Essential Skills To Get You Ahead In Your Swim
Having more than 20 years of experience in open water racing, we know that swimming in the pool with visible lanes is worlds apart from swimming in the ocean with so many uncertainties and challenges to grapple with. For the newbie swimmer or triathlete and the veteran alike, open water swimming requires very specific skill sets to ensure your own safety as well as getting the best out of your training on race day.
Why Attend Our Open Water Workshop
Being open water swimmers and triathletes ourselves, we completely understand the struggles and issues that swimmers commonly face. In our 4-hour workshop, we will address the following challenges:
Staying On Track
Unlike the pool, the sea has NO LINES!!! The lines in the pool helps us to swim STRAIGHT nicely from one end to another. In the sea, not only are there no lines, we have to deal with the choppiness and turbulence of this environment. Let’s face it, we are kind of swimming blind…so, how then can we swim straight or simply STAY ON TRACK?
In our workshop, we teach a technique that will help you swim straight towards your goal/destination. With this technique, you will never go OFF-Course and you won’t have to worry about having to swim back on-course when you do veer away from your intended destination.
Managing Fatigue
Swimming against currents, lifting your head to sight, completing the distance – all these multi-tasking is extremely energy-sapping and definitely not ideal for the triathlete who still has to tackle the bike and run segments of their race. We all want to hop on our bikes with fresh legs but how does one actually achieve it when your muscles are tired from kicking and your energy expended in pushing against waves and currents?
In this 4-hour workshop, we will impart to you the secret of SEAMLESS SIGHTING which combines sighting with your strokes. This way of sighting not only avoids interrupting your swim, you can even reduce the frequency and yet continue to stay on track! Also, learn how to draft effortlessly behind stronger swimmers and get the most out of every stroke!
Cope With Stress
There are many reasons why you will feel stress! Especially if it’s your first open water swim or the first few. Stress may come from too much contact, from swimming in a pack and not wanting to lag behind.
What we have observed is that most stress occurs at the beginning when everyone jumps in and starts splashing furiously. You may get all caught up because of the fear of being left behind.
We understand that all of us will want to complete the race within a RESPECTABLE TIME. In our open water workshop, we will share with you how to ‘insulate’ from stress’ and at the end of it, learn how to swim in a RELAX manner with others and ultimately ENJOY the race.
Some Other Important Skills We Will Be Covering:
Hear What Our Participants Have To Say
We could have chosen to impart these techniques in a pool where we could deal with lesser stability. However, for the benefit of our students, we want to make our sessions PRACTICAL. Thus, we will be conducting our workshops at the sea; Tanjong Beach, Sentosa. Participants can therefore test/practice their new learnt techniques in the environment where they would be racing.
Yes, it’s quite a bit of learning. Do you NEED to pay an ARM and A LEG?
Well…the answer is NO. WHY?
This is because, we believe in bringing out an athlete’s best potential by training with the right techniques and we want to encourage more swimmers to join or improve their open water swims.
We are therefore offering participants an AFFORDABLE fee of S$188 for 4 hours. This fee includes a FREE floatation buoy worth SGD50. (Please note that freebies are not exchangeable for cash)
The tendency may be to wait closer to your race date to sign up. Well…we would say, DON’T.
Rather, SIGN UP NOW so that you can have more time in between to PRACTICE what you’ve learnt!
Join Our Open Water Workshop Now!
Upcoming Open Water Workshop Dates
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21 March 2020, Saturday – 8.30 am – 12.30 pm, Sentosa Tanjong Beach
18 April 2020, Saturday – 8.30 am – 12.30 pm, Sentosa Tanjong Beach
6 June 2020, Saturday – 8 am – 12 pm, Sentosa Tanjong Beach
18 July 2020, Saturday – 8 am – 12 pm, Sentosa Tanjong Beach
15 August 2020, Saturday – 8 am – 12 pm, Sentosa Tanjong Beach
19 September 2020, Saturday – 8 am – 12 pm, Sentosa Tanjong Beach
24 October 2020, Saturday – 8 am – 12 pm, Sentosa Tanjong Beach
28 November 2020, Saturday – 8 am – 12 pm, Sentosa Tanjong Beach
5 December 2020, Saturday – 8 am – 12 pm, Sentosa Tanjong Beach