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April 2019 Hervey Bay Masters Swimming Club Inc

www.herveybayhumpbacks.com

herveybayhumpbacks@hotmail.com

President Pete’s Parley

Hi Humpbacks,

I’m writing this report from the hard seats of the Adelaide airport waiting a return flight to Brisbane

after a very eventful National Masters Meet where we saw some awesome swimming across the

whole spectrum of ages with four world records and fifteen national records set during the four

days of competition .

We, that is Humpback Secretary Paula and myself and our support crew of Terry and Margaret along with Yeronga

Yabbie Susanne Milenkevich bunked together in an air Bnb within 10 minutes of the pool and handy to Glenelg

eateries.

Performance wise we had a very exciting meet with high highs and one low low . Paula scored a very deserved

bronze medal in the 200 fly with an brilliant swim along with pb.s in most of her other events . On the other hand I

started out well with golds in the 50 and 100 breaststroke only to be D/Q in the 200 b/r for a supposed incorrect

touch or turn,” mmmm “ don’t know about that..... referees won that one until next time. My freestyle swims were

the surprise swims for me with a pb in the 100 by four seconds and equalling my best 50 for some years attaining

bronze medals in both those swims. Without a doubt the training Coach Caleb Ryan gave over the preceding months

worked and our thanks to Caleb for his help in attaining those goals.

Thanks to Darryl and Mark for stepping into the training roles while I was absent, I’m told the sets were a little differ-

ent and that’s good to do different approaches to sets and to break up the same old swims in training. Talking about

training sets I had the opportunity to talk with several of Australia’s top Masters swimmers/ coaches during the Na-

tional swim and there will be some changes in the training sets particularly in skill sets........ yep it’s going to hurt but

hey kick is very important so I’m told by the experts.... I’m one who has to take note!

Club Captain Michelle has been doing some hard work on writing / rewriting our Pool Etiquette programme, this is

very important for all members to practice and abide with as (a) safety of swimmers is paramount in training and (b)

the conduct of each swimmer whilst in the lane (that is faster ones lead out with a then 10 second break between the

next swimmer) makes for a smooth transgression throughout the training session and more enjoyable swim. More on

that on Sunday.

State meet is fast approaching with entry’s closing on 4 th April. I would encourage all members to give this meet seri-

ous consideration as its the opportunity to swim in one of the best pools in Australia and see how your swim times

compare to the Humpbacks Meet . So far I believe there are about seven members who have expressed interest. I

would love to see more.

That’s enough from me. Looking forward to seeing everyone Sunday.

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10th Lynda Roper

12th Kate Jardine

18th Di Edmonds

21st Cindy Hart

21st Brooke Mathias

22nd Stacey Hebblewhite

23rd Ingrid Gamertsfelder

29th Ron Rowland

We are glad that you are a part of our team.

Captains Report

Swim Meets – This month had representatives from our Humpbacks at Albany Creek Meet and the National Meet in Adelaide. Well done

to all who participated and to those who succeeded in gaining medals.

As promised the Lane Etiquette rules has been emailed to all so hopefully we will all have continued lovely safe and fun times when training

on Sunday mornings.

April Meets:

State Long Course Championships, 11 – 13 April. Entries close 4 April.

Masters Short Course 27 April.

Please have a look at https://mastersswimmingqld.org.au for upcoming events.

International Games this year have European Masters Games Torino Italy from 26th July – 4th August,.

If you feel like popping over for a quick swim and holiday.

Cheers

‘Win if you can, Lose if you must, but never give up’

Cameron Trammell

Michelle

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LANE ETIQUETTE

As we have more swimmers at our training sessions, it is important to clarify some of the finer points of “lane etiquette” so that

everyone gets the maximum benefit and enjoyment out of their training!

Grab a cuppa and read the following rules please.

Session Start / Warm Up

If you get in the water AFTER the session start time – and some people in your lane have already done some of the warm-up – do not

expect to do the whole warm up and leave the punctual people waiting for you to finish!

Once the first person to finish the warm-up is waiting at the wall, everyone else must only complete the 100m they are currently on –

do not turn and keep going. Then everyone is ready to start the first set together, without anyone having to wait (and get cold!)

If you feel you need more warm-up, just take the first couple of repetitions of the first set slowly and move back up to your usual spot

in the lane when you are ready.

Getting In Order

Be realistic! You know if you are faster than the next person, so please swim ahead of them. OK – sometimes you might feel better

than others – but it is most frustrating to other swimmers in the lane if someone regularly says “oh no, you go ahead of me” when

everyone knows that person will end up catching the person ahead.

The lane moves much more freely if everyone is swimming in the correct order and there is much less chance anyone will need to in-

terrupt their swimming to stop and let someone pass.

Leaving Ten Seconds – the most important of all!

It is accepted lane etiquette all over the world that swimmers leave 5 seconds between each other before pushing off the wall.

In everything we do, if the first person leaves on the 00, the next must leave on the 05, the next on the 10… etc. Nobody likes people

“swimming up their bum” or (WORSE) touching their toes, just because they’ve pushed off right behind them. This is the most hei-

nous breach of lane etiquette that can result in much disgruntlement between swimmers.

Letting Everyone Finish to the Wall

This is a little hard to manage in short rest repeats, but definitely achievable in long swims or longer rest intervals.

When you lead a lane, and finish into the wall at the end of a swim within a set (e.g., a 100 swim within a set of 100s), please move to

the right hand side of the lane (as you face the end) to allow the remainder of the lane to finish into the wall and not have to stop a

metre or two out from the wall.

When the second person touches, they are to move to the right-hand lane rope. The third person is to do the same, and possibly the

next person too. Depending on how many people are in the lane (say, up to 6 or 7), it may be that only three or four swimmers need

to do this, as the remainder of the swimmers can find a space of wall to finish into.

You need to be careful however – if the swims are on a short-ish rest interval, make sure you don’t move in front of the leader pushing

off when you are moving over to the right-hand lane rope. If that happens, you have moved there unnecessarily. The shorter the rest

interval, the less need there is to move (because people at the front of the lane have already pushed off before the back people have

finished – so everyone gets to finish into the wall anyway).

Last but not least. Do not stop in the middle of a set and change what stoke you are doing. Or indeed stop and stand in the lane. This

is discourteous to your team mates and you will know about it when they swim into you.

Happy Swimming Humpbacks.

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