Swim Doctors camps are run under the technical control of experienced International coach Mark Perry and coach to National Age Group champions Jacquie Marshall.

 

We provide camps not only in the UK, but also regularly arrange warm weather camps abroad.  Swim Doctors training camps are designed to be informative, specific, fun packed and short and to the point.  Water work is skill and technique based.  IT IS NOT a training session. 

 

All our camps feature age specific and practical land work, including flexibility, which can be completed at home.

 

Swimmers will leave each camp with hard copy back up information sheets to reinforce learning.

 

At present, camps we are running concentrate on the following disciplines:

 

  

STARTS - for all four strokes.  Specific skills relevant to

butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle starts.

TURNS - for all four strokes. Specific skills relevant to butterfly,

backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle and individual medley

INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY swimming and RACE PACING skills

 

 

A typical Swim Doctors training camp will consist of the following timetable:

 

 

 

      SWIMMERS

  • Camp registration

  • Land Work

  • Theory

  • Pool Work

  • Theory recap/end

 

      COACHES

  • Camp registration

  • Land Work

  • Theory

  • Pool Work

  • Theory recap/end

 

      PARENTS

  • Camp registration

  • Watching Land Work

  • Theory

  • Watching Pool Work

  • Theory recap/end

 

Have you attended a SWIM DOCTORS training clinic?............If you have, we are interested in hearing from you.  Please click here for our clinic feedback form............Your views are a valuable source of information to us............THANK YOU!!

 

   

    Swim Doctors Objectives

  1. Swimmers will improve their skill levels during their time on the programme and increase their awareness as to the importance of constant and repeated work on skill development.

  1. Swimmers will learn to understand the concept of stroke efficiency and to develop means and methods by which it can be improved and measured.

  1. Swimmers will become more proficient, organised, dedicated and focused individuals

  

     

      Swim Doctors commitment to Skill

 

      We encourage the following skills at every camp no matter what the theme

  • Streamlining from starts and turns, including appropriate underwater phase

  • Push-off and Start depths (optimally two body depths)

  • Underwater Phase relevant to the four strokes from starts and turns

  • Range and amplitude of fly kick out of starts/walls

  • Final 5m and finishing

  • Breath control in Freestyle and Butterfly, particularly from starts and turns

  • Breakout timing and angles

 

 

 

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