Swimly+ · For Defence and emergency-services recruits · a self-paced guide
A self-paced guide to prepare, calmly, for a Defence or emergency-services entry swim test — the float, the survival strokes, the underwater swim and the jump.
Plenty of strong, fit recruits get caught out by the Navy swim assessment, and almost always for the same reason: they trained for the wrong thing. Three of the four elements are survival skills, and the biggest by time is fifteen minutes of doing as little as possible.
Train hard freestyle for eight weeks and you arrive fitter and no better prepared. The recruits who get through are the calm ones, because the thing being measured is composure in the water. That is a skill, and it can be built.
Your guide
Read it, build the float in blocks, and train the four elements in order.
Every session: a short video, one practical task, one reflection. Watching is not the work. Doing is the work.
Built by a coach who has stood behind the blocks
Jason Cram is a Commonwealth Games gold medallist and 2003 World Champion, with 7,500 private coaching sessions delivered in Sydney. Swimly+ is his coaching, structured for wherever you are.
“I'm not here to teach you how to swim. I'm here to get you out of your head.”
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No. This guide is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by the ADF. It prepares the skills the assessment covers. Standards change and vary by role and entry scheme, so confirm your own requirement with your recruiting contact.
A safety jump from a 3 metre tower, a 10 metre underwater swim, a 50 metre swim using survival strokes, and treading water or floating for 15 minutes — all in full uniform. The guide prepares each one.
Less than you think. This is a composure test, not a fitness test. The whole method is built on staying calm and using less effort, not more.
No, and anyone who tells you otherwise is not being straight with you. Swimly trains the skills. Defence assesses you. The guide gets you as ready as preparation can.
No public pool gives you a true 3 metre platform to rehearse on, so the guide works the entry shape and the composure. Swimly's in-person Defence sessions take that further.
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