Dorking Swimming Club

Junior Development Silver

An ideal guideline age is 9+ years old

Technique and swimming skills

• Complete familiarity with the competition rules and regulations.
• Adding in endurance and speed training.
• Monitoring progression using test sets as part of the ongoing training programme.
• Building on technique and efficiency of strokes, starts, and turns.
• Begin to understand how to fully utilise the underwater starts and turns, e.g 3-4 fast powerful kicks off the start and turn.

Attendance

• Each week, we recommend attendance of all sessions to make as much progress as possible however by attending 3 out of 6 sessions a week you can still achieve a high level of progress.
• You are expected to attend Club Championships and begin to enter external open meets.

Attitude and approach to training

• Arrive to training at least 10 minutes prior to the start time.
• Complete the RMAP / stretching routine at training and competitions.
• Swimmers must show a positive attitude and discipline when around the pool environment.
• Swimmers must be responsible for their own hydration with a brief understanding of their nutrition.

Training capacity

• Begin to understand the fundamentals of training and how it impacts your competitive performance.
• Building on your ability to independently complete training sets, begin to complete slightly longer blocks of work, developing standards of technique and race skills throughout.

Lifestyle and training management

• Learn the process of goal setting and working towards objectives.
• Begin to consider how you’re training inside of the pool is affected by any actions outside of the pool environment, such as how you sleep and how you eat.
• Complete a logbook and reflect on past sessions.

Equipment expectations: All kit must be named

• Two pairs of goggles
• A Dorking hat
• Kickboard
• Short fins
• Pull-buoy
• Water bottle
• Snorkel
• Paddles

Please Note:

All swimmers that are Primary or Junior School age must have a responsible adult present for all training sessions, and the swimmer must know who they are if it's not the parent, in case of emergency.