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Simply Swim Interviews Claire Cashmore: Does your disability affect your swimming?

People always ask me, "How can you swim with one arm?" But, I'm like, "Well, how do you swim with two arms?" Because I've been born like this, I'v...

Simply Swim Interviews Sean Conway - How Was Swimming Britain?

Sean Conway - It was a bit of a whirlwind adventure, I remember sitting here at Simply Swim before I set off thinking - ah it will be a summer adv...

Simply Swim Interviews Claire Cashmore: Was it hard doing a degree whilst training?

Yeah, I got my degree in linguistics from Leeds University. So I started, straight out of Beijing. I literally flew back, arrived back, and then t...

Simply Swim Interviews Claire Cashmore: How did you get into swimming?

Yeah, really athletic from a young age. I loved sports. Any sport I could get my hands on I would enjoy. I did Irish dancing, swimming, running, t...

Simply Swim Interviews Claire Cashmore: How were your first Paralympic Games?

Yeah, my first Paralympics game was age 16 in Athens and it was actually my first international competition. So as you can imagine it's kind of be...

Simply Swim Interviews Claire Cashmore: Do you have a good relationship with your Coach?

Yeah I've a great relationship with the coach. At the moment there's two athletes and two coaches at the high performance centre so you get a lot ...

Simply Swim Interviews Paralympic Medallist Claire Cashmore

We recently had the pleasure of meeting Paralympic Medallist Claire Cashmore during a training session up in Manchester and she kindly allowed us ...

Front Crawl Tumble Turn - Swimming Advice Video

Front crawl, also known as freestyle, is the most efficient swimming stroke to use and the fastest swimming stroke in competitive racing. The bas...

Breaststroke Turn - Swimming Advice Video

The breaststroke turn is an open turn which is simple and easy to learn. Fairly similar to the butterfly turn, for those of you who have worked o...

Front Crawl Drills - Swimming Advice Video

Today we're going to be taking a look at some front crawl drills to help you improve your stroke and technique. The first drill we're going to ta...

Perfect Butterfly Turn - Swimming Advice Video

Today we're going to be looking at the perfect butterfly turn. To get a strong butterfly turn, swim at a constant speed towards the wall without...

Backstroke Drills - Swimming Advice Video

Today we're going to be taking a look at some backstroke drills, so helping you to improve your stroke and technique. So catch-ups is our first ...
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