383 [PGBSC Blog] Purdy’s Christmas Order

The Purdy's shipment arrived yesterday but a few of the boxes were damaged in transport.  Replacement stock for all the damaged items has been re-ordered and is expected to arrive next Tuesday.  If all goes well orders can be picked up starting on Wednesday, Dec 5th.  I will send out another blog announcement of the dates and times for order pick-up at the pool once I received the replacements.

Purdy's apologizes for the delay and has donated a gift basket to PGBSC for a fundraising raffle.

Cathie Godden

 

382 [PGBSC Blog] D3, D2C and D2AB Xmas time trial Sat Dec 8

Hi Everyone.

 

This email is for all kids registered in D3, D2C and D2AB groups. 

 

Yesterday and today forms are being passed out asking for your childs' participation in next weekends' Xmas time trial.  Please hand in your form by Monday Dec 3 to either myself or Teri.

 

Thanks,

 

Jason

381 [PGBSC Blog] AGM tomorrow

Reminder: The Prince George Barracudas Annual General Meeting will be held tomorrow, Saturday November 24^th at 10:00 am in the Northwood Room at the Prince George Aquatic Center.

 

Positions up for election include: Vice President, Director of Officials. Written nominations for the above positions will be accepted until Friday November 23, 2012. Please forward your nominations to PGBSC secretary at:

secretary@pgbsc.org

380 [PGBSC Blog] Fw: a little information about underwater kicking

Dr. Allan Wrigley has shared some thoughts about underwater kicking. He believes that we need to re-think the premise behind underwater kicking off the wall. Pushing off the wall is faster than kicking. The first thing to do then is glide after the push. You won't get any faster than the initial push off the wall, hence the reason for a proper pushing position and excellent streamlining. The underlying premise or reason for doing the kick is to maintain the speed of the push-off. The kick does not increase your speed, it keeps you from slowing down as much than by not kicking. When you start to kick you break streamline and create resistance, beginning the process of slowing down. Therefore it is better to kick later in the glide off than wall than to begin kicking right away.

Dolphin or fish kicking should be used as it creates less drag than flutter kick. You lose less speed. As well, under certain circumstances kicking on your side (fish kick) has been shown to be faster than kicking on your stomach. Here, Allan cites a French study (Why have swimmers neglected the "fish kick" technique?Collard, Luc; Auvray, Emmanuel; Bellaunay, Ivan, International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport Nov2008, Vol. 8 Issue 3, p18) they did with their backstroke and butterfly specialists. Over 15m and at no deeper than 1m below the surface, the swimmers were significantly faster kicking on their side than on their stomach, despite the lack of training in this technique. Make sure that you kick only on your side or on your stomach not while you are transitioning from side to front or back.

Speed of kicking is paramount. First, reduce drag by having a smaller kick. The kick should remain the same size. Kicking speed can be measured through kick rate. Rein Haljund, the Estonian stroke specialist looks for a rate of 75 double kicks per minute. You can measure from the top of one kick through 2 complete kicks. This is an area where we can see a large improvement. Swimmers are often doing dolphin kick off the wall but the rate is not high enough.

Dr. Wrigley also suggests that on the downbeat of the kick don't bend your knees till later and push the water back with the feet, not down. An analogy would be a soccer kick. He also believes we need to increase the amount of kicking in the streamline position. We should decrease the amount of board kick and use smaller boards when we do.

379 [PGBSC Blog] Fw: Megan Wright Barracuda Hoodie and T-Shirt - LOST

 

As discussed at the pool last night, this is a reminder email to you.  Megan's  Barracuda Hoodie was misplaced on Saturday while at the swim meet. Her name " MEGZZ" is on the sleeve.  Also, on Sunday,her orange T-shirt was taken and I assume that it was mistaken for another as a youth small was left back in the location of where hers was placed.  Megan has taken pride in these Barracuda possessions and I am asking if you could post a notice out to the parents and members of the Barracuda's and other swim clubs involved in the meet.  We are willing to pay the shipping costs.

 

Thank you,

Jennifer Wright

250 964 0374

kbwforestry@telus.net

 

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I wanted to send a great BIG thank you to all of you who donated food and your time to help make this meet a huge success.  I could not have done it without you. So, thank you very much and I look forward to working with you again at our next meet in April.

Kris Lewington

377 [PGBSC Blog] Special thanks

Hi all

Thanks to everyone for participating and volunteering for the meet this past weekend. I really appreciate it, and it was a fantastic effort from everyone . Special thanks to Andy Godden for spending so much time in the computer room! Also, thanks to Niki Korolek for preparing and running the meet so smoothly. The officials worked very hard, the food was great, and thanks to the parents for organizing and motivating the kids! There were so many great results. We have even more swimmers qualified for AAs, AAAs, and Western National Championships. Many of the swims are the best in Canada for their age group! Thanks to the coaches and swimmers for the great work.

 

Jerzy