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JULY 17, 4-9 PM BLOCK PARTY!!

SKA ANNUAL FUNDRAISER AT KOLOA PLANTATION DAYS.

PARENTS AND SWIMMERS WORK THE BOOTH AND COLLECT FUNDS

FOR SWIM KAUAI GENERAL BUDGET. LIKE BEING AN OOMPA

LOOMPA WITHOUT THE PURPLE FAT SUIT! SATISFIES ALL MIDNIGHT

SUGAR URGES FOR MONTHS. SIGN UP ON JUNE 19 SWIM MEET OR WITH RYAN BUHK. BUHKS @YAHOO.COM

newsletter of swim kauai aquatics June 2010

19 JUNO SWIM MEETUS FASTUS IN THE PROUD TRADITION OF THE

GREEKS AND THEIR FAMOUS STATUES, SWIMMERS WILL BE POSING AS HERMES

THE GOD OF GOING FAST NOWHERE. THE HOURS SPENT IN THE POOL WILL BE ON DISPLAY SATURDAY JUNE 19. SWIMMERS REPORT 7:45 AM. PIGEONS RELEASED AT

9:00 SHARP. SWIMMERS SHORTLY THEREAFTER. 6 LANES 18 TIMERS AND

REALLY FAST THUMBS. EVERYBODY PLAYS AND SUNSHINE GUARANTEED! CONTACT

COACH BILLY: SWIMKAUAI@GMAIL.COM

UPCOMING STUFFWORKING OUT DETAILS FOR A NEW ONLINE TEAM SURVEY THAT CAN BE

ACCESSED VIA THE WEBSITE AND CAN ALSO FUNCTION AS A

SUGGESTION BOX. NEW INCENTIVE PROGRAM FOR ALL

SWIM LEVELSFALL AWARDS FUNCTION

MEGA YEAR END PARTY DEC 3 HYATT ON A FRIDAY!

THE SITUATION ROOM THIS MONTH WE HAVE A SWIM MEET AT THE YMCA ON SATURDAY JUNE 19. SWIMMERS REPORT AT 7:45 AM. KIDS: BRING CHAIRS, TOWELS, SNACKS AND SOMETHING FOR THE LOVE OF MIKE TO DRINK! PROPER HYDRATION ON SUMMER DAYS IS VITAL TO HEALTHY MINDS AND FAST SWIMS. CALL

EMAIL OR SMOKE SIGNAL COACH BILLY AND ENTER TO SWIM BY JUNE 12TH! WE NEED ALL HANDS ON DECK FOR A GREAT MEET. PLEASE KOKUA AND VOLUNTEER TO BE A TIMER AND CHEER YOUR FISH ALONG. AND! PLEASE COME AND ROUSTABOUT FRIDAY THE 18TH AT 4 PM TO PUT UP THE TENTS

AND CHAIRS ETC.. JULY 17 WE HAVE OUR KOLOA PLANTATION DAYS FUNDRAISER COURTESY

OF LAPPERT’S ICE CREAM (THE YUMMIEST ON EARTH.) THE KEY IS 10 OR SO ENTHUSIASTIC ORDER TAKERS GOOD WITH $$, WILLING TO WORK A SHIFT

DURING THE BLOCK PARTY. ALL VOLUNTEERS GET A SKA T-SHIRT AND A HANDCRAFTED MUG (HEWN FROM WOOD AND BONE BY “CHICKENFOOT TOM

LICEBEARD” AND “ SKINNY ALICE BRAMBLEHAIR” HIPPIE RESIDENTS OF KALALAU VALLEY.) MANY OF OUR TEAM MEMBERS WILL BE ON OAHU AT THE

STATE CHAMPIONSHIP THE SAME WEEKEND SO WE NEED YOUR HELP. RYAN BUHK: BUHKS@YAHOO.COM FOR INFO

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Aloha,

It’s been a great couple of weeks here at the YMCA, as the kids are out of school, and the pool is getting warmer. Our swimmers have been doing very well both in and out of the pool this year, and it has been a fun month to look back and see how far these kids have come. All of our kids do very well academically, and push themselves everyday athletically with us. A big “Congrats” goes out to all of our student-athletes on our program, especially Aaron Pigott who graduated this year, and is off to Emery-Riddle at the end of the summer. He has been amazing for our program, and his family has been huge for all of us. We will miss you guys!Coming up here this summer will be two meets at the YMCA, one June 19th and the other August 7th. These meets are for everyone, and are strongly encouraged even for our beginner swimmers. Meets are fun, and very rewarding when you get a best time, or swim a race that he/she has never done before. Let’s all try and come out for those meets as those should be a lot of fun. Also coming up after that will be the State Championships in Oahu, July 16-19. It will be a great meet as a lot of our swimmers are posed for great swims. Please let me know your intentions to go soon, as I need to get things in order before that big meet a little earlier than usual. Finally, a couple of different activities that SKA is up to this summer will be playing water polo and participate in an ocean race. On Wednesdays, we have been playing polo for a bit and having the team playing together learning the game. It has been fun as we have been working on positions, positioning the players, and learning “the flow of the game”. It has been very beneficial for everyone as we are training hard, but using different muscles, and aspects of athleticism in all of our swimmers. Also, the Hanalei Ocean Race is July 31. It is a fun event with the “pier swim”, the One Mile, and the everlasting Two Mile. I hope everyone can come up and do it. We have swept a couple of events these past two years, and I would love to see SKA go up and “represent to the fullest!”Anyway, keep swimming hard guys; It will all pay off this summer. Keep the focus, and keep challenging yourself to get better!

Aloha,Coach Billy

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SKA NEWS

MUST HAVES FOR THE NEW SWIMMER/BASIC RULES

• Goggles: Swimmers use goggles to protect their eyes from the chlorine as well as to gain a clear view of their surroundings in the pool. There are a variety of colors and styles depending on the preference of the swimmer. Goggles range from $6.50 – $29.99.

• Caps: Caps are designed to keep the hair out of swimmers’ faces and goggles straps into place. Caps range from $3.99 - $19.99.

• Women’s Practice Suit: Practice suits are used during workouts. They are created with a stronger material for durability. Some may create extra drag to make the workout more challenging. Women’s practice suits range from $33.00 - $76.00.

• Men’s Practice Suit: Practice suits are used during workouts. They are created with a stronger material for durability. Some may create extra drag to make the workout more challenging. Men’s practice suits range from $22.00 - $47.00.

Note: SKA HAS A SWIM SHOP AT THE POOL WITH GOGGLES, CAPS, SUITS AND JAMMERS PLUS !  ITEMS YOU MAY NEED FINS KICKBOARD PADDLES (HANDS) PULL BUOYS.

NANA’S HOUSE NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!!

Last year Nana’s House served a total of 400 families, 722 adults and 560 children. Nana’s House is a Family Support center in Waimea on the West Side of Kaua’i. Families come varied ethnic backgrounds, 207 were Native Hawaiians.  This year that amount will be much higher due to the economic situation, loss of jobs, and budget cuts.  The hardest time for families that are already struggling is during the summer because that means no breakfast or lunch.  Jobs on the West Side are very slim and a lot of our families do not have transportation. We have a Food Pantry that is open four times a week and a clothing closet for our west side families that is open 9-5 pm Monday thru Thursday and 8:30-4pm on Fridays.  We have Family Counseling, Case Management, Information and Referral, Budgeting Classes, Parenting Classes, Substance Abuse Treatment for Pregnant Women, Perinatal Support Services and Smoking Cessation Classes.  We come under the umbrella of Child & Family Service and our mission is Strengthening Families and Fostering the Healthy Development of Children.  We are a non-profit organization and all of our services are free. Please contact Pam Chock for more information regarding this important family resource and for volunteering opportunities. kff@hawaii.rr.com

Trained officials observe the swimmers during each event to ensure compliance with these technical rules. If a swimmer commits an infraction of the rules that is observed by an officIal, a disqualification (DQ) will result. This means that the swimmer will not receive an official time and will not be eligible for an award in that event. A disqualification may result from actions such as not getting to the starting blocks on time, false starting, performing strokes in an illegal manner, or unsportsman­like conduct. DQs are also a result of technical rules violations. They include but are not limited to:  

• Freestyle: Walking on the bottom, pulling on the lane rope, not touching the wall on a turn, or not completing the distance.

• Backstroke: Pulling or kicking into the wall once a swimmer has turned passed the vertical onto the breast. Turning onto the breast before touching the wall with the hand at the finish of the race.

• Breaststroke: An illegal kick such as flutter (freestyle), dolphin (butterfly), or scissors (side stroke); not on the breast; alternating movements of the arms; taking two arm strokes or two leg kicks while the head is under water; touching with only one hand at the turns or finish. 

• Butterfly: Alternating movements of the arms or legs; pushing the arms forward under instead of over the water surface (underwater recovery); a breaststroke style of kick; touching with only one hand at the turns or finish.

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YOU THINK SWIMMING IS TOUGH NOW?OK kids time to climb into the boony-kine time way back machine and take a look at when speedos were woven from pine needles and goggles were for jet pilots. In 1971 swim meets were held in the municipal water treatment plant. During the summer time, the water filters were turned on and much of the solids were drained away allowing us kids a few hours in the morning to swim some laps before the rash appeared. The summer swim season in Northern Idaho unfolded with us kids rolling out of bed at 4:00AM to feed the moose and grab a quick slab of back bacon slathered in butter and syrup. We rode our our Schwinn Stingrays down the mountain and stopped to throw rotten apples at passing train cars packed with hobos heading off to the great cities of the west like Walla Walla. The pool opened early and the entrance was manned by metal turnstiles that had the same effect of monkey bars, turning everyone under 12 into acrobatic lemurs

and keeping no one out. Once inside, behind a screened cage lurked the coaches and lifeguards whose dimly lit faces revealed noses thickly coated in white zinc oxide, the kabuki make-up of choice for all lifeguards in the 1970’s. An occasional “No Running!” was blurted out from behind the cage and had no effect once we were safely out of sight. The lane lines doubled as sturgeon nets and sometimes if we were lucky we could swim down and find fresh sashimi stuck between the floats. There was an urban legend that the local fishermen used unruly 8 year olds as bait and we often wondered about the occasional speedo hanging limply from a lane line. The entire perimeter of the pool had a tiny urinal called a “gutter” that was deep and gurgled and gushed angrily with all sorts of unmentionable flotsam. (mostly band aids never actual guts). The gutters were so deep, once you were in the water you stayed in the

water until the coaches lowered the nets and you could clamber up like a rescued sailor set adrift on the ocean. The photo in this column was taken just a few moments after a layer of ice was skimmed off the surface and during this literal “golden hour” we swam as many laps as possible before the algae bloomed with the rising sun. For warmth during the swim a thons we layered our selves with bear grease (neck fat is best). We could swim for hours insulated in mother nature’s own meat flavored wetsuit. On the bottom was a crack at least six inches wide and several feet long. A colony of child size sea monkeys lived in the chasm snatching unwary swimmers into the depths. That’s what I heard. As you can see by the look on my face I had swallowed a wee bit too much pool water and judging by the color and clarity it was probably on one of those days when the filter was offline. So when the sun isn’t shining or the sets seem too long think about the hardships of those swimmers who went before you. Be glad your pool water is blue and the lanes lines don’t smell like fish. -d

a mouthful about to see daylight....

*TBA SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE

PLEASE NOTE THAT SKA WILL BE HOSTING 8 MEETS THIS YEAR PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDARS IN ADVANCE .

SKA MEET SCHEDULE 2009–2010

DATE MEET TYPE LOCATION NOTES

OCT. 17 SKA UNCLASSIFIED YMCA TEAM EFFORT

OCT. 24–25 BILL SMITH INVITE OAHU AA+

Nov 7 SWIMATHON FUNDRAISER YMCA TEAM EFFORT

NOV 13–14–15 Senior Champs championship Oahu Q -Times/ senior B

NOV. 21 SKA UNCLASSIFIED YMCA TEAM EFFORT

DEC. 18–21 SC CHAMPS CHAMPIONSHIP BIG ISLAND QUAL TIMES

JAN KIF Q meets High School kapaa waimea ymca all month

JAN 30 KIF Championship High School YMCA top eight

JAN. 17 SKA KEIKI MEET UNCLASSIFIED YMCA TEAM EFFORT

FEB 20 Ed HO Fun Meet Waimea, Kauai OPEN

FEB. 21 SKA UNCLASSIFIED YMCA TEAM EFFORT

APRIL 10–11 KAUAI CLASSIC UNCLASSIFIED YMCA TEAM EFFORT

APRIL 24–25 MAMIZUKA INVITE OAHU AA+

MAY 1 KLY TRIATHLON FUNDRAISER KAUAI TEAM EFFORT

MAY 15 SKA UNCLASSIFIED YMCA TEAM EFFORT

JUNE 5–6 BIG ISLAND UNCLASSIFIED BIG ISLAND AA MAX

JUNE 19 SKA UNCLASSIFIED YMCA TEAM EFFORT

JUNE 25–27 SENIOR CHAMPS CHAMPIONSHIP OAHU QUAL TIMES

JULY 15–18 LC State Championships

CHAMPIONSHIP OAHU QUAL TIMES

JULY 31 OCEAN SWIM OPEN WATER HANALEI TEAM EFFORT

AUG 7 SKA UNCLASSIFIED YMCA TEAM EFFORT

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board of directorsDan Britzmann — President .. 639-8792 britzmand001@hawaii.rr.comKathleen Littlefield — Treasurer...652-1385Heather Hopkins — Registration Czar ...652-7141 Stacey Machorek — Secretry/Transportation Minister ..651-5311Ryan Buhk-VP/Fundraising Chair 346-9757Billy Brown-- Head Coach..497-4403 swimkauai@gmail.com

contacts: Coach Kelly Anstead--431-4822 kellyanstead@gmail.com

Waimea: Coach Jeff: jjcasey@hawaii.edu

public relationsStacey Machorek at 332-9680 or hoonanea4@hawaii.rr.comSwim Kauai AquaticsPO Box 1296Koloa HI 96756

Practice Schedule

Bronze: M-T-TH-F 3:30–4:15 PM

Silver: M-T-W-TH-F 4:15–5:30 PM

Gold: M-T W-TH-F 4:15–5:45 PM

Jr. M-T-W-TH-F 3:30–5:30 PM

Sr. M-T-W-TH-F 3:30–6:00 PM

Jr.& Sr. Saturday: 8–10:15 AM

Waimea Pool Schedule

M-W-F

5:15–6:15 PM

Mission Statement:

Swim Kauai was founded in 2005 as an educational entity. The purpose of the club is to teach swimming skills to children and adults. The club also encourages physical fitness through the United States Swimming organized competition as well as other water sports for children and adults.

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