Swoosh River Avon Swim

• Swim the Avon from Aveton Gifford to Bantham Beach
• Refine your breathing, head position and stroke with coaching
• Practise group drills with water safety cover
• Discuss feeding, nutrition and recovery for long swims

An epic 5km tidal assisted river swim with professional coaching along the way. We will swim the Avon river (known as the Swoosh) from Aveton Gifford to Bantham Beach, with the aim to improve your technique, performance and stamina and give you the right skills and techniques to perform for your long distance swimming (and to enjoy that amazing swimming spot).

Comfortable front crawl swimmer able to swim 3km and happy to be in the water for 1hour 30 mins.

Wetsuit

Swim Hat and Goggles

Towel / changing robe

Warm clothes

Warm Drink

Swim Training:

After a thorough warm up and stroke analysis, we will be looking at your:

-breathing and head positioning,

-body position, hand entry, reach, catch, rotation, 

-kick and sighting. 

We'll have support and water safety cover to debrief and improve your technique individually as well as setting up group drills.

At the end, we will be discussing mental strategies, feeding during a long swim, pre & post swim nutrition, recovery and individual training points.