Try This – a series of short tips you can try yourself, straight from the master Steven Shaw…
Try This #1: The First Principle
Explore what Steven Shaw calls the first principle – which is that your alignment affects your performance more than any other factor.
- Explore GLIDING with your eyes looking straight down at the floor and with the back of the neck long.
- Notice how your pelvis is lifted and how easy it is to move forward.
- Contrast that with pulling the head back and looking forward.
- Notice how different it feels in your back and how the position of your legs are affected by movements of the head neck and back.
Enjoy!

I am 75 and I have always love swimming I still do but would like to have a lesson to improve my breathing as I can only breath on one side (right)
I live in Surrey KT12 1JU and my club is David Loyd