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Continuing in a Tradition of Excellence in a Positive and Confidence Building Environment |
March 30 , 2006. - - - - By: Coach Mark
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March 30 , 2006. - - - - By: Coach Mark |
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Greetings
In
This Weekly Update:
1. WAVE BREAKING
NEWS
2. FRIDAY
FOCUS
2. MVN MASTERS
NATIONAL QUALIFIERS
3. USMS SCY
NATIONALS
4. SPMA SCY
CHAMPIONSHIPS
5. HOW TO WIN A CHAMPIONSHIP
MEET
6. MORE FREESTYLE
TIPS
7. WORDS FROM
COACH
Current workout
schedule: http://mastersmvnswim.org/workouts.htm
Current meet schedule:
http://mastersmvnswim.org/MeetShedule.htm
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Wave
Breaking Team News Meet
Entry Due Dates UCLA – Saturday,
March 30 USMS SCY Nationals
– Thursday, April 6 SPMA Champs/Santa
Clarita – Monday, April 10 FINA World
Championships– Saturday, June 3 Workout Times
Changes Saturday, April 8
– (6:00-7:00 AM) Sunday, April 16 -
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Friday
Workout Focus
Starting this Friday
will be workout on STARTS and TURNS. For those swimmers wishing only to
swim a workout – I will have you for you too. All workouts: 5,6,9,12
will have the option to workout or practice starts and
turns.
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2006
SCY National Qualifiers
The
following swimmers achieved NQTs at the meet last
Sunday.
Congratulations!
Keep up the good work!
Women
35-39
Jennifer Batcheller
50 free – 27.69
Women 50-54
Gwen
Uthus
200 free – 2:29.07
Men 30-34
Andy Villarete
50
Back – 27.12
Men 35-39
50 free – 22.71
100 free - 49.66
50 back –
28.59
Nick Theders
100 back – 1:01.64
50 fly – 26.53
Men
45-49
Steve Willment
100 free – 54.77
200 free – 2:00.31
Ken Hoffman
100 free – 11:45.51
400 IM – 5:08.86
50 fly –
26.25
Complete
Meet Results http://www.spma.net/meetresults2006/2006_MVN_SCYresult.htm
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Short
Course Nationals On-Line Entry Available
As you already know,
I hope you decide to
attend this fun, fast meet in
Here is a copy of the official meet information as of 01/09/2006.
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2006
SPMA Regional SCY Championship
April 21-24 – Santa
Clarita
Deadline to enter –
April 10
Entries: Flat fee of
$40.00 if postmarked before Monday, April 10th. Add a $10.00 late fee for all
entries postmarked after Monday,
April 10th. All entries must be
received by 6:00 p.m. Friday,
April 14. No individual deck entries are allowed. Relay only swimmers may enter
for a $10.00 fee and must sign a consolidated entry card. Swimmers are limited
to entering a total of eight individual events for the entire meet and no more
than five individual events per day. There is no limit on relays, but swimmers
may swim only one relay (men, women, or mixed) per
event.
Meet
Information:
http://www.spma.net/meetforms/Santa%20Clarita%20Masters%20SCY%20Regional%20Championships.htm
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Words
from Coach-
How
We Can Win a Championship Meet
If I had a dollar for
every time a swimmer told me they wouldn’t compete because they "would be too
slow" or "I’d hurt the team," I’d be a very wealthy man. Well, maybe not
wealthy, but I could buy a few donut shops with
it.
This isn’t the
Olympics, guys. Contrary to what many believe, the fast swimmers don’t win
Championship Meets, everybody else wins them. Don’t get me wrong, we benefit
from our speed merchants, but they don’t help us a lot more than any other
swimmer. Give me 80 mediocre swimmers willing to swim a lot of individual events
and a lot of relays and no one in
Every team at any
meet in Southern Pacific Masters will have fast and motivated swimmers. But are
they a team? That’s where we stand out. We’ve got
depth and we value all our swimmers. We’re
as happy when any of our swimmers gets a personal best as we are when one of our
"rockets" wins their age group or notches a Top Ten
time.
We’re absolutely
beside ourselves when a first-time competitor hits the water for their first
race. No matter who you are you’ve done the same work as everyone else every
time you come to practice. You’ve earned the right to swim fast at a meet. It’s
your reward for all the hard work. Don’t cheat
yourself out of one of the biggest pleasures of
swimming.
"Okay, I’m willing to
go, but I don’t think I can swim a lot of events." Think of it this way:
At the SPMA Championship Meet, it is far better to have been beaten twice than
to have won once. Philosophy to live by: “Swim as slow as you want,
just do it often.” Here a little secret many Masters Swimmers
share: they have a habit of only caring about one or two of the many races
they swim. They just get through the others and hope to score points. And no
matter what they think while there’re in the middle of a race, almost nobody
will know if they swim badly. On the contrary, a
Masters crowd usually recognizes effort more than
speed.
At most meets don’t
expect to swim stellar times. Every time swimmers get disappointed in their
placing, they looked at the results to see what it would have taken to move up
just one place in their age group. Often they would have had to swim
lifetime bests by a big margin to score any more points. So rather than worry
about it, take your points and keep on swimming…and scoring. Another cheap
point-scoring strategy I’ve seen used for a couple of years is to enter the 1000
or 1650 on the first/last night. "That’s crazy," you say? Not so, many swimmers
use it as their warm-up or cool-down, which would be nearly as long anyway, and
score points for it! Last time I checked, no one was awarding points at
the cool-down pool.
Look at it this way;
we’ve got a chance…IF we get as many people they’re as possible. We’ve got
a chance…IF everyone who goes swims 7-10 individual events along with the relays
the coaches place them in.
I'll be honest with
you, winning is not such a long shot for us. But that really doesn't
matter and never did.
We’ve done well in
years we didn't expect to, and won in years we did. It didn't make any
difference.
Win or lose, the real joy
was that we put forth a strong team effort.
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Freestyle
Tips
Breathing, Reaching and
Pausing
Remember to exhale
almost immediately, with out a lot of force and not fully. Hum your
air out and leave a little in your tank. Try not to “suck and tuck” your
air- this will cause you to need more air!
Don’t wait until you are
turning your head to get your next breath to exhale, as you will not have enough
time to get your next breath.
“Extend” your forearm
forward and reach out, keeping your hand/arm at a slight downward angle to avoid
“dropped elbows”.
(But slightly wider than
your shoulders.)
Think about pressing
your armpit down and attempt to place your hands slightly wider than your
shoulders. Reach wide, but toward the end of the
pool.
The hard part is NOT to
let your hand cross over in front of your head (your centerline). Reaching
across feels like reaching forward in the water, however this will cause you to
zigzag down the pool.
Be aware that when you
breathe, your arm/hand will tend to want to drift toward the centerline as you
turn your head back toward the bottom. With this arm, you may need to
over-emphasize a even wider entry, and may even feel like you are swimming
lopsided.
After your hand enters
the water there should be a slight pause, (while you reach) before you
initiating the pull.
You may think that you
are slowing down since you are gliding and pulling right away, you are actually
still moving forward at this point.
This will allow you to
lower your stroke rate, increase efficiency, lengthen out your body, and allow
the bubbles from the surface to escape your hand and arm before you begin your
pull.
The pause will
eventually shorten when your tempo and speed increases.
GOOD
LUCK!
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Words
from Coach Mark-
"Be
not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and
swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an
advanced experience, that shall explain and overlook the
old."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson (a
well known swimmer!)
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