Thanks to everyone who tuned into the live Zoom meeting with Oscar Coggins on Saturday. It was a great exercise, and we hope that everyone took away some valuable information and advice from Oscar. A huge thank you to Oscar for giving us some of his time and setting such a great positive example for all of the other HWI athletes. Please find the YouTube video embedded here, and the link below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqVH30aFlac&t=4s

Please find the home dryland sessions for this week by clicking the link below: DRYLAND WEEK 3 Live Zoom workouts This week we will be running live dryland sessions over Zoom. Please find the schedule here. Coaches will send the Zoom Meeting ID and password for each session. If you do not receive then please contact one of the coaches on the list and they can re-send to you. Please stay tuned for some great stuff coming out this week! Check out our cap challenge that's on social media at...

The Cog Keeps Turning with Oscar Coggins - A Video Interview This coming Saturday at 17:00 join Head of Swimming Henry Wright interviewing HWI Triathlete and Olympic hopeful Oscar Coggins. Oscar arrived back in Hong Kong last week, and will tell us about how he's coping with his self quarantine, the exercise that he can do in his hotel room to keep fit, and what the Olympic postponement may mean for him. We will open up some time at the end for questions from all those who are watching. This...

Check out this great write up from Katie Hawkins, Performance 1, and Anna Hawkins, SCA Bronze, about their recent experience at Cheltenham Swimming and Water Polo Club in the U.K. It looks like they've had a great time and learned a great deal. Love to see them sharing the experience with all their team mates! If you've been training with an overseas club and want to share your experience then please send us a short write up and a couple of photos that we can help you share with the...

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We are into week two of the pool shutdown, and we hope that you are all coping and got through the dryland last week with no problems. Exercise set With the pools being closed we want to give all of you all a way to measure your dryland progress, and a goal to aim for! We'd like you all to complete a exercise set tomorrow (Sunday 29th). We'll repeat the test in 2 - 3 weeks depending on whether the pools reopen or not and see what your progress is!...

Hope that you are all coping well at home now that the pool is closed. Each week we will be sending out dryland workouts for all the squads in a downloadable PDF spanning the whole week, with Sunday off as a rest day. The sessions are built with exercises that you should be able to do with the space that most people have in their apartment. This week's span today - Saturday. On Sunday I will send out the sessions for the following week Mon - Sun. A few things...

Dear Valued Parents and Swimmers, Please be advised that unfortunately SCAA will be closing the doors to all sporting facilities very shortly, including the swimming pool, until further notice. All HWI activities will cease effective from the end of today, Tuesday 24th March, until further notice. There will be no group sessions of any kind held until further notice. We will revert to sending out dryland sessions to all squads again, and we will start to explore the possibility of running some more video based sessions. Please stay tuned for...

Race Turns analysis: The average swim team swimmer will do between 150-300 turns per session! As most young people in the modern world are visual learners, this is the best way to teach a swimmer exactly what is happening during their turns. It also allows parents to view at home together with the swimmer or on deck with the coach! Example video of Private Fly & Breast session: You may request a specific coach, if they are available, or we can provide one for you! Session time is 1 hour....

Given the unprecedented situation involving large numbers of HK residents suddenly returning from other countries, and flights being a high risk environment for transmission, we will be asking all families to take the following precautionary measures: Swimmers must NOT come to SCAA if they have been outside of HK in the past 14 days – this applies to all countries, there are no exceptions. If swimmers come to training and coaches know they have been outside of HK they will be asked to leave the club. This will apply to...