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Laurie’s Recipe For Success
Laurie Lawrence is a well renowned and respected person in the aquatics industry. Laurie has had much success in all areas of teaching swimming. He has provided swimming lessons from babies all the way up to adults. In fact Laurie has had the privilege of teaching frightened beginners to swim who have gone on to […]
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 – freestyle, backstroke and breaststroke before they attempt to learn butterfly. In this article we will take you through the the important tips when teaching young children butterfly. Tips for Teaching Children Butterfly Build the stroke Like any stroke taught drills […]
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 […]
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 […]
Learning the Butterfly swimming stroke
When teaching butterfly it is best to focus on isolating arm and leg movements before utilising a number of butterfly stroke drills to develop the correct full stroke butterfly. The first recorded Olympic 200 meters butterfly gold medal was won by William Yorzyk of USA in 2 minutes 19.3 seconds at the Melbourne Olympics in […]