The Aquabear Swim Team (BEAR) is a year-round competitive swim team offering a professional, multi leveled, and tailored swim program to meet the needs of each and every swimmer. BEAR also offers a recreational level program (with or without swim meets) during the summer, fall, and spring months.
The team operates out of the Aquabear Swim Club (formerly Oracle Heights) on the northwest side of Tucson at one of longest standing and reliable facilities in Tucson. The facility comprises a 5-lane 25 yard training and competition pool that is heated and maintained at a comfortable 80-82 degrees year round.
We also offer a 30ft x30ft 12 ft "diving well" that is set up for an additional 5 lanes for beginner level swim team.
We emphasize fundamental skills, physical conditioning, productive work habits, character growth, healthy competition, and most of all - enjoyment.
BEAR swimmers compete in meets which are held locally, regionally and nationally.
The Aquabear Swim Team focus is on producing a long term "family" of progressing swimmers-athletes receiving the benefits of lifelong health, social growth, and successful academic and athletic performance.
Our goals for this team include the following (in no particular order):
- Top-level team pride and unity
- Excellent communication
- fun and positive environment
- High expectations of success for dedicated athletes
- Excellent technique and skills
- The ability for all the swimmers to compete in all the events offered in their age group
- Development of lifelong skills and attributes such as goal-setting, commitment, work ethic, and working together as a team
- Provide a safe, healthy, and positive environment for swimmers of all ages, free of bullying and any form of abuse.
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Our summer swim team, the Tucson Aquabears runs for 9 weeks from. to and includes 3 practices per week and 4-6 meets.
We also offer a 5-week pre-season starting
*Cost:*
Preseason and Full Season (13 weeks) is $. (includes entry into all the Summer swim meets, a Team Swim Cap, a Team T-Shirt), and scheduled practices for 3 months
Summer Season (8 weeks) is $includes entry into all the Summer swim meets, a Team Swim Cap, a Team T-Shirt), and scheduled practices for 2 months
*Practice Schedule: *
PRE-SEASON:
Fridays:
Saturdays:
Sundays:
SUMMER SEASON:
MWF. 7:30-8:30AM (12-18yrs).
MWF 10:00-11:00AM (5-8 yrs).
MWF 11:00-12:00PM (8-11 yrs).
Registration and Evaluations:
Email or call us (520 820 3233) to schedule an evaluation (for group placement) or just to by come and check out our pool and facility. Registration is ongoing throughout the summer but space is limited.
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It has been a life changing experience having our boys on this swim team. Coach Justin is far and away the most skilled coach there is in Arizona. He is kind, understanding of children and their variety of needs, and a fantastic communicator. Not only is he developing strong athletes, he builds confidence and character. He also has the ability to train his coaches and they too are among the greatest. Any coach you get at Aquabear Swim Club is going to give you a great experience. Highly Recommend!
This is silly but just wanted to let you know we appreciate you and your patience with Bennett. We were at the pool yesterday and a 2 year old drown and it took several minutes to revive him. Just kept thinking about our kids and how thankful we are.
Coach! You helped turn our kid into a fish! We just want you to know how much we appreciate you coaching Tyce last summer.. We got off to a slow start this summer, but we stayed true to the techniques we all learned from you. He now LOVES the water!! Another life you saved!
The New Breaststroke I love watching Adam Peaty and Lilly King do the swimming technique breaststroke . It is the new breaststroke. You might call it a high octane breaststroke, as it is a powerful swimming technique for the 50 and 100, primarily (Adam doesn’t even swim the 200 breast). This new breaststroke should be fast in both tempo and speed. Having a fast stroke rate in breaststroke does not necessarily equate to having speed. It is pretty easy to spin your wheels in breaststroke and waste a lot of energy without having much to show for that effort in terms of speed. Breaststroke is the most timing-sensitive of all four strokes. It requires a completely different set of tools to do well, which includes hip, ankle, and lumbar spinal flexibility. It is also a stroke where, in order to do well, neither the arms nor the legs ever get to rest. For all of these reasons, breaststroke is the most difficult stroke to teach and learn. Lilly and Adam have several things in common in their breaststroke technique. Both swimmers are very strong in the pull and the kick. Both swimmers use their upper bodies and heads extremely well to couple with the pull and the kick. Both swimmers have lightning fast legs. Having the right hip and ankle flexibility enables a breaststroker to push the instep of the feet backward with greater surface area, resulting in more propulsion. Having more lumbar flexibility enables a breaststroker to elevate the shoulders higher out of the water, while still keeping the legs pointing backwards. The higher the shoulders climb, the harder they fall. It is in the falling of the upper body and head where the timing becomes crucial for the kick. If the swimmer is to take advantage of all that energy of the upper body and head crashing down, there is precious little time from the end of the pulling propulsion; when the shoulders are fully elevated and legs pointing backwards, until the start of the subsequent kicking propulsion, when the upper body should be striking the water. Shortly after that, the kinetic energy of the upper body goes to zero. If the kick didn’t happen in time, you just missed the dance. That is where the lightning fast legs comes into play. Recently, using Pressure Meter technology at The Race Club, we measured the force on the pulling hands of world class Croatian breaststroker, Nikola Obrovac. By increasing his stroke rate by 4 strokes per minute (53 to 57) and by increasing the speed of elevation of his shoulders by 9% (207 degrees per second to 227 degrees per second), Niko increased the pressure (force) on his right hand by 9% and on his left hand by 3%. We will feature all of Niko’s results in an upcoming webisode. While Niko’s shoulder elevation is a coupling motion for his breaststroke pulling force, we presume that coupling will work for his kick, also, if the timing is right. To develop lightning fast legs for breaststroke requires great strength and training. Then, with those fast legs, to augment the power of the kick, the head must snap down hard and the body press forward vigorously. Yours in swimming, Gary Sr. https://theraceclub.com/aqua_note/the-new-breaststroke/
