Tumble turns are an important skill for young swimmers to master – especially as they start to increase distances and perform repetitive sets of 50m or 100m and beyond in their sessions. This is an important skill for swim trainers to teach, as it will allow swimmers to keep moving without interrupting the flow of […]
Coaches
If you are a swimming coach or professional swimming instructor, feel free to use these archived resources to progress your professional development.
Swim Lesson Ideas & Plans
Lesson planning is of utmost importance for teachers and should be carried out regularly to assist learning and to develop progressive teaching skills. You do have to remember, though, that not all lessons will go to plan. Think of lesson planning as more of a guide that needs constant review and reflection. Swimming teachers need […]
How to Teach Breaststroke to Kids
The Laurie Lawrence method of teaching breaststroke focuses on isolating the kicking and pulling skills so that quick, efficient and correct mastery of breaststroke is achieved. The first recorded Olympic breaststroke was over 200 meters won by British swimmer Frederick Holman in 3 minutes 9.2 seconds another British swimmer William Robinson was second. For most […]
5 Easy Steps to Master Butterfly
Many people find butterfly one of the hardest strokes to master in their swimming. Butterfly can be an easy stroke to swim if instructors and swimmers take their time and use a building block approach to learning – that is don’t move onto harder skills and drills until previous ones have been learned and mastered. […]
Swim Clinics for Fast Tracking and Learning Skills
Organising swim clinics at your centre can be a great way to enhance swimmer’s skills and knowledge on specific strokes in a concentrated period of time. Swim clinics can be run for a variety of sessions and options – from frightened beginners to specific strokes. This article will concentrate on running a breaststroke clinic for […]
Laurie talks with Brooke Hanson
Laurie sits down to talk with Brooke Hanson OAM, Olympian and AUSTSWIM Ambassador. Brooke talks about her journey in swimming, missing the 1996 and 2000 Olympic games through to her success in the following Olympics and what were the important lessons she learnt through her mixture of disappointments and success! What was it that drove Brooke to […]
Teaching Young Children Butterfly
Butterfly is a difficult skill. Often swimmers have learned the other 3 competitive strokes before they attempt to learn butterfly. Important Points for Teaching Butterfly Build the stroke Like any stroke taught drills and skills are a building block process. Start small – break the stroke down into smaller achievable skills. Make sure the student […]
Hypoxic Training and Shallow Water Blackout
Shallow water black out in its most simple term is the loss of consciousness from extended breath holding. In competitive swimming In competitive swimming athletes are at high risk especially when doing repeated sets where they are pushing themselves to go further in their underwater work. This is used in preparation for competition because the […]
Freestyle Skill Building for 5 and 6 year olds
In the following video you will see how well children between 5 and 6 years of age can swim. Samu has attended 2 swimming lessons per week since he was 4 months old and has a home pool. At almost 6 years of age, Samu’s fine motor skills are developing rapidly and you can see […]
Australian Swimming History
Australia has a rich history in swimming. Swimming is Australia’s most outstanding Olympic sport, with 58 swimming gold medals out of our 135 gold medal count. Australia was first represented at the Paris Olympics in 1900 by Frederic Lane who won two individual gold medals. Women’s events were added during the 1912 Olympic Games where […]