Competitive Enrichment Swim Clinic (Ages 7 to 9)
Crestwood Recreation Center
1701 21 St SE,
Medicine Hat,
Alberta AB T1A 2C2
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Introduction
COMPETITIVE ENRICHMENT SWIM CLINIC: Fitter & Faster is producing a 2-hour swim clinic at the Crestwood Recreation Center in Redcliff, Alberta on February 1, 2025. This clinic will focus on freestyle technique for pre-competitive level swimmers age 7 to 9 years old. This exciting and engaging clinic is designed to help young swimmers build foundational competitive skills, boost their confidence, and foster a lifelong love for swimming!
Limited Spots Available: Sessions are limited to 18 participants, ensuring individualized attention and optimal learning.
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SESSION START TIME: Check in 8:45 AM, Camp 9-11 AM
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 9. Participants will range from one year of competitive swimming experience to AAAA times and faster. CLICK HERE for the swim camp page for ages 10 & over!
Curriculum
FREESTYLE TECHNIQUE
Cultivating good habits to swim high-level freestyle starts as soon as young swimmers learn the stroke. Even at ages 7 to 9, it’s the perfect time to begin practicing techniques that will significantly improve their efficiency, power, and confidence in the water. Today, your swimmer will focus on building strong foundations in bodyline, catch, kick, pull, and breathing patterns to set them up for long-term success.
- BODYLINE: A freestyle race is going to be fastest with the proper bodyline. Even the slightest adjustment of the chin, neck, and/or back can make a huge difference. As swimmers mature in the sport and grow physically, their body position shifts and often bad habits are created. Participants will learn and practice proper posture and engagement of their core to have a strong foundation for better technique - creating a full-body connection for more hydrodynamic and efficient strokes.
- ROTATION: Freestyle is fastest and most efficient when a swimmer’s body is “rotating” around their spine with each stroke. This part of swimming freestyle has a big effect on maintaining a proper bodyline. Participants will practice activating their core muscles to form a powerful connection from head to toe with every stroke.
- KICKING: A swimmer’s kick is the motor behind their freestyle! There are obviously proper and improper ways to kick which we will review at the camp. Just as important, however, is practicing the complexities of how and when swimmers need to “shift gears” in their legs to become stronger and faster racers.
- PULL: The pull in freestyle keeps a swimmer balanced and accelerating forward. This is a skill that needs cultivation throughout all swimmers’ careers. Having an early vertical forearm “catch” enables a swimmer to put immediate pressure back on the water. Properly completing the stroke keeps the swimmer moving forward efficiently. The later the “catch” or not “finishing” the stroke has a negative impact on a swimmer’s bodyline and speed.
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!
