Competitive Swimming Program
Bletchley and District Swim Club welcomes swimmers who would like to train and/or compete at swimming galas. We acknowledge that there are aspects of competitive swimming that might not appeal to all swimmers and we are quite happy for those swimmers to attend selected training sessions to continue improving their swimming ability and overall fitness.
The Coaches at Bletchley and District Swim Club provide a training programme that will encourage the swimmer to achieve their full potential, with emphasis on the refinement of technique in all four strokes, the development of competitive skills including starts and turns as well as the development of both basic aerobic swimming elements of endurance and speed swimming are integrated within the programme. Personal goals are used and encouraged and promote improvement of technique, fitness, endurance and times. Bletchley & District Swim Club also takes part in various open meets ranging from Novice through to County level swimming. All of our swimmers are encouraged to enter Open Meets under the guidance of our coaching staff to ensure they compete against swimmers of similar ability. All Competitive swimmers should keep their personal best times (PB's) up to date and this can be achieved through print outs from the club data base.
Our competitive squads are a natural progression on from the NATIONAL PLAN FOR TEACHING SWIMMING (NPTS) Level 7 – Pre-competition Development and focuses on the consolidation of effective stroke technique, racing skills and a suitable range of drills and practices.
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Competitive Squads Structure
Stormers
The first step from Learn to Swim into the competitive arena within the Club. Stormers are the swimmers new to squads, so have just moved up from widths, they swim one session a week on a Monday. This one hour session enables them to develop to a full hour of length swimming. They will have the chance to learn correct start and turns for all strokes whilst developing the strokes to a more advanced level.
Tornadoes
Seen as a progression from Stormers, more water time gives the
opportunity to work on more advanced techniques within the stroke and turns.
The increase distance covered each week will assist with stamina and aerobic
ability. Tornadoes train twice a week on either a Monday or Tuesday (7pm to
8pm, one only) and on Thursday 6:30pm to 7:30pm, those showing potential for
County times are also invited to attend a Saturday session once a month
(additional fee). This is to prepare them for readiness for the next squad.
Hurricanes
Train 3 sessions a week, Mon or Tues 7pm to 8.30pm, Thurs 7.30pm to 9pm and Saturday 8am to 9.30am. Greater water time meaning more distance but also further advancing the skills required to compete at a higher level involving aerobic and anaerobic fitness. Movement to this squad is on achieving 3 County Qualifying times. The aim for this squad is to compete fully in the County Championships in a variety of strokes and distances, but with some element of specialisation within the older age range.
Enigma
This is the top squad, and train Monday 8pm to 9:30pm, Tuesday 8pm
to 9pm, Thursday 7:30pm to 9:30pm and Saturday 8am - 9:30am
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Squad Training
All our competitive squad training takes place at:
Leon School & Sports College
Fern Grove
Bletchley
MK2 3HQ
Our competitive sessions run through out the year, except for the following times:
Public bank holidays
The Month of August
Two weeks at Christmas
Our sessions do not operate a on a term basis once you are a fully paid up member of the squad you are automatically entitled to continue to swim whilst you remain a fully paid up member.
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Training Fees
These are broken down into two parts a monthly fee and an Annual membership fee. The Annual membership fee covers registration to the Amateur Swimming Association for Insurance purposes.
The monthly fee for competitive squads are shown below:
Stormers - £14 per month
Tornadoes - £15 per month (additional £1.50 for a Saturday session)
Hurricanes - £17 per month
Enigma - £22 per month
Swim fit / adult - £14
The Annual Membership fee is due in January each year and cost £25 per Swimming member. We do have a family membership, details can be obtained from the membership secretary.
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Joining
If you require any additional information or wish to join please contact Chris our Membership Secretary who will only be too pleased to answer any questions or arrange a visit for you, so we can assess the swimmers ability if necessary, to ensure that we invited them to attend the correct session. Use the link below to contact the Membership Secretary:
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Club Records
The club runs an electronic data base which holds all the times achieved by our swimmers at competitions. This is used to record individual personal best times, monitoring improvements and recording club records.
Club records can be claimed by members in accordance with the following document:
Claiming Club Records Document
The links below show the club record holders for short or long course pools:
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