Coach Grant Kritzinger Camp

Had 3 great days at the Grant Kritzinger camp last week. Two sessions a day, 4 hours in the pool made me really think about loads of technical stuff. Starts, turns, transitions and brake-outs also learning about reactions times, entry and underwater work. Was pretty intense but was worth it....hope I remember it all! :)

Whilst we were at Loughborough ITC swimming pool, we had a nice surprise and met current 50m Backstroke World Record holder Liam Tancock  which was great, he was really nice :)

Liam Tancock having a quick questions and answers with us at the end of our session

Liam in the middle of the Kritzinger Squad, with me 2nd from top right smiling at the camera :)

Swim Camp with Olympic Coach Grant Kritzinger

I'm lucky enough to be going on a 3 day Performance swim camp with South African

coach Grant Kritzinger on the 21 - 23 August so I can't wait!

I'll be training at Loughborough University ITC in the mornings and then at Welbeck college in the afternoons so it's going to be busy :)

Leicester Sharks coaches +Darwin Davies and +Guy Worrow  will be there along with various coaches from the Leicester Penguins.

Coach Kritzinger has his own swim squad called Players in South Africa too. 

Grant Kritzinger

Grant is the coach for Cameron van der Burgh, who won gold at the 100m breaststroke in a new world record time at the London 2012 Olympics. Breaststroke is my favourite stroke so I'm really looking forward to some tips

Cameron van der Burgh

Coach Kritzinger has also been coaching the Maltese, fly and free swimmer, Andrew Chetcuti who holds 5 individual national records.

He was one of five athletes to compete for Malta in the London 2012 Olympics

Andrew Chetcuti

It's going to be AWESOME!

Having fun pool side with swimmerjd and charlieread2000

A little bit of footage of me and Charlie Read messing about after we'd

been talking to the camera man!

Click here to see it! 

Swim Wales Summer National Swim Video's

I've managed to find my heats and swims from the Welsh Nationals and save them to

Tube Chop so that I can only see my races instead of the whole session :)

I seem a little way down on the other swimmers during my races...thats because they are 14 and i've only just turned 13 so I'm not that far down really! (In the 1st and 4th video I'm nearest the camera at the start)

200 IM Lane 1 (finished 10th 13 year old)

http://www.tubechop.com/watch/1384672

200 Breast Stroke Lane 7 (finished 5th 13 year old)

http://www.tubechop.com/watch/1384883

100 Breast Stroke Lane 2 (finished 10th 13 year old)

http://www.tubechop.com/watch/1384899

200 Back Stroke Lane 1 (finished 6th 13 year old)

http://www.tubechop.com/watch/1384911

400 Freestyle Lane 4 (finished 5th 13 year old)

http://www.tubechop.com/watch/1384926

Success at the British Gas Swim Wales Summer Nationals!

I had an amazing time at the Welsh Nationals, spent time with my mates, had a BBQ with Charlie Read (and his mum and sister, that's Charlie in the photo!) and Simon Scully at Charlie's campsite.

The event was streamed live for the whole week and now footage from every day is available to watch on YouTube

Below is a screenshot of me and Charlie that Swim Wales tweeted whilst we were there!

I had 5 great swims and got 5 PB's. I realised that the times that they had taken from the national rankings were short course times converted to long course as these were faster.

I'm really pleased that I've not put any time on considering it's at the end of the season.

These are my new times:

200 IM 2:37.81

200 Breast 2:57.83

100 Breast 1:24.68

200 Back 2:34.82

400 Free 4:47.25

:)