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STREAMLINE Biomechanics Swim Camp is a great opportunity for High School, year-round Club, and competitive TAAF Swimmers age 8-18! It is highly recommended, but not required, that swimmers have competitive experience prior to attending. The camp focuses entirely on swim technique improvement with the aid of state-of-the-art underwater cameras and motion software. Swimmers will do lots of drills and technique workshops, yet no conditioning sets! Naturally, Camp STREAMLINE does not interfere with regular club/school/team practice. Campers are encouraged to attend their regular club/school/team practice during the week in which they attend the camp.

Most STREAMLINE sessions are 20 hours long and either 4 days x 5 hours, or 5 days times 4 hours. The camp fee for the 20 hour sessions is $299. Occasionally we offer a 2 day STREAMLINE session, which is 13 hours long. The camp fee for the 13 hour sessions is $219. Camp days are comprised of several blocks, each with a different topic. Each block starts off with teaching in the classroom. Classroom teaching involves presentations, swim videos (including races of Olympic swimmers), and review of campers’ film to help swimmers understand proper technique and other important aspects of competitive swimming.  Parents are welcome to attend the first classroom period of each camp day.  

After the classroom, campers take the newly acquired theory to the pool to put the new material into practice.  Cameras, monitors, and instant replay technology placed on the deck near the water allow swimmers to watch them selves swim the moment they finish their drill in the water, which makes learning more efficient and effective. Pool time consists of rotating sessions of videotaping, technique analysis, turn progressions, and drill work.  Swimmers can snack during any of the classroom periods (please bring a healthy snack & drink from home). If time allows, the camp day will conclude with a fun activity, such as a game, use of diving boards, bungee coards, underwater obstacle course, or relays.  

During each STREAMLINE session, each swimmer receives individualized technique recommendations. These recommendations are based on the swimmer’s underwater and above-water swimming footage, which will be analyzed frame-by-frame using powerful motion software.  Each swimmer will also review his/her film 1-on-1 with the Technical Coach.  Immediately following, the stroke flaws found during this review are communicated with the guest coach, who then, in turn, works 1-on-1 with the swimmer on correcting these stroke imperfections in the water.  On the last day of camp, the technique recommendations report and film (on DVD) will be handed to the swimmer to take home and review with his or her club/team/school coach!

For most STREAMLINE sessions one of the classroom hours is reserved for a guest speaker, usually an Olympic medalist.  In 2011, STREAMLINE was lucky to attract both Olympic Gold Medalist Ryan Berube and Olympic Silver Medalist Martina Marovcova as guest speakers. Campers can enjoy the Olympian’s speech, obtain an autograph, and have their picture taken with him/her.

SAMPLE PROGRAM OUTLINE

2013 BIOMECHANICS CAMP SCHEDULE