Evolutionary. Not Revolutionary.
Modern Swim Coaching Should Be An Evolutionary, Not A Revolutionary, Process...

Help Us Help Others By Starting With Your Swimmers!
Over the years, swimming has been fraught with conjecture over how the freestyle stroke should be both taught and swum. A simple Google search on “how to swim freestyle” returns over 16 million results, many with very passionate (and some times dogmatic) views on what is the correct way for everyone to swim.
With so many opinions, no wonder confusion abounds for swimmers and coaches of all levels, but it needn’t be that way!
Our FREE quick course for coaches and swimmers focuses on how to swim better freestyle and will help your swimmers cut through all the clutter to ensure everyone has a firm understanding in how to swim smooth, efficient freestyle. Please consider sending it on to your swimmers via the super-handy WhatsApp link below:
With so many opinions, no wonder confusion abounds for swimmers and coaches of all levels, but it needn’t be that way!
Our FREE quick course for coaches and swimmers focuses on how to swim better freestyle and will help your swimmers cut through all the clutter to ensure everyone has a firm understanding in how to swim smooth, efficient freestyle. Please consider sending it on to your swimmers via the super-handy WhatsApp link below:
"It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so."

Our decades of coaching experience amongst our
coaching collective has resulted in two certainties that we do know for sure, however (thanks Mark Twain!):
- that there is no one ideal freestyle stroke that suits every type of swimmer (and even every type of swimming discipline, e.g. pool vs open water vs triathlon) – a good coach knows that he/she must coach the swimmer, not the stroke;
- that all aspects of the freestyle stroke can be
described upon a continuum or ‘spectrum’, thus it is possible to glide too much
or extend too little, to kick too hard or not kick at all, to look to the
bottom of the pool or to look too far forwards etc - you could say there are
fifty shades of ‘smooth’.
Coach The Swimmer, Not The Stroke!
Acknowledging these two observations is both liberating for a coach in their role as an educator and relieving for the swimmer in their capacity and opportunity to improve, irrespective of where they are currently at on their swimming journey.
Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts
The Swim in Common "Coaching Collective" draws upon a vast wealth of learned knowledge and iterative experience to bring you the most cutting edge perspective on how to develop your freestyle stroke for maximum efficiency.
Democratising Swim Coaching
Being true to our vision of democratising this information so that everyone can share in the joy of a better swim, we want to work with coaches who share our same sentiment. After all, what is coaching if not the dissemination of ideas to help others improve?
Developed By Coach Paul Newsome
All of our swim coaching methodologies stem from the lifetime body of work by visionary swim coach, Paul Newsome, and his team of coaches who have collaboratively been teaching the world to swim smooth for nearly two decades.
Inspiration, Education & Community
If you'd like to learn more, please keep reading for a fuller idea on what we are trying to build here...
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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”.
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, using a great methodological base, with your own added flair of ingenuity?
What you love = swimming
What you are good at = coaching
What the world needs = better swim coaching
What you can be paid for = great swim coaching
Swim : Live : Swim
Passion Creates Purpose
Our Coaching Collective Culture
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The 80/20 Rule
The 80/20 rule
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