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dooks thanks for all this stuff, you are inspiring me to investigate masters swimming. I live in Newington Green though so I'd be looking at Clissold which swims at Clissold and London Fields. You can just turn up to one of their sessions and it all seems very open to anyone and friendly. They have Masters ‘Lite’ for swimmers who can "swim two strokes and have an appetite to improve stroke-technique and to increase speed on all four strokes". Not quite sure what this means?
My main question though, is as there is no official element of tuition, how would I get better? I can do front crawl fine but my breast is terrible, can't do anything else - have never learnt fly or tumble turns or anything. My fitness has peaked at a mile of front crawl in just under 35 minutes.
Would I be better having some lessons first?