Swim Clinic 2010

2nd Annual
USAT SWIM COACHING CLINIC
Approved for 10 USAT CECs
March 6-7, 2010
Sat 8am-6pm, Sun 8am-3pm

DESCRIPTION
This is a workshop designed for triathlon coaches who want to be better swim coaches for their athletes and teams. You can expect to finish the weekend measurably more able to improve an individual’s race swim times. This will be accomplished by you working one on one with amateur swimmers who are at the workshop for the opportunity to be coached. You’ll be assisted on deck by top swimmers and swim coaches in evaluating form and creating a plan of action. You’ll learn how the freestyle stroke works technically and how to create workouts that enable more powerful swimming. There will be presentations by coaches who work with triathletes every day in the water at all race distances. For those of you new to coaching teams, you will have the opportunity to see a coached swim practice and will learn how it was designed and led. If you’re looking to grow your business around the pool, there will be time spent working through a plan to do that.

REGISTRATION
Please use Paypal, www.paypal.com
Set up an account and send your payment for $329.00 to johnj@netstep.net
This will save a large active.com fee as well as time managing the listing on that site. Thanks.
Call me at 917-686-8783 or send an email to john@racedaycoaching.com with any questions.

REVIEWS FROM PAST CLINICS
"Thank you so much. I really learned so much. On Monday, I had 35 people in the pool practicing posture. They loved it! and told me they really liked the drills and felt that it made a difference."
"Video analysis was awesome. I've never used it before but the feedback I got back from the swimmers on the second day was pretty amazing after seeing themselves swim."
"I recommended your class to my TNT coaches."

"The best tool was the opportunity to coach real athletes on deck… That hands-on approach gives the academic work a practical context in which learning becomes training, which results in growth in coaching ability."
"I loved your technology and would love to get tips on how to incorporate and organize that in my current coaching. Not just video but how you organize it on youtube. That board you guys wrote on, loved it!"

"Specific teaching tools I found helpful were the demonstrations of stroke mechanics and their relation to the physics of hydrodynamics. For me, I learn well visually and I like to have the question "how/why does it work?" answered, which your approach did."
"The only coach who explained a sport better than you explain swimming, was Bobby McGee."

"I definitely worked on more 2 word coaching today at NYU. I didn't realize that I wasn't paying attention to the team as a whole. I was able to reach more people today.”
"I thoroughly enjoyed the coach clinic and I really appreciate to have been included in it in the first place. You guys did an impressive job with both organization and choosing materials.”

SUBJECTS COVERED

* Designing Programs and Workouts for Teams and Individuals (from Beginner to Expert)

* 3hrs Poolside Coaching Individuals and Groups

* How Freestyle Works and Ways to Teach It

* Crucial Drills / Progressions and Ways to Teach Them

* Anatomy of a Lesson

* Video Analysis Techniques

MEET OUR COACHES

Quinn Baker

Quinn completed his Master’s in Sport & Exercise Management at Ohio State University, and worked for both Columbus School for Girls and the Greater Columbus Swim Team of Ohio as swim coach. As an undergraduate at Seattle University, Quinn was a four year letter winner for swimming and two years for diving, being part of a National Championship swim team in his Junior Year. He also worked with Swim Seattle during his time as the Pool Manager at Seattle University. Quinn is currently a Lower School Swimming and Physical Education Teacher at The Berkeley Carroll School in Brooklyn, NY. Baker recently relocated from Reno, Nevada where he was the Director of Athletics and Health & Safety at Sage Ridge School, an independent 5-12 school. Throughout that time, Quinn also spent time coaching the first competitive swim group for Reno Aquatic Club.

Rebecca Richards

Rebecca is currently an Assistant Swim Coach at Wagner College. In 2008-09 Rebecca was an assistant coach for the Hamilton College swimming and diving teams. Richards worked at swim camps at Auburn University and Harvard University in 2008. She served as a temporary head coach for a large international swim program at the Patana School in Bangkok, Thailand, in 2007. Richards, who hails from England, attended the University of Wales Institute from 2004 to 2007. In 2008, she was a world triathlon championship qualifier for her 20- to 24-year-old age group. She was on scholarship to the sports academy Millfield School, UK - national swimming '02-'04, and was a Britain Young Persons Coaching Award winner in '05. Rebecca received her BS Degree in Sports Science and Coaching.

John Stewart

John is a USAT Level II Certified Coach and has a BS in Electrical Engineering. He has been the head swim coach for JackRabbit Sports in Brooklyn, NY, since it opened in 2004 and has taught more than ninety 12-week courses for beginning, intermediate, and advanced swimmers. John is the head masters swim coach for the Berkeley Carroll School in Brooklyn, NY, and has led daily workouts since creating the program in 2005. He has been the head triathlon coach for Team-In-Training in Brooklyn the past five years. Since he changed careers in 2003 to work full time in triathlon he has taught more than 500 one-on-one swim sessions. For the past four tri seasons, he has led open water swim workshops each month at Brighton Beach. As a coach for the Brooklyn Tri Club, John has helped organize and coach three training camps the past two seasons and has led weekly brick workouts for the past three years. John has competed in triathlon at a wide range of distances from Sprint to Ironman.

HOTEL OPTIONS
Note: The host and all recommended hotels have wireless internet access in all rooms. All prices are per night.

HOST HOTEL
Holiday Inn Express Brooklyn, $139, 625 Union St btw 3/4 Aves, Brooklyn
They are holding a block of rooms until 2/19/2010, after which they will be released.
Call 866-401-0553 and reference "USAT Swim Coaching Clinic" on March 6-7, 2010.
This hotel is only three blocks from the pool. Holiday Inn has done a re-launch and they have completely updated all the rooms.
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OTHER RECOMMENDED HOTELS
I have visited them all and the rooms are nice. They are in good, safe neighborhoods, jogging/walking distance or one or two subway stops away. Prices are approximate based on travel sites. The 866 number is for hotels.com - they advertised or quoted the listed rates.

Hotel Le Bleu, $207 (their online rate), 370 Fourth Ave @ 5^th St, 866-539-0036 – new (1yr) boutique hotel
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Days Inn Brooklyn, $79, 437 39th Street @ 4^th Ave, Brooklyn, 866-539-0036
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Nu hotel Brooklyn, $199, 85 Smith St, Brooklyn, NY, 11201, 347-227-4800 – boutique hotel, "eco-friendly"
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Marriott NYC Brooklyn Bridge, $249, 333 Adams St, Brooklyn, NY, 11201, 866-539-0036 – flagship Brooklyn hotel, indoor pool if you haven’t had enough in class :-)
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(The Wall St Inn is in lower Manhattan)
The Wall Street Inn, $173, 9 S William St, New York, NY, 10004, 866-539-0036
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DO NOT STAY (all are in Brooklyn)
Howard Johnson, 599 Utica Ave – bad area, far from subways
Atlantic Inn, 1768 Atlantic Ave – bad area
Sleep Inn Brooklyn, 247 49th Street, Brooklyn– bad area
Quality Inn Brooklyn, 2473 Atlantic Ave – too far away, bad area
Red Carpet Inn New York City, 980 Wyckoff Ave – too far away, bad area
Hotel Le Jolie, 235 Meeker Ave – nice, but far away on Met Ave in Williamsburg