How are stroke clinics different from regular coaching sessions?

Stroke clinics are focused 2-hour workshops built around a single discipline — freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, individual medley, or starts and turns. Unlike ongoing coaching programmes that work across everything, each clinic gives concentrated, precise feedback on one specific area. The result is faster improvement on the thing that needs it most.

Do I need to be a competitive swimmer to attend a stroke clinic?

No. Clinics suit anyone who wants to improve their technique in a specific stroke — from club swimmers working towards competition times, to triathletes wanting better freestyle efficiency, to recreational swimmers who want to swim more easily. The focus is technique, not fitness level.

How many swimmers are in each clinic?

Each clinic is limited to a maximum of eight swimmers. Small group size means meaningful poolside feedback for every swimmer throughout the session — not just brief corrections in between sets.

When do stroke clinics run and how do I book?

Clinics will run on Sundays and during school holidays at The Venue LC in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. We are finalising the first dates now — join the waiting list on this page and we will let you know as soon as booking opens, with priority access before dates are made public.

Will I get drills I can use afterwards?

Yes — that's the point of the format. Every correction comes with a drill attached, and you leave with the two or three that matter most for your stroke rather than a long list. Every drill is demonstrated and then corrected in the water, so you know what it is fixing and can repeat it properly on your own.

Stroke Clinics Hertfordshire — Swimming Technique Workshops

Six specialist clinics

Choose your
clinic

Each clinic is a standalone session focused on one stroke or skill. Open any clinic for the full detail — what we fix, the common faults, and who it suits — then pick the one that needs the most work, or work through them all.

Swimmer demonstrating front crawl technique

Freestyle

Body position, high-elbow catch, pull mechanics, bilateral breathing and kick efficiency — rebuilt from the water up.

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Backstroke

Rotation, rhythm and the high-elbow recovery. Backstroke technique is often neglected — this clinic fixes the habits that are quietly costing you time.

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Breaststroke

The hardest stroke to do well — timing, glide and kick coordination. Small fixes here produce some of the biggest time gains of any discipline.

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Butterfly

Efficient, sustainable butterfly built on timing and undulation — not brute strength. Learn to make it look easy rather than just survive it.

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Individual
Medley

All four strokes in sequence, with transitions that don't lose you the race. IM coaching identifies your weakest discipline and brings it up fast.

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Starting blocks at the edge of a competition pool

Starts, Dives
& Turns

Legal dive starts, tumble turns and underwater breakouts — the parts of a race that can add or lose metres before you've taken a stroke.

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What stroke clinics are

One stroke.
One session.
Real change.

Stroke clinics are focused, technical sessions built around one thing: fixing a specific weakness in your swimming. Unlike general coaching programmes that work across everything, each clinic targets a single discipline — so the feedback is precise, the drills are relevant, and the improvement is faster.

Our clinics run for 2 hours at The Venue LC in Borehamwood. We limit each session to eight swimmers — small enough for meaningful poolside feedback throughout. Clinics will run on Sundays and during school holidays. All our coaches hold Swim England, ASA or STA accreditation. No weekly commitment required.

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£55 per swimmer

How a clinic works

Drills you can
take home

A clinic isn't a lecture. Every correction comes with a drill attached — a specific, repeatable thing you can do in your own club sessions on the Tuesday after. We set a benchmark at the start, re-test it at the end, and send you away with the two or three drills that will actually change your stroke, rather than a list of twenty you'll never use.

The work is skills-first: catch and sculling drills, rotation and balance work, timing sequences, wall and breakout progressions — whatever the stroke or skill in question is built from. Small groups mean every swimmer gets watched on every repeat, and the feedback lands while the feel is still there.

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Is this for me?

For swimmers who want
to fix something specific

Club swimmers

Targeting a specific stroke before competition season. Clinics are built around race-legal technique and fast, measurable change. Parents: for ongoing 1-to-1 work, see our junior swim coaching.

Masters swimmers

Breaking habits built up over years of unsupervised training. Technique errors that have become muscle memory need targeted, expert correction.

Triathletes

Improving freestyle efficiency for a faster swim leg. Small technical gains in the water translate directly to better overall race times. Racing outdoors? Pair a clinic with open water swim coaching.

Adult improvers

Building confidence and real efficiency across the strokes. Clinics give you a clear understanding of what to work on and why it matters.

IM swimmers

Your race is only as fast as your weakest stroke. Isolated clinics identify the discipline dragging your IM time and fix it at the source.

Returning swimmers

Back in the pool after time away — stroke clinics reset technique properly before bad habits become permanent again.

Stroke Clinics