Best of Wayne Goldsmith

GoldMinds: Lessons About Losing So, you lost! Congratulations! Welcome to the greatest opportunity you’ve ever had in swimming. Here’s how losing, failure, disappointment and setbacks can be used to y...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3AiNAei8Oo&t=4s Competitive Swimming is in crisis…..UNLESS….. By Wayne Goldsmith There is no doubt that Competitive Sport around the world is in crisis. In some places...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAytQI-MdvI The Pool Pathway By Wayne Goldsmith Every national swimming association around the world has some sort of swimmer development pathway - what I call the pool...

A Morning with the Master: On Deck with Coach Bill Sweetenham By Wayne Goldsmith I’ve known Coach Bill Sweetenham for a long time. He’s been one of the strongest and most positive influences on my lif...

By Wayne Goldsmith. 20 x 100 on 1:45 16 x 200 on 2:30 40 x 50 on 1:00 6 x 400 on 6:15 Anyone who's had any involvement with the sport of swimming would be familiar with the concept of a Main Set. Thos...

By Wayne Goldsmith. The most important question any swimming coach seeking coaching success can ask, is "Why Do I Coach"? When I work with swimming coaches around the world, I usually start my "coach-...

By Wayne Goldsmith. It's easy to spot a good coach - energy, passion, enthusiasm, dedication, connection with their swimmers, knowledge...and it's just as easy to identify terrible coaches. https://ww...

By Wayne Goldsmith. There are coaches. And there are good coaches. Coaches who do things right - and do the right things - the things that will help the swimmers and the teams they coach to be all the...

By Wayne Goldsmith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O87MG5dGPps&t=1s Coach Development: How Coaches Learn. By Wayne Goldsmith It's pretty simple logic. Swimmers want to get better at what they do. The ...

Swimming Stress: Stop Worrying - Keep Swimming. By Wayne Goldsmith One of the most common questions I get asked by swimmers, coaches and parents is how to deal with pre-race nervousness: what I call S...