Easier, faster, more enjoyable swimming
SwimTech offers an online service dedicated to enhancing swimming technique through the use of client stroke videos. Operating from Australia, it serves a diverse clientele both domestically and internationally.
A personal swim improvement pathway
The SwimTech service is bespoke, with a limited number of clients at any given time.
All coaching instruction provided is by Graham Windeatt regarded as Australia's finest all-around swimmer.
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Graham, an Olympic, Commonwealth Games medalist and world record holder, has a long history as a swim technique coach. His extensive experience and achievements make him a highly respected figure in the swimming community.
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​​​​He has utilized his knowledge of the intensely competitive swimming
arena to meticulously track the evolution of techniques
throughout each Olympic cycle.
Graham analyzes and coaches you in all five elements of the freestyle stroke cycle: Propulsion: Entry, Pull stage 1, Pull stage 2, and Recovery: Stage 1, Stage 2
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An Olympic medley finalist and National Surf and Open Water champion, Graham also offers coaching in technique for all strokes and adaptations for open water swimming and triathlons.
Benefits of superior swim technique
SwimTech clients primarily report that enhancing their technique has added a new dimension to their swimming experience.
For those focused on fitness, improved technique has made it easier to maintain their session frequency because the workouts are more enjoyable.
Competitive swimmers have found that they are able to swim faster and with less effort.
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There are a whole range of benefits when you improve your swim technique.
Below listed are some. More information: 7 things to help improve your swimming - Plus 4 Actions
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Benefits include:
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Advances your swimming to the next level, suitable for beginners, intermediates, and advanced swimmers.
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Improve your swimming speed
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Improve your swim endurance
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Be able to glide effortlessly through the water - it feels great
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Enables more variation in sessions to improve fitness and motivation
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Improve your competition times
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Make swimming easier and more enjoyable
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Easier speed with less effort for triathlon swimming
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Reduce the effort needed to maintain same pace
Paris 2024 Olympic 100m Freestyle Men
Even world-class swimmers gain an advantage by employing superior technique.
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The video below shows the different techniques used by the Gold and Silver medalist from the Paris Olympics.
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First place: uses a lower drag, maximum power pull technique for a World Record swim
Second place: uses a higher drag, reduce power pull technique
Best Freestyle Tecnique analysis - Paris 2024
Throughout each four-year cycle, marked by the Olympic Games, SwimTech's owner and coach, Graham Windeatt OLY, conducts an analysis of the gold medalists' techniques.
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For the first time, gold medalists in swimming events ranging from sprint to distance, all exhibit similar pull technique traits. The techniques used reduce frontal drag and maximize power by engaging the primary muscles used in freestyle swimming.
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This includes Pan Zhanle's remarkable victory in the men's 100m Freestyle, setting a world record with a 1.08-second margin to second place, the widest since the 1928 Olympics.
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This video showcases 4 technique keys, common to the gold medalists.
How to improve Swim technique
This is a question that is often asked.
And there is a lot of catch all, general advice around that misses a fundamental point.
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That point being swim technique is individual to each of us and so general advice most often does not produce the benefits you want.
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So you need technique improvement advice that is personal and individual to you.
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Next you need to portion part of your swim time to practicing your Next Technique Aims that SwimTech provides and that is personal to you.
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This is a simple concept but one that is overlooked by many.
Generally speaking swimmers will spend hours upon hours swimming, and pay little or no attention to technique improvement.​
​​​​​​​​​​Cost effective coaching
You can select a coaching level that fits your budget.
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Slow Motion self-analysis can get you started - $A25
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Coaching Level 1. Top of the range service with - 5 annotated videos of your technique and accompanying Next Technique Aim sheets $A395
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FREE - Gain access to your Personal Technique Library along with your startup information at no cost.
All levels include:
Video Analysis of your stroke
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Regular speed and slow-motion analysis with freeze frame and superimposed coaching instruction in the video
Hard copy Next Technique Aim sheets
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These sheets provide images of your stroke along with coaching comments to progress to your next technique level​​​
Personal Technique Library​
Perpetually available via Dropbox your library holds all your technique improvement information
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​To get started​
To begin without any obligation, please refer to the Get Started panel below.
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Below - Tick: Start my no obligation Technique Library - this is FREE
Your Personal Technique Library will be established in Dropbox, and Graham will send you the link with the pertinent information.
Coaching Level Selection and purchase
Coaching Level 1
This level offers the greatest insight and interaction with your stroke technique.
It is also the most effective for self-analysis, both during the learning process and afterwards.
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Coaching Level 2
This level is similar to Level 1 but provides less interaction, which makes it less effective in supporting your advancement in the water. It does not include the Video 5 Analysis, which can be important for your progress.​
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Coaching Level 3
This level offers the most fundamental service out of the three tiers, omitting the Video 5 Analysis which assists in reinforcing your advancement, and provides limited video technique analysis and interaction with Next Technique Aims
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Slow Motion
Become your own Technique Coach with Graham's guidance. A common challenge in self-analysis is identifying technical issues while observing one's own technique in real time. Graham provides edited slow-motion videos for your self-analysis, which you can then add to your Personal Technique Library.
This service is available to Coaching Levels 1 and 2 users.
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How the process works
I guide you through the process, which in summary is:
1. You take a video of your stroke; from the front and side (see how to do that below)
2. I send you a Dropbox request that you drag your video into
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Full Stroke Analysis - Video 1
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Next Technique Aim - Stage 1
4. The video and NTA sheet are added to your Personal Technique Library for you to view and download
Swim education - For easier, faster and more enjoyable swimming
This free information service will help you:
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Improve swim speed and stamina
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Make swimming freestyle easier
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Improve your swimming for triathlon
See these current topics
Lets you know how to improve your freestyle technique within your individual style
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Provides an understanding about why improving swim technique is difficult and encourages patience so you can improve your swimming
Start your Technique Library
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User Feedback
"These videos are the best. I know how much we get out of them." Serena J.
Kate M.
This is just fantastic Graham, seeing my stroke in slow motion with your instruction really helped . So great to have a plan for improving my stroke, thank you!
Ken B.
Thanks Graham. You have seen things in my stroke that no other person has commented on... the fixes are working
Andrew B.
Amazing the improvement and different feel I am getting with your technique comments. Been labouring for years, now improving. Great.