Swim camps · ages 8–20 · Tenerife & Mallorca
28 of 35 swimmers swam a personal best in their main event at our last 10-day camp. The other 7 did within 90 days.
Yes! Send me the dates →Free · 20 seconds · David replies personallyThe most popular performance swim camp in Europe
Two camps · one standard
Elite · ages 13–20Two sessions a day with Olympians on deck, the flume channel and a daily confidence session. Residential or not.
9–11 days · Tenerife & Mallorca · October, New Year, Easter, summer
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Junior · ages 8–12Olympian coaching by day, back with you every night. A Tenerife holiday wrapped around it.
10–11 days · Tenerife · New Year and summer
Get the Junior datesWhy it works
Your swimmer already trains hard. The tenths hide where a club session rarely looks: the walls, the kick off them, and the ten seconds behind the blocks. Ten days here go straight at all three.
A treadmill for swimmers, filmed above and under water. Early in camp every Elite swimmer reviews their own footage 1:1, frame by frame. From then on every coach on deck knows exactly what to fix.
Run by David. Built on a full year with Michael Phelps' sports psychologist at the University of Virginia. Race-day nerves stop being the enemy and start being speed.
Spine and ankle mobility as its own daily session. A stiff swimmer moves through the water like a wooden board. Ten days of it and the kick, the streamline and the turns change.
New from Rocktober 2026
Every coach on deck logs what they see: every start, every turn, every wobble before a hard set. On the last day it becomes one document with your swimmer's name on it, written so their club coach can pick it up on Monday.
Lena Kovač
FLUME · FRAME 23 / 48The pullout was the breakthrough. Timing fixed on day 7 with the 2-count drill. Keep it: 3 short underwater sets a week.
Nerves before hard sets, gone by day 5. A 4-breath routine on the blocks. Take it to every meet.
Ankle flexibility is costing her on the underwaters. The 10-minute evening routine, daily for 8 weeks.
A sample Game Plan. Illustrative swimmer and numbers.
It's why the 90-day guarantee works. The PB doesn't depend on the last day of camp going well. It depends on the plan, and every swimmer goes home holding it.
Proof
Swimmers from 13 countries. One island. Watch what happened.
“She loved absolutely every moment.”
0:45“Huge PBs for my son. Starts, turns, underwaters.”
1:01“What Gabriel didn't expect from camp.”
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From across the Swimpros programme. These swimmers train with their own clubs all year, and we say so.
Serbia · swimmer
National junior record, 200 IM
Ilija Sosic
Germany · swimmer
7 PBs from 7 races
Cedric Wittmann
Slovenia · swimmer
5 PBs and 2 medals in one meet
Vita Matic
Scotland · swimmer
National age group champion
Ailsa Rodgers
The guarantee · claimed zero times in 4 years
No personal best, and we coach your swimmer inside the Swimpros Academy for six months, free. It's in writing on every camp.
An honest note. About one in five swimmers doesn't PB at camp itself. Ten hard days is a lot, and bodies don't always cooperate. That's why the promise runs 90 days, and why the Game Plan goes home with every swimmer.
London 2012 · Olympic GamesThe head coach
“I used to choke at nationals. Twelve months later I swam a Swiss record at the Olympics.”
At the University of Virginia I spent a full year with Michael Phelps' sports psychologist. It changed how I raced. That method is what your swimmer gets from me every single day of camp.
And when you get in touch, I'm the one who answers. Not an assistant, not a sales team.
David Karasek, on the blocks next to Michael Phelps. London 2012 Olympian and founder of Swimpros. Specialty: swimmers who crush practice but freeze at meets.
Every summer a guest legend joins David on deck.
Guest · summer 2026
Peter Mankoč
World record holder. Ran the flume channel breakdown at summer camp.
Guest · summer 2026
Milorad Čavić
Olympic medalist. Pushed Phelps to the wall in the Beijing 100 fly.
Guest · summer 2027
Revealed soon
A star coach or swimmer. Booked families hear first.
Beyond the stopwatch
An alarm before sunrise. Cold water in the dark. Months of work for a few tenths on a scoreboard. That isn't a hobby. It's the rarest education a kid can get today.
Friends by day two.
Phones go in the bag for the training day and the night, and come back every evening after dinner to call home. Ten real nights of sleep in a row, and ten days where the only thing competing for their attention is the water.
The times fade. Who they became chasing them stays for life.
Dates & places
Every camp is capped. Tap one and I'll send you the details, the places left and an honest read on whether it fits your swimmer.
Summer 2027 · fills first, every year
Summer taper3 – 13 Jul 2027 · Mallorca · 50m pool · 11 daysOpenDetails → Summer 12 – 12 Aug 2027 · Tenerife · 11 days8 leftDetails → Summer 214 – 24 Aug 2027 · Tenerife · 11 daysOpenDetails → Summer 326 Aug – 5 Sep 2027 · Tenerife · 11 daysOpenDetails →Summer 2027
Summer 12 – 12 Aug 2027 · Tenerife · 11 days10 leftDetails → Summer 214 – 24 Aug 2027 · Tenerife · 11 daysOpenDetails → Summer 326 Aug – 5 Sep 2027 · Tenerife · 11 daysOpenDetails →Junior camps are non-residential: you stay nearby (we send hotel ideas), drop off and pick up around each session, and evenings are family time. Prefer October or Easter? Those run for Elite swimmers. Ask us about junior options.
Athletes onlyCoaches live in-house, 24/7Right next to the poolAthlete-grade foodAir-conditioned
Architect's renderings. Doors open with Rocktober. The Mallorca camp is hotel-based.
Book direct from your home airport. We'll help you find the best option.
How booking works
Twenty seconds: name, email, mobile. You get the dates and the places left, and a personal reply from me.
About 15 minutes with me. An honest read on which camp fits, and what would move the needle for your swimmer, whether you book or not.
A deposit holds it. Kit sizes, forms and a meet-the-group Zoom call follow before camp.
Camps are invite-only. I review every swimmer personally before confirming a place, so the group is always the right fit.
Parent questions
Ten days in Tenerife
These messages come to my own phone, not an inbox someone else checks. Some days I'm on pool deck and slow to reply. I always come back.
David