Swimming Camp 2018
Last week, WayOut Adventures, together with Tracey Baumann, successfully organized the first open water swimming camp to host 17 amateur athletes from England, Germany, Israel, Switzerland and Spain, where they were taught the perfect technique to swim in an Open Water race and have fun while at it.
Tracey Baumann has 10 years of experience with hundreds of athletes - most of whom had little skill or experience. She follows 3 steps with each student and each type of swimming so that one may be able to:
Swim further and faster using less energy,
Enjoy every stroke and improve constantly,
Swim without injury or pain.
It's a camp to help you understand and gain confidence in OpenWater swimming. It will help you swim a long distance without adding any useless measures, teach you how often you have to see the sea and how to keep a more relaxed breath. It will introduce you to orientation techniques in open water, as it differs from swimming in the pool. Training in the camp will help in the practice of the triathletes, as well as the Openwater athletes.
The camp is suitable for both experienced and Open water newcomers until they reach the level that everyone is aiming for.
The goal is to mix exercises with conversations, videos and workouts. Athletes who can’t swim for long will find it manageable and entertaining.
Initially, you learn to cooperate - instead of struggling - with gravity and use the principles of physics to keep an "effortlessly horizontal" position from head to toe. You learn to stabilize your body and control lateral or rotary forces that can confuse your arms and legs.
The feeling that you are in control of your position in the water will bring the confidence and peace of mind that you need in order to learn more advanced skills and swim longer. It also gives you a firsthand knowledge of how human anatomy naturally behaves in the element of water. This technique minimizes problems and maximizes adaptability to water.
Since water is 1000 times denser than air, resistance is the biggest factor limiting how long or fast we swim. Fish and aquatic mammals can naturally preserve energy. Swimmers need only master the skill.
The camp will teach you how to harmonize the movements of your head, hands and feet smoothly. Power comes from the core and flows into the hands and feet. The more integrated the technique, the less effort it takes to swim longer and faster. After that it is the level of fitness that will take you further.
At the same time, you have the opportunity to swim with other swimmers, practicing the technique during the long afternoon training sessions with the Kayak and constant monitoring.
The camp's daily schedule is:
7.30 morning wake-up - 10.00 morning training (technique learning) - 12.30 (light lunch) - 15.00 afternoon training (swimming with kayak coaches) - 19.00 Dinner. - 20.00 Leisure time.
During the camp there is also a day trip for swimming in Messinian Mani hidden beaches and caves.
In 2019 two more training camps will be held under the guidance of Tracey Baumann.
Stay tuned.