Swimming since 6years old, I have successfully achieved national french level (18th French in 2012) and reasonable european level (257th european in 2012). During my career, I interacted with some of the best athletes in the world as well as with their trainers in order to watch them, understand them and learn from them.
After my study I went working to Singapore as Swimming coach for 3 and half year. Then I decided to change orientation and expend my knowledge and skills by becoming a freediving instructor with Apnea Total school.
Working in the water with another sports than swimming allowed me to find new way of seeing underwater mobility and the Athletic Preparation which can reinforce athletes in every sports.
You can see some of my reflection and work here.
After complition of my course and validation of my Apnea Total Freediving Instructor certification, I taught Freediving arround south east Asia Until July 2020.
The sanitary crisis forced me to suspend all my professional plan and leave South East Asia to be back in my home country, France.
In October 2020 I joined the Athletic Club of Boulogne Billancourt (ACBB), near Paris, as Swimming Coach for one and half year.
In Septembre 2022 I joined the university of Paris East Créteil to start a master degree in « Training and Optimisation of Sports Performance, specialised in mental preparation » ( EOPS – Entrainement et Optimisation de la Performance Sportive spécialité Préparation Mental).
Unfortunatly I had to stop this master during the first semester and couldn’t finish the learning and researched I hoped to achieve.
After those events, I took a break with sports performance and training for one and half year allowing me some retrospective on my years of practice.
Beside that, I worked as a substitute teacher for few month in elementary school. This short experience allowed me to go deeper in teaching.
It also gave me the opportunity to see teaching by a different prism than sports and allowing me to have an overall vision of teaching.
Stronger from all this journey and also missing coaching athletes, I went back where i started my journey as a coach, Guadeloupe.
I am now working with Shark Natation des Abymes with the ambition to become the best carribbean swimming structure.
More about me …
During my journey as athlete, student then coach, I discovered that playing sports and doing physical activities can have three main goals: for self-performance, managing one’s own health or for effort’s pleasure
No matters your goals, I could guide on any of those path.
Sports and physical activities may have different purpose but it’s always about the same at the end, focus on yourself and look inside you to bring out the best of you.
I am a two-timed valedictorian who holds two Bachelors Degree in Sports Science, the first in sports training and the second concerning adapted physical activities and health. I did the second to be sure that each exercise that I offer preserves the health of his practitioners. In 2013 I left competitive swimming to focus on transmiting my passion for sport especially for swimming.
I had students from all continents, speaking different languages, having differents cultures, differents goals (lose weights, regain mobility, overcome aquaphobia, learn to swim, learn to freedive, reach performance). Teaching them how to breath, to move, to rest, to swim, to dive, to jump but mostly how to understand their body to be able to use it better.
I believe in every one’s abilities and stands by the fact that -“Every human-being have a potential, believe in it and trust it ».
Through my years of experience, I applied those values in every activities I taught, either it’s swimming, freediving or any other activity.
Determined and persevering, I wanted to bring out the best solutions for each individuals I coached to achieve their objectives while preserving their physical and mental health.
Beside coaching in a swimming club to reach performance with athletes, I am also available for private coaching.
As a private coach, I will bring you all the experience and work ethic that you can read above.
Don’t hesitate to contact me by email contact@simonbaumann.fr.