How to navigate the course?

Alright, please give me a moment of your attention for this intro. Because this isn’t your usual “learn to swim” video you just watch at home on your computer—it requires a bit more structure so you’ll know exactly what to do.
You can see the whole course structure on the left.
There are 8 chapters in total: the intro (where you are now), and 7 main chapters about breathing, gliding, arms, legs, and rotation. Each chapter is divided into a theoretical part and a practical part.
In the theory, I answer the most common technical questions, and in the practical part, I open swimming drills for you to train on your own in the water.
I hope you didn’t think you’d learn to swim just by watching the videos—sorry, but get your swimsuit, goggles, and into the pool.

So how should you work through all the materials you’ve got here?
Well, it depends if you can already swim a little bit of crawl or not at all.

If you can already swim at least one length of crawl, and all the theory is giving you hives, then go straight into the practical water drills from level 10, and return to the theory only if you get stuck or something really doesn’t work.

If you’re only swimming breaststroke and have no idea how to start with crawl, then I recommend going through this course like this:
1. Start with all the theory. Watch all the theory videos first. I know theory isn’t always fun, but it will make your life in the water a whole lot easier. Watch them anywhere—at home, while cooking, commuting, at work—whenever you have time.
The videos in each chapter are named after the most common problems I solve with my clients. So when you go to the water to train a certain technique and it’s not working, you’ll know I talked about it in a video, and you can replay it anytime.

2. Then I recommend starting with the practical part.
By this point, you’ll have your swimsuit on, goggles over your eyes, and you’ll be in the water trying exactly what I show you.
And now a little twist – the only chapter that takes priority over all others, and which you should aim to finish as soon as possible and include in every training session, is the very first one – Breathing in freestyle. Without breathing, we’re going nowhere – it’s priority number one. So while we progress through all levels more or less evenly, we try to improve breathing much faster and include it in every training session.

3. If you’re worried that you’ll never remember the exercises you watch on your laptop at home – no stress, I wouldn’t remember them either – that’s why I’ve prepared a printable “Swimbook” to help you stay oriented. This “Swimbook” will be your best buddy at the pool. It’s a set of PDFs with all the exercises, prepared for each level, each on one A4 sheet.
So you’ll have a Swimbook with level 1 for breathing, gliding, arms, legs, and rotation – just print it out, take it with you to the pool, and start training by following the pictures with descriptions.
Then you’ll take the next Swimbook with level 2 exercises for breathing, gliding, arms, legs, and rotation, and use it to train.
And since we just said that learning to breathe is the most important thing in swimming, you’ll also carry a Swimbook that has all 10 levels from the Breathing chapter grouped together.
Does that make sense? I believe it does.
If you want to go through the practical part as effectively as possible, check out the next video.

This lesson is one of the few open to the public.

To download the SWIMBOOK, please check the lesson before or after this one.