World Short Course Championships

There might be not Michael Phelps, but there's flashing lights, loud music, a disco ball and some amazing swimming by the British Team. Two gold medals on Thursday night set the place alight and the whole eveny has been totally awesome.

Records are being broken in practically every event, the guy that looks after all the record books is going to have a hard time keeping up with all the Word, European, Commonwealth and British Records that are falling! We'll do a bit more of a round up next month and leave you with one very important point (or two actually) STARTS and TURNS.

Medals are being won and lost on the basis of good quality starts and turns. The Amer ican's are usually the best in the world because a lot of them train in 25 yard pools., but we think the rest of the world is catching up a bit! Certainly Rebecca Adlington wouldn't be getting within 0.25 of the world 800m record if she wasn't working on her starts and turns every day. See our coaching section to see how you can improve yours....