This clinic requires a clinic

In Negotiating The Surf we build on the ocean awareness session from the Learn To Ocean Swim clinic by focusing on how we can use our new knowledge of how the ocean works to swim smarter and new ocean swimming techniques are introduced.

The strength of this clinic is in the time allocated to practising your new techniques with your instructor close by to give immediate, personal feedback.

You’ll leave this clinic with a huge bank of techniques you can practice in your own time, in our ocean fitness classes or at your next ocean swim event.

The highlight of the clinic is putting all your new-found knowledge and skills together at the end in a mini ocean swim event out around the buoys and back.

You’ll be surprised at the level you can take your ocean swimming in such a short time.

We require you participate in the Learn To Ocean Swim clinic, before participating in this clinic, because when it comes to ocean awareness, it is often a case of ‘you don’t know what you don’t know’.

In Learn To Ocean Swim we guarantee you will learn things you didn’t know previously, and we will bring everything you do know into a clearer picture of how to get the most out of your knowledge from an ocean swimmers point of view.

When it comes to the ocean swimming skills, your actual swimming skills will definitely help, but the focus is on learning techniques, and not doing lots of ocean swimming. So if you’re a great swimmer, we’d expect you to be able to pick up the techniques faster, and perform them better than others, but you still need to master the core techniques.

We are also very good at spotting great swimmers, and we will help you get even more out of your technique session by having you move onto advanced skills, or we’ll tweak them down to the last 1% of efficiency.

This is a technique-based clinic, and so speed isn’t important. You will need to be able to sustain whatever speed you swim at for the entire clinic to get the best out of it. We’ll bunch swimmers of similar speeds together for all the group drills.

The last clinic of the season is usually towards the end of February, although we do run clinics in March if the weather is nice and there is demand that meets the minimum numbers required.

We suggest if you’re looking to get your training in this season that you do the earliest clinic possible so you don’t miss out.

Due to the Negotiating The Surf clinic requiring the pre-requisite Learn To Ocean Swim clinic, these are scheduled approx once a month in November/December, January and February. Our advice is to not delay registering as late season clinics may not eventuate.