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2011 ASCA World Clinic & Trade Show
It’s almost time for 2011 ASCA World Clinic & Trade Show. This year marks the 53rd time that more than 1,000 coaches will come together for professional education purposes. Attending the ASCA World Clinic is one of the very few fast tracks to success. Getting out and comparing notes with your peers, listening to keynotes and topic specific presentations, chatting up some of the world’s greatest coaches, and taking time to explore the technologies and services represented in the Exhibit Hall – all this can give you quite an advantage over the stay-at-home staff from across town.
So, what are you waiting for? Register today!
ASCA World Clinic 2011
September 6-11, 2011 • San Diego, CA
schedule • register
General schedule
Certification Schools: Mon. 9/5, Tue. 9/6, Thu. 9/8, Fri. 9/9 and Sun. 9/11
World Clinic: September 7-10 (Wednesday 1:00 p.m. – Saturday)
Exhibit Hall: Wednesday Evening through Saturday
Check out the 2011 Exhibitors
View a map of the Exhibit Hall
See the schedule of vendor presentations
Hotel information
Town and Country Resort Hotel
500 North Hotel Circle
San Diego, CA 92108
tel: (619) 291-7131
room rate: $132 per night
online room reservations available here
Related articles
- The Top Three Reasons You Can’t Miss The 53rd Annual ASCA World Clinic (swimmingcoach.wordpress.com)
Five Strategies to Help Elevate Your Positive Mindset as a Professional Coach
Monday
Focus on “Get to” instead of “Have to” – While driving to the office focus on what you “get to” do instead of what you “have to” do. With gratitude realize that you don’t have to do anything. You get to go to coach while so many are unemployed. Coaching is a job you love. A job you are passionate about. Gratitude floods your body and brain with emotions that uplift you and energize you rather than stress hormones that drain you.
Tuesday
Don’t Expect your Board, Coaching Staff and Swim Parents to Make you Happy – Realize that happiness is an inside job. Our happiness has less to do with forces outside of us and more to do with what’s inside of us. The way we think about work, feel about work and approach our work influences our happiness at work. For instance, just by making yourself smile you produce more serotonin in the brain-which makes you feel happier. You’ll also be happier when you focus on what you are giving instead of what you are getting. Again, remember to smile…it releases happy enzymes to the brain.
Wednesday
Don’t Seek Happiness – Ironically if you want to be happier don’t seek happiness. Instead share your strengths and decide to work with passion and purpose and happiness will find you. The research shows that people are most energized when they are using their strengths for a bigger purpose beyond themselves. Whatever your job, decide to bring passion to it and find purpose in it. I’ve met bus drivers, administrative assistants, janitors and fast-food employees who are more passionate about their jobs and happier than some professional athletes making millions of dollars. Every job will get mundane and “old” if you let it but purpose and passion keep it fresh and make you happier.
Thursday
Focus on Excellence instead of Success – When you focus on success you can easily fall into the trap of comparing yourself to others, looking over your shoulder, feeling envious, playing office politics, and competing against your fellow staff members instead of collaborating. However, when you focus on excellence you measure yourself against your own growth and potential. You strive to be the best you can be. You simply focus on getting better every day and this makes work more meaningful and rewarding.
Friday
Celebrate Together – While we shouldn’t depend on others to make us happy, by building a positive team or support group at work we will be happier. So instead of expecting others to make you happy, you proactively create the positive relationships that enhance your engagement, productivity and happiness. One great way to do this to huddle with your staff at the end of the week and have each person share their accomplishments, victories, and great moments of the week. This will produce great feelings on each week that inspire you and your team to come back to each day, keep up the great work, and make a difference daily.
Coaches: Sign up for ASCA’s Swim Parent Newsletter Today
Coaches — Add another tool to your arsenal today with an annual subscription to the Swim Parent Newsletter!
The Swim Parent Newsletter is a weekly publication coaches can use as a parent education tool. Each week we publish a topic we think will be valuable to your swim team parents.
Recent titles include:
“Do We Really Want our Children Drinking Energy Drinks?”
“Guidelines For Going On The Road,”
“2 a Day Workouts for 12 and Unders?”
“Resolving Conflicts with the Coach”
“The Praise Craze”
“The Nature of Stroke Work”
“Enough Already With Kid Gloves”
ASCA’s Swim Parent Newsletter is emailed to 44,000 families each week by the coaches who subscribe to this highly relevant parent education resource. What do other coaches have to say about Swim Parent Newsletter?
- “Wow! Good one! Thanks!”
- “This is what I needed to send to one of my parents who pushes his daughter too hard,”
- “The Swim Parent Newsletter is amazing. My team loves it! It’s so great that it can actually be applied to any sport!”
Subscribe at the ASCA online store or call us at 800.356.2722. An annual subscription is only $25. Click here for a advanced copy of the next issue. What are you waiting for? Sign up today!
Workout Wednesday
Every Wednesday, ASCA publishes a workout on our website — past contributors have included Coaches Bill Rose, Dick Shoulberg, Gregg Troy and others. This week’s workout is from Coach John Collins, of Badger Swim Club, NY.
“Workout Wednesday for 3/24/11″
From Coach John Collins
The group is high school aged, middle distance oriented, about 20 to 30 in number….amongst the group are 8 boys = between 4.26 -4.38 and 5 girls =between 4.52 and 5.00…
The workout is a post championship effort aimed at starting the long course season…emphasis on decent
yardage, breathe control, and fast kicking…800 swim, wrong side only breathing….16×50 on 45, alt by 50= single stroke R, single stroke L, 3R 3L, double arm back= 4X…….then 4X= 400 crawl pull (prefer strap and pull buoy), breathing every 5th stroke on 6 min, followed by a max effort 100 crawl k (w/board, no z) on 2 mins…….the key was to keep the 5 breathing pattern faithfully throughout, and to blast the kick…..best kids av @ 4.00 on pulls (boys) girls slower….kicking generally @1.15 (poor kicking team) then 3×200= double arm back, dolphin k on back, back swim…10 seconds…….4X= 400 IM pull on 5-6 mins, followed by 100 k max effort fly or breast, on 2 mins…….finished the workout with a T1650 from dive boys had to break 17:15…girls 18.15 or else had to do over…..most made it……
If you have a workout that shows your personal creativity and passion for getting the most out of your athletes, send it our way (mpittman@swimmingcoach.org). Maybe next week you’ll be the featured author of “Workout Wednesday.”
