Age Group Development Squad 1 & 2

Monday, 17 January 2011

Yorkshire Entries

Please remember to enter the Yorkshire's tonight for all the events you have qualified for. If you are chasing a time in the 200's at the Development Gala on Sunday and achieve the qualifying time, enter this on a separate sheet to the one you are handing in tonight and take it to the timing suite at the end of the balcony after the race on Sunday. No entries for Yorkshire's will be taken on Monday of next week.

Wednesday, 12 January 2011

Development Meet New Event Order and NER Times

The order of events for the development meet have now changed to the following...

G 200m Br
G 50m Br
B 200m Bk
B 50m Bk
G 200m Fly
G 50m Fly
B 200m Fly
B 50m Fly
G 200m Bk
G 50m Bk
B 200m Br
B 50m Br
G 200m Fs
G 50m Fs
B 200m Fs
B 50m Fs

And the new NER times for both of this years meets are now online too, under the Qualifying times section to the right.

Ryan.

C Central's New Year Resolutions & Targets

Here are all the targets you made for this year. We will look back later in the year to see if you have achieved them.

Hannah W

•To not look for the wall on Backstroke

•To have high elbows on Frontcrawl

Shaheen

•Not breath on first stroke out of turns on Frontcrawl

•Speed Up

Oliver

•To do 6 fly kicks off every start and turn

•To get better at fly

Amelia

•Get North Eastern time in 100m Back or any stroke

•Get better at Breastroke

•Get a Yorkshire medal

Matthew B

•Not to look for wall on Backtroke on turns and finishes

William

•Improve Breastroke

•Silent swimming

•Get changed in time for mum after training

Abigail J

•Keep head down on Fly

•Improve on all 4 strokes

John

•To get faster at Butterfly

•Not give up on IM sets

Leah

•Improve 50m Breastroke time

•Always get to flags when coming out of turns

Masie

•Always get timing correct on Breastroke

•Drink more water during the training session

Jake

•Cup hands on Frontcrawl

•Always get to the flags on starts and turns

Layla

•To get a North Eastern time in Freestyle

•To get a National in Breastroke

Huzayfa

•Always breath every 2 strokes on Butterfly

•To get all my North Eastern times

Euan

•To always get past the flags on every stroke

•Continue swimming well in Galas

Phebe

•Get more 12 year old North Eastern times

•Improve my Butterfly

Anna

•Drink more water during the session

•Always try my best

Aimee

•Get better at Fly

•To get past the flags on starts and turns

Brannon

•Not to look for the wall on Backstroke

•Not to breath in the last 5 metres

Billy

•Not to look for the wall on Backstroke

•Keep my head still

Abigail B

•Not to look for the wall on my Backstroke turn

•To try 100% on kick and fly sets

Ellie

•To get better at Fly and Breastroke

Matthew L

•To do at least 6 dolphin kicks on turns and push offs

•Not to breath on first stroke out of turns

James

•Get better at kick

•Get a North Eastern Time

Liam

•To PB on 50m Fly

•To not breath on my first stoke out of turns

Emily B

•To work on underwater breath holding

•Do more leg kicks off the wall

Thomas

•Improve Butterfly technique

•Always push off streamlined

Amber

•To kick more on Backstroke and Frontcrawl

•To never ever get DQ'd in a Breastroke race ever again

Emily R

•Get better at Breastroke

•To get North Easterns

Kit

•Concentrate on keeping my head still

•Get better at Fly

Jacob

•Kick my legs faster on Backstroke

•Lower head on Frontcrawl

Remember everything in training should be practised perfectly. Every start and turn should be practised as a race turn. Practising something bad will only make you be brilliant at doing something bad.

Good look in achieving your targets

Kevin

Tuesday, 11 January 2011

Speed Awards and Newsletter Sections

I have added 2 new sections to the right, ASA Competitive Swimming Performance Awards and Newsletter Archive.

Information about the post below is now in the ASA performance awards section.
Any newsletters that the COL/Swim office produce will be electronically archived in Newsletter Archive. The one handed out last night is online.

Ryan.

NEW SPEED AWARDS!

The City of Leeds are launching the ASA Competitive Swimming Performance Awards. The awards will be available from the Development Meet on 23rd January 2011.

The ASA Competitive Swimming Performance Awards are time based awards. The times for the awards are consistent with the ASA Graded Swimming Times and the Gold Standards approximate to average county age group qualifying times for 12 year old boys. When this level is reached there is a good chance that these swimmers would qualify at county level.

The awards are aimed at the younger swimmers in particular, although all swimmers on the scheme can achieve them regardless of age. We have introduced the awards as a progressive incentive to the swimmers to ultimately achieve their County Championship standards. The awards will be available to the swimmers at the Development Meets in particular, but they can be achieved by competing at any meet in our calendar throughout the season.

Please click on the 2 links under speeds awards to the right for an information booklet about the awards and the times standards to be achieved. (This will be uploaded on the blog in the next couple of days)

Kevin

Friday, 7 January 2011

Yet another article in the Media....

Breeze Leeds Article

Ryan

Fame Again....

From Leeds Weekly News, and other free Papers I do Believe....
(Click Image to enlarge)

Ryan

COL Hit the News....

Hello Everyone.

We have made the news again! Click the link below to see the BBC Article on last years success.

BBC Article

It is fantastic to see all our hard work recognised. It was in the Leeds Weekly News too, I will scan in and upload a copy soon.

If you have seen this covered anywhere else please let me know so I can share it with everyone.

Cheers,

Ryan.

Wednesday, 5 January 2011

Blog Update

Hello,

Right I won't give you all the details but basically because Google has stopped a service, I have spent 4 hours today transferring all the files on the blog to a new file host. I expect us to have some issues, like file links to the wrong files etc, because its an awful job. So please let me know if you find any errors. This does not effect you in any way, apart from the slight change to the way you view files. If you have any problems let me know.

Finally after sitting on my desktop for 6 months my Coaches Profile is now on-line to the right for you to have a read.

Yours,

Ryan.

Monday, 3 January 2011

Christmas, New Year.

Hello Everyone,

First of all we would like to say that we hope you had a fantastic and safe Christmas and New year, and that Santa brought you everything you wanted.

Also, me and Kevin would like to say a massive thank you to you all for the presents and cards we received.

Lastly, a reminder that we are back to training this Wednesday, and Thursday AM is on this week as far as we understand. Like to see you all fighting fit and ready to continue to work hard and really progress in 2011, just like in 2010.

Yours,

Ryan and Kevin.

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Quote Bank!

"Kevin!, On the whole I think C Central have swum absolutely fantastic this year". Jacob Butterfield - C Central.

"Winners are not people who never fail, but people who never quit"

"I wouldn't say anything is impossible. I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and put the work and time into it". Michael Phelps.

"Train insane, or remain the same".

"Dream. Believe. Achieve".

"You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get". Michael Phelps.

"I can definitely take more off my world record - a lot more. I have no doubt about that. I'm by no means putting pressure on myself, it's just the belief I have in myself ..... I'm not going to limit myself by nominating times or anything like that. I never thought I'd do 14:34 and I did. I thought I'd maybe do 14:38 or 14:39 that day, and I went nearly five seconds quicker so I don't want to limit the possibilities". Grant Hackett.

"In training everyone focuses on 90% physical and 10% mental, but in the races it's 90% mental because there's very little that seperates us physically at the elite level". Elka Graham.

"The hardest thing about climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom".

"We need to create a way of working, and that's why I felt the need to set some rules. For example, we will all eat together, leave the table together - it is all about respecting each other. And being punctual is key". Fabio Capello.

"Unleash the Inner Beast!".

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing". Muhammad Ali.

"Many people say you are as only good as your last race, but we know we are only as good as our next race!".

"It was not the 10 work outs I did every week for four years that allowed me to overcome my competitors, it was the ones that they missed". Graeme Smith (1996).

"It's how you prepare months before in the training pool that will determine your performance at the main event. Your ruthless attendance, quality and consistency of your training will serge you forward to a result you will be happy with!"

"Winning the Gold Medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career, mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience". Frank Shorter (American Athlete, Olympic Gold Medalist) (Munich 1972).

"Go into the sport because you have fun doing it, not because of 'what if's' and dreams of gold medals. That way, no matter what happens, you win". Shannon Miller (American Gymnast, two time Olympic Gold Medalist) (Atlanta 1996).

"As the years go by I train physically harder and I am always trying to go faster, further and higher. I train seven days a week and at the end of the day, I'm pretty tired but I never wish I was anyone else. If I miss a days training I feel guilty and I know I should have done it. I'm conscientious and unless I have a very good reason to, I never miss a session. It seems unfair to train for years and miss days just for the hell of it, and if I ever start to skip days, I would realise my attitude was not right and it was time for me to finish". Olympic Champion.

"Have a clear goal in your head of where you want to be and never give up!".

"Remember what doesn't challenge you, doesn't change you!"

"Not a day goes past where I don't go to bed with aching limbs ..... I have lost friends over it ..... I have lost girlfriends because of it ..... My family hates it ..... The only person that understands it wants to beat me ..... But I love it more than anything in the world!"

"Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning". Robert Kiyosaki.

'Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday'. William Rudolph (American Athlete, three-time Olympic Gold medalist) (Rome 1960).

"It's been told that swimming is a wimp sport, but I don't see it. We don't get timeouts in the middle of a race; we can's stop and catch our breath; and we can't ask for a substitution".

"We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think we can".

"In 2004 , I won a bronze. This is a silver. Maybe in 2012, it will be a gold. Slowly, slowly". Eliud Kipchoge (Kenyan Athelete, Olympic silver medalist) (Beijing 2008).

"I came out here to beat everybody in sight and that is exactly what I'm going to do. Sure, I can do anything". Mildred 'Babe' Didrikson (American Athlete, two-time Olympic gold medalist) (Los Angeles 1932).

"Before the (Olympic) trials I was doing a lot of relaxing exercises and visualisation. And I think that that helped me to get a feel of what it was going to be like when I got there. I knew that I had done everything that I could to get ready for that meet, both physically and mentally". Michael Phelps. (6 Gold Medals, 2004 Olympic Games).

"Success comes with determination to get up the morning after the hardest practice of your life and do it all over again!"

"There is nothing like the smell of chlorine in the morning, and nothing like the smell of victory in the evening"

"Enjoy the journey, enjoy every moment and quit worrying bout winning and losing". Matt Biondi. (American Swimmer, eight-time Olympic Gold Medalist, Los Angeles 1984, Seoul 1988, Barcelona 1992).

"You only get one shot, go out there and do your best". Chad le Clos (200m Butterfly Champion).

"No negative thoughts cross my mind on race day. When I look into their eyes, I know I'm going to beat them". Danny Harris. (American Athlete, Olympic Silver Medallist. Los Angeles 1984).

"When I go out and race, I'm not trying to beat opponents, I'm trying to beat what I have done ... to beat myself, basically. People find that hard to believe because we've had such a bias to always strive to win things. If you win something and you haven't put everything into it, you haven't actually achieved anything at all. When you've had to work hard for something and you've got the best you can out of yourself on that given day, that's where you get satisfaction from". Ian Thorpe.

"I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let other swimmers think about me, not me about them". Amanda Beard.

"An athlete cannot race with money in his pockets. He must race with hope in his heart and dreams in his head". Emil Zatopek. (Four Time Olympic Gold Medallist).

"If you win something and you haven't put everything into it, you haven't actually achieved anything at all. When you've had to work for something and you've got the best you can out of yourself on that given day, that's where you get satisfaction from". Ian Thorpe. (Australian swimmer, five-time Olympic gold medallist. Sydney 2000, Athens 2004).

"No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, show up and never give up!".

"Push harder than yesterday if you want a different tomorrow".

"Champions train, losers complain".

"Success isn't overnight. It's when everyday you get a little better than the day before. It all adds up." Dwayne Johnson.

"Life is full of disappointments, failures and setbacks. None of those things can permanently stop you. You have the power to overcome anything that life throws at you. There is nothing as powerful as a made up mind. Surround yourself with people who remind you that you matter, and support you in the ways that matter most to you. No person, situation, or circumstance can define who you are. Don't give up. cave in, or stop believing that it's possible. It's not over until you win."