Achieve your swimming potential!
Training for all swimmers - from beginner to professional, pool and open water.
Super-friendly, challenging and effective sessions that will get you off that plateau and hitting new heights in your swimming!
1-to-1 Video analysis & stroke correction sessions
Unique insight into your freestyle stroke, filmed from 4 different angles above & below water. Your stroke is expertly analysed with you on poolside and the whole session recorded on a special USB drive for you to take home. Available term-time Mondays from 01.11.21, 1230-1430 at Felixstowe Leisure Centre, IP11 2AE.
Swim smooth Squads
Highly Effective Swim Smooth squad sessions: Saturdays 0725-0835, Mondays 0620-0720, Tuesdays 2100-2200. always keeping it interesting, working on technique, fitness & open water skills in a friendly, informal setting with one of the most innovative,attentive & motivating coaches in the business!
open water 1-to-1’s & pool clinics
Highly effective bespoke sea-swimming sessions for all levels from novice to elite. Coaching for small groups including video analysis, theory, drills, pool work.
Meet the coach
Seamus Bennett
Seamus is proud to be one of 12 certified Swim Smooth coaches in the UK, enabling him to make his lifelong passion, swimming, his career. He is founder of Felixstowe Swimscapes, an Ice Miler and English channel relay swimmer. ASA and STA Level 2 qualified, Seamus has been involved in swimming all his life, teaching and coaching since 2010. He runs three great squads and video analysis sessions in his hometown Felixstowe, right on the North Sea coast of Suffolk. Seamus is always developing as both swimmer and coach, while his positivity and passion for the sport are legendary!
-
2023
- Nov 19, 2023 Pool SEASON is here!
- Sep 22, 2023 Squads river-to-river
- Aug 11, 2023 Squad summer sea swims☀️
-
2022
- Oct 31, 2022 Big Halloween fundraising diP
- Oct 10, 2022 Menai Straits swim!
- Aug 25, 2022 Summer☀️swimming In Sweden 🇸🇪 The Vidöstern simmet 🏊♂️
- Aug 12, 2022 La Classique ACROSS Lake Geneva
- Jul 9, 2022 Swimming the DEBEN
- Jun 19, 2022 Beautiful Lake Bala
- May 20, 2022 Squad sea sessions restart
- Jan 8, 2022 Celebrating 5 great years of squad
- 2021
-
2020
- Nov 9, 2020 Squads on hold until after second 'lockdown'
- Oct 23, 2020 Tuesday Squad goes global!
- Aug 20, 2020 Squads are back!
- May 27, 2020 Open Water reopens and Felixstowe is about the best place for it - things are looking up!
- Mar 25, 2020 Covid-19 pandemic - response
- Mar 9, 2020 Tuesday Squad grows again from 3 to FOUR lanes!
- Feb 19, 2020 Grab it! Extra Lane for Tuesday Squad from March 2020!
- Jan 29, 2020 Record squad number as we celebrate 3 years of Saturday squad
-
2019
- May 31, 2019 Back with great feedback!
- Jan 29, 2019 100 x 100
-
2018
- Dec 19, 2018 Squadiness!
- Nov 29, 2018 Video analysis with UK Ironman champion Joe Skipper
- Nov 21, 2018 Return of the hundred hundreds!
- Oct 16, 2018 End-of Season River-to-River: sunny celebration of swimming at Felixstowe
- Sep 22, 2018 Make your breakthrough! Limited period VIDEO ANALYSIS offer!
- Sep 6, 2018 New Monday morning squad session gets underway
- Jul 29, 2018 Ty competes for Team GB at World & Euro Sprint & Standard distance
- May 25, 2018 Long live the long lido
- May 19, 2018 First Clinic at Felixstowe!
- May 2, 2018 Swim Smooth-athon!
- Apr 16, 2018 Spring feedback!
- Apr 2, 2018 Easter teamwork!
- Mar 3, 2018 Swim Smooth bring a whole lotta swimming to Tri Show London!
- Feb 19, 2018 First Swim Smooth clinic for me...and Cambridge!
- Feb 6, 2018 Video analysis brings 20 sec/100m improvement within a week!
- Jan 13, 2018 Red Mist: the Sunrise set
- Jan 12, 2018 A hundred hundreds - no problem!
-
2017
- Dec 12, 2017 Just the 60 x 100m today!
- Dec 3, 2017 Life on the Deben
- Nov 8, 2017 Swimming in 50m pool - a rare event in the UK!
- Oct 27, 2017 Contrasting triathletes both gained from video analysis
- Oct 4, 2017 New Tuesday evening squad surges off the blocks
- Sep 24, 2017 Video analysis key to Eileen excelling in iconic open water swim.
- Sep 20, 2017 Perfect River-to-River at record speed!
- Sep 8, 2017 Video analysis no. 100!
- Aug 28, 2017 Big swim with the Icicles!
Louise waterhouse-taylor...
"Swim Smooth Suffolk has been a fantastic way to improve my swimming both in the pool and open water. A great mixture of drills and sets and with every session being different it keeps it challenging and exciting!
Everyone in the squad is so friendly and encouraging - there is real team spirit. First class teaching and the perfect start to any keen swimmer's weekend!"
Paul berry
"When I first did the Blenheim triathlon I clocked 14:57 for the 750n open water swim. Two years later I completed the same swim in 12:07 - nearly THREE minutes (or 20%) faster!
And this dramatic progress continued, seeing a NINE minute improvement (from 64 to 55 minutes) in my Great East Swim 2 mile time, after just one year at squad!
The only chance I get to swim is in Seamus’s sessions once a week, occasionally twice a week. So I'm delighted to make these dramatic gains, which just keep on coming!
It’s clear Seamus understands and cares about all his swimmers and really knows his stuff!
Michelle Bird
"I LOVE the Saturday morning Swim Smooth Suffolk squad. It is really helping me to improve my fitness, learn open water skills for my upcoming Great East Swim and work on my freestyle technique. Having had a video analysis session with Seamus this has further given me the knowledge of specifically what I need to do to improve my stroke."
martin harrison (3-time video analysis client)
I did the 5k at Swimathon 2019 - a distance that would have been inconceivable 2 years ago. For that I swam almost exactly 1hr 40min which I think is pretty respectable and particularly pleasing from a pacing standpoint, as I was being fairly conservative with a 2:00/100m pace.
For my (first) Ironman swim time, it ended up being 1hr 05min which is much faster than I thought I was capable of! At a stretch I thought 1:10 but was aiming for 1:15.
I completed the full distance in 10hrs 57mins, which I was ecstatic with - felt like all the training was justified.
So I'm loving my swimming now and I don't think I could have put those race results in without your coaching, so thanks very much.