Young swimmers are at the heart of our club, but it’s the parents behind them that makes us a club. The journey our young children go on also involves us parents. This may initially be in taking them to their sessions and latter on to competitions. But it can be much more.
From helping at competitions and committee roles, to competing themselves at Water Polo, masters swim open meets and Triathlon Events.
As a member of the Triathlon section of the club id like to explain why what we do is possibly for you.
Let’s start with the name TRIATHLON what is it?
Triathlon in its main format is swimming followed by Cycling followed by running. We also have Aquathlon (swim then run), Aquabike (swim then cycle), Duathlon (run then bike then run).
At Sandwell Aquatics – Triathlon Section, you can join us at just swimming or just cycling, or all.
Triathlon swimming is generally about swimming distance rather than sprinting.
The further you swim the more important efficient good technique is. In our Wednesday technical sessions, we focus mainly on Front Crawl although we do a little with all 4 strokes for most of the year. With the last 6 sessions of the year focus instead on learning/improving Backstroke, Breaststroke, Butterfly.
The Wednesday Triathlon session takes place at Tipton Leisure centre from 8.30-9.30pm. This is a fully coached session following a 48 week plan.
We hire the whole pool so 6 lanes to ourselves and no public around. Relatively private and allowing us to regularly use video feedback that swimmers can keep. This also means we can have a larger mixed ability range and as such we accept adults who can swim at least 1 length (25m) any stroke, through to the top club swimmers. Tipton Leisure centre is certainly one of the nicest facilities around with ample parking spaces, great showers and changing rooms as well as a fantastic 6 lane 25m pool.
Swim Session
As said at the start of this article, this session, for many reasons, is ideal for parents who want to improve their swimming skills.
Costs:
Annual membership fee of £20 (paid January each year).
Monthly swim fee of £23 paid 1st of each month
Wednesdays 8.30-9.30pm (roads clear at this time)
Tipton Leisure Centre, Alexandra Rd, Tipton. DY4 8TA
We also do Open Water Swimming May-Sept, and Cycling
Book a trial today – https://sandwellaquatics.org/join-us/trial/