Swim Against the Flow

We spent the weekend at the Masters Nationals Championships.
We both came away with a bronze medal each. Lots of great swims and fun with our team mates. 🥉🥉🏊‍♂️🏊‍♀️

Here we are all excited and wind swept before our 3k pier to pier swim this morning in Herne Bay. This picture is deceiving and looks calm. It was pretty choppy at times, but we enjoyed it.
I was able to put into practice all the things I work on with my open water swimmers. Particularly focusing on keeping my breathing relaxed, which helped calm my nerves and keep my stroke relaxed. I noticed my stroke slipping as I was battling the waves swimming back against the current, and readjusting my hand entry helped keep my pull strong to get through the rough bits.
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I have emailed all the parents of my weekly & fortnightly regular child swimmers, about the summer holidays and September lessons. Please can you check your emails as have had reports of going in spam folder.
Adult lessons will continue as booked.
I have some spaces for one off lessons over the summer holidays if any of my occasional swimmers want to come for a session please get in touch.
C

This afternoon a lovely lady came all the way from Reading for her first aquaphobia lesson. This was a huge step for her to work towards overcoming her fear of the water. She was so nervous at the start and told me she almost turned around half way in the journey as panic set in. She did so well and left with a huge smile on her face, feeling so pleased
of her accomplishments, saying she made so much more progress than she expected.

Aquaphobia lessons focus on learning to relax, desensitising fears to feel safe and enjoy being in the water. Once these fears are reduced it will become easier to develop the technical side of learning to swim.

To find out more about these sessions:

AQUAPHOBIA LEARNING PROGRAMME | SwimAgainstTheFlow Endless pool swimming for stroke improvement or general fitness

This super swimmer started his challenge this week. He has already raised over £1000 for Diabetes UK. He started coming for lessons a month ago to improve his stroke in preparation for his challenge to swim 22 miles in 3 months. Now he’s started we’ll count his distance in his sessions towards his goal.

It’s my birthday! Throwback to 2 years ago, my cool cake my SIL made for me. This years birthday present a new board to display our old medals and a new medal hanger for new medals. 🏊🏻‍♀️🏅🏊🏼‍♂️🥇

This Kent senior champion came for a Stroke Check In on Saturday. We tweaked a few elements of his stroke, which he’ll continue to work on in training. He then won his event on Sunday at the Kent champs, with a big PB. He’s coming back in a few weeks to keep fine tuning his stroke.