Category Archives: Sports
Take on FINA
Rebel coach starts campaign to get a say in FINA – click here for the full article from the Sydney Morning Herald
George Block, president of the World Swimming Coaches Association, sent an impassioned email to thousands of coaches in America and many more in other countries to ”change the world” if they failed to get representation on the FINA board.
Related Articles
- Time to Change the World (swimmingcoach.wordpress.com)
Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick? Or maybe some better advice…”Working Successfully with Swim Parents”
Check out this great webinar by ASCA Technical Director, Guy Edson – “Working Successfully With Swim Parents”
Click HERE for the webinar recording
Click HERE for just the PDF slides
And, some related parent education:
Ten Ways for the Swim Parent to Sabotage Their Child’s Swimming Career (written with tongue firmly in cheek) — From John Leonard, American Swimming Coaches Association
A Few Suggestions on How to Be a Better Swimming Parent — From Michael Brooks, York YMCA Swimming
Speak Up!
A timeless debate…”Quality vs. Quantity”.
How much is too much? We want to know how your club/team trains…more yardage? Less Yardage? Looking for info for a research project.
Coach John Douglass (Assistant Coach; UW-Milwaukee Swimming and Diving) is doing a research project looking at relationships between training yardage and swimming success. If you think you can contribute to the data collection process, or have information to contribute, please contact John at johndouglass53223@yahoo.com.
Build Better Athletes with ASCA’s New Dryland Course
Check out this new edition of ASCA’s popular Dryland Training School (Oct. 2010). This edition is almost 50% more extensive than the original school and has a number of new and useful features for coaches. First, it comes with a DVD with 110 minutes of extensive demonstrations of more than 100 dryland training exercises. Second, there are three chapters that fully develop the place of dryland training in all programs from young age group novice athletes, to the elite athlete. Third, it has a chapter that develops the idea of how we relate what we do on dryland, to direct faster swimming in the water. The course also has information on developing a ‘cookbook’ approach if you lack the time to spend on extensive dryland development, and still want to do some dryland training. And finally, there are five chapters that develop specific routines in different modalities such as stretch cords, Med-balls, Plyo-balls, hand weight exercises, and exercises with very limited amounts of equipment. Whether you coach Age Group Athletes or Senior Swimmers, this manual is your basic primer on what to do, when and how to do it, and what it takes to effectively improve the athleticism of your athletes.