Elite Salt Academy

Elite Salt Academy provides specialist training in surfing, pool swimming, diving & open ocean swimming. Head Coach Kim Eulenstein is an ASCTA Accred Swim Coach, Surfing NSW Surf Coach, Open Water Diver & former competitive swimmer & surf life saver.

ESA Salt Academy provides world-class specialist training in surfing, pool swimming, diving & open ocean swimming. Head Coach Kim Eulenstein is an all round water woman with a life-time spent swimming in pools, open ocean and surfing around the world.

From a young age Kim took to swimming like a little mermaid. Her parents loved to waterski and put her on toboggan behind a high performance ski boat from the age of 2. In her youth Kim trained with a Sydney swim club for over ten years competing in hundreds of carnivals around Australia including CHS, Metro, State and National Championships. She has attended countless training camps, workshops and high performance programs over the years.

In her early teens Kim was enticed into swimming for North Steyne Surf Club in a range of open ocean swims, iron-woman competitions and their Branch, State and Nationals teams.

Following years swimming down the black line, training the body to absolute failure and racking up a stack of medals, hours at competitions and travel time, Kim threw in the towel on competitive pool and ocean swimming and continued her passion for free-surfing.

After completing her HSC, Kim moved into studies in Business and Marketing while working at the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre. Learn to Swim, Adult Beginner, Stroke Development and Junior Squad Development were her favourite programs. She also worked heavily in the administration side and worked pool deck lifeguarding alongside her former SLS Captain, Jono.

Following completion of studies Kim moved into various roles in the sports industry including an early gig at a large sports management company in Olympic Park. They worked heavily in NRL, AFL, Basketball, Soccer and Union and gave Kim her first taste for sports management and sponsorships. Since then Kim has worked for a variety of state sporting bodies as well as heading Marketing and Communications for the international swimming brand 'Zoggs'.

In 2012 Kim launched Girl Surf Network, the largest womens surf platform in the world which focuses on the active promotion of womens surfing around the world.

Outside of that Kim ran her own Sports Management and Marketing business working with a range of high performance athletes in surfing, snow sports and NRL. Kim's true focus was working with female athletes as well as youth mentorship. Kim has personally managed a range of ASP & WSL World Tour surfers, a range of WSL /QS and Pro Junior Surfers.

Speaking with a large variety of high performance, competitive surfers in recent years prompted Kim to create a specific swimming program for surfers. Ocean fitness, swim technique, paddle technique, fitness, breath holds, water competency, general water skills, board control, sculls, power and drills being just some of the focal points of her program. There are a range of programs, sessions and workshops for elite, high performance athletes as well juniors and free-surfers wanting to work on their water skills. The programs are fun, using a range of skills, aids, games and drills. For the untrained eye, they might seem like being a kid, swimming in a backyard pool again.

Kim's current aquatic / surf qualifications include:
ASCTA Accred Swim Coach
Surfing NSW Surf Coach
Open Water Diver
CPR / First Aid

Programs are run in various locations around Australia, with the Sydney Northern Beaches and NSW Central Coast being the main locations.

Enquiries to Kim's ESA Academy programs are via hello@saltlocker.com.