Off The Blocks Swimming Podcast

WE ARE BACK   In this new episode we speak with world leading coaching mind Wayne Goldsmith about all things sport and coaching in 2026 From team culture, to what coaches could be doing better when working with junior athletes this chat is a must for all coaches out there   Don't miss this amazing episode

WE ARE BACK   To kick off our return to the podcast, our first guest is Head and Performance Coach of Carlile Chris Nesbit In this podcast we discuss the recent back to back win on the Australian Age point score for the Carlile club, as well as the amazing coaching team Chris has around him. We go back and learn about Chris's start in coaching, and what led him become one of the most respected coa...

We were just going to ride off into the sunset but out of respect to all of our loyal listeners who asked, who demanded for one more podcast, Shannon is back for one podcast only to say goodbye and thank you. In this podcast we discuss the decision to finish up our weekly show. We hear from special guests who have been a big part of the podcast along the way. Shannon gives us his thoughts on the J...

Hello Everyone and welcome to the very special series of Off The Blocks Swimming Podcast from the United States of America. Each week we will bring you episodes, either with myself and travel mate Dapto Swim Club Head Coach Phil MciLwraith, or interviews with some of America's best and experienced coaches and athletes including Herbie Behm, Vern Gambetta and many more. In this episode we chat with...

Hello Everyone and welcome to the very special series of Off The Blocks Swimming Podcast from the United States of America. Each week we will bring you episodes, either with myself and travel mate Dapto Swim Club Head Coach Phil MciLwraith, or interviews with some of America's best and experienced coaches and athletes including Herbie Behm, Vern Gambetta and many more. In this episode we chat with...

Hello Everyone and welcome to the very special series of Off The Blocks Swimming Podcast from the United States of America. Each week we will bring you episodes, either with myself and travel mate Dapto Swim Club Head Coach Phil MciLwraith, or interviews with some of America's best and experienced coaches and athletes including Herbie Behm, Vern Gambetta and many more. In this episode Phil and i d...

Hello Everyone and welcome to the very special series of Off The Blocks Swimming Podcast from the United States of America. Each week we will bring you episodes, either with myself and travel mate Dapto Swim Club Head Coach Phil MciLwraith, or interviews with some of America's best and experienced coaches and athletes including Herbie Behm, Vern Gambetta and many more. In this episode we chat with...

Hello Everyone and welcome to the very special series of Off The Blocks Swimming Podcast from the United States of America. Each week we will bring you episodes, either with myself and travel mate Dapto Swim Club Head Coach Phil MciLwraith, or interviews with some of America's best and experienced coaches and athletes including Herbie Behm, Vern Gambetta and many more. In this episode Phil and i d...

Off The Blocks is back for another week, and in this podcast we chat with an Olympic medallist who has gone onto to carve out a very successful coaching career so far with his team at St Andrews Swim Club, Ash Delaney. In this chat, Ash and I discuss his recent success at Trials getting Ben Hence and Isaac Cooper making the Australian teams for World Champs.  We get into the great success the club...

Two of the very best in the business in Bobby Hurley and Meagen Nay sit down with me to go through all of the action from the 2025 Australian Swimming Trials for World Champs in Singapore starting July 27. In this podcast we look at the Aussie team selected including alot of the swimmers making their debuts over in Singapore. We talk about the amazing week Lani Pallister had in the pool and how sh...

In this NEW EPISODE of Off The Blocks we chat with Carlile Swim Club Head Age Group Coach Michaela Pattinson on the heels of their historic Australian Age point score victory in Brisbane. We discuss the work that has gone into the Carlile program since joining in 2021. Her views on developing junior athletes and some of the keys to their success at Nationals. Michaela gives us a great insight into...

Shannon and I look back at the last 2 weeks in Brisbane at Australian Age and Open Champs

We recap all the action from Brisbane, London and Sweden. Its been a fast week in the swimming world

This week on the podcast Shannon and I discuss the massive news in the swimming world at the moment with form 50m events being added to the LA 2028 Olympic program. Good or Bad? we discuss the pros and cons Also we talk about King Kyle Chalmers blistering swims over in Norway last week

It's nationals time again, and Shannon gives his tips as we are a week or so away from the years biggest meet in Brisbane.  

This week on the podcast Shannon and I discuss last weekends 2025 NSW State Open Champs in Sydney. How Shannon's team went, as well as how the racing was across the weekend. With Brisbane 2032 Olympics plans rolled out this week we discuss the winners and potential losers in all of the funding and infrastructure coming. How swimming has a lot to be excited about. We do a blind draft of Olympic Spo...

This week Shannon and I sit down with Author, Coach Mentor and Inspiring guest speaker Wayne Goldsmith. Wayne is the founder of MoreGold Peak Performance Consulting and has been involved in the swimming industry now for 35 years learning from some of the legendary coaches of Australia. Shannon and Wayne discuss stories of Gennadi Touretski and Alex Popov,  Bill Sweetenham, the art of coaching and...

Our swimming stats guru David Clark is back this week as we go through the top 10 Aussie swimmers of all time based of David's extensive data and statistics. From 10 down to 1 we go through some of the biggest names in Australian sporting history, as David gives us some great stories and facts about each of our Aussie legends. We see what AI thinks of our list, David gives us some stories from his...

Back again for another week of the podcast and this week we are talking City vs Country Teams. Would it work as a concept? And we discuss the contribution country clubs and programs have made to the Australian team over many years. We read out a listeners email, and discuss the importance of knowing you've worked hard and can be proud of yourself. We talk cyclones, retired swimmers, song of the we...

They said we wouldn't make it, but we are here this week as The Shannon Rollason Podcast records it's 100th episode. To mark the special occasion we have enlisted the help of podcast favourite and one of Australia's best coaches Justin Rothwell to help us go through the Top 10 Greatest swimmers of ALL time as per an article that Shannon stumbled across recently. The list is up to November 2023, so...

This week on the podcast we go back 25 years to 2000 and compare the coaching, the athletes and so much more to the now in 2025. What has changed? What has stayed the same? We look at interesting trivia from the year 2000, as well as set of the week and your favourite, song of the week.   All that and a whole lot more

This week on the podcast we are joined by special guest, Olympian from Sydney 2000 and CEO of NSW Swimming Kirsten Thomson. In this podcast we discuss Kirsten's amazing swimming career and her Olympic experience, as well as challenges she faced in the pool along the way. We discuss her transition out of the pool and her decision to become CEO of NSW Swimming. We talk about what she's proud of so f...

This week on the podcast Shannon and I apologies to our loyal listeners for not getting all of our facts right on the topics we discuss, as we are inundated with correction messages from the previous weeks podcast. Shannon learns what Chat GPT and DM stands for, as well as his Beef of the week and no its not just with his cockatoos outside ruining his tree lol Set of the week is back, we read out...

Shannon is back for another week and we are discussing Process v Outcome mindset and how important it is for our athletes to stop chasing PBs. We discuss Australian Open Water results from Busselton and give flowers to the clubs and athletes that performed well in WA last week. Thanks to the help of one of our loyal listeners we finish our 10 Australia coaches currently on deck in Australia who ha...