SWIMMING INAUSTRALIA JOURNAL OF THE AUSTRALIAN SWIMMING COACHES AND TEACHERS ASSOCIATION & SWIM AUSTRALIA MARCH 2018 NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR COACHES KIDS OF THE RED CENTRE OPEN WATER SWIMMING MEMBERSHIP UPDATE JOURNAL OF THE AUSTRALIAN SWIMMING COACHES & TEACHERS ASSOCIATION & SWIM AUSTRALIA Volume 40. No 3 - March 2018 CONTENTS FEATURES asctaCONVENTION 2018 7 Snapshot of 2017 8 ASCTA Convention Highlights 12 Coach Recognition Program 8 14 Australian Swim Team named for Gold Coast Commonwealth Games 18 Sharing Experience to Build a Sport 21 Important changes to Membership 22 Three Swimming Drop Out Zones 42 Leadership - moving beyond involvement 46 Teamwork 48 A fine line between giftedness and autism 55 6 million Australians make swimming No.1 Sport COACHING 28 Caeleb Dressel - Fastest 100 30 Awareness Response Training - Part Two 34 Developing New Technology for Coaching 38 Coaching Masters Swimmers 14 LEARN TO SWIM 41 ascta/Swim Australia International Conference - Shanghai 44 SwimINFO 45 Should Swim Barbells be used to teach children to swim 51 Your Instructors 52 Funky Way for Kids of the Red Centre REGULARS 5 Message from Brendon Ward 58 Behind the scenes at ASCTA 58 asctaMEMBERSHIP 58 asctaACCREDITATION 59 asctaSOCIAL MEDIA 52 59 asctaMULTIMEDIA Swimming in Australia Publisher: 59 asctaSHOP ASCTA 60 Calendar of Events PO Box 158 Beerwah QLD 4519 Ph: 07 5494 6255 F: 07 5494 6785 All copy is subject to acceptance by the publisher. All advertisers must ensure that their advertisements comply strictly with the requirements of all E: [email protected] federal legislation. The publisher reserves the right to reject copy without giving any reason or explanation. W: www.ascta.com The Swimming in Australia Publisher, ASCTA, strongly advises all concerned that any attempts to reprint articles or excerpts from contents is Designed & Edited by: prohibited without the written permission of the publisher and the Author. Any infringements of copyright will be dealt with accordingly. Julie Emmerson Views expressed in articles are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Editor or the Board of ASCTA. [email protected] Photography Acknowledgements: Print Post #: 100000930 Swimming Australia Limited, Ian Hanson - Hanson Media Group, Delly Carr and Sportshoot Photography, Robert Sanders Photography. Stock images from www.freepik.com, www.shutterstock.com. 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It’s an age old to find out what’s going on in other sectors and/or question for an Association. It equally applies to our internationally which may be of benefit for coaching, coaches, swim teachers and swim school operators to teaching or swim schools in Australia, interpret reach their audience. Guess what, we’re doing all of and distil this down then let you know in the best the above (apart from shouting) and more. possible way. It is especially relevant for ASCTA and Swim Australia Advocacy at this time of year as we prepare for our membership At a State Government level, our teaching renewals and trust we have done enough … and qualifications are now accepted by the WA and VIC communicated it … to keep you engaged and happy with Education Departments. At the time of going to print our performance. Our recent infographic highlighted we are following up with NSW and NT and getting some of our successes throughout 2017. From my positive responses. During January and February, perspective it’s important to recap on some of the Queensland Save our Schoolkids (SOS) campaign things that stand out to ensure you know what we’ve from the Courier Mail led to valuable input from been up to on your behalf. ASCTA at the initial round table meeting with the Minister for Education. Membership Our focus is very much on being member centric. We’ve also been working closely with Swimming Everything we do, and especially anything new, has Australia on payments to coaches on National teams, to pass the membership test. We ask questions like the new Bronze, Silver and Gold qualifications, an “Is this something one or more of our communities independent review of the Paralympic trip to Canada will want or need?” or “How will our members relate in late 2017, development of a coaching strategy, or react to this?”. Part of our commitment to this is implementing the Safe Sport Framework (including the establishment of a member survey which will be following through on a number of complaints), underway by the time this journal arrives in your mail changes to the Optus Junior Dolphins OJD program box. following significant feedback from swim schools, and input into the competition framework. We’ve Another example of this has been our attendance also been promoting a number of SAL initiatives at swimming meets and personal visits to a huge like Australia Swims in late January and volunteer number of swim schools across Australia. While opportunities at the Commonwealth Games Trials these personal interactions with members are time in February and March. consuming, they are invaluable at guiding our work program and priorities. These will continue into the At a Federal level, we’ve been working with the ATO future as we strive to support all members and build on clarifying the GST exemption status for swim on our knowledge of what’s going on out there. schools offering water safety within their program, and have been making submissions to the Fair Work On 1 January 2018 the ASCTA membership changed Commission about changes to the Fitness Industry from 12 to 4 membership categories. Previously there Award proposed by the Australian Workers Union, was a Basic membership which, among other things, which may have a financial impact on employers of was provided to all participants of SAT courses. The learn to swim and water safety teachers. intention was to promote ASCTA membership. The only problem was the Basic membership didn’t actually Courses provide many of the benefits other members received. Our move to online has been a long time coming. By removing this category our aim is to keep more Our new partnership with Dita Solutions is members engaged and updated on developments working out well and the SAT and SAT Babies in the areas of coaching, teaching and swim school and Toddlers courses are now online with others operations. continued next page SWIMMING IN AUSTRALIA 5 to follow very soon. This allows us to simplify the Behind the scenes course and participant administration process. Our In partnership with Swimming Australia, we have course validations are now underway to improve embarked on a re-development of our membership consistency of delivery and meet RTO requirements, database. We are also working with SAL to refresh and we have instigated a presenters workshop at the and consolidate our ASCTA and Swim Australia asctaCONVENTION to improve the overall consistency websites. These are significant changes and we are and delivery of courses. investing a good amount of time and resources to get this right. The accreditation system has been streamlined to make the application process more efficient and ensure We’ve also done a lot work on our reporting to the compliance with RTO requirements including removing Board, and members. This includes the review of a the Recognition of Current Competency and replacing number of policies including finance, delegations it with Recognition of Prior Learning. of authority, risk management and governance. The Board are now getting more detailed financial Events reporting on a monthly basis and a quarterly review The 2018 asctaCONVENTION is almost upon us and of our risk register. the changes are evident. A new location and venue, consolidated timeframe, enhanced exhibition area, In summary unified awards dinner, one welcome function for everyone and a great program to look forward to. A ASCTA is the home for coaches, teachers and swim large group of members were engaged to get feedback schools. I hope you will stick with us on our journey on the topics, presenters and social functions.