Competitive Enrichment Swim Clinic (Ages 7 to 10)
Daland Swim School
135 E Wilbur Rd,
Thousand Oaks,
CA 91360
Introduction
COMPETITIVE ENRICHMENT SWIM CLINIC: Fitter & Faster is producing a 2-hour swim clinic at Daland Swim School in Thousand Oaks, California on January 19, 2025. This clinic will focus on starts, underwaters, and breakouts for pre-competitive level swimmers aged between 7 and 10 years old. If your young, competitive swimmer is looking to drop time in all their races, this is the camp for them!
Limited Spots Available: Sessions are limited to 16 participants, ensuring individualized attention and optimal learning.
Scroll down for curriculum details!
SESSION START TIME: Check in 3:30 PM, Camp 3:45-5:45 PM
Suggested Participants
Our top priority is to provide a world-class learning experience for all participants at all of our camps. This camp has sessions for swimmers ages 7 to 10. Participants will range from one year of competitive swimming experience to AAAA times and faster. CLICK HERE for the swim camp page for ages 11 & over!
Curriculum
STARTS, UNDERWATERS & BREAKOUTS: January 19, 2025
The better a swimmer’s technique is off the starting block, the more speed they will carry into the water. This swim clinic for swimmers ages 7 to 10 will help your athlete improve their start, underwater dolphin kicking, and breakouts! This sequence is the fastest part of every race, and allows swimmers to cover the most ground with the greatest efficiency!
- BLOCK STARTS: To ensure an explosive start, a swimmer needs to set themselves up properly on the block. The elite clinicians will work with participants on the optimal positioning of your swimmer’s entire body, to allow for a quick reaction time and optimal speed.
- WATER ENTRY: Starting the race with a smooth entry into the water will boost your swimmer's speed, and carry the momentum generated off the block or wall. Becoming skilled at the water entry is crucial for any start, and significantly contributes to your swimmer's overall race!
- STREAMLINE: The streamline - when done properly - is the fastest a swimmer travels while in the water. Proper streamlines are even faster than underwater dolphin kicking. Even the most elite swimmers in the world are constantly working on improving their streamline. Your swimmer will get tips to improve their streamline, and gain a better appreciation of what they need to do on every single wall in practice and in races.
- INITIATING UNDERWATER DOLPHIN KICKING: Top age group and elite swimmers maximize their streamline on every single lap. They don’t start their underwater dolphin kicking while they’re still achieving maximum speed in their streamline! They also don’t want to start the underwater dolphin kicking after their streamline has begun to slow. Your swimmer is going to learn how to time when to begin their underwater dolphin kicking.
- POWERFUL UNDERWATER DOLPHIN KICKING: There are a few different techniques that swimmers use when underwater dolphin kicking. The common theme of these techniques is that the best swimmers kick up and down with equal power. We will show your swimmer the different techniques that elite swimmers use and teach them how to implement.
- NUMBER OF UNDERWATER DOLPHIN KICKS: Figuring out the optimal number of kicks off each wall, for each race, is essential to fast swimming. Elite swimmers want to spend only the absolute necessary amount of time underwater to establish speed with each length. They want to avoid losing their breath and taking weak kicks.
- BREAKOUTS: Many swimmers unintentionally add movements in their breakouts that reduce speed by creating drag. In this clinic, participants will focus on perfecting their breakout timing to maintain momentum and power into each lap.
ASK QUESTIONS
Swimmers and parents are invited to ask the clinicians questions during a Q&A session. Gain insight into their training regimen, diet and nutrition, and recovery tactics.
WATCH THE CLINICIANS
Observe clinicians swim at full speed and demonstrate a progression of perfectly executed drills to achieve powerful, efficient, and fast swimming.
PUT YOUR SKILLS TO THE TEST
Throughout the camp, swimmers will practice what they've learned with some of the world's most elite Swimmer Clinicians and coaches!
Inquisitive, Educated Swimmers are Faster Swimmers! Sign up today!
Take a photo, get autographs, and chat with your clinicians!
