To contact a Total Immersion Coach from the list below please just click on their name and send an email. You can access the websites of the three Total Immersion Swim Studios from the individual links or find an overview of each studio from the Swim Studios Page
Total Immersion UK Head Coach
Total Immersion Head Coach, Ian Smith, is the only UK based coach to have attained the highest level of TI certification, that of 'Master Coach'. He has been instructing swimmers for 20+ years and is ASA qualified to Level Three 'Club Coach' certification, having previously been the head-coach of a local swimming club for a number of years. As the longest serving TI coach in the UK he has been coaching at Total Immersion workshops and camps since June 2000, and has since worked with countless swimmers including high level age group swimmers and professional triathletes. Ian runs his TI swim studio in Loughborough where he can offer the best and most up to date TI instruction to swimmers of all abilities including adult non-swimmers; the aqua phobic; competitive swimmers including age-group, masters and high level performers. Triathlon swimming instruction is also one of his specialist skills
Ian Smith - SwimShack Swim Studio, Loughborough, Leicestershire
Total Immersion Senior Coaches
Our two senior coaches are Jai and Mick and both have at least seven years experience of teaching Total Immersion techniques at our workshops and privately on a one-to-one basis or in aswimming club/triathlon club environment. They are authorised to work as lead coaches at TI weekend workshops and can coach any standard of swimmer from non-swimmers and novices, through to competitive development and high level performers. They can instruct you in all four swimming strokes, either 1:1 or in small groups of up to five
- Jai Evans - Coalville, Leicestershire
Mick Dean - Nottingham
Total Immersion Teachers & Assistant Coaches
The eight TI Teachers listed below have all successfully completed their TI training and have coached at TI workshops under the direction of our TI Head/Senior Coaches. They can teach non-swimmers, novices and swimmers needing 'stroke development', locally on a private 1:1 or 2:1 basis and are able to provide follow up instruction to workshop alumni. In addition they are all qualified to work as Assistant Coaches at Total Immersion workshops
- Tracey Baumann - Staines, Middlesex SwimSolutionS Studio, Egham, Surrey
- Dawn Rolph - Rochford, Essex Tri 'N' Swim WELL Studio, Rochford, Essex
- Gill Kelly - Rochford, Essex Tri 'N' Swim WELL Studio, Rochford, Essex
Keith Lewis - Towcester, Northants The Swim Shed Studio, Towcester
- Todd Watson - Bangor, Northern Ireland
- Simon Leila - Central Scotland
- Toby Haddock - Brighton http://www.urbantri.co.uk/
- Larry Mahony - TI Freestyle Coach - Wicklow, Ireland
Most of our TI instructors can teach you to swim all four strokes (Freestyle Teachers specialise and only teach that one stroke, i.e. front crawl). In addition to having successfully completed our TI teacher training they all hold other relevant coaching/teaching qualifications, such as ASA or BTA certifications. They can help any swimmer from aqua-phobics to competitive swimmers, including age-group & master's swimmers and triathletes of every ability level