Welcome to the home of Swim Smooth in Manchester!

If improving your front crawl matters to you – you’re in the right place!

Whatever your reason for improving your front crawl, be it:

  • fitness
  • faster triathlons
  • personal challenge
  • enjoyment
  • an open water swim
  • a swim-run

Or perhaps you’ll come to us with another reason – we can help!

Powered by the world renowned Swim Smooth coaching system, we offer swim coaching for adults (18+) from those new to front crawl up to those swimming at an elite level.

We have a number of Swim Smooth options to help you with your front crawl:

SWIM SMOOTH MANCHESTER SQUAD

Bringing a little bit of the Perth-magic to Manchester. These are our pool based swim squads. They have a front crawl and open water focus. Ideal for triathletes, fitness and open water swimmers.

We have a range of swimmers in the squad from those new to squad swimming up to elite swimmers. Minimum swimming standard is 400m comfortably on front crawl.

For more information and to join the squad click here

Open water squads – available between June and September

These are like our pool based squads – only with less chlorine and more wildlife!

We believe that that there is nothing quite like training for open water swimming than getting out there and doing it!

We’ve partnered with Salford Watersports Centre at Salford Quays to deliver these sessions. They will cover fitness, and open water specific skills and techniques. Could this give you that extra competitive edge you’ve been looking for?

For further info including dates and booking head over to here

Swim Smooth 1-2-1 video analysis and stroke correction

Over the course of 75 minutes we’ll show you what you need to improve and how to do it. We’ll then get you back in the pool and go through it with you.

For a taster of the session please watch the video.

Click here to book

FRONT CRAWL TECHNIQUE SESSIONS

If you’re not quite up to 400m front crawl (yet), we can also help with our front crawl technique sessions.  These are small group sessions for adults who can already swim 50m (any stroke) up to those who are building up to 400m front crawl.

For more information or to sign up click here

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Looking forward to October 🎃 see original post ⬇️ Posted @withregram • @salfordwsc 𝐒𝐰𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐭 ...

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Looking forward to October 🎃 see original post ⬇️ Posted @withregram • @salfordwsc 𝐒𝐰𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐭 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐲𝐬 Evening swims are still running, but they are now only available on Thursdays. As the light fades, we may need to bring the closing time forward week by week 🌇. 👉 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞’𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐞: ✨ 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐰𝐢𝐦𝐬 🕔 Thursdays – 16:00–19:00 - General Swim – £6 (finish times may reduce as the evenings draw in) ✨ 𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐒𝐰𝐢𝐦𝐬 🕤 09:30–11:45 - General Swim – £6 🌡 Sundays continue all year, even after the evening sessions finish for the season. From late October we’ll move into our Cold Water Swim Sundays, so there’s always a chance to keep swimming. 𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 👥 09:15–09:45 – 1-2-1 Coaching (£30, bring a friend free) 🏊 09:45–10:30 – Speciality Workshop (£12) 🏊 10:45–11:30 – Intro to Open Water (£25, wetsuit included) 👥 11:30–11:45 – 1-2-1 Coaching (£30, bring a friend free) 📌 All bookings are made online via our website - SalfordWatersports.com (Click the book now button) #openwaterswimming #openwatercoaching #swimming #salford #salfordquays #mediacityuk #manchester

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After Saturday’s relentless rain, Sunday’s weather was absolutely gorgeous! What a morning for open water swimming and coaching ...

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After Saturday’s relentless rain, Sunday’s weather was absolutely gorgeous! What a morning for open water swimming and coaching @salfordwsc ! We had swimmers in the front crawl technique workshop and 121s preparing for late season events and we welcomed swimmers to the open water community in the intro. All making the most of the mild water temperatures (still around 17/18 degrees). See you on the 5th October! #openwaterswimming #openwatercoaching #salfordquays #salford #mediacityuk #manchester

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What a way to round off our mystery musical tour of Manchester, with a session inspired by Simply Red’s Fairground as a bid to our ...

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What a way to round off our mystery musical tour of Manchester, with a session inspired by Simply Red’s Fairground as a bid to our pool-based home @wrightrobinsonleisure. Simply Red Lead signer Mick Hucknall is from around the corner-ish from where the pool is. Thank you to all the squad and mini squad for their hard work and energy during these sessions, it’s been great fun. 😁#swimming #swimsmoothcoaching #swimsmoothmanchester #manchesteruk

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We’re looking forward to September @salfordwsc - see their brilliant post for more ➡️ Posted @withregram •

We’re still ...

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We’re looking forward to September @salfordwsc - see their brilliant post for more ➡️ Posted @withregram • We’re still holding on to that late summer feeling at the Quays. The water is helping us with that too, holding steady at around 18–19°C! It’s such a lovely time to swim - the perfect chance to build confidence, keep your training going, or simply enjoy those golden evenings before autumn fully arrives. Evening swims are still running, but they’ll now finish a little earlier at 19:30. As the light fades, we may need to bring that forward week by week. Still, there’s something magical about a September sunset swim 🌇. 👉 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞’𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐞: ✨ 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐰𝐢𝐦𝐬 🕔 Tuesdays & Thursdays – 17:00–19:30 - General Swim – £6 (finish times may reduce as the evenings draw in) ✨ 𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐒𝐰𝐢𝐦𝐬 🕤 09:30–11:45 - General Swim – £6 🌡 Sundays continue all year, even after the evening sessions finish for the season. From late October we’ll move into our Cold Water Swim Sundays, so there’s always a chance to keep swimming. 𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 👥 09:15–09:45 – 1-2-1 Coaching (£30, bring a friend free) 🏊 09:45–10:30 – Speciality Workshop (£12) 🏊 10:45–11:30 – Intro to Open Water (£25, wetsuit included) 👥 11:30–11:45 – 1-2-1 Coaching (£30, bring a friend free) ✨ 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐬 🏊 Sun 14th – Breaststroke ➡ Front Crawl 🏊 Sun 21st – Front Crawl Technique 📌 All bookings are made online via - SalfordWatersports.com (Click the book now button) #openwaterswim #Openwaterswimming #swimming #swim #triathlon #tritraining #coldwaterswimming #justkeepswimming #salford #salfordquays #mediacity #manchester #health #fitness #wellbeing

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The weather couldn’t make up its mind about what to do this morning and instead showcased a little bit of everything! We went from blue ...

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The weather couldn’t make up its mind about what to do this morning and instead showcased a little bit of everything! We went from blue skies and sunshine, wind, rain, inky grey skies, white puffy clouds and most things in between! Moments like these are what make open water swimming so magical! #openwaterswimming #openwatercoaching #ukweather #manchester #salford #salfordquays #mediacityuk

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Here’s an overview the open water coaching we’ve got coming up for late summer @salfordwsc
Every Sunday we have:

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Here’s an overview the open water coaching we’ve got coming up for late summer @salfordwsc Every Sunday we have: ☀️121/221 coaching (9:15-9:45am + 11:30-12pm) - These are bespoke sessions tailored to you and open water aims ☀️ Intro to Open Water Swimming (10:45-11:30am) - this is the place for everyone to start. We’ll work on the essential skills to help you be safe and enjoy the open water. These are joined our rotating timetable of specialised workshops ⬇️: ☀️31st Aug - Event Preparation Workshop -Helping you get ready for your September events (or even getting you ready for 2026). We’ll cover event strategies, wetsuit/skins tips, plus essential skills like sighting, and turning. ☀️7th and 21st Sept - Front Crawl Technique Workshop - This 45 minute workshop is for swimmers who can already swim at least 200m front crawl in open water and want to improve their technique. During the sessions we will cover front crawl technique (e.g. breathing, stroke mechanics, adaptations for open water). 
☀️14th Sept - Breaststroke to Front Crawl Workshop - This session is for breaststroke swimmers wanting to learn to front crawl or for swimmers who are newer to front crawl to develop their technique. Can’t make a workshop? We can also help with these in a 121 or a 221. For more info and to book, see: salfordwatersports.com #openwaterswimming #OpenWaterCoaching #SalfordQuays #Salford #MediaCityUK #Manchester #SwimSmoothCoaching