Bath Clinic Saturday 16th September:

The Bath University Clinic was due to be a great day for the Swim Smooth Team as both Paul and Stuart had studied at the University for their respective degrees. Local coach Neil Scholes provided some superb assistance for the 12 swimmers during the day and his help was greatly appreciated!

Reviews:

As is becoming customary from our Clinics, we have provided below a sample of some of the comments from the 12 swimmers who took part in the Bath University Swim Smooth Clinic:

>> Click here for photos from the day!

David Ardley from the Southampton Triathlon Club has also provided this review on the Club's website.

Had my one-to-one with Paul earlier today and have to agree these sessions are really worthwhile. I didn't end up with a complete overhaul (thankfully!) but plenty to think about and work on in the next couple of months and beyond.

Paul was excellent - very patient and with lots of great advice on a number of areas for improvement without going into information overload. All the suggestions were based very much around what Paul thought would work for me and my particular style of swimming and were backed up with recommendations for breathing exercises and stretches.

I would thoroughly recommend these to anyone looking to improve their swimming or to those, like me, who are not sure where their swimming is going at all! I came out of it feeling much more confident about what I should be doing and also super motivated!

Matt Hart, Oxford.

Having just been to the SwimSmooth clinic at Bath Uni - I'd highly recommend it. I've got a lot of hard work to do this winter practising and practising, but having been videoed for the first time, I've got something definite to work on, whereas previously I'd just been thrashing around going nowhere. I'm no Ian Thorpe, but I only did the clinic on Saturday and have just got back from the pool today - I was previously posting 62s for 50m and this was down to 47s and that was at the end of my session. I reckon that that's a pretty decent improvement for starters...

Thanks again to Paul, Neil and Stuart for a great day.

Rob Saunders.

I was at the Bath clinic this weekend too, and came away fully motivated. I started the 8 week training plan by doing a 1000 TT to get a baseline and looking at the time I'd done I thought I'd missed out 4 laps - so I did it again today (to be sure) and have actually taken 2 minutes off my usual time and felt much more comfortable doing it too. Just from one or two simple points to work on!!

So a BIG thank you to Paul, Neil and Stuart from me too.

Michelle John.

Photos from the day:

Thanks to the help and assistance of our roving photographer (Stuart) we are able to provide a collection of the photographs from the day: