I've been using the iGarden SwimJet X Pro 10 in the pool downstairs here on the Gold Coast, and honestly, it's an incredible product. It took about a minute to set up, and at top speed I could barely keep up with it — and I'm a good swimmer. So is this the best swim jet for a home pool? Does a battery-powered jet you clamp on the side really turn a short pool into an exercise pool? Let's find out.

Today I'm covering what's in the box, how it clamps on with no builders and no drilling, a swim test through all four speed levels — P1 to P4, from gentle warm-up to flat out — plus the PE sprint and PF AI surf modes, the flow numbers, safety, battery and charging, and how easy it is to pack away. If you follow the channel, you'll know we've already tested iGarden's K150 Pro and K70 robot pool cleaners in this pool — and at the end of the K70 video I told you the SwimJet X was coming. Here it is. One honest note up front: this was real-world swimming in one pool, not lab testing — the flow, speed, pace and battery figures are iGarden's stated numbers.

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01The Problem: Stroke, Wall, Turn, Repeat

If you swim, you know this one. Lap swimming in a home pool means a few strokes, hit the wall, turn. A few more strokes, wall, turn. It kills your rhythm lap after lap, and honestly, it gets pretty boring.

The idea behind the SwimJet X Pro 10 is simple: the water comes to you. The jet pushes a current across the pool, you swim into it, and you stay in the same spot. No walls, no turning — you just swim.

02Unboxing & Build: Serious Bit of Kit

First impression out of the box: this is a serious bit of equipment. Everything's well packaged and well protected, and as you lift it out you can tell it's built to do real work in the water.

You get four main things: the jet itself, the power box (the battery), the adapter to charge it and the safety tether. Nothing fiddly, no extra parts. It feels solid and well made, the grille on the front is strong, and the jet's 14 kg of weight is part of why it sits so steady on the edge of the pool.

03Setup: Clamp It On, No Builders

This is the bit I love. There's no permanent installation — no drilling, no builders, nothing done to your pool. You put it on the edge and you're swimming in about a minute.

Here's how I did it. The power box goes on the pool deck, and the jet goes over the edge so it sits just below the waterline. There are two ways to position it, but the recommended way uses the battery to stabilise the jet. The safety tether secures it, you run the cable down to the jet, press the orange button, and you're off.

You can change levels on the unit itself or through the app, and there's an AI mode that ramps the flow up and down on its own, which gives you different types of workouts. I set it up right in the middle of the pool and it turned this short pool into a proper lap pool.

04P1 to P4, Out of the Water First

Before I jumped in, I ran it up through all four speed levels so you could see the jet itself. P1 is a gentle jet — it looks really nice. P2 is noticeably faster, and you can see how much water is coming out. Press it again for P3 and it's faster again, and by P4 it's really powering along. It's going to test how well you can swim.

Across the four levels, iGarden quotes currents from 0.5 m/s up to 1.2 m/s, so it covers everyone from someone learning to swim right up to people training seriously.

05P1 & P2: Warm-Up, Technique & Steady Swims

I stood in front of it first and let it push me back. On P1 I could feel the water pushing on me straight away, but it's nice and gentle. This is the one for warming up, working on your technique, or learning to swim — you can slow everything right down and really think about your stroke.

What I noticed straight away is how straight the water is. iGarden calls it straight-lane flow. It comes at you in one straight line, so you're not getting pushed sideways or spun around. Head down, swim.

P2 is a proper swim. A nice steady pace — the kind you could keep going for half an hour. Arms moving, legs kicking, and I'm staying in the same spot. Honestly, it's a really nice feeling: you're swimming, but the pool isn't running out.

06P3: My Normal Training Session

Now we're working. On P3, if I stop for even a second, I drift straight back towards the end of the pool. This is the level I'd use for a normal training session. It feels like open water — like swimming out at the beach when there's a bit of current — except I've got it in my own pool.

By this point I'd been fighting that current for about 10 minutes, and it had already changed the way I swim. Then I turned it up.

07P4 & Top Speed: It Beat Me

P4 is harder. Look at the jet on this one — the water pressure carries all the way to the far end of the pool, and that's why it's so good for exercising and swimming, and why I struggled to keep up with it. My arms were burning, my legs were burning, I was breathing heavy. You can't switch off in this one — and you need to swim out of the jet to turn it off.

And with all that water coming out, the jet itself doesn't move at all. Holy dooley. I was puffed — and I'm a great swimmer.

Then the top speed test. Say bye-bye, Andy. I was swimming as hard as I could and just holding my position against it. That's how strong this thing is, and I'm a very strong swimmer. I couldn't hold it for long.

The thing I really liked: even at full power it's smooth. No surging, no pulsing — just a steady current the whole time, so you can actually get into a rhythm. And that's the whole point.

08The Numbers: Flow, Speed & Motor

When you look at iGarden's figures, you can see why top speed is so tough. It pushes up to 1,100 gallons of water a minute — that's 250 cubic metres an hour, or a quarter of a million litres every hour. Right at the jet, the water leaves at about 3.5 m/s.

Where I was swimming, about a metre and a half back, the stated pace at top speed is around 1:22 per 100 metres — roughly 1:15 per 100 yards. If you can hold that, you're a very good swimmer. I can't hold it for long.

Inside is a 1,000 W permanent magnet motor with what iGarden calls AI Inverter Tech — and you can feel it in how evenly the water keeps coming. You can also switch it so it varies between levels, which is quite good for pushing different strokes.

09All the Modes: P1–P4, PE Sprint & PF AI Surf

Now for the real test. I went back through all four speed levels, P1 to P4, with the pace each one is built for — plus the two special modes, PE and PF.

P1 is your low gear — warm-up and recovery pace. The current moves at 0.5 m/s, a theoretical pace of about 195 seconds per 100 yards. I was doing dog paddle; it's perfect for casual breaststroke and light kicking drills without fighting a massive wall of water, and iGarden says it can run for up to 10 hours.

P2 is where the machine starts to lock in. It brings the pace down to about 100 seconds per 100 yards, at roughly 0.85–0.9 m/s. I was mixing doggy paddle and freestyle — it gives you a rhythm and you can still breathe comfortably through your strokes.

P3 is the official triathlete gear: 1 m/s, locking you into a 90-second per 100 yard pace. I was swimming hard freestyle now, and even walking up into the water it's trying to push me back. It's a serious cardio block.

P4 is high steady state: 1.2 m/s and a blazing 75 seconds per 100 yards. It's designed for high-intensity interval training, threshold testing and short competitive sprints, and it drains the battery in around 1.5 hours. I was working really hard just to hold my position, and I struggled even to walk against it.

PE looks identical to P4 — same 1.2 m/s — but a 5-minute countdown appears on the screen. You go all out for a maximum-effort sprint, and then it slows you down. Really hard.

PF is the AI surf simulation. You swim, and after about 20 seconds the jet eases off so you glide, then it speeds up again — cycling between P1, P2, P3 and P4.

Speeds, paces and run times are iGarden's stated figures for each mode, not something I measured.

10Safety & Family Fun

When you've got something this powerful in a pool, safety matters — especially if you've got kids. On the front of the jet there's an anti-entanglement grille, designed to stop hair and fingers getting caught. It runs on human-safe low voltage and has an automatic power cut-off. The jet is rated IP68, fully waterproof sitting under the water, and the power box is IP65, built to handle splashes on the side of the pool.

And it's not just for serious training. Drop it back to P1 or P2 and it's a lot of fun — lie back and feel the current flowing past you, or have a dog paddle. It makes the pool a completely different experience. As always, supervise kids around any pool equipment.

11Battery Life & Charging

After about an hour of setting up, demoing and swimming, the battery still wasn't down to halfway. Then I did another swim of about 20 minutes — after everything else, including a lot of time at top speed — and it hadn't even gone past the first bar.

The power box is a 60 Ah battery rated at around 1,512 Wh, and iGarden quotes anywhere from around 1.5 hours at full power up to 10 hours on the lower levels. Honestly, nobody is swimming P4 for an hour and a half, so depending on how long you swim and which level you use, you'll get several sessions out of one charge.

Charging is through a 264 W charger and takes about 7 hours from empty, so the easy way is to plug it in at night and it's ready in the morning. The power box works in temperatures from 5°C to 45°C, and the jet works in water from 5°C to 40°C — so here on the Gold Coast, it's fine all year round. And because it's battery powered, there's no power lead running across the pool deck into the water, which is nice.

12Packing It Away

When I say it's easy to take out, I'm not kidding. Swim's done: turn it off, unclip the tether, take out the locking pins, unclamp it, move the battery back, grab the jet and lift it straight out. Then it rolls away on its wheels.

The one thing to know is weight. The jet is 14 kg and the power box is 12 kg, so if you're moving everything at once it can take a bit of effort.

13SwimJet X Pro 10 vs a Built-In Swim Jet

A built-in swim jet needs builders and can cost $20,000 or more. The SwimJet X Pro 10 is plug and play: clamp it on, swim, take it off, roll it away. If you rent, live in an apartment with a shared pool like I do, or just don't want to cut into your pool, that's the big win.

⚙iGarden SwimJet X Pro 10: Full Specs

Specs are iGarden's published figures. Flow, speed, pace and run time are manufacturer claims — my testing was real-world swimming in one Gold Coast pool, not lab measurement.

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