token some will not get to the more advanced work until later on, if at all

Buy more pay less: if you commit to the full amount of hours needed to develop your swimming technique to a reasonable standard the hourly rate is substantially reduced

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