The Wave- The official blog of SwimLabs Swim School

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Vote for SwimLabs! Colorado Parent Magazine is conducting a “Best Family Places of 2009″ survey. It’s your chance to participate in a survey that will tell Colorado Families about those places that have been good for YOUR family. Whether you want to tell them about the best place to Learn to Swim, the best Park or Outdoor Area, or the best local Toy Store, Colorado Parent Wants to hear from you.

Here’s the link: www.surveyconsole.com/console/TakeSurvey?id=531730

We’d love to have you vote for SwimLabs while you are there, but please take the opportunity to tell them about everything that your family loves to do!

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SwimLabs is proud to announce that the 2009 Aquaman Swim/Run Race Series! This is an opportunity for Triathletes and Swimmers of all ages and ability levels to experience the thrill of open water swimming at a fun, competitive environment at a variety of different distances. It’s also a great chance to get out of that pool and practice open water swimming skills such as pacing and a mass start format.
This year, there are a number of imrpovements. For one, we have added a new race- participants will also have an opportunity to try a Swim/Run event; a .5 or 1 mile swim followed by a 5k run. We have also changed our location to Smoky Hill Beach, created an improved series scoring points based system, and we are offering a reduced price for the Swim Only series!
Despite these improvements, the Aquaman series will still offer free entry into Cherry Creek State Park for participants, Free sandwiches from Jimmy Johns after all races, .5 – 2 mile swims, a relaxed race environment, and the same Great Value as before.
This series will run on Tuesday nights between June 30th and August 4th. If you would like more information, please contact SwimLabs at info@swimlabs.com, or call (303)798-7946.
You can also visit http://www.withoutlimitsproductions.net for registration info, or cost.

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At SwimLabs, we are firm believers that technique is the single most important aspect of becoming a good swimmer. We’ve seen it over and over again how small technique changes can yield fantastic results, whether you are looking to cut time in a specific race or are just looking to make swimming easier on yourself.

The following is a letter from the Johnson family, who experienced first hand how changes to their daughters swimming technique yielded fantastic results just a short time later:

Hi Mike & Giff

Our 8 year old daughter, Cami Johnson, began her private lessons with you June 25, 2008 to improve her times in her Freestyle and Breaststrokes. She was swimming in a Summer League and when she began with you her times during the season had been deteriorating despite her goal of qualifying for the All Stars with at least one qualifying time.

I’d like to share with you the improvement of her times during the course of the past month:

25 Free: Before lessons, best time of 21:01
Championships, 19.43 (All Stars qualifying time is 20:80)

50 Free: Before lessons, best time 55:33
Championships, 44:47 (All Stars qualifying time is 48:10)

25 Breast: Before lessons, best time of 30:53
Championships, 25:89 (All Stars qualifying time is 28:10)

Cami is absolutely ecstatic about these results (and so are her parents)!! She not only achieved All Star status in one event, but she will be swimming in all three All Star events next saturday in Castle Rock.

We are big believers in SwimLabs and the Swim Technique theory. We were truly amazed with the dramatic change in results after just 4 private lessons!!! We will definitely be back next year before the summer season!!!

Thanks again Giff & Mike, we really appreciate everything you did for Cami. The results were phenomenal!

Diane Johnson

At SwimLabs, we can teach you to swim fast…faster.

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There are several Learn to swim programs in the Denver Metropolitan Area, all offering what can sound like very similar programs. The words “certified”, “warm water”, and “year round” get thrown around quite a lot, which can create some confusion as to how each and every program stands apart, and ultimately, why you should spend money with one of them and not another.
At SwimLabs, we know that we do stand apart from the other area swim schools. We are definitely a certified, year round, warm water swimming school, with highly trained and experienced coaches, but we are much more too.
The main thing that sets SwimLabs apart is our use of high technology to better teach and coach our clientele how the sport of swimming works. At SwimLabs, we use both Endless Pool technology, and Dartfish Video Analysis technology to better teach and coach our clients. Using these two technologies in tandem, we are able to teach our learn to swim clients more quickly and efficiently than can be done at a traditional swimming pool, and for our advanced clients, we are able to pinpoint exact features of stroke technique that will allow them to improve.
Most area swim schools cater specifically towards children, or at the most to competitive teenagers. At SwimLabs, we know that swimming is a life long sport that can be enjoyed by everyone, of all ages and ability levels, and so while we do have one of the best and most progressive youth learn to swim programs in the state, we also feature a similar program geared towards adults who are interested in becoming involved with the sport for the first time, or looking to advance the skills that they learned in earlier, younger days.
Another feature of SwimLabs that sets us apart is our competitive coaching program. Whether you are an Age Group Recreational or Competitive Swimmer, a Masters Swimmer, or a Triathlete, the SwimLabs coaching staff can help you become a more balanced and efficient swimmer, and to drop time in the process. With the use of our Endless Pool technology and Dartfish Video analysis software, we can easily record your swimming technique from a vast number of camera angles, both above and below the water, and then show you exactly how your technique works, and things that you can do to improve it. We also are capable of showing you video of any number of Olympic caliber athletes, performing the same stroke from the same camera angle, so that you can see exactly what they do that makes them so affective.
At SwimLabs, we know that the best way to make a decision about a swim school or coach is to see exactly what a sample session would look like- as such, we invite you to look at our website, and our videos, to see exactly what we’re all about.