Understanding that this is a masters' forum, I am directing this inquiry to those of you who also have children swimmers.
Can you recommend a good technique-based summer swim camp in the midwest (IN, IL, OH, MI, KY) that you have had personal experience with? Would like to get H.S. sophomore swimmer into an environment where technique (vs. gabillion yard training) is the core of instruction. Interested in all information.
Thanks.
Parents
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Last summer, Total Immersion ran a 1-week swimming camp for kids at Kenyon College in Gambier,OH (the week of July 6-11). They haven't announced their camp schedule yet for 2004, but I'm guessing that they may run another camp in that area. Watch their website (http://www.totalimmersion.net) to get the 2004 schedule when it is posted.
At most swim team practices I've seen, it's unusual to have more than 1 coach for every 2 lanes of kids. But at the Total Immersion camp I saw, they had 10 coaches working with 6 lanes of kids. They do underwater videotaping of the kids doing 100 I.M at the beginning and end of the camp (each kid brings their own videotape, which they take with them at the end), and they do an individual analysis of each taping.
Bob
Last summer, Total Immersion ran a 1-week swimming camp for kids at Kenyon College in Gambier,OH (the week of July 6-11). They haven't announced their camp schedule yet for 2004, but I'm guessing that they may run another camp in that area. Watch their website (http://www.totalimmersion.net) to get the 2004 schedule when it is posted.
At most swim team practices I've seen, it's unusual to have more than 1 coach for every 2 lanes of kids. But at the Total Immersion camp I saw, they had 10 coaches working with 6 lanes of kids. They do underwater videotaping of the kids doing 100 I.M at the beginning and end of the camp (each kid brings their own videotape, which they take with them at the end), and they do an individual analysis of each taping.
Bob
