This Is Your Tribe. These Are Your People.
The Common Unity Of A Swim Shared

Democratising Quality Swim Education For Everyone
Together, We Can Raise The Bar

What is Swim in Common?
This is the place where people come to share, learn and enhance their freestyle swimming experience with others irrespective of borders, barriers, ability, swimming 'discipline', and club/program affiliation. We do this through online and face-2-face education and coaching (for both swimmers and coaches) and through supporting an amazing community of those who love to be in the water, just like us.

Who is Swim in Common?
Swim in Common is the brainchild of Head Coach and Founder, Paul Newsome. You can read more about Paul here.

Every New Beginning Comes From Some Other Beginning's End...
Sadly, the pandemic has crushed the swim coaching community through extended pool closures and has seen many independent, passionate coaches and coaching programs seriously struggle or go out of business entirely. At the same time, an increased interest in open water swimming, in particular, has opened up the escapism of swimming to many people new to this great form of physical activity which has proven to be essential for their mental wellbeing.
Swim in Common has been established in 2022 as a cooperative to bring together a core coaching collective to help the swim coaching community rise from the ashes. We hope to further inspire other coaches and swimmers to share the one thing that a growing number of us now have in common despite the devastation of the pandemic - swimming.

Like Breaking Bread Between Friends
We believe that sharing a swim (and a post-swim brew of course!) is a little like breaking bread between friends.
There is a lot to be said for the common unity of enjoying a drink and a yarn with friends after the shared experience of a swim. This has especially been the case during the global pandemic with many people feeling an increased level of alienation and isolation from others. We hope to be part of a solution to this through swimming.
In short, we believe that we can empower people through their daily swimming ritual and use their swim routine as a way of improving their physical and mental health both now and into the future.

Come As You Are
In life we rarely see people skinned of their pretences, force fields down.
Swimming brings us all together and shows people as they really are. It matters not whether you are 18 or 80 years old; a heart surgeon, student, teacher or labourer, funny or grumpy, competitive or in the way, all are just swimmers chasing the black line or cutting through the waves, feeling good about it, sharing a gag, clearing the head, soaking up the rays, making friends and enjoying the company.
So, call yourself a swimmer, a triathlete, a swimrunner, a plodder, a beginner, or any multitude of names in between - it matters not - the one thing we all have in common is that we swim and we have education and coaching suited to each and everyone.
