A Message from Head Coach

Dear Parents, Welcome to Bangkok Dolphins,

Coaching for short term competitive swimming results is easy! Give the athletes as many metres as they can handle at race pace with little concern towards stroke or technique. Unfortunately, this “overtraining”, year after year often leads to injuries and causes athletes to lose interest and leave the sport before they have reached their potential. Bangkok Dolphins do not believe in providing the training that breaks down athletes, either in body or in spirit. We provide educated, professional coaches that help our athletes achieve top performance results without overtraining.

At Bangkok Dolphins we can match or beat the short-term results of overtraining and easily beat the long-term results through our System of Stroke, Skills and Strategy. Bangkok Dolphins swimmers learn the how’s and the why’s of building the perfect stroke through our age/skill based drills, from beginners to advanced levels, including our introduction to the Wave Breaststroke in the Blue Group and Advanced “Cobra Drills” in the Bronze, Silver and Gold Performance Groups. Skills like Flip Turns, Dives and Streamlines are taught in the same way while Dolphins swimmers learn strategy through “descending” aerobic and strategy specific “sets.”

Make no mistake, our mid and top level swimmers train hard but they are not overtrained and the Bangkok Dolphins System of Skills, Stroke and Strategy (by whatever name) is the most approved method of coaching in the United States and Australia, the countries with the best age-group swimming programmes in the world.

We hope that you agree that Bangkok Dolphins will provide the thoughtful and insightful training that will help young swimmers achieve top results for many years to come. We greatly value your trust.

Michael Belmes, Head Coach