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Day 3 Final Afternoon

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A quick lunch after land work and then straight back to the pool for a kick set and then finally the ‘Baseball Challenge’ ( swimmers can explain it to you!) where Hendrik’s team were the eventually winners. Now back on the coach home with tired but happy swimmers. Awards for the morning session went to Erin Pritchard and Sebastian Zabarte For afternoon session: Debbie Marngo and Mana Tanaka Swimmers of the day to : Ben Howell ( for his amazing box jumping)  and David Binschedler The end of a great camp. Swimmers tried really hard and hope they picked up many of the skills covered this weekend.
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Day 3

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Day 3 and a (small) lie-in this morning with a 6.40am meet for a freestyle video technique session before heading to breakfast at 7am!   Suitably fuelled up and then over to the pool for the 2 hour freestyle session! No rest for top athletes as they then headed straight to the gym for some strength and conditioning training. A beautiful day here in Tavistock and another rare sunny day. Swimmers longing for 12pm and their lunch.  
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Day 2 afternoon session - Breaststroke

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A dedicated breaststroke session this afternoon started with inspirational technique videos by Olympians Chloe Sutton and Brenton Rickard.  A whole session of breastrsoke technique where both squads displayed great enthusiasm and effort toward understanding and acquiring new skills. Swimmers of the morning backstroke session were awarded to: Zoe Ryan  and Alice Lockhart Swimmers of the afternoon breaststroke session were awarded to : Maddie Livingston and Charlie Wale Swimmers of the day (great effort in both sessions) were awarded to: Hendrik van der Leest and Gemma Robins
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Land training and team work

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A great session using the specially equipped  swimming  gym at Mount Kelly.  Great effort by everyone from monkey bars, pull-ups, rowing machines , floor work and more. A beautiful day ( and rare day without rain we are told) so team work outside afterwards. Teams were given a sheet and a ball and had to score as many goals as possible in a short time frame, without letting go of the sheet!  4 goals won the day!
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Day 2 Morning Session - Backstroke

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6.15am meet for the pre-pool technique video session and 5 min walk in the rain to the 7am pool session. Backstroke technique day and no escaping the cameras as video analysis and feedback to the swimmers. One more hour until breakfast!
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End Day 1

Some fine grub followed by some team time. Tonight’s challenge was to come up with a new team chant ( and only 10mins to do so!). Some very creative ideas! Awards for the session today was very difficult to choose as many stepped up to the tough fly session. In the end awarded to: Niamh Uttley Joely Hartwell Alexej Baldwin Lights out at 10pm and all quiet ( for now!) 6.15am meet tomorrow for swim session at 7am!
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The main buildings and grounds at Mount Kelly 

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