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.
Swim Training Nationwide
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.
Triathlon Master-class!
It was a great experience to team up with professional Triathlete, Olympian and now Ironman, Will Clarke. Together we worked with three Tri Clubs, Hoddesdon, Freedom and Tri-Force to
combine our skills and knowledge and deliver three different session to the athletes. Race transitions, core strengthening and open water swimming skills. All three clubs met at Welwyn Garden City for this fantastic full days event, learnt lots and had the opportunity during a lengthy Q&A session with the 3 Olympians to gain an insight into their elite level competitive lifestyles.
We hugely enjoyed the experience of working with the senior triathletes and coaching outdoors at Welwyn Garden City Lake!
Severnside Tritons Swimming Club – 8th & 15th August 2015
We visited Severnside Tritons Swimming club on two occasions, each for a full day consisting of 2 swim sessions and a land session. The first week, we worked with a slightly older group of
swimmers, and the second week, the youngsters of the club. It was a great turn out for both sessions, and every swimmer was put through their paces at some point, whether it was during a starts or turns session in the pool, or in the land room.
Everyone thoroughly enjoyed it though, as did we. The sun even came out for us as you can tell by the squinting in our photo!
Saxon Crown Swimming Club Masterclass – 29th June 2015
Thank you to everyone at Saxon Crown Swimming club who welcomed us on to poolside to chat with swimmers about how to motivate themselves during training, and deal with any nerves during competition. We included our own stories and personal experience to help the swimmers relate. In the pool we focused on Freestyle, and used a variety of different drills to make sure the swimmers focus on important elements of their stroke and breakout. We had many questions from the swimmers after the session, and not only did everyone enjoy themselves, but they learnt something too!
Red Top Swim June 2015
We were happy to visit Red Top a club aimed at all adult swimmers ranging from fitness swimmers, Triathletes, Ironman athletes and open water swimmers. Over our 3 sessions across a range of London pools, including an open air Lido in London Fields, we worked with the swimmers on freestyle technique. The swimmers were introduced to some new drills, technical elements, given pointers and individual feedback and combined with live demonstrations from the Olympic athletes it resulted in an extremely successful 3 day. We received a very warm welcome from Red Top and will be looking to visit them again in the future!
Gloucestershire ASA 1 Day STARTS & TURNS SWIM CLINIC – MILLFIELD JUNE 2015
Our second day with Gloucester ASA was another success as we ran through our Starts & Turns Master-class at Millfield School. We had attendees from Bristol Henleaze SC, Bristol Penguins SC, Bristol Central SC, Bishopsworth SC, Severnside SC, Soundwell & SCSouthwold SC. We would like to thank Gloucester ASA for giving us the opportunity to be part of the swimmers improvement and to Millfield School for letting us use their fantastic facilities.
Gloucestershire ASA 1 day Starts & Turns Swim Clinic – Malvern
This full day starts and turns masterclass went tremendously. We had swimmers from Bristol North, Gloucester, Cirencester, Cinderford, Dursley, Lydney, and Tewkesbury attend. The swimmers completed two pool sessions, a land training session, and were also given the fantastic opportunity to listen to the motivational journeys of both Joe and Amy during a classroom session. Every swimmer learnt many new skills, and had great fun at the same time. We would like to thank Gloucestershire ASA for inviting us to be part of these swimmers development, and also Malvern College for allowing us to use their fantastic facilities.
We look forward to day 2 with swimmers from the south of Gloucestershire at Millfield on the 14th of June!
Redditch SC Masterclass Swim Clinic
This was our second visit to Redditch Swimming Club, and this time we focused on Butterfly technique and touch turns. Two groups took part for an hour and a half each, and broke down the Butterfly stroke and turn using unique drills. Everyone gave the drills a go, and came out with a better understanding of how to make Butterfly as efficient as possible.
Thank you to everyone at Redditch Swimming Club for working hard and allowing us to visit for a second time. We hope to see you all again.
New Swimming Camp UK Announced
Throughout the year we run our popular swimming camp UK weekends. We are delighted to announce that our next UK Swim Camp will be at Abingdon School Oxfordshire on Saturday 28th and Sunday 30th August. Our camps will allow you to perfect your stroke techniques, improve your starts & turns, work on your race tactics, and much more.
At the Abingdon swim camp we will be using modern land training techniques, core & flexibility training in an environment focused towards excellence. As Olympians we know exactly what it takes to reach the pinnacle of our sport and we really enjoy to passing on this knowledge to you.
There will be motivational speeches, latest nutritional advice, racing psychology plus other talks and a Q&A session. All aimed to inspire and give you that authentic Olympic Experience.
Our Swimming Camps are aimed at competitive club swimmers striving for county qualification and above, aged 10-16.
Places are limited so do book up quickly to avoid missing out.
Borough of Harrow SC Masterclass Swim Clinic.
A huge thanks to everyone at the Borough of Harrow Swimming club for inviting us to join them and deliver a starts and turns swim clinic. There was lots to fit in, but with very attentive and engaged swimmers, we all had a brilliant time and learnt lots at this clinic. This was followed up with an inspirational discussion, sharing our Olympic journeys and helping the swimmers to set goals and achieve their dreams. It was also great to have coaches involved and open to hearing new ideas.
Thank you to everyone at Borough of Harrow SC for a great swim clinic!
Joe attends Marie Curie Swimathon
On 18th April, Joe from Swim Swift Elite made the long journey down to Bath, Somerset, to encourage and support those who wanted to raise money and challenge themselves for this incredible cause. Well done and a big thank you to all who took part or supported the event, and raised money for this fantastic charity.