Services
1-on-1 Video Analysis
Includes stroke correction, drills and
comparisons to the world’s best.
Follow-up Sessions
Embed and extend what you’ve learned in the video analysis
session.
Open Water Skills
Simulate your event and
overcome fears.
1-on-1 Video Analysis
First you need to see it, then you need to feel what it takes to make it happen.
What we do?
Our 90 minute 1-on-1 session includes:
Videoing
- Above and below water from a range of angles that identify technique focus areas.
Stroke Analysis
- Our analysis software allows us to review your stroke in-depth and show you exactly where your weaknesses lie.
- We compare you to elite swimmers to see “what it should look like”.
Corrective Drills
- We select specific drills to correct your weaknesses and demonstrate these visually to ensure you
understand what to do. - Drills are then practiced in the pool with immediate coach to swimmer feedback via a radio headset
whilst you swim uninterrupted.
What you get:
- Clear summary explaining what you have been doing and what you need to do now, to swim fast.
- Summary uses examples of elites to ensure the correct visual reference.
- Drills cheat sheet to use at the poolside.
- All raw videos.
- Swimfast swimming cap – guaranteed to shave a few seconds off!
Sessions are run in a private, 25m, heated, open air swimming pool, based in Bryanston.
Fine-Tune sessions
The fine-tune sessions are for those swimmers who have completed the 1-on-1 video analysis session and want to embed their corrected technique.
It is recommended that this session take place after you have had time to practice the drills given to you in the 1-on-1 video analysis session (but within 3 months of the one-on one video analysis).
What we do?
This 60 min session includes:
Videoing
- A short video of your stroke from above and below water.
Stroke Analysis
- Our analysis software allows us to review your stroke specifically around the corrections you have made to your technique.
Corrective Drills
- Drills are then reviewed in the pool, with immediate coach-to-swimmer feedback via a radio headset
whilst you swim uninterrupted, to ensure you are getting maximum benefit in practice.
What you get:
- See your improvement and focus areas – All raw video, including coaches voice overlay, shared electronically.
- “Open Water Swimming Skills and Tips” electronic document.
Sessions are run in a private, 25m, heated, open air swimming pool, based in Bryanston.
Open water skills
Open water skills training is the last but probably the most overlooked area of
triathlon/open water swimming coaching.
These sessions are held at Lake Heritage. We simulate mass starts, drafting and
sighting techniques, as well as put in some distance training.
What we do?
- With your permission, you will be added to the “swimfast cradle moon” whatsapp group.
- The group meets at 7am on the last Sunday of every month (during the summer and depending on events being held
at the venue), for a distance swim in Lake Heritage, situated at Cradle Moon Lake side game lodge in Muldersdrift. (https://www.cradlemoon.co.za/ Plot 59 Beyers Naude Drive, Muldersdrift. Tel: 011 919 5000) - Depending on numbers and abilities, the swimmers will be split based on speed.
- For safety, a buddy system will be put in place.
- Entrance to Cradle Moon is for your own account.
Pricing
Fine-Tune Sessions
60 mins, one-on-one video analysis of
corrections and improvements and take homes (to be undertaken within 3 months of the full one-on-one video analysis)
Gift Card
Don’t know what to get your
swimming and triathlon mad friend, spouse or family member? The swim fast video stroke analysis package will definitely make them smile. They wil thank you when they swim fast!
About Us
This Johannesburg north swim coach program, is aimed at anyone who wants to improve their freestyle swimming; from beginner to intermediate triathlete or advanced distance swimmer. Video analysis provides phenomenal insights into your swim stroke and combined with coach analysis, is a winning formula for helping people to swim fast!
Using video techniques, specific coaching analysis software and immediate underwater coach-to-swimmer communication, we guarantee you freestyle efficiency and performance will improve. You will swim faster!
Having completed a number of triathlons, open water swims (including podium finishes and Robben Island 2x) and an
intercontinental swim (Straits of Gibraltar), Sue understands the dedication and time it takes to reach swim training goals.
Hammering up and down the pool for hours, week in and week out with minimal time improvements is soul destroying! It’s
mentally tough and the sacrifices are numerous.
Swimfast has evolved out of Sue’s passion for swimming, years of experience as an open water swimmer and a strong desire to help others.
Sue can help you make the training time spent in the water, highly efficient and effective. She can help you transform your
swimming and improve your performance.
Testimonials
"Thank you so much, this morning was mind blowing! Best money I have spent in a very long time!"
Ruanne is about to swim his first Robben Island Crossing!
Multiple Half and full Ironmam Participant
"I thought about all your tips throughout the swim (3km Cradle Moon Swim Challenge). You have helped me more in one session than some coaches have done in years!"
Jane is an SA Champ in her age category. She has completed multiple Ironman and other triathlon events.
"I thoroughly enjoyed the morning spent with Sue. Her enthusiasm for swimming and helping others to love swimming too is obvious.
I have been wanting to get back into Triathlons for a while now, but swimming has always been my shortfall and my training sessions were just a hard slog. After my session with Sue I am encouraged that it is mostly just my poor swim technique that is the problem. It was great to be able to see via video feedback what needed to be corrected. Just the few tips and drills she gave me have already improved my efficiency in the water and taken the slog out of training."
"Sue is amazing and has technical and skill-full knowledge on stroke and swim fast techniques. It is a valuable asset and one can see improvement in output after the first session. Highly recommended. Thanks Sue!"
"I started training for triathlons a bit more than 2 years ago and for the first time in life needed to do swimming training. In that time I spent time listening to friends that were open water swimmers and triathletes about how my hands should enter the water, how I should be kicking etc etc. I even spent a lot of time watching Youtube clips about how to get faster in the pool. What I found was that a lot of the bad advice stuck and I was not 100% convinced that I was executing the good advice well. I don’t think my times in the pool have improved in over a year.
When I arrived at Swimfast I found a person that fully committed to helping me improve not only my speed and efficiency in the water but also reducing the possibility of injury through teaching proper technique. The session was done in Sue's 25m private lap pool. A very relaxed environment conducive to concentrating and learning. I found the whole process not only informative but thoroughly enjoyable. It was amazing to see the video footage and have the problems in my stroke explained to me and then be coached in what to change to fix the problems. Being able to then take that footage home with Sue’s voice over, so that I could re-watch it is also invaluable.
It has now been exactly 1 week since my 90 minute session with Sue and my average time per 100m in the pool has improved by 8 – 10 seconds. I can’t wait for my next open water swim to see how I have improved there.
I would recommend swimfast to anyone that would like to improve their swimming times and technique."
Cherith Gray
"As a beginner swimmer just getting into triathlons, the swim analysis with Swimfast was very valuable! The tips and drills that Sue gave me have given me such a great foundation on which to build. The analysis was fascinating; seeing exactly how I was slowing myself down before, and how to improve on it - a few simple tweaks resulting in a huge difference in speed.
Sue is also very knowledgeable on open water swimming, with lots of advice to share.
Overall, I couldn't recommend Swimfast enough and can't wait to go back for a follow up session to see how I have improved!"
Chetan Patel
"The session was the best spent money from a number of points of view. Firstly, the instant feedback on the analysis and the immediate drill practice session thereafter in a full 25 m home lap pool with privacy and attention, allowed me to instantly hone in on the many faults in my stroke. The reassurance from Sue via underwater headsets whilst executing drills allowed for real-time correction and neuromuscular memory initiation.
Repeating the drills has been tough, but Sue is there to answer my questions quickly.
I feel much more comfortable in the water in a very short space of time."