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Here is
a brief explanation of how Anaconda Swimming Club is structured
Our teaching programme uses the Amateur Swimming Associations (ASA) Long
Term Athlete Development Plan (LTAD) to help structure each child’s
swimming lessons through the “Fundamental” and “Swim Skills” phases.
Confidence, basic movement literacy and technique are the main focuses
during these early stages of development.
The Club accommodates children (8+) through to adults and helps them
further develop towards the latter stages of the LTAD pathway, during
which biological age takes a stronger influence on coaching than
chronological age.
Anaconda Swimming Club is a competitive club and the focus during each
training session is to improve a swimmer’s ability to compete.
Training Structure
Different training squads allow for varying abilities and commitment
levels, through which swimmers are expected to progress.
Initially swimmers usually join Development Squads A and B, made
up of swimmers new to the main club from our teaching programme; the
split is purely for training time purposes. Swimmers can attend from 1
to 3.5 hours training per week.
From here we would expect them to progress to the first of three
competitive squads:
Fast Track B, where swimmers are expected to attend a minimum
of 3 hours, but can attend up to 5.5 hours per week. This will
increase in the future as the squad strengthens and more sessions are
added. FT B swimmers must be age 11 and under, have four legal stokes,
and be willing to make the required number of training sessions. From
here they should progress to:
Fast Track A. These swimmers are expected to attend a minimum
of 4 hours, but can attend up to 6.5 hours per week. This will
increase in the future as the squad strengthens and more sessions are
added. FT A swimmers must be achieving or close to achieving Middlesex
County qualifying times as well as making the required number of
training sessions. From here they should move on to:
Performance B. Performance B swimmers are expected to attend a
minimum of 4 hours, out of a possible 7 per week. This will increase
in the future as the squad strengthens and more sessions are added.
Performance B swimmers must be achieving or close to achieving Middlesex
County qualifying times as well as making the required number of
training sessions.
Performance A. Performance A swimmers are expected to attend a
minimum of 6 hours, out of a possible 12 per week. This will
increase in the future as the squad strengthens and more sessions are
added. Performance A swimmers must be achieving or aiming to achieve
regional qualifying times as well as making the required number of
training sessions.
Swimmers in all competitive squads are also expected to enter
competitions on different strokes and distances, meet training
requirements as set by their coaches, and must have an ambitious
training attitude with high standards of training, always attempting to
work on coaching points.
Senior Squad is an additional squad, a fitness squad for those
who have no desire to compete, but would like to swim to keep fit.
Training times available to each of the squads are shown
here
Time Trials
All swimmers are expected to regularly attend club time trials. These
are 50m timed races that take place at 8.00pm at Cally Pool, on the
second Tuesday of the month and the following Monday (swimming two
strokes each session). Swimmers’ times are then recorded and available
to view
here
Time trials give swimmers competition practice and allow them to
establish PB’s (personal bests) in each stroke. They also allow club
officials to recommend which galas swimmers should attend and to select
swimmers for leagues and trophy galas, where swimmers represent the
Club.
When the Club invites you - usually by email - to attend a gala, PLEASE
RESPOND ASAP!! It takes time to carefully select swimmers for each gala.
This is a task taken on by a volunteer. Some gala organisers specify
fastest and slowest qualifying times, others, such as Leagues, mean that
we want to field the best possible team to represent the Club. Late
replies mean that new swimmers have to be selected, often at very short
notice.
Swimmers Times
Keeping track of swimmers times is essential to incentivise swimmers and
to see how well they are progressing. Swimmers should be aware of their
current PB in each stroke.
To find swimmers’ times click
here
To find Middlesex County qualifying times, the first set of times that
swimmers aim for, visit
www.middlesexswimming.com
For Regional qualifying times, visit
www.londonswimming.org
For National qualifying times and anything else related to swimming in
Britain, visit
www.swimming.org/britishswimming
The Anaconda Management Committee
The Club is run by a management committee made up entirely of
volunteers, chaired by Steve Greer, and supported by an administrator,
Ray Haggan (with help from Harley Greer during some swimming sessions)
and Head Coach Wayne Lock. If you can spare some time to support the
club, or if you have any queries, you can contact Steve or Ray by email
info@anacondaswimmingclub.org.uk Alternatively you can find
Steve, Ray or Harley at Cally Pool from Monday to Wednesday evening and
at Holloway Pool on Wednesday and Thursday evening
All the
above information is available to download in PDF format -
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