OUTDOORS
CHERRY BEACH
OPEN WATER SWIMMING LESSONS
- improve your open water racing speed
- teach first time open water swimmers basic skills like sighting, safety, and breathing techniques
- how to put your wetsuit on and off quickly
- build your confidence; and more
50-55 minute lessons
| Coach Kelvin | $169.50 ($150+HST) | ||
| Mon, Wed, Fri | 7:40 AM | (1st slot) | |
| 8:40 AM | (if 1st is filled) | ||
| upto 6 PM | by request | ||
| Tues, Thurs | upto 6 PM | by request | |
| Coach Katie | $146.90 ($130+HST) | ||
| Mon, Wed, Fri | 7:40 AM | (1st slot) | |
| 8:40 AM | (if 1st is filled) | ||
| $169.50 ($150+HST) | other times | by request |
COMPLETED FOR THE SEASON
CHERRY BEACH OPEN WATER CLINIC
This is your chance to learn and practice open water skills within a group setting in the protected waters of Cherry Beach! Expert coaches will cover: How to put a wetsuit on, Group Starts, Drafting, Sighting, Turning, Passing, Exiting and Transitions. Coaches will help you understand how to approach an open water race strategically, mentally as well as teach you the physical skills needed to feel safe and comfortable.
DATE: completed
TIME: 8 – 9 AM
LOCATION: Cherry Beach
COACHES Ayesha Rollinson & Kelvin Landolt
PRICE:
REQUIRED EQUIPMENT
- Bright coloured bathing cap
RECOMMENDED EQUIPMENT
- Wetsuit
- Goggles (DARK if sunny, CLEAR if cloudy)
- Visibility Buoy
- Neoprene Socks or Water Shoes (shoreline can be rocky)
REGISTER: email admin@teamatomica.com
PRE-SEASON – INDOORS
3 WEEK OPEN WATER CLINIC
Level: Beginner to Intermediate swimmers with little, or no open water experience. Best suited for swimmers with 1 year or less of open water training or racing. Also suitable for swimmers who have more than 1 year of open water experience, but who want to review open water skills, at a slower, more fundamental level, to improve their confidence and proficiency. Must be able to swim 400m continuously. This is not a learn to swim course – for fundamental swimming skills please see our 5 Pillars course or private lessons.
Description: Let expert and master, open water swimming coach, Kelvin Landolt teach you all of the necessary skills to manage swimming or racing in open water. Wetsuits are welcome!
- WK 1: Breathing101, Sighting 101, Breathing Patterns, Swimming Straight, Water Starts, Buoy Work 101, Drafting.
- WK 2: Wet Suit Introduction, Distance Strategy, Passing, Buoy Work 201, Power Strokes.
- WK 3: 1, 2 & 6 Beat Kicking in Freestyle, Sighting 201, Land Entry, Dolphin Diving, Positioning/Cross Over/Under.
DATES
2024 Dates completed
PRICE:
LOCATION: Riverdale Collegiate – 1094 Gerrard St E, Toronto, ON M4M 2A1
REGISTER: email admin@teamatomica.com
OPEN WATER SKILLS REFRESHER
Level: Intermediate to competitive swimmers with at least 1 year of open water racing or training experience
Description: If you want to maximize our short Canadian open water season, and get a jump on your competition, this skill refresher clinic is for you. Team Atomica Open Water swimming experts, will help you to reestablish your skills, so your are ready to start your seasonal lake swimming, as soon as the waster temperatures allow. Some of the open water swimming technique and race tactics that will be covered include: sighting while maintaining body position and speed, drafting strategies, starts and cornering. The instruction provided will be focused on retraining and enhancing established open water skills. Wetsuits are welcome!
DATES
2024 Dates completed
PRICE:
LOCATION: Riverdale Collegiate – 1094 Gerrard St E, Toronto, ON M4M 2A1
REGISTER: email admin@teamatomica.com
TERMS for Events, Clinics & Workshops
REFUNDS will be issued if Team Atomica cancels any event
CREDIT will be available to participants who need to cancel before the early bird date
NO CREDIT will be available to participants after the early bird date
COACHES are subject to change