All About Competitive Swimming
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Usually I will prepare just 2 dishes-1 fish/meat + veg before we leave for DD’s training and heat it up for dinner once we reached home. Else, I would just cook pasta which is good source of carbs for energy booster…our kids need that. Diet is important for our growing and active kids, so I would recommend homecook meals whenever possible.
Start a daily routine with time allocated for each activities while your DS is still in K2 eg. 15-30min piano practice, 30min homework or play and bed time by 9pm, cultivate it into a habit and he will breeze through the long journey ahead. -
Miaor:
You learn to do everything quickly - eat quickly, bathe quickly, study and practise piano efficiently - no time to day dream! Kids have amazing capacity to learn as long as they are doing something they enjoy and really want. It is totally possible. Of course such discipline does not come instantly but is developed over time. But they can keep up with piano and school work if they really want to. My kids do. Swimming trains them to focus much better and a healthy mind comes with a healthy body. Now, I don't even have to waste money on tuition for them to keep up with their school work, because they know they have to focus and do their work properly and use their time efficiently. If they don't thrive in school, they will lose their opportunity to train, and they dont want that. They have developed an active social circle amongst their swimmates and want to keep that up. Many swimmers do well in their studies in fact. In my club last year, 2 swimmers scored 270+ for their PSLE. These guys train 7x a week. Competition doesnt extend to just the pool, but they encourage each other academically too. As they swim together over the years, camaraderie is developed. Foodwise, we pack nutritious meals with hot milo and eat at the pool or give them tuna mayo sandwiches to munch in the car. No need to eat at 9pm. In fact, athletes should always refuel within 30 mins of exercise....but as I have been stressing, take your time to find a balance that works for your family. At k2, he is young and it's ok to train 2x a week regularly, and stepping up before the competitions.:thankyou:
for all the suggestions, nice comments and encouragement!
... how could it possible to get the time to send him to the training 4 times a week for the long run? Maybe I should consider hiring a maid to take care of the baby so I can run off for a while and take DS to the training. And how do you manage dinner on training days? we usually end up with having dinner on 9pm on training days and DS goes to bed on 10pm, sometimes even later. And he doesn't have enough time to practice piano so his piano teacher is not happy about that...err...so many problems.
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Hi like to get feedback her. My 9 yr old daughter started competitive swim 1+ year ago and I was told she is quite good with her timing. Shes swimming with a small swim club, ppassionate young coach and small group. Will moving her to a big club like Sac develop her full potential or she can do as well in a small club. She is vrry comfortable with her current coach and very committed to the trainingso dun want to upset the setup now unnecessarily but want her potential to be fully developed.
As a parent I’m in a dilemna what’s best the best envrionment for her to develop? Any experience to share? -
catpang:
Does her current swim club offer her opportunities to compete? Do they get invited to inter-club or regional meets like Midget, JIC, AIMS, SNAG, RBSC etc? If not, she might be better off switching to a larger club if she is serious about competitive swimming. She also would need other good swimmers to pace her in order to keep improving on her timings. Some of the smaller clubs don't have enough swimmers to form even a relay team in meets, and that's sad for the kids as it deprives them of an opportunity to learn to work in teams and and cooperate to win. Take your time to shop for the right club. To ease the transition, you can ask if the new club would agree to a trial class. It is good for the child to learn from diff coaches to maximize her learning potential as she develops.Hi like to get feedback her. My 9 yr old daughter started competitive swim 1+ year ago and I was told she is quite good with her timing. Shes swimming with a small swim club, ppassionate young coach and small group. Will moving her to a big club like Sac develop her full potential or she can do as well in a small club. She is vrry comfortable with her current coach and very committed to the trainingso dun want to upset the setup now unnecessarily but want her potential to be fully developed.
As a parent I'm in a dilemna what's best the best envrionment for her to develop? Any experience to share? -
Is it a must to master all 4 styles in order to join the club?
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No not the ones mentioned. But she partipated in this year inter primary sch meet And was within the 15 place.
Did bring her to sac trial but we both didn’t like the group size, too big at 30?? and the pool Is so small. The whole trial was so chaotic and she hated it. I’m afraid to push her into an environment that she doesn’t like and lose interest over time. I think that the childis key as she is then committed to the tedious training sessions.
And I heard sac is the best club but was disapointed with the experience. -
swimironkids:
I think whether SAC is the best of the best let result speaks for itself !Here are the final results of the recent Singapore National Swimming Championship held at Singapore Sports School on the 25-30th June 2013
Rank 1- Swimfast : medals 74, Points 2303
Rank 2- APSC : medals 18, Points 567
Rank 3- Chinese Swimming Class : medals 12, Points 353
Congrats everyone!!!
I'm very happy to read many parents here are sharing their experience! -
catpang:
Hi, I think one cannot expect too much for a small pool beyond anyone control cos the government will not provide the club a swimming pool even many of the national swimmers are trained from swimfast.No not the ones mentioned. But she partipated in this year inter primary sch meet And was within the 15 place.
Did bring her to sac trial but we both didn't like the group size, too big at 30?? and the pool Is so small. The whole trial was so chaotic and she hated it. I'm afraid to push her into an environment that she doesn't like and lose interest over time. I think that the childis key as she is then committed to the tedious training sessions.
And I heard sac is the best club but was disapointed with the experience.
Recent record breaker and gold silver medalist during the nanjing meets are from swimfast zen wen & Samantha Yeo
As the club is popular it is expected to be crowded. I have taught there in the small pool yes I agreed it can be ...if there are 30kids in 2lanes.
I will be blurr to when I hv to read out their timing ESP when a group of them touching e wall..lol
End of the day the coaches there knows what they are doing and your kids can expect to received the best training
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swimironkids:
Think different clubs have different strengths. Swimfast appears to be good at training older kids eg secondary level onwards. For the younger ones, it appears that CSC, SSC are more successful in producing results? I was just looking at results of Midget Meet. CSC seem to always lead by a wide margin. Swimfast is always quite far behind, especially for the younger kids. I suspect many of the good swimmers actually train at other clubs when they are younger, but switch to Swimfast at the secondary level cos many of them end up at MGS/RGS/ACS, close where Swimfast trains? Do you think this is an accurate reflection?
I think whether SAC is the best of the best let result speaks for itself !swimironkids:
Here are the final results of the recent Singapore National Swimming Championship held at Singapore Sports School on the 25-30th June 2013
Rank 1- Swimfast : medals 74, Points 2303
Rank 2- APSC : medals 18, Points 567
Rank 3- Chinese Swimming Class : medals 12, Points 353
Congrats everyone!!!
I'm very happy to read many parents here are sharing their experience! -
TravelMummy:
Think different clubs have different strengths. Swimfast appears to be good at training older kids eg secondary level onwards. For the younger ones, it appears that CSC, SSC are more successful in producing results? I was just looking at results of Midget Meet. CSC seem to always lead by a wide margin. Swimfast is always quite far behind, especially for the younger kids. I suspect many of the good swimmers actually train at other clubs when they are younger, but switch to Swimfast at the secondary level cos many of them end up at MGS/RGS/ACS, close where Swimfast trains? Do you think this is an accurate reflection?[/quote]My DS just finished his Midget meet competition. He didn't get any medal this time and was almost the slowest one for the two events he was in.
I think whether SAC is the best of the best let result speaks for itself !swimironkids:
[quote=\"swimironkids\"]Here are the final results of the recent Singapore National Swimming Championship held at Singapore Sports School on the 25-30th June 2013
Rank 1- Swimfast : medals 74, Points 2303
Rank 2- APSC : medals 18, Points 567
Rank 3- Chinese Swimming Class : medals 12, Points 353
Congrats everyone!!!
I'm very happy to read many parents here are sharing their experience! We were there for only one afternoon, and I didn't hear SAC was announced often during the award ceremonies. Think about my DS's case, he was never trained for competitive swimming until one month before the meet, and he was even selected to join the free style relay. I think SAC doesn't put much effort on training younger swimmers for sure. However, the coach and the staff we met during the training are kind and responsible. DS likes the coach a lot and he even prepared teacher's day gift for him. He was not very disappointed by the results as he understands that most swimmers there were trained a lot harder and longer than he was. He enjoyed the whole process and was proud to be one of the swimmers. Now a days I have to try my best to catch up with him in the pool after just one month training. I'd say I am very impressed with his progress. With all above experiences, I have no complain for SAC. :salute:
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