Swim Coaching

Steve Gershon is an Amateur Swimming Association (ASA) Advanced Teacher.

Swimming is an essential elementary life skill but it has been my experience that traditional teaching and coaching methods have have not helped those that failed to achieve even basic swimming skills. This is because the style of swimming and methods used are unproductive and often exhausting, yet little is done to remedy the situation. Try harder seems to be their only answer.

Steve’s step by step approach to teaching can help you learn a fluent, graceful and economical style and give you results far faster than conventional methods:

• I teach fishlike swimming. Where traditional instruction places emphasis on pulling, kicking and striving to achieve more and more laps, I teach you to swim with the effortless fluid motions of a fish by becoming one with the water.

• I teach the qualities of tireless swimming as well as good technique.

• My initial focus is on making swimming as easy as possible - you'll be amazed at how easy it can be !

Steve Gershon is a full-time swimming professional, specialising in the use of Total Immersion techniques.

Steve has been swimming, teaching swimming, coaching swimming and participating in various other swimming related activities for over 40 years.
Steve is a Total Immersion Coach.

Steve has been an ASA Advanced Swimming Teacher since the 1970's.

He is the technical coach to Hoddesdon Swimming Club.

Steve coaches Cambridge Triathlon Club Juniors and he specialise in one-to-one sessions with all standards including nervous non-swimmers (including hydrophobic and those with a fear of deep water) right through to county champions and very good triathletes.

Steve says

"I teach by getting in the water with you and by explaining what works, what doesn't and why. I also teach you how to RELAX in water.

I break skills down into their component parts to make their mastery much easier.

I demonstrate first (as many times as you need me to do so) and then I will help you to practice each mini skill.

My teaching techniques do not require you to be very fit as they are technique based."

Swimming Coach Steve Gershon