RACING SKILLS

Small Group Sessions 

With Olympian

Thu 23rd and Fri 24th October 2025

Whitgift School

 

These racing skills sessions are a great way to gain exclusive experience to get one step ahead of your competitors with video-analysis & written reports by Olympian 

in small groups with a maximum of 8 swimmers per session

  • THU 23 Oct - Race Preparation - 9.00 - 15.30 - £249

  • FRI 24 Oct - Race Starts & Turns - 9.00 - 15.30 - £249

 

Do you need to brush up on your racing skills?

Are you getting ready for Counties or Regionals?

These Small Group Sessions offer club swimmers the chance to work on their starts, turns and finishes or boost their racing skills prior to upcoming competitions enforced by powerful tools of video-analysis and written feedback

Small group sessions are coached by our MP Head Coach Edward Sinclair - Double Olympian, World and European medallist and Ex-British and European record holder - who uses his 10 years personal experience as an international swimmer and 20 years coaching experience to lead a small group of a maximum of 8 swimmers per coaching session

iPads and/or GoPROs will be used to film short videos of starts & turns or swimmers' race pace swimming above and below water

Videos and evaluation reports are included in these sessions

  

  • Thu 23rd Oct - Race Preparation Session

    Sharpen race skills with focused sessions on pacing, tactics, and technique across all four strokes!

    Swimming sessions focused on race preparation:

    • Racing skills & race simulations

    • Swimming at race pace while maintaining technique

    • Broken swims for endurance and speed control

    • Race tactics & strategies

    • Speed development & mindset training

    • Technical elements for efficiency

    • Drill progressions across all four strokes

 

  • Fri 24th Oct - Race Starts & Turns Session: 

    Explosive sessions to master starts, underwater phases, turns, and finishes - the key skills that win races!

    Swimming sessions focused on explosive skills:

    • Skills development for competitive advantage

    • Race starts, underwater phases & breakouts → maximising speed

    • Turns & finishes → optimising technique and speed off walls

Days' schedules

  • 9.00 Registration
  • Welcome & Introduction
  • Warm up
  • Pool session with filming (120 mins)
  • Lunch break -  packed lunch from home 
  • Group Video-Analysis & Reports
  • Warm up
  • Pool session (90 mins)
  • Debrief
  • 15.30 Home

  

Suitable for

club swimmers aged 10 - 15  competitive up to the national level

 

This courses have a limited capacity

 

Course includes

  • Video-analysis
  • Written reports
  • Above and below water videos
  • Pen

 

Fee per session: £249 per swimmer per session

SPECIAL OFFER: 23 & 24 Oct - £489

 

  

For more information please email [email protected]

 

Photos from Technique & Fitness Clinics - April 2023

Photos from Christmas Camp at Whitgift - December 2022

Photos from Christmas Camp at Whitgift - December 2021

Photos from previous camps at Whitgift - October 2019

Photos from previous camps at Whitgift - December 2019                

 

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Venue Details

Whitgift School

Haling Park Rd, South Croydon CR2 6YT

 

Facilities: 25m pool & free parking

 

To book your space please follow our online application procedure 

 
 
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