All About Competitive Swimming

[Astar Swim]

Kevin911:

Hi All;


I am looking for a good and fair swim club for my boys 9 yrs old.

I was with ACE swim club for a few months but......
It seems that the head coach and one lady coach are very biased towards people who can get them medals at their interclub competition only. Non performing kids just numbers to fund their $$$. Just aimlessly swimming up and down with no correction of stroke. Must pay more to correct stroke! and out of sudden they just raised their fees. Sianzz. Even after paying fees still must pay pool entrance for kid and myself. The marketing woman of the club talk to us as though this club se be Tokong! Nonsense.

I heard bigger clubs like Swimfast etc just 1 charge, free parking n entrance fee. Anyone knows?

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[bananamama]

Hello! Are there any expert parents of competitive swimmers here? My son trains in the junior competitive team at Swimfast for the past few months but because I’m a working parent, I don’t send/watch him during his sessions. Doesn’t seem to be any feedback or communication from the Coach either. Should I send him for time trials and randomly enter him in races myself or… what? Am super lost! Appreciate any insights, TIA!

[swimironkids]

bananamama:

Hello! Are there any expert parents of competitive swimmers here? My son trains in the junior competitive team at Swimfast for the past few months but because I'm a working parent, I don't send/watch him during his sessions. Doesn't seem to be any feedback or communication from the Coach either. Should I send him for time trials and randomly enter him in races myself or... what? Am super lost! Appreciate any insights, TIA!

Hi
you can drop me any questions if unclear as I still coach at swimfast as their relieve coach only becos I hv my own squad to train.
I still coach at ACS Primary Barker Road for their CCA swimming every Mon and Wed
I try to assist you if you hv any questions
cheers! :xedfingers:

[duckeroo]

klo44w:

duckeroo:

Hi,


Does anyone knows if the swim team at Jurong Country Club has transferred to other club & is their Coach Zhao Yi still coaching in Singapore? I'm interested to find out more about their team for my kids. I stay at the west side and would like to let my kids try out for competitive swimming. Thk u vy much.

The bulk of the JCC swimmers have moved to either SAC or APSC. Coach Zhao is back in China. Do check out SAC at MGS Blackmore or APSC at ACS(I) or ACJC (I think).

Thk u for the info. My child is with a private competitive swimming coach and has made progress but I feel more can be done cos the coach can only offer once a week training for now which I feel is not sufficent. So now, im thinking of sending my child to SAC or APSC too.

We still want to stick with the current coach as my child has many friends there and enjoys the training sessions. Anyone knows whether is it possible to join 2 different swim schools?

Also besides SAC and APSC, r there any other competitive swim schools in the West I can consider?

Thk u vy much

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[swimironkids]

Parents why stop your kids swimming at Swimsafer Gold?

After that what happen 6months down e road all the strokes goes haywire.
You bring them to the pool to swim but 10 out of 10kids will end up playing and having fun instead of practicing their strokes
Why not sign them up for Semi Competitive or Competitive
My competitive training at Sengkang Swimming Complex every Wed7-830pm Thur6-730pm and Fri 8-9pm
If you can’t commit to a swim club requirements of minimum 3-5x a week
Check me out cos my Training are flexible day and time to suit their school load without yr commitments.
In my training I will correct your kids strokes and focus to improve their timing for competition and also assist them to getting into school via DSA program. ( requires 3-5x training)
Text me Coach Jeff at 93887383 if you re keen and I will give u more details for yr consideration
U can also find me at my Facebook Page , just do a search swimironkidz u can find more information there.
Of course I hv Learn to swim classes at Sengkang too just incase :imcool:

[summitdad]

Looking for a semi competitive program for my 6 year old around Serangoon. Any suggestions?

[swimironkids]

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[lag]

My son is 5 coming to 6 this year. He started learning swimming when he was 3. His current coach asked me last wknd if i am interested to try out competitive swimming for him.Obviously the coach see something in him that i dont…haaa


I am not prepared for his question at all. The thought of competitive swimming never cross my mind. I asked my boy. He is not keen for competitive. He says he sure will be the slowest so he doesnt want to compete.

Do you think i should push him a little and see if he can cope with more intensive lesson or just let him be…enjoying his once a week lesson?

My hub is not very keen… for very practical reason… my 5 yrs old boy looks like 4… he is very small sized… basically the whole family is small sized so the chances of him being tall/big is slim. He will loss out in size as he grow older…

Any suggestions?

[zac's mum]

lag:

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My hub is not very keen.. for very practical reason.. my 5 yrs old boy looks like 4.. he is very small sized.. basically the whole family is small sized so the chances of him being tall/big is slim. He will loss out in size as he grow older..

Any suggestions?

Same reason why we didn’t go down this route as well. Plus the kid himself didn’t want to.

If u read the story of Joseph Schooling, u would know that (i) the internal drive (want to) came from the kid himself. He was the one who woke the parents up at 4am and said take me to my lesson for training now! (ii) physically the kid needs to have an advantage. Eg JS was obviously suited from young to do sports. His mum said he started walking at 8 months old!!! (Normal strong, well-coordinated male babies reach this milestone at 10-11 months at the very earliest. Girl babies and late bloomers at 18 months old)