Open Water Inspiration At Its Very Best!
Paul Newsome
20 Years Coaching Here In Perth To The Day!
Today marks my 20th anniversary of living here in Perth - I can't believe it! I've met some wonderful people from the swimming community and beyond in this time and have had the opportunity to coach many thousands of swimmers over this period (likely to the tune of 300,000 squad visits in that time and close to 10,000 individual 1-2-1 sessions!). Many of the original crew I started coaching over two decades ago still swim with us to this day.
Further afield, I am extremely grateful for the support and encouragement you have all provided over this time frame. I've been able to follow my passion and do my dream job in arguably one of the best cities in the world.
The Japanese talk about "Ikigai" as identifying your life's purpose and what gets you up in the morning (in my case, at 4.30am every day!).
Through coaching swimmers right around the globe, I can attest that I've found mine:
Through coaching swimmers right around the globe, I can attest that I've found mine:

The success of the program here in Perth has, in turn, allowed us to reach an even greater number of coaches and swimmers around the world and in 2022 we look forward to pivoting the way we've traditionally done things with overseas travel and the like (which, pessimistically I still see as being a little ways off yet) in a way that helps other coaches and swim squads that have been devastated by the effects of the pandemic, rise again from the ashes.
I wanted to send you through a 90-second video clip that I compiled yesterday of a range of videos as a funky collage from my last 20 years here in Perth of open water swimming. Can you name any of the secret locations? The last shot is probably the hardest to get right (even for the locals reading!).
Thanks again everyone - you make this what it is and I'll always be grateful for that...here's to the next 20!
Thanks again everyone - you make this what it is and I'll always be grateful for that...here's to the next 20!
Paul
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Top swimming coach Paul Newsome has been teaching people to swim smooth since 2004. Swim in Common is the place
where people come to share, learn and enhance their freestyle swimming
experience with others irrespective of borders and barriers. We do this through
online and face-2-face coaching and education and through supporting an amazing
community of those who love to be in the water.
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Our "Ikigai"
You may have noticed that our Swim in Common logo features a 4-way venn diagram as its symbol? Why is this?
Justyn Barnes, author of the brilliant book “Ikigai - the Japanese secret to a life of happiness and longevity” states that the word ikigai in its simplest term describes “value in living” or “a reason for living”.
Among the myriad different interpretations of the word, Barnes states that ikigai can be thought of daily as “a reason to jump out of bed every morning” and a “springboard for tomorrow” – isn’t this the very essence of coaching? To help others in an inspired way? We like to think so.
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