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Record Keeping |
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It is up to you to keep a record of your best swimming times; you will need them to monitor your progress and for competition entry - so make sure you keep a log of events entered, the size of the pool and the times you achieved. Below are links to forms that you could use to keep that information - please feel free to download and use them. The Club also has books that you can purchase which are ideal for you to keep your records in. See your squad Co-Ordinator for details
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British Age Group Categories (BAGCATS)During the late 1990's there was concern as to whether the competition structure at age group level was helping to nurture our talented swimmers through to senior level. There were serious concerns that swimmers who were successful at the national age groups at 12 would then be under constant pressure to repeat that success at 13, 14, 15 and 16. It was clear that many of the youngsters who achieved success early did so because, as well as being talented, they were physically early developers. When other swimmers who developed later came through to challenge them, it was often difficult to retain that sense of achievement and success. In 1997 the ASA put together the CDC Working Party, made up of people with various areas of expertise to look at this situation. The main conclusions were that from a very early age children should work on a wide range of movements and younger children should experience as wide a number of sports as possible. If a child then looks to specialising on swimming it is equally important that this range of skills is developed by a multi-stroke approach to training and competition. A multi-skilled approach also reduces the likelihood of injuries. Early specialisation, while producing an initial rapid increase in performance, can lead to a lower ultimate level of achievement and early retirement, in contrast, swimmers who do not specialise early have a slower initial increase in performance, but ultimately reach a higher level of achievement and have a longer life in the sport. One other factor which needs consideration, is the way the body produces energy for the various distances swum. Short events (eg 25m & 50m sprints) depend on anaerobic energy, whilst the 200m and longer events require aerobic energy. The difficult event is the 100m which uses all three energy systems, as they overlap each other. This is a particular problem for youngsters whose bodily systems are not fully developed and even then requires a skilled transition provided by the necessary training programmes. It was therefore proposed that swimmers in the 10-13/14 age groups should be encouraged:
Multi Skilled Approach A multi-skilled approach entails children being encouraged to do a variety of different sports from a young age. Specific to swimming, it means that they should train and compete in all the strokes and distances and should compete to win an overall category award rather than specialising in a particular event. These categories are made up of event groups. At least one swim must be completed from each event group that makes up the category. An overall score will then be calculated that automatically works out the highest scoring swim in each event group. For example, if you swim two of the events in the Sprint group, the computer system will work out which one scores more points and add it into the overall score with your best scores from the other event groups. The event groups that have been included in the British Age Group Categories (BAGCATS) are:
It is particularly important that the whole range of events is open to younger swimmers, particularly the 200m on back, breast and fly. Then using a points system -like an athletics heptathlon or decathlon - awards can be made to those swimmers with the most points over an agreed range of events rather than to the individual winners of single events. So remember - when choosing your competition events, try to pick one from each group to maximise your points score! British Age Group Correction Factors In order to reflect the fact that age group swimmers find some events relatively more difficult than other events, correction factors have been calculated. These factors are generated from an analysis of all the information in the GB Rankings Database held by the ASA, and of world standards. They allow them to make comparisons between events in a single age group. However, they should not be used to relate performances between different ages or sex. British Age Group Points (BAG Points) British Age Group Points are generated when a correction factor is applied to a GB Points score. GB Points score x BAG Correction Factor = BAG Points score. For example, a time of 3.00.00 for 200m Breaststroke (short course) scores 548 points. If it is achieved by an 11 year old girl it would be multiplied by a correction factor of 1.3075 which gives a BAG Points score of 717. To calculate your scores for any event - look at the ASA website at www.britishswimming.org |
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