Swimming Skills
We are Olympians Amy Smith and Joe Roebuck a pair who have created Swim Swift Elite. Together we offer a variety of ways to improve your swim skills and offer our services to individuals and groups of competitive club swimmers striving for county level and beyond to maximise your speed and performance in the pool.
Swim Camps UK & EU
We hold affordable UK swim camps at various venues around the UK & Europe. Many camps are organised for the school holidays throughout the year. It's your chance to experience a top-class Swim Camp with the in-depth coaching to help you perfect your stroke techniques, improve your starts & turns, work on your race tactics and more.
We Cover the UK
You can book our Swimming Masterclasses, Triathlon Swim Masterclasses or Personal Appearances in most parts of the UK - Mention us to your club. We are also now planning our Swim Camps for the next 12 months so keep an eye out for our latest news and the locations for our next swim camps in your region.
Swim Camps 2021
Christmas Swim Camp 2020
Christmas Camp!
Saturday 19th December: 10.30am – 4.40pm & Sunday 20th December: 10.00am – 4.10pm
Abingdon School
Concluding our 2020 series! Covering the technique of Backstroke & Breaststroke Strokes with the chance to also incorporate this into training.
£160 per swimmer for the 2 days.
Maximum of 3 swimmers per lane.
For competitive club swimmers looking at county level and above, age
10 – 16 years.
October 2020 Swim Camps
2 Day Summer Swim Camp
SUMMER CAMP 2020!
NOW SOLD OUT – LOOK OUT FOR MORE DATES SOON
Location: Abingdon School, Oxfordshire.
For Competitive club swimmers, county standard and above, age 10 – 16 years old.
Maximum of 24 swimmers, or 3 per lane.
Includes 2 technique focused pool sessions per day, 1 gym session per day, and one workshop per day.
* Socially distancing measures and safety surrounding the current pandemic will be in place.
Cost: £160 for the 2 days.
Virtual Swim Club Visits
More New SUPER CAMPS
Following the great success and popularity of our new SUPERCAMPS format our first Super Camp selling out so fast we have arranged for new dates for April this year. Do get booked in as soon as possible as these dates do fill up quickly.
Cape Town Sports Tours Partnership 2020
We are very excited to be able to announce that we’re now in partnership with Cape Town Sports Tours!
They offer a complete sports tour plan to sports academies, schools, social or professional teams and their supporters, looking for seamless integration of fixtures, coaching and sight-seeing in South Africa. This is the opportunity to visit, compete, train and relax in South Africa.
If you or you swim club want to join us for a trip of a lifetime on your next training camp then please click the link!
https://capetownsportstours.com/swimming-tours/
InCroatia Swim Swift Elite Freestyle Tips
5 TIPS FOR IMPROVING YOUR FREESTYLE TECHNIQUE
BY AMY SMITH
Amy Smith is one of the top British sprinters of the early 21st century. A multiple European and Commonwealth Games medallist, Amy also represented GB at the 2012 Olympics, finishing 5th in the 100m freestyle relay and 9th in the 50m freestyle! Today she runs Swim Swift Elite with fellow Olympian and life partner Joe Roebuck, helping youth and masters swimmers from around the globe improve not only their technique but their confidence and understanding around the sport.
Maintain a neutral head position with the eye-line always looking down, never straight forwards. Imagine you are wearing headphones, the water line should be where the band goes. This will keep your neck relaxed and stop you arching your back. Think about keeping the back of your neck long.
Tilt your hips and engage your deep core muscles, these being your pelvic floor, diaphragm, transverse abdominis and other smaller muscles. This will flatten off your back and stabilize you in the water. It could take practice to get the hips to tilt posteriorly and flatten off the back, but try this on land first. Lay on your back with your arms above your head in streamline, and tilt the hips so that you can try to feel the floor with your lower back whilst keeping the rest of your body relaxed. Then try to transfer this to the water (now on your front), floating with a pull buoy between your ankles. Don’t allow your head to dip and your bum to rise, it’s all about the hip tilt. Keeping your core engaged whilst you are swimming will keep your upper and lower body connected and working as one unit, thereby preventing swimmers from wiggling or bouncing. You will also get more power in your stroke
To See all the tips CLICK HERE
INCroatia Swim Camp 2019
Age Group Swimmers: August 25th – 29th
9 sessions, accommodation at Hostel Link and all meals
The INCroatia Swim Camp marches on into the third year, applications now open for Youth Swimmers!
Standard procedure: the sooner you book, the less you pay.
Check out videos from previous years and apply!
http://www.incroatia.co/croatia-swim-camp/
The British School of Brussels Partnership
We’re very excited to announce our partnership with BSB!
We will be visiting the school a number of times throughout the year delivering masterclasses and swim camps, CPD for the coaches, offering advice and interacting with students in the school. We hope to add our insights to the swim program, sports in general and to be a valuable resource for the school in general.
For more info please check out the link.
https://www.britishschool.be/news/news/aquatics-partnership/