Bag your chance to win signed British Swimming goodies!

Feeling inspired by our aquatic Olympians? Fancy winning some British Swimming signed goodies for your club to keep the Olympic glow going? Then look no further! Here at the ASA, we want to know how and why you have been motivated to get involved and what taking up swimming has done for you. For your chance to win signed goodies from Olympic medallist, Michael Jamieson, email us at marcomms@swimming.org starting your message with “I love swimming because” and tell us why you love aquatics.

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A.G.M

All Adult Members

The Annual General Meeting is being held on Sunday 2nd December 2012 at 7.15 p.m. in the Community Room of the Kimberley School. Your views and opinions on the running of the Club are important and we hope you will come along to air these.

Nominations are requested for the following positions. All present committee members (the present committee list is on the notice board) stand down but are eligible for re-election.

President
Vice-Presidents
Chair
Vice-Chair
Secretary
Treasurer
Assistant Treasurer
Membership Secretary
Social Secretaries
Press & Publicity Officer
Gala Secretary(ies)
Welfare Officer
Disabilities Officer
Grant Administrators
Teacher Co-ordinator
Volunteer Co-ordinator(s)
Members

Nominations should be proposed and seconded on the nomination form ( these can be found at the club desk) and the person nominated should be willing to undertake the responsibilities of the post for which they are being proposed. Only members over the age of 16 are eligible to vote but it is an “open” meeting and therefore parents of junior members are welcome to join in the discussions. Nomination forms must be lodged with Jean by Monday 26th November 2012. When all nominations have been received a list of candidates will be compiled and put on the notice board. A ballot will be held at the AGM to determine who will form the committee and elected officers for 2013. Subsequently any new committee members will be expected to pay a membership fee if applicable.

KSC Committee

November 3rd

A reminder to all that there is NO Saturday evening swimming at Kimberley on November 3rd due to us hosting our own club gala.


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November Birthdays

Birthday wishes for November go to :

Amy Aboutorab, Shannon Austin, Olivia Buxton, Beck Coates, Amy Collins, Libby Dolman-Milner, Emilia Dring, Jade Duffy, Joshua Edis-Shaw, Tom & Lucas Ellis, Molly-Rose Forrester, Sadie Goonan-Dunne, Georgina Greenhill, Georgia Headland, Jake Lawes, Leonardo Lopinto-Formosa, Cormac Maher, Rebecca Matthews, Theo Parker, Chelsea & Elayna Parr, James Pike, Megan Rea, Kasey Scattergood, Ben Shipman, Tom Smith, Charlotte Stagg, Emma Stephenson, Harry Stevenson, Harriet Wardle, Natalie Watkinson (18), Joel Withers, Maisie Woolis, Kien Zouhori-Dehshad and Emma Poxon 21 again!

Decathlon Club Card Scheme

The club has signed up for the Decathlon Club Card Scheme.

The Decathlon Club Card brings rewards to the club in exchange for its members simply shopping in store and using Decathlons free Loyalty Card scheme (it's all free to sign up).
All we ask from you is that you associate your Decathlon loyalty card ( if you have one) with our club card.
More information on this scheme and our club card number can be found at the club desk.

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Land Training Opportunity

If anyone is interested in doing some land training then why not join Rachel, Robyn and myself at Ripley boxing club on a Monday ,Tuesday or Friday 6-7.30 p.m. There is a 1/2 hour Aerobic warm up, circuit training, weights and boxing training. Ideal for 12 year + and parents welcome.
There is no joining fee and all sessions are free.
For more information check out ........www.ripleyboxingclub.co.uk

Steve

Notts ASA Stage 3 Gala

On Saturday evening , we took part in the final round of the Notts ASA Stage3 galas and finished with a first place on the night,

Kimberley 218

Leander B  174

Newark   136

Chesterfield  132

Northern  114

Falcon   109

23 first place swims were achieved by the swimmers.  Wooosh!!!!!

Special mentions to  Aiden x2 , Bradley, Jade Duffy, Katie and Matthew for their p.bs and
to Gemma, Niamh, Cameron and James for their patience between races.

Notts ASA Stage3 - Final Round

Junior Captains Charly and Aiden with the first place trophy

Alan

Hamper Request

Ghoul in the Pool

A handful of swimmers travelled to Derby on Sunday for Belper Marlins 'Ghoul in the pool' Open meet.

Jimi Knowles was the pick of the bunch with a first place, a second and a third from his 3 events.

                               Jimi with his trophies

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Swimtech

A couple of our swimmers, Ellie Knowles and Florence Orme have recently tried out Swimtech.

 Swimtech is a brand new purpose built facility in Leicester, housing an Endless Pool and their objective is to give every swimmer the opportunity to have their stroke analysed using multiple HD, fully adjustable cameras.   Their qualified ASA coaches are dedicated to improving all swimmers stroke and performance.

This is the thoughts of Ellie and Florence -

 Florence Orme wrote

I was able to take part in the trying out of swimtech. Swimtech is basically like a big bath with a machine that makes a current in the water and you have to swim against. It's a pretty little room, inside a fabulous farmhouse in the beautiful countryside. Swim-tech is great because the coach tells you what your doing wrong or what your doing well at. Then you and the coach have a look at our stroke on a screen.

It's really good and I've improved a lot thanks to swimtech.

Ellie Knowles wrote

I really enjoyed visiting Swimtech, The coach was really nice and knew what to tell me what to do in the tank to make me swim better. It was funny swimming in a big tank but great to see myself on TV. I couLd see what I was doing wrong and I have practiced my backstroke at Kimberley. I would like to go again to Swimtech and have another go at front crawl.

Thank you very much for letting us try out Swimtech

Below is the thoughts of Sharon. 

The 2 girls who came for a trial session both loved it and we took nothing but positive feedback to our club regards both the facility and our coach Guy.  

 Particular points we liked include

·         Guy – very knowledgeable and easy to get along with. He knew how to speak to the swimmer and explain what he wanted from them to get good results.

·         The breakdown of the stroke technique was good, and both swimmers were able to correct their faults – we just need them to remember what they learned.

·         The break between swimming and feedback was just right in terms of timing. Swimmers were spoken to clearly and not confused by mixed messages, for example Guy discussed arms first , then head position and then kick and not all at once

·         You were all very friendly and put our swimmers at ease, it could have been a little overwhelming for younger inexperienced swimmers, but that didn’t seem to matter and they both got plenty of tips and hints from the session with you. 

·         Finally - Changing area – Our 2 10yr old girls loved the shower and body wash!! ( what more can I say?)

Interested?  Then contact Swimtech on the number on the flyer.