BUILD YOUR STYLE VIRTUAL

Learn freestyle. Understand your stroke.
Swim with greater ease.

FREESTYLE SHOULD MAKE SENSE
— and work with the way your body is designed to move

Build Your Style Virtual is Salty Fit's signature online freestyle course, designed to help you learn, improve and understand freestyle swimming wherever you are.

Whether you're learning freestyle from scratch, rebuilding your technique, or looking to swim further, faster and with greater confidence, Build Your Style takes you through a logical, step-by-step pathway to develop your freestyle from the foundations up.

You'll learn the practical skills, drills and movement patterns that underpin an efficient freestyle stroke — while also understanding why your body needs to move this way.

The course combines swimming science, technique demonstrations and practical pool drills, allowing you to learn at your own pace, revisit the material whenever you need to and put your learning into practice in the water.

READY TO BUILD YOUR STYLE?
Swimming technique shouldn't be a collection of movements you simply copy because someone tells you that's how freestyle is supposed to look.
Your body is already designed to move. The key is understanding how to work with it — not against it.
Start wherever you are at. Understand how you move. Build your swimming to feel natural, efficient and powerful — for you.

Swimming Fundamentals

Build your freestyle from the foundations up.

In four progressive lessons and more than 30 videos of swimming education, Build Your Style takes you through the foundations of an efficient freestyle stroke.

You'll explore the importance of breathing, how to coordinate your stroke around your breath, body positioning and balance, timing and coordination, and how to create effective propulsion and momentum through your stroke.

Rather than simply copying movements, you'll learn the why behind the technique, combining swimming science with practical drills and skills that help you understand how your body creates movement in the water.
Build Your Style gives you a logical pathway to develop your freestyle — whether you're learning from scratch or looking to improve a stroke you've already developed.

Discover the Ocean & You

Because swimming is about more than what happens in the pool.
At Salty Fit, we love what swimming can do for both body and mind.
Freestyle can build fitness, stamina and strength while also providing a sense of mental clarity and space. For many swimmers, getting into the water becomes something they look forward to — a practice that leaves them feeling better than when they started.

We have a saying at Salty Fit:
You never regret a swim.
We've taught thousands of people to swim and to become more confident in the ocean. That's why we believe in developing strong freestyle foundations that give you the freedom to take your swimming beyond the pool — whether that's to the ocean, a lake or wherever your swimming takes you.

If you can swim in the ocean, you can swim anywhere.

You set the pace

Learn when and where it works for you.
One of the benefits of learning online is that you can fit your swimming education around your life.

Work through the lessons when it suits you, then take the practical drills into the pool and practise at your own pace. You can pause, repeat and revisit the theory whenever you need to.

Your course also includes access to recordings from previous live sessions and workshops, where real swimmers' questions and common challenges have been explored with Jo.

So while you learn independently, you're never limited to simply watching a series of videos.

You set the pace. We provide the pathway.

Check it out

Want to get a feel of what you'll experience? Here's a sneak peak of your intro to the course.

What to expect from the Online Course

The course provides lectures on the theory of each skill, explaining the why, how and troubleshooting behind each stage of building your freestyle stroke.
Videos demonstrate and explain how each drill is performed, while checklists help you check that you're on track at each stage of your progression.
Build Your Style (Virtual) is a self-paced course, but you don't have to learn alone. If you'd like additional guidance and support, you can also join the Build Your Style Guided Program or explore the Build Your Style Individual Program for personalised coaching.
EXPLORE — BUILD YOUR STYLE GUIDED
EXPLORE — BUILD YOUR STYLE INDIVIDUAL

There are four main lessons within the course, each lesson is designed as a building block to developing the freestyle stroke. Each lesson contains various drills to assist you in building each skill in order achieve the particular movement required in building the stroke in a logical progression.

We order the lessons in the following stages to build the freestyle stroke in a clear and logical step by step formula:

Lesson 1: Fundamentals of Breathing (incorporating an efficient breath into your stroke now matter the speed you will be swimming down the track!

Lesson 2: Timing and Coordination (ensuring our stroke fits around our ever important breath and we can maintain good balance whilst we breath or simply move along the water)

Lesson 3: Body Position and Balance (utilizing our body to maintain good floatation and balance in the water rather than work our arms and legs in order to float!)

Lesson 4: Power and Momentum (now we are going places and utilizing the smarts of our own biomechanics and physiology to move us through the water with ease and power!)

Price: $79

Immediate Access

What You Get :

ON-DEMAND COURSE Lessons, drills, demonstrations and swimming theory

4 PROGRESSIVE LESSON STAGES A clear, step-by-step pathway to build your freestyle

SWIMMING SCIENCE Understand the why behind how you swim

PRACTICAL DRILLS Learn, practise and apply each skill in the water

PROGRESS CHECKLISTS Check your progress as you build each stage of your stroke

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Who is the Course Suitable For?

You struggle with freestyle — whether that's 50 metres or 5,000 metres, and you want to swim more comfortably and efficiently.

You're learning freestyle from scratch — and you're comfortable and able to swim safely in deep water without assistance.

You want to swim further — building your freestyle distance without needing to stop and rest every few laps.

You want to swim faster — improving your technique, efficiency, swim times and fitness without simply working harder.

You want to build your ocean confidence — developing the freestyle foundation you'll need as you progress towards open-water swimming.

You need flexibility — learning and practising around your work, life and schedule rather than committing to the same pool and time each week.

Included in this course:

A unique step-by-step program - Learn freestyle through a clear, logical progression from the foundations up.

Proven, practical techniques - Learn simple, effective techniques grounded in swimming physiology and biomechanics, with demonstrations that explain how your body creates the movement.

Lectures explaining the why - Understand why each drill and movement is important to building the stroke as a whole.

Physiological and natural movement - Build your stroke in a way that works with your body's biomechanics — without needing superhuman athleticism!

Practical drills and skills - Watch recorded demonstrations of each drill being performed and explained, so you can see exactly what to practise when you're in the pool.

Progress checklists - Use checklists throughout the course to help you know whether you're on track at each stage.

Learn at your own pace - Complete the course in your own time and practise each skill at a pace that works for you.

Unlimited access to course material - Return to the lessons, theory, demonstrations and drills whenever you need to.

Troubleshooting & workshop recordings - Explore real swimmers' questions and common freestyle challenges through recordings from previous sessions.

Accessible course content - Videos are subtitled so you can follow the course content wherever you are.

“Salt water is my elixir. It maintains my physical, mental and psychological wellbeing. I love that I can combine 2 of my greatest passions; one being the ocean and the other making a difference to people’s lives.”

Jo's approach to teaching is shaped by her passion for anatomy, physiology and human movement, combined with years of experience teaching adults who are learning or refining their swimming later in life.

Rather than relying on a one-size-fits-all approach, Jo has developed her own teaching methodologies to help adults understand how their body moves in the water, why particular movements matter and how to progressively build the skills needed for an effective freestyle stroke.

Course Instructor, Jo Mermaid

If you're going to learn freestyle, learn from a coach who understands how your body learns to move in the water

Joanna Kyriazakos (aka Mermaid) is the founder of Salty Fit and has spent more than two decades coaching adult swimmers at every stage of their swimming journey — from learning and refining technique through to fitness, ocean swimming and competitive performance.

Jo was given the nickname Mermaid by locals when she began teaching swimming at the local ocean pool and in the surf at Bondi Beach. Since then, she has competed extensively across ocean swimming and Surf Life Saving, including Ironwoman and board events, as well as competing in the Molokai to Oahu World Championships Paddleboard Race.

She is also the founder and operator of Mermaid Swim Academy | WATSSUP WatsonsBay Stand Up Paddling bringing together decades of experience across swimming, ocean sports, coaching and human movement.

So are you ready to take the plunge?
Freestyle here we come....

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BUILD YOUR STYLE VIRTUAL

Learn freestyle. Understand your stroke. Swim with greater ease.

FREESTYLE SHOULD MAKE SENSE— and work with the way your body is designed to move