Off The Blocks Swimming Podcast

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 USA Coaching legend and a man who has coach at Indianna, North Carolina, Nova Aquatics at Irvine, and as well with the Chinese National team working with athletes like Zhang Yufei, live from the 2025 ASCA World Clinic Mr Ron Turner.

Ron shares with us his coaching philosophies from his long and very successful career. We talk about the amazing athletes his worked with including Shi Jinglin and Zhang Yufei from China, what he learned through his career and how to identify talent.  Working in China, being creative with your programming and a whole lot more.

Great chat with a top coach, don't miss it

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 discuss our visit to LMU, Alpha Aquatics and Head Coach Scott Hubbard. As well we give our Top 5 Male USA Swimmers of all time.

Santa Monica Pier, Bike Riding and a whole lot more

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 Arizona State Head Coach Herbie Behm live from the 2025 ASCA World Clinic. Herbie shares with us his coaching philosophies and how he structures his season. We talk about coaching legends Bob Bowman and Dave Salo, what he learned from working with Leon Marchand. The challenges of being a head coach, being creative with your programming and a whole lot more.

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 discuss our visit to Irvine for the Fitter and Faster camps with College swim pro Maxime Rooney as the lead coach. As well we give our Top 5 Female USA Swimmers of all time.

In and Out Burger, Tipping and a whole lot more

The Off the Blocks USA Series is proudly brought to you by NSW SCTA

Off The Blocks USA Series is proudly brought to you by the Harold Holt Swim Centre's historic "Take The Plunge Swim Classic" being held at Melbourne's Harold Holt Swim Centre on Sunday 30th November 2025

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 had at National Age Champs this year in Brisbane with St Andrew's finishing in the top 10 for the first time, and getting 2 athletes on the Junior Aus team heading to Romania in August.

We discuss his own swimming career, some great stories and how being an elite athlete himself has helped shape him as a coach.

Favourite sets, non negotiables, working with Kirsten from SwimNastics, Kyle Chalmers and a whole lot more.

Don't miss this great chat