--- product_id: 1441853 title: "Swim Smooth: The Complete Coaching System for Swimmers and Triathletes" price: "229.81 DT" currency: TND in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/1441853-swim-smooth-the-complete-coaching-system-for-swimmers-and-triathletes store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # 3D graphics & detailed stroke analysis Companion app for slow-motion video review Comprehensive freestyle coaching Swim Smooth: The Complete Coaching System for Swimmers and Triathletes **Price:** 229.81 DT **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🏅 Swim Smart, Swim Smooth — Your Ultimate Edge in the Water! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Swim Smooth: The Complete Coaching System for Swimmers and Triathletes - **How much does it cost?** 229.81 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/1441853-swim-smooth-the-complete-coaching-system-for-swimmers-and-triathletes) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Beyond the Pool:** Includes open water strategies and race skills to elevate your triathlon or competitive swimming performance. - • **Coach in Your Pocket:** Access the Swim Smooth app for slow-motion stroke analysis anytime, ensuring continuous improvement. - • **Tailored for Every Swimmer:** Whether beginner or advanced, find your unique style with personalized drills and stroke correction. - • **Visual Learning Powerhouse:** High-quality photos and 3D graphics bring complex swimming mechanics to life for faster skill acquisition. - • **Master Your Freestyle Stroke:** Unlock injury-free, efficient swimming with modern techniques developed by British Triathlon experts. ## Overview Swim Smooth: The Complete Coaching System is a top-rated, expertly crafted guide for swimmers and triathletes seeking to refine their freestyle technique. Developed by consultants to the British Triathlon gold medal team, it offers injury-preventing stroke mechanics, personalized drills, and advanced training strategies. Enhanced with vivid photos, 3D graphics, and a companion app, this book transforms swimmers of all levels into efficient, confident athletes ready to dominate both pool and open water. ## Description Transform your technique in the water and become a better swimmer with this remarkable new approach to freestyle swimming, suitable for all levels - beginner, intermediate and advanced, as well as swimming coaches. Aimed at both fitness and competitive swimmers, it explains what makes a successful stroke and how to develop your own swimming style. The Swim Smooth approach, developed by consultants to the gold medal winning British Triathlon team, helps you identify the strengths and weaknesses of your stroke and provides drill and training tips to make the most of your time in the water. It accepts differences in individual swimmers and shows you how to understand the fundamentals of swimming to find a style that works for you. Technique, fitness training, racing skills and open water swimming are all covered, with photographs and 3D graphics helping you to put theory into practice. Swim efficiently. Swim fast. Swim Smooth. Table of Contents Foreword Preface Getting Stated Technique Training Open Water Appendices: Swim Smooth drills, Swim Type Stroke Correction Processes, Training Sessions Index Review: Best modern freestyle swim book - I am a recreational swimmer who tried to relearn to swim better back in 1998 from Terry Laughlin's book. I have never been on a swim team to get good coaching advice. I have recently looked at a few new and old how-to-swim books. The newer advice is quite different from the older books which encouraged habits that can easily lead to shoulder injuries. 1) A new book "Swim Smooth" has the most modern advice of all, along with a fine web site swimsmooth.com with a super free app you can download and watch from any angle and at very slow speed (esp from underneath to see the difference from the old S-shape recommended arm movement for the crawl). Looking through this book a few days ago already has led to a major revision of my freestyle. You can get the essential info from this fun book by just looking at the numerous pictures and reading the captions. My self-taught freestyle stroke has several major flaws, eg. I should not angle my hand sideways on entry which can injure the shoulder and I should not cross the center line on arm extension or pushback (some old books show the arm crossing horizontally under the body) which loses propulsion and leads to being off balance. The entry angle should be at a steep approx 45 degree angle and the hand should tip down for the catch right after full extension (instead of gliding more). And forget about a sideways scull and S-shape arm movement (update: I have added back a partial S movement which seems to flow better with increased speeds if you use fins, plus Olympic swimmers do that too). Anyway, the book "Swim Smooth" and web site (with the downloaded MrSmooth app) is my top choice for a relearn-to-swim-freestyle book for amateurs who have no coach. 2) Next in line is the excellent second edition of "Fitness Swimming", pages 1-69, page 86, and pages 119-120 (the rest is workout schedules). This book has by far the best compact explanation of the theory and guidelines for the modern injury-free freestyle . It finally explained to me exactly how to accomplish the 2-beat kick as well as the unfathomable (from other books) 6-beat kick. 3) Then there's the other modern swim book that I re-learned to swim from in 1998. Too bad in that book (or even his latest one) there is no good description of the arc the hand travels (ie. S-shape or not) or fundamental principles like the hand must always be inside the elbow distance (otherwise .. injury) and the similar dangers of angling the hand on entry, or of the merits of a steeper hand entry (but see his DVD below). Terry Laughlin's books (latest best all-stroke intro is called "Extraordinary Swimming for every body") have been adopted widely and I still would recommend this book as one of the several must-have's for someone still learning to swim better. If I was teaching someone to swim from ground zero, I would use the exercises to lead up to the crawl in that book's freestyle chapter (which are easier to see/appreciate in the bigger format "Total Immersion Pool Primer", basically drills in balance and body rotation) or in Terry's DVD "Perpetual Motion Freestyle in 10 Lessons", which teaches how to swim by progressive enhancement of fundamental balance and propulsion skills. The graduated drills are clearly demonstrated and the progression to developing the complete stroke and 2-beat flick kick is logical. 4) "Learn to Swim in a Weekend" is a super compact (90 pages), all-picture guide to the major strokes plus turning and diving, about 8 easy to look at pages per stroke type. This is a fun book to look through and the pictures are superb in showing the essentials of each stroke. So those are the 4 most essential how-to-swim or how-to-relearn-to-swim-better books I've discovered. Then there's the very old swimming book "Swimming: Steps to Success" which has some bad crawl advice (which was considered good advice in the 1960's), but includes a few non-major strokes such as the sidestroke and the Double Trudgen which I'll learn sometime to amaze folks - I mean, who really knows that stroke nowadays other than ocean lifeguards! The third edition of this book has not changed from the very old first edition, so do not expect modern swimming advice. History: the first-ever "modern" swim book was "Complete Book of Swimming" by James Counsilman (1979) which authors since have liberally copied text from. This was "the" modern theory and how to swim book until the 1990's and has held up remarkably well, plus it's fun to see pictures of Mark Spitz's swim strokes. Review: Well-written, Excellent illustrations, Very Helpful - This is a very good book that I would recommend to anyone interested in improving their freestyle stroke (and of course, speed and sense of comfort in the water). I have learned to swim later on in life, starting with fairly high difficulty around age 29. For those of you who have been there, it started with that feeling of being completely out of breath after a single length and resting a minute before doing the next length...and the continuous feeling/fear of being out of breath. Since then, I have put a lot of effort into becoming a better swimmer -- hard work in the pool, reading various books, and talking to more experienced swimmers about drills, techniques, and swim plans. But I still have struggled with my comfort level in the water. For example: the "sinking" feeling, always seemingly struggling to take in enough oxygen, and having a very hard time of incorporating flip turns. Most of the books I have read and people I have talked to aren't quite familiar perhaps on this part of the struggle to become a better swimmer -- from the viewpoint of someone who doesn't yet have an innate sense of comfort in the water. The SwimSmooth book has been a Godsend when it comes to this part of improving as a swimmer. The authors seem to be keenly aware and in tune with swimmers of all skill levels and experience...the explanations and drills are very well written and well-illustrated. For example, I identify with the "Arnie" swimmer archetype and based on this identification have been able to follow specific drills and techniques to improve my comfort in the water. It's also printed on very high quality, gloss paper - I definitely recommend it for anyone looking to improve their freestyle swimming, from beginner through intermediate skill levels. ## Features - Used Book in Good Condition ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #420,696 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #65 in Triathlons (Books) #77 in Swimming (Books) #445 in Sports Training (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 672 Reviews | ## Images ![Swim Smooth: The Complete Coaching System for Swimmers and Triathletes - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81Ax9L1xOUL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Best modern freestyle swim book *by Y***T on August 29, 2013* I am a recreational swimmer who tried to relearn to swim better back in 1998 from Terry Laughlin's book. I have never been on a swim team to get good coaching advice. I have recently looked at a few new and old how-to-swim books. The newer advice is quite different from the older books which encouraged habits that can easily lead to shoulder injuries. 1) A new book "Swim Smooth" has the most modern advice of all, along with a fine web site swimsmooth.com with a super free app you can download and watch from any angle and at very slow speed (esp from underneath to see the difference from the old S-shape recommended arm movement for the crawl). Looking through this book a few days ago already has led to a major revision of my freestyle. You can get the essential info from this fun book by just looking at the numerous pictures and reading the captions. My self-taught freestyle stroke has several major flaws, eg. I should not angle my hand sideways on entry which can injure the shoulder and I should not cross the center line on arm extension or pushback (some old books show the arm crossing horizontally under the body) which loses propulsion and leads to being off balance. The entry angle should be at a steep approx 45 degree angle and the hand should tip down for the catch right after full extension (instead of gliding more). And forget about a sideways scull and S-shape arm movement (update: I have added back a partial S movement which seems to flow better with increased speeds if you use fins, plus Olympic swimmers do that too). Anyway, the book "Swim Smooth" and web site (with the downloaded MrSmooth app) is my top choice for a relearn-to-swim-freestyle book for amateurs who have no coach. 2) Next in line is the excellent second edition of "Fitness Swimming", pages 1-69, page 86, and pages 119-120 (the rest is workout schedules). This book has by far the best compact explanation of the theory and guidelines for the modern injury-free freestyle . It finally explained to me exactly how to accomplish the 2-beat kick as well as the unfathomable (from other books) 6-beat kick. 3) Then there's the other modern swim book that I re-learned to swim from in 1998. Too bad in that book (or even his latest one) there is no good description of the arc the hand travels (ie. S-shape or not) or fundamental principles like the hand must always be inside the elbow distance (otherwise .. injury) and the similar dangers of angling the hand on entry, or of the merits of a steeper hand entry (but see his DVD below). Terry Laughlin's books (latest best all-stroke intro is called "Extraordinary Swimming for every body") have been adopted widely and I still would recommend this book as one of the several must-have's for someone still learning to swim better. If I was teaching someone to swim from ground zero, I would use the exercises to lead up to the crawl in that book's freestyle chapter (which are easier to see/appreciate in the bigger format "Total Immersion Pool Primer", basically drills in balance and body rotation) or in Terry's DVD "Perpetual Motion Freestyle in 10 Lessons", which teaches how to swim by progressive enhancement of fundamental balance and propulsion skills. The graduated drills are clearly demonstrated and the progression to developing the complete stroke and 2-beat flick kick is logical. 4) "Learn to Swim in a Weekend" is a super compact (90 pages), all-picture guide to the major strokes plus turning and diving, about 8 easy to look at pages per stroke type. This is a fun book to look through and the pictures are superb in showing the essentials of each stroke. So those are the 4 most essential how-to-swim or how-to-relearn-to-swim-better books I've discovered. Then there's the very old swimming book "Swimming: Steps to Success" which has some bad crawl advice (which was considered good advice in the 1960's), but includes a few non-major strokes such as the sidestroke and the Double Trudgen which I'll learn sometime to amaze folks - I mean, who really knows that stroke nowadays other than ocean lifeguards! The third edition of this book has not changed from the very old first edition, so do not expect modern swimming advice. History: the first-ever "modern" swim book was "Complete Book of Swimming" by James Counsilman (1979) which authors since have liberally copied text from. This was "the" modern theory and how to swim book until the 1990's and has held up remarkably well, plus it's fun to see pictures of Mark Spitz's swim strokes. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Well-written, Excellent illustrations, Very Helpful *by A***E on September 10, 2012* This is a very good book that I would recommend to anyone interested in improving their freestyle stroke (and of course, speed and sense of comfort in the water). I have learned to swim later on in life, starting with fairly high difficulty around age 29. For those of you who have been there, it started with that feeling of being completely out of breath after a single length and resting a minute before doing the next length...and the continuous feeling/fear of being out of breath. Since then, I have put a lot of effort into becoming a better swimmer -- hard work in the pool, reading various books, and talking to more experienced swimmers about drills, techniques, and swim plans. But I still have struggled with my comfort level in the water. For example: the "sinking" feeling, always seemingly struggling to take in enough oxygen, and having a very hard time of incorporating flip turns. Most of the books I have read and people I have talked to aren't quite familiar perhaps on this part of the struggle to become a better swimmer -- from the viewpoint of someone who doesn't yet have an innate sense of comfort in the water. The SwimSmooth book has been a Godsend when it comes to this part of improving as a swimmer. The authors seem to be keenly aware and in tune with swimmers of all skill levels and experience...the explanations and drills are very well written and well-illustrated. For example, I identify with the "Arnie" swimmer archetype and based on this identification have been able to follow specific drills and techniques to improve my comfort in the water. It's also printed on very high quality, gloss paper - I definitely recommend it for anyone looking to improve their freestyle swimming, from beginner through intermediate skill levels. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Swimming is a big Challenge for me...So I bought this book... *by R***Y on October 22, 2019* The good things about this book are 1) Very attractive design with many colour photos and illustrations 2) It explains why swimming can be so difficult and explains that there are different types of swimmer that have a certain challenges. 3) I can't imagine another swimming book being better than this. 4) IT does have a link to a website that has videos and some are free to view....but this book combined with the many videos on youtube form various uploaders is very helpful. Worth the money I'd say I thought I'd give it 4 stars as this is the only swim book I have ever read...maybe there is better but.....this is all that I need...so far.... ## Frequently Bought Together - Swim Smooth: The Complete Coaching System for Swimmers and Triathletes - Swimming Anatomy --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.tn/products/1441853-swim-smooth-the-complete-coaching-system-for-swimmers-and-triathletes](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/1441853-swim-smooth-the-complete-coaching-system-for-swimmers-and-triathletes) --- *Product available on Desertcart Tunisia* *Store origin: TN* *Last updated: 2026-07-08*