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The Mr Smooth Console - Your Free Desktop Application!
Download the Mr Smooth Console to your PC or Mac and see him from any angle, at any speed.
** Over 70000 swimmers have downloaded the console in the last 12 Months - Don't miss Out! **
The Free Console Application Running On Your Computer 
How To Get The Mr Smooth Console:
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Why is this a download?
What Does A Great Freestyle Stroke Look Like? That's a question we hear all the time. Until now it's been difficult for swimming coaches to answer that question. Now we can - using The Mr Smooth Animation built into funky desktop applications we call "Consoles".
The Free Console is available for you to download as an application to your computer. Install the application and see Mr Smooth's stroke in amazing detail at any speed from any angle - instantly start learning how to improve your freestyle stroke.
The console is super easy to use and is available for both PCs (using Windows) and Macs. Best of all, this unique tool is free, just subscribe to our blog in the signup box to receive it as your joining gift!
The Mr Smooth Consoles are custom built desktop applications, specially designed to view Mr Smooth's stroke from any angle and at any speed - you can even remove the water and its distorting effects! There's the free version shown on this page and an amazing "Pro" version packed with extra features such as matrix-style rotating views! Pro Console
Mr Smooth has been carefully developed by Swim Smooth using our extensive knowledge from within the elite swimming world. We've taken the very latest thinking in freestyle stroke mechanics and carefully produced an animation showing an 'ideal stroke' for amateur swimmers and triathletes. You can find out more about Mr Smooth's development here.
Use the Mr Smooth animation as a visualisation tool to understand the freestyle stroke better - the visual cues will soon have you improving your swimming.
Any swimmer will benefit from studying his stroke, whether you are a total novice, intermediate or elite swimmer. We have found that adults learning freestyle get just as much from watching Mr Smooth as experienced swimmers, perhaps more.
Free Console Features
Watching Mr Smooth has many advantages over watching video footage of great swimmers:
- The animation has amazing clarity.
- You can view him from angles you cannot normally film a swimmer, e.g. underneath and surface level shots.
- We've included super-smooth slow motion to appreciate his every movement.
- He has no idiosyncrasies (even great swimmers have these and they're distracting and confusing to the non-expert viewer).
At the click of a button you can remove the water and its distorting effects from the animation. - A normal body type which you can relate to (many elite swimmers are very tall and broad).
- Accurate control of stroke rate, so you can dial in Michael Phelp's stroke rate, or Rebecca Adlington's or Emma Snowsill's.
- Ability to remove the water for greater clarity, especially useful for understanding the catch phase of the stroke.
- The animation is synchronised from different angles so you can freeze him and look at a fixed position from the front, side, top, bottom and rear.
- Precisely numbered frames over a complete bilateral breathing cycle. Frame numbers provide an easy reference for discussion and sharing between fellow users.
3 Things To Look Out For: Beginner Swimmers
1) Mr Smooth has great breathing technique. He keeps his head low when he breathes, exhales into the water and breathes to both sides (jargon: bilateral breathing).
2) As he swims he keeps his body high and horizontal in the water. This allows him to cut through the water easily.
3) Mr Smooth kicks from the hip with a relatively straight leg. His ankles are loose and floppy. This keeps his body high and reduces drag.
What do we mean by this? Swim Smooth coach Adam Young will show you in the Mr Smooth presentation for beginner swimmers.
3 Things To Look Out For: Intermediate Swimmers
1) Mr Smooth has good body roll in his stroke - notice he rotates with his hips as well as his shoulders. This makes his stroke longer, more streamlined and more powerful.
2) His stroke is long but it doesn't have any deadspots. Having a pause or deadspot in your stroke is a major obstacle to becoming a faster swimmer. We'll show you how to remove the deadspot and overcome this very common problem for swimmers who've overly lengthened their stroke.
3) Mr Smooth has ideal "front quadrant" stroke timing. He doesn't windmill or catch-up fully. He strikes the right balance with his hands passing just in front of his head (one above and one below the water). This timing is best for most swimmers.
Find out more by watching the Mr Smooth Presentation For Intermediate Swimmers.
3 Things To Look Out For: Advanced Swimmers
1) Mr Smooth has a great catch and feel for the water. Notice how he catches with a high elbow and his finger tips angled down. He pulls the water backwards not down with a bent elbow.
2) His stroke helps him avoid shoulder injury. He does this by having great body roll, entering finger-tips first, not thumb first and pulling the water back not pushing it down at the front of the stroke.
3) Mr Smooth's kick timing is perfect. This helps him drive his body roll and in turn drive his arm stroke. Yes you can use your kick to drive your arm stroke - it's one of the subtle things that turns a good swimmer into an elite swimmer.
What do know more? Swim Smooth coach Adam Young will show you in the Mr Smooth Presentation For Advanced Swimmers.
Download Now To download the Mr Smooth Free Console to your desktop, simply join our blog called Feel For The Water. The console is our thank you gift for joining - simply enter your email in the box below. You can unsubscribe from the blog at any time but you won't want to! We'll be sending you clear, concise hints and tips to improve your swimming. You'll also get special training sessions to try straight from head coach Paul Newsome. Don't miss out...
Frequently Asked Questions:
This is something I download? What do you mean by desktop application?
The Mr Smooth console is a piece of software called an application that you install on your computer (there are versions for both PC and Mac). Your computer will already have many applications on it, for example email software (Mail, Outlook etc.) and media players (like iTunes and Windows Media Player). You might also have Word processor and Spreadsheet applications.
With a standard broadband connection the application takes about 5 to 10 minutes to download, you then install it on your computer and you can use it whenever you want - without connecting to the internet. Why not show the animation on the internet in something like You Tube?
Unfortunately this simply isn't possible. The video quality within the console is much much higher than You Tube or anything similar could handle. You will really notice the difference in quality and get a much greater sense of an ideal freestyle stroke. How fast does my computer need to be?
Most computers built in the last 3 or 4 years can easily run the Console. There is a slight risk that it won't play smoothly on some computers - fortunately it's free so you haven't lost anything! Can I install it one more than one computer?
The software license allows you to install the console on two computers that belong to you only. We reserve the right to withdraw the software key from any license we find to be abused. I entered my details but didn't hear from you!
Please check your junk mail folder. You can re-enter your details in the signup box and trigger another email but before you do so, add the following email address to your safe senders: blog@swimsmooth.com Try clicking here to do so automatically (doesn't work with all browsers). The signup and email send on the blog page is slightly different from that on this page - if you signed up in the box on the blog itself but didn't receive a confirmation email then try this page instead - for a small percentage of users it's more reliable.
The Pro Console
Special View 4 From The Pro Console: The Catch
The Free Console's very cool but the Pro Console is The Bomb.
Designed as the ultimate tool for coaches and swimming enthusiasts, it includes some amazing features. We asked our technical team "what have you got in the locker?" and we weren't disappointed with what they came up with!
Special compilation synchronised views focusing on key aspects of the freestyle stroke, matrix style rotating views, ultra-quality bit-rates, a forward/reverse jog wheel, the ability to export frames as images, manual frame control, auto-link generation and full-screen view mode.
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