Off The Blocks Swimming Podcast

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 Sports, quote of the week, set of the ...

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 the importance of progressing as a ...

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 time in Paris for last years Olymp...

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 excluding some of our current supe...

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 far, what we can all do better, keep...

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 one of our listeners DMs with an in...

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 have Olympic games experience.

Set of...

On 15/04/2022 We were fortunate enough to sit down with 4 time Australian coach of the year, and one of the best in the business Stephan Widmer, this is part 2 of our chat.

In this part two podcast Stephan talks to us about some of the amazing swimmers he has had the pleasure of working with like Libby Trickett, Christian Sprenger, Melanie Schlanger and Jess Schipper among many others.

We also get into his time with Swimming Queens...

On 15/04/2022 we had chat with 4 time Australian coach of the year, and one of the best in the business Stephan Widmer.

In this part one podcast Stephan talks to us about last years Tokyo 2020 Olympic games and how he saw the swimming in the pool, as well as Joseph Schoolings performance following his Gold medal in 2016.

We go through his early days in Switzerland as a swimmer and then transitioning into a coach and how his thirst ...

On 17/08/2020 we had a chat with one of the greatest swimming coaches of all time, a man who has mentored over 68 Olympians during his career so far, the one and only coach Gregg Troy.

While we take a break through the holidays, we thought it was a great time to look back and listen to one of the great coaching minds we have had the fortune of having on the podcast. Even if you heard it the first time i guarantee you will learn som...

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all of our listeners, and while Shannon and I are spending some time with family, we thought it was a good time to revisit our episode on Sprint Freestyle from our early days.

Shannon takes us through his thoughts on developing Sprint Freestylers within your program, and transitioning their talent and potential through to open level, as he did with Jodie Henry and Alice Mills in the early 2000s

Shannon is back after a BIG week at NSW State Age Champs and there is plenty to talk about including the 30 World Records we saw tumble at Short Course World Champs.

We get into Jordan Crooks 19.90 and re watch the incredible swim, as well as discuss Gretchen Walsh and her amazing 9 World Records. We go through the Aussies performances as well and who Shannon thought stood out from the Green and Gold.

We talk State Champs as well, ...

With NSW Sate Age Champs on this week, Shannon is busy supporting his athletes on pool deck so we thought it would be a great chance to go back in time and revisit his one on one chat with newly appointed Head Coach of Aquatics GB Steven Tigg.

In this chat you will get many take always from both Steven and Shannon as they discuss their successes as coaches and the learning opportunities that lead them to their success.

With so much...