Off The Blocks Swimming Podcast

Welcome to the season 5 premier of Off The Blocks Swimming Podcast, and todays special guest is World Champ and Comm Games Gold medallist Shayna Jack. In this podcast, Shayna tells us how she has been feeling since being cleared to return to the pool a few months ago, and what goals she and coach Dean Boxall have set for the future now she is free to compete. We discuss her ban from 2019, how it c...

Season 4 Ep 40, Welcome to the 2021 Off The Blocks Swimming Awards Today we celebrate an amazing year of swimming not just here in Australia but from around the world, from the success of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, to some of the individual performances from our superstars this year it has been a year like no other and what better what to recap and pay tribute than with an awards show. Joining me to...

Season 4 Ep 39, we are finishing season 4 with a bang as our last interview for the season is with the greatest ever female athlete from an Olympic games, Australian and London Roar superstar Emma McKeon In this chat we get a tremendous insight into Emma's training and mindset leading up to Tokyo 2020, including her work with coach and mentor Michael Bohl. Emma tells us some of the things she focu...

Season 4 Ep 38, we sit down and chat with two time Olympian and Olympic medallist for Canada Sydney Pickrem. In this podcast Sydney and i go through all things ISL and the team she captains London Roar. We discuss what she loves about the Roar team in particular her teammates and racing for them. We even ask if she would change any of the rules in ISL if she was boss for the day, and ask her her p...

Season 4 Ep 37, we chat with NSW and Australian swimming rising star Josh Collett. In this podcast we chat with the young Knox Pymble speedster about his recent training and competing up in QLD due to lockdowns in Sydney. We discuss Josh's coach Dobbo and how much he has helped his swimming both physically and mentally. Josh gives us an insight into what makes Knox Pymble so successful as a club....

Season 4 Ep 36, we chat with Junior Australian Team member, multiple Australian Age Medallist and St Peters Western rising star Robert Thorpe. In this chat we discuss his move to QLD and the St Peters program coming from NSW. Being selected on the Junior Australian team this year and how hard he had worked to put himself on the list. Open water racing as well as distance swimming in the pool, and...

Expert Analyst Bobby Hurley and I cover all things Season 3 of the ISL this week including the Death Match which saw DC Tridents, NY Breakers, Iron and Tokyo Frog Kings all racing for a spot in the playoffs come November. We also discuss Aussie breakout star Brendon Smith and how his stocks have continued to rise following his Olympic medal in Tokyo, as well as whether Brett Hawke is right and swi...

Season 4 Ep 35, we chat with New Zealand Olympic and World Championship medallist coach Gary Hollywood. In this awesome podcast we chat to Gary about his amazing Tokyo Olympic experience with the NZ team and his superstar athlete Lewis Clareburt. Gary tells us what an enjoyable experience the games were for him and what lessons he took away. We also discuss Polyvagel, what it means and how it has...

Season 4 Ep 34, We chat with duel Olympian, 3 time Olympic Medallist for Australia from Tokyo and London Roar Superstar Kyle Chalmers. Despite our horrible WIFI, we managed to have a great chat about all things ISL Season 3 and how much he is loving being back in the Roar team this year. Especially when the team have changed their hair colour lol. We discuss the Aussie's success in Tokyo and what...

Season 4 Ep 33, we chat with 5 time Olympian for Jamaica and World Record Holder Alia Atkinson. In this podcast Alia talks to us about Season 3 of the ISL and racing for her team London Roar, how much fun she is having and focusing on being sharp for the finals as the competition moves towards the pointy end. We also go through her amazing career talking about her 5 Olympic appearances, and becomi...

Season 4 Ep 32, we chat with one of New Zealand Swimming's rising stars of the pool and national medallist Phoebe Harris. In this podcast we discuss Phoebe's training through lockdown and motivated she is to be back in the pool training with her squad again. We go through how she got started in swimming, and talk about some of the adversities she has faced as a young swimmer in her career so far....

Expert Analyst and former world record holder Bobby Hurley joins me again to go through all things season 3 of the ISL from the last 4 matches. We discuss the Jackpot rule and skins events and do they help anyone other than the already strong teams? We go through each match and give our stand out performers from the teams. Could we entice some big names to come back to swimming and be a part of th...

Season 4 Ep 31, We chat with 2 time Olympic Gold Medallist for Team GB Tom Dean. In this podcast we discuss Tom's ISL team London Roar and when we can expect the Olympic Champion in action for Season 3 over in Italy. We go through his incredibly tough lead up to Tokyo having to overcome Covid not once but twice, which took it's toll on Tom, and he tells up how he got through it all and stayed focu...

Season 4 Ep 30, we chat with 2 time Olympic medallist from Tokyo for Team GB Luke Greenbank. In this podcast we discuss Season 3 of the ISL and competing for Luke's team the London Roar. We get into making his first Olympic Team for Tokyo, and his games experience. As well of course his amazing success in the Men's 200 Backstroke winning Bronze, and being a part of the Men's 4x100 Medley Relay tea...

Season 4 Ep 29, We chat with Olympian and two time Olympic medallist Aussie Speed machine and NY Breaker, Matt Temple. In This Podcast we discuss his time over in Italy so far competing in Season 3 of the ISL with his team the NY Breakers, and how much Europe are loving the mullet. We also get into making his first Olympic team and how special that was with his teammate and fellow Olympic medallis...

Season 4 Ep 28, we are joined by owner and founder of one of the best dryland exercise programs in the country helping combine gymnastics core principals with swimming movements and fundamentals called Swimnastics, Kirsten Norden. In this podcast Kirsten explains to us all about SwimNastics and it's origins, which is doing such tremendous work in the swimming community right now all around the wor...

Season 4 Ep 27, We chat with Olympic Gold medalist from Tokyo and Team GB member Anna Hopkin In this podcast, Anna and I discuss her success in Tokyo with making the finals in the Women's 100 Freestyle and seeing the progression of the GB Women's 4x100 Freestyle relay team as they finished 5th at the Olympic Games. We get into the incredible performance of herself and teammates, Kathleen Dawson, J...

Season 4 Ep 26, we chat with Swimming Australia and Swimming Queensland young gun Ella Ramsay. In this podcast we discuss Ella's love for swimming and following in her fathers footsteps (2000 Sydney Olympian Heath Ramsay). We discuss training in such a successful environment with her team St Peters Western under Dean Boxall and Maxine Seear. We go into her incredibly successful 2021 Australian Age...

Season 4 Ep 25, we chat to AIS Performance Hub Head Coach, and a man who has done it all when it comes to Swimming Coaching Shannon Rollason. In this podcast we chat about Shannon's success with Olympic Champ and former world record holder Jodie Henry as well as Alice Mills and many other athletes up at Chandler when they had that tremendous success between 2001 and 2004. We get into a key to that...

In this ISL Season 3 chat, Off The Blocks Expert Analyst Bobby Hurley and I go through all the action from matches 3 and 4 of the regular season. We discuss Match 3 and the impressive Energy Standard victory, as well as Sarah Sjostrom and Siobhan Haughey's super fast racing. We discuss stand outs from each teams, and if there is a gap starting to develop already between the top teams and those who...

Season 4 Ep 24, we chat with one of NSW and Australian Swimming's fastest rising stars of the pool, West Illawarra Swim Club's own Sydney Brown. In this chat we discuss how Sydney has been going during lockdown, as well as how much she enjoyed watching the Aussie during the Olympics in Tokyo. We get into her awesome 2021 Australian Age Championships results, both individually and with her relay te...

Former World Record Holder and World Champion and Off The Blocks Expert Analyst Bobby Hurley helps me go through all the action in the first 2 Matches of the ISL Season 3. We discuss the strong rosters that both Energy Standard and Cali Condors have, as well as the great effort from Toronto Titans in their first match. Bobby does a tremendous job explaining some of the rules around the ISL concept...

Season 4 Ep 23, We chat with Team GB most decorated athlete from a single Olympic games Duncan Scott. In this podcast we talk to Duncan about his phenomenal performances in Tokyo, including his individual medals and being on the dais with teammate Tom Dean, as well as the electric swim Team GB produced in the Men's 4x200 Freestyle to win Gold and dominate the field. We discuss race plans, and trai...

Season 4 Ep 22, we talk with a man helping change the dialogue we use around mental fitness and well being with his phenomenal organisation Gotcha4Life, Mr Gus Worland.   In This podcast, Gus talks to us about how Gotcha4Life was started, struggles around mental fitness in todays climate and how we can identify them in others and in ourselves, reaching out and talking to a friend about how your fe...

Season 4 Ep 21, We chat you young superstar of the Australian Olympic Team, 3 Time Olympic Medallist and New Junior World Record Holder in the 17yrs 200 Freestyle Mollie O'Callaghan. In this podcast we talk to Mollie about making her first ever Senior Australian team at just 17 in Adelaide and what a massive week that was. We discuss training camp in Cairns. Of Course we go through her amazing swi...