4th Singapore Masters Swimming Championships 29/30 August 2009

Hi team, our coaches will be approaching you guys over the next few sessions to sort out your entries for the 4th Singapore Masters Swimming Championship 2009 which has been set for 29-30 August 2009.

The event will be held over 2 half day sessions at Changi Beach Club from 9am – 3pm. This year the organizers are expecting around 200 or more swimmers from Local and Overseas.  We would also like most (if not all) of our swimmers to in this event here in Singapore, participate and have fun!

“Singapore Masters is Open to All Overseas Friends.  Age group starting from 19yrs to 24yrs old as Junior Master and Masters 25yrs and Above. It aims to encourage Active and Regular Participation in swimming throught Fun, Fitness & Friendship

Age groups are as follows :  19-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49, 50-54yrs etc..

Event : Day 1
400m Freestyle , 100m Butterfly , 50m Breaststroke , 200m Backstroke , 4×50m Medley Relay , 400m Individual Medley , 50m Butterfly , 100m Breaststroke, 200m Freestyle & 6×50m Corporate Relay

Event : Day 2
200m Breaststroke , 50m Backstroke , 100m Freestyle , 4×50m Mixed Medley Relay , 200m Individual Medley , 800m Freestyle , 4×50m Mixed Freestyle Relay , 100m Backstroke , 50m Freestyle , 200m Butterfly , 4×50m Freestyle Relay

Hotel & Lodging will either be in Changi Beach Club ( http://www.changibc.org.sg/ )itself or Changi Village Hotel ( http://www.changivillage.com.sg/ )which is only 10mins walk to the Event location.

Please visit website at www.singaporemasters.org for more details and chat with Gary, Gerald, Kenneth or myself at the training sessions.

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Check out our ‘Swim with SPORTinc’ Facebook Page

Hi everyone, we have started a Facebook page for our adult swim group.  Please join us there if you are a Facebook user!  Rgds, your swim buddies

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Pre-swim stretching and exercises

We’ve got a few more of these exercises to do coming weeks… they’re all key to improving your flexibility and building the ’swimming’ muscles!

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Looking for good home: Stationary Bike Trainer (Brand Star Trac)

I am looking for someone  to adopt my stationary bike. It’s a couple years old but will still provide a great spinning workout. ‘Free’ to anyone who will love it and spend time on it. Kindly arrange for collection by 22 May 2009 – please email info@sportinc.net if you would like to start spinning at home!

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Extra Sleep Improves Athletic Performance

“Very interesting research on sleep and Stanford swimmers’ performances… so please get to bed by 8pm for 10 hours sleep before our Sat am session guys and girls!”

ScienceDaily (2008-06-10) — Extending their sleep to 10 hours per day enabled Stanford swimmers to improve their 15-meter sprint times, reaction times, turn times and kick strokes. Alertness and mood also improved. Results agree with data obtained from athletes on other Stanford sports teams in this ongoing study.

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Freestyle – Egyptian Crawl Drill

Hi team, our fellow swimmer Chen Munn will demonstrate this amazing swim drill on Wed evening….  see you all for another great workout

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3 left 3 right freestyle drill…

Thanks for finding this video Chen Munn. We’ll do more of this next week!

Just some of the drills we focus on also at our Swim with SPORTinc Adult Swim Program. Every wed 7-830pm and every Sat 630-8am at 60 Barker Road, Anglo Chinese School Swimming Pool.

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9 May 2009 End of Sat morning session

9may09 end of session, originally uploaded by sportinc.

welcome to our new swimmers…

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Swim Demo By Coach Kenneth Cheok 25April2009

smooth…..

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Swim Demo by Gary Tan, our coach and Olympian 22April09

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Swim Demonstration by Gerald and Desmond Koh

We had a good turnout of swimmers today for our morning swim session.  Here are couple of videos of our demonstrations and drills…as mentioned, our primary focus is on helping our swimmers improve on their technique and swim efficiencies.

Demo by Desmond Koh

Demo by Gerald Koh

One arm drill by Gerald Koh

And check out these truly efficient swimmers… amazing

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Truly Efficient Swimming – free demonstration

Click to view the Swim with SPORTinc photo gallery

We’ve had good feedback from our first batch of swimmers who came for our trial sessions. Our team is extremely focused on ensuring that you improve your swimming technique – our swimming sessions center around doing drills and stroke work that are designed to improve your swimming efficiency.

Reminder that classes are every Wed evening 7-830pm and every Sat 630-8am at Anglo-Chinese School Barker Road Level 3 Swimming pool. Click here to sign up for your trial swim assessment and more info!

Our goal is to build a nice community of swimmers and welcome everyone of all levels to join us.

Gerald (in picture above) is an ex-Olympic swimmer and has a very nice relaxed and efficiency swimming style – he will be demonstrating this Sat 18 April morning from 630-8am!

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SPORTinc Adult Swim Program has started!

Thank you those of you who took time to fill up the form online for Sportinc’s Adult swimming program and the trial session.

Reminder that classes are every Wed evening 7-830pm and every Sat 630-8am at Anglo-Chinese School Barker Road Level 3 Swimming pool. Click here to sign up for your trial swim assessment and more info! Swimmers can join us immediately.

Please bring your swimming suits, googles, change of clothing and towels – there will be stretching and some core exercise training as well!

Directions to the pool from multi-storey carpark: In order to get to the pool, you have to take the lift in the car park lobby and take it to level 2 where you will walk straight to the locker rooms. After which, kindly take the stairs up and it will lead you to the swimming pool level.

Look for myself, Gary or Kenneth.  Look forward to seeing you all.

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Coach Kenneth and some swimmers

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“Swim with SPORTinc” for adults of all competency levels starting Wed 1 April 09!

Location: Anglo Chinese School pool @ 60 Barker Road

(Bukit Timah area off Dunearn road before Chancery Lane & Balmoral Road)

Every Wed evening 7:00 – 830pm (starting 1 April 09)

Every Sat morning 630 – 8am

For more info, fees and Free Trial Session

Over the last few years, and increasingly so in recent months, many of my buddies have lamented over the fact that it was really difficult for them to find a place to swim, outside of office hours, at a location that was convenient and with proper coaches who could help them with their swimming technique and endurance. I have good news my friends.

I am pleased to announce that we will start our swimming program for all you adult swimmers who are looking to stay fit and healthy within a fun and social environment and to improve on your swimming techniques and timing with coaching by Singapore’s top swimmers-coaches.

Together with my long time swimming buddies from The Swim Lab team, David Lim, Gary Tan (both also fellow Olympians) plus Kenneth Cheok (another ex-national swimmer), we present our ‘Swim with SPORTinc’ Adult-Tri Swim Program which is a comprehensive, innovative and systematic program that caters specifically to adult professionals.

Drawing from competitive swimming and professional coaching methods and techniques (years of experiences), our team focuses on delivering the true meaning of “effortless swimming.” (p.s. effortless doesn’t mean no PAIN, but means greater efficiency!) Swimmers will go through a detailed training program that not only includes the normal pool based training (drills, kicking, pulling etc), but will also include swim-specific dry land workouts (Core-Abs / Stretch Cords, Squats etc) and flexibility training, a critical but often overlooked component to better technique and performance. We aim to make our swimmers more efficient and ‘streamlined’ in the water (and sea)! On demand, we will also take our more tri-focused swimmers on specially organized ocean swims.

Gerald and I will be training regularly with the group and will also facilitate the program and share personal swimming tips. We both enjoy triathlons and hope to help friends and fellow triathletes who find the swimming leg most challenging and perhaps the most difficult to improve on.

Come SWIM with SPORTinc – click here for more info, fees and to sign up for your 1st free trial session and experience fun efficient swimming.

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Nadya Hutagalung – Aids Awareness Campaign 2008

share your support on World AIDS Day 1 December 2008

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George Monbiot speaks about air travel and Love Miles

there is no environmentally alternative to flying…. the solution simply is to fly less.

the video continues here,,,

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President Obama and HH Dalai Lama

prayers and blessings to both!

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Run Right with Newton Running

simple and logical…

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Matthieu Ricard on the habits of happiness | Video on TED.com

Thank you Devendra for sharing this!  Can’t wait to see and hear him speak Nov 20/21 in Singapore!

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Happiness and Its Causes 20/21 November

N & I were so happy when Tara mentioned to us that this conference was actually happening in Singapore. Several of our friends will be speaking and I invite you to click on the picture below for full details of the event. We are all seeking Happiness aren’t we all?

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