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
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How do you cut through the noise! SHOUT? We will continue to push the envelope on the basis Communicate in different ways by using social media that people “want what they know” – they don’t or short videos, sending email newsletters or calling necessarily “know what they want”. It’s our role people, drop-in visit or post a journal. 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. After all of continuous improvement so we can better support the hard work pulling this together, I’m confident we our amazing community of people who are so will get the numbers to make it great! passionate about swimming and water safety.
We ran an International conference in Singapore in June Please let us know if you want more detail on any the 2017 and are hosting another one in Shanghai in May above items. There are still lots of ideas and areas we 2018. Meanwhile, planning is well and truly underway want to embark on. As I’ve said from the outset, I’m for an International Swim Schools conference in July keen for feedback on how we are doing and where 2018 in conjunction with the United States Swim we should be doing it in the future. We are here for Schools Association. Check out our website for more you! We want and need you to be successful and I details on these events. will SHOUT that from the rooftops until I’m blue in the face. So, keep us on task and keep the feedback Our series of Swim Info sessions held throughout coming… Australia in 2017 was highly successful and we are running these again in 2018 with the intention of Yours in swimming combining these with the State ASCTA conferences where possible.
Partnerships Brendon We have entered into partnerships with a number of organisations to help you be more successful as a coach, teacher or swim school. These include Make it Cheaper for savings on your home and/or business electricity bills, Gold Class Coaching to continue your professional development and Dita Solutions for our on-line course platform. We will look at more partnerships in the future to extend what’s on offer to all members.
6 SWIMMING IN AUSTRALIA SNAPSHOT of 2017
OUR COMMUNITY
Coaches Swim 6915 Teachers Schools active Contacts members WE DELIVERED 4 TAKING THE LEAD Journals
for Fitness Industry Award 200,000 Coaches, ATO GST Exemption Swimming Matters Teachers & Coach Education & Accreditation Swim Schools ADVOCACY 625 Courses 40 for 181 Current Presenters E-Newsletters Coaches, 12 International Teachers & Swim Schools 21 Assistant Presenters EDUCATION 1000 1 International Conference (Singapore) 1 National Conference Social Media Posts 4 State Conferences for Coaches, 12 SwimINFO Conferences Over 1/2 million Teachers & 8 PBC Expos with 10,000 contacts
EVENTS HELD Swim Schools and 100,000 reach distribution Resources 697 ASCTA CONFERENCE ATTENDEES WE ATTENDED16 STATE, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL EVENTS WHAT’S COMING UP AND VISITED 73 SWIM SCHOOLS
Our Partners Practical Qld Dept of Sport & Recreation Member Make It Cheaper Coach Royal Engagement Kids Alive Life SavingVorgee Development Optus Junior Dolphins Autocoach Make It Cheaper Qld Dept of Sport & Recreation
Kids Kids Alive Safety Council Safety
Vorgee Alive Swimming Australia Water Australian Australian Water Safety Council Marsh Insurance SAT New Gold Class Swimming Royal Life Saving Make It Cheaper Courses IT Swimming Australia Optus Junior Dolphins
Marsh Insurance Kids Alive Autocoach Qld Dept of Sport & Recreation Re-developed Platform
Make It Cheaper Vorgee Gold Class Swimming 2018 Australian Water Safety Council Autocoach
SWIMMING IN AUSTRALIA 7 Upcoming asctaCONVENTION 2018 HIGHLIGHTS Wednesday 2nd May Day 3 / Saturday 5th May The Swim School Tour makes a return spending 30 Industry experts Haydn Belshaw, Debby Tattoli, minutes at each of four local Swim Schools. Swim Shannon Townsend and Jade Edmistone present the Australia’s Executive Officer, Gary Toner will host the first ever practical session ‘Lets Get Wet’ during the interactive networking tour. teaching stream. It’s a great chance for delegates to get wet while hearing from these dynamic presenters. Day 1 / Thursday 3rd May The Gold Accreditation Course has recently been reformatted and the only module that requires face to asctaCONVENTION 2018 opens with a bang with face delivery – ‘Race Modelling and Preparation’ will Adelaide Crows Women’s Head Coach, Bec Goddard be presented for the first time. delivering a plenary session on ‘Building a Successful Team’. The buzz will continue into the break as A great lead into the Awards Gala is plenary session delegates experience for the first time the trade on ‘The Pursuit of Success’ presented by former swim exhibitors who will have a range of products including coach and now motivational speaker Bill Nelson. This goggles, caps, fins, heating, pool covers, software and year the asctaAWARDS and Swim Australia Awards more on show. dinners have been combined into an entertaining Awards Gala presented by Nicole Livingstone and International presenters John Leonard, Matthew Andrew Baildon. Coaches, Teachers and Swim Schools Lane and Julie-Ann James all make an appearance. will be recognised for their achievements and hard The newly formatted Silver Accreditation Course is work throughout 2017. delivered for the first time as part of asctaCONVENTION 2018. Day one will end on a good vibe with the welcome function and the presentation of asctaRINGS. Day 4 / Sunday 6th May
Day 2 / Friday 4th May 2018 Australian Commonwealth Games Attaché Andrew Baildon opens proceedings with a plenary Day 2 starts nice and early at 5.30am with the session on ‘Commonwealth Games Review and opportunity to watch Olympic Team Coach David Lush Legacy’. delivering a training session with his elite swimmers To ensure that ASCTA / Swim Australia’s brand and including Emily Seebohm, Brittany Elmslie and Minna reputation is being enhanced through consistent and Atherton. Regular proceedings begin with a plenary professional course presenters, the inaugural Swim session from Paul Greenberg, CEO of National Online Australia Presenter Workshop will be a must for all Retail Association. course presenters. Teaching babies ‘guru’ Laurie Lawrence and his A concept borrowed from our American counterparts daughter Emma Lawrence present and host the is Q&A sessions with Sergio Lopez and John Leonard. annual Swim Australia Teacher of Babies and Toddlers Delegates will have the opportunity to tap into the Course and Babies and Toddlers Workshop. With the wealth of knowledge these two coaches have. relocation of the Convention, delegates will for the first time visit the AquaLogan Laurie Lawrence Swim asctaCONVENTION 2018 finishes on a high note with School in Underwood. the only coach to have a swimmer achieve an individual gold medal at a major competition in 2017, David A world class line up of coaches to present ‘Senior Lush presenting on ‘Competition Planning for Peak Strokes Session’ including Keynote Presenters Sergio Performance. Lopez, Budapest World Championships Australian Team Coach, Scott Talbot and Windsor Short Course World Championships Australian Team Coach, Shaun Crow.
8 SWIMMING IN AUSTRALIA Keynote Presenters
PAUL GREENBERG (SOUTH AFRICA/AUSTRALIA) Paul Greenberg is an entrepreneur, speaker, author, and advisor who’s career includes directorships in commercial enterprises and charities, and investment in start-ups. Having co-founded the hugely successful DealsDirect online department store in 2004, Paul is often regarded as a pioneer of online retail in Australia. The challenges and frustrations he faced during this time led to the founding of NORA – a dynamic, forward-facing industry body designed to help businesses overcome their obstacles and succeed.
A positive and motivating speaker, Paul has spent years educating and entertaining audiences locally and abroad with his engaging and insightful presentations. He is passionate about uplifting the spirits of retailers nationwide and always seeks to provide a ‘glass half-full’ perspective.
Paul’s unwavering commitment to supporting the constantly evolving and vastly diverse retail community saw him top Demandware’s Influencer 50 list in 2016. Paul has a degree in Psychology from the University of Stellenbosch.
BILL NELSON (AUSTRALIA) Bill Nelson is an elite international sporting coach who has turned his knowledge of developing peak team and individual performance into a world-class corporate consultancy, Total Performance Concepts Pty Ltd.
Businesses, defence forces, educational institutions, local government, and elite sporting programs throughout the world rely on Bill’s wisdom of the science of performance improvement through leadership, team building and the development of organisational culture.
After providing his insight and experience exclusively to Olympic or elite level athletes for many years, Bill expanded his scope and now coaches and mentors a wide variety of leading business organisations and personnel.
ANDREW BAILDON (AUSTRALIA) Andrew Baildon is a former freestyle and butterfly swimming champion, who represented Australia in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul and the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Andrew was a medalist at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand where he became the first swimmer in the Commonwealth to break the 50 second barrier for the 100m freestyle, when he smashed his own Commonwealth record to win gold (49.80s), and the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada. He was a medalist in 4 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships.[1]
In 1990, Andrew achieved No. 1 World ranking for 100m Butterfly (Short Course). Andrew was the Australian Team Representative for over a decade, the Australian record holder for the 50 and 100 metre freestyle from 1989 - 1996 and the Commonwealth record holder for most of that period. He was ranked in the top twenty swimmers in the world for over a decade.
Andrew was the Australian Team Captain in 1993 and 1994 (when Australia achieved one of its best pool performances at the Commonwealth Games in Canada).
Andrew was awarded the Australian Sports Medal for his service to sport. Andrew was instrumental in the successful Commonwealth Games Bid in St Kits & Nevis, bringing the 2018 Commonwealth Games to the Gold Coast, Queensland.
Member of the Sport & Technical Committee for the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. Chairman of the Athletes Advisory Board for the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. Member of the Queensland State Government's Legacy Committee for the 2018 Games.
Andrew and wife Karen own and manage 3 successful Swim schools and Jetts Health clubs on the Gold Coast and Brisbane.
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