My father and rolemodel Erling Christiansen
The Aspria camp in Hamburg 18 – 20 of May is cancelled due to my Fathers funeral. I am sorry about the inconvenience. The camp in Stockholm 25 – 27 of May will take place. Thank you for all the positive notes about my father. He was a great man. His memory will live on. Sincerely Glen Christiansen
How would you like to swim faster and better in your life at the age of 39, 40 or why not 50!!! This is what some of my online swimmers do now. They mix the online coaching with a camp or two per year and this seems to be a great formula for success. At least for Mia 39 who been swimming with the program for two years and just came back from winning the Dutch Open Masters and swimming her fastest time ever. She was a typical swimmer who never reached her full potential as a teenager and quit. Now she is back swimming fast and having fun doing it. Two other swimmers are Anne and Helena who just swam Great Britian Masters and had some very impressive results. Anne, 52 never swam as a child and discovered swimming as an adult. She now swam after 2, 5 years of online training new best times in the 50m and 100m breaststroke: 42,61 and 1.31,82 (7 seconds faster than previous time!) and is looking forward to even faster swims. Helena 40, has been with the program for one year and only been to one camp so far but swims like never before, taking those Irish Masters records down one by one; backstroke, butterfly, freestyle, IM…. This time in England: 4 new Irish Records! Well done!
Anne and Helena from Ireland swam new personal best times at GB MastersMia from Sweden won 50m butterfly at the Dutch Open Masters last weekend
Over 12.000 participants at the World Masters Championships
I remember starting at the first World Masters Championships in 1986 in Tokyo, Japan. Back then hardly no one outside of the adult fanatic swimmers scene took it seriously. They thought it was just a bunch of “used to be” or “wanna be” swimmers who were trying to finally win that desirable medal. Coaches, officials and many younger swimmers didn´t want to participate or be involved. Today after many years of information and promoting Masters swimming is a major power! An economic attractive sport with fantastic possibilities. And it will continue to grow. New swimmers (and coaches) all over the world are discovering Masters swimming and how rewarding and fun it is. My father said some very true words to me some years ago: ” Glen, it seems to me that you have had more fun and more success as a masters swimmers then as a “junior” swimmer” And it is true, because even I who had a fairly successful swimming career with 9 years on the Swedish National team, participation at the Olympic Games, the World and European Championships and a 100m Breast world number 1 ranking, the career “only” lasted 10 years. Then it was over, as for most swimmers. But as a Masters swimmer my “career” will last a life time! I have won 14 World Masters Champion titles since that first time in Tokyo and I still think it is fun! For sure you don´t win all the time, you don´t even swim well all the time but the great thing with masters swimming is that there is always a next year, a new challenge, a new chance!
And even more important: all the friends that you meet at the different Masters competitions and camps all over the world. Friends that you share at least one thing in common with: the love for swimming!
My biggest supporter ever: my Father Erling
The Camps the next weeks will not take place due to family matters. We are sorry about the inconvenience. For those of you who have entered the taper camp in Stockholm May 25th to 27th: this camp will take place. And we have only 4 more spots left for this camp. So if you are intersted in join, hurry up to enter.
Kim (14), Charlie (16) and Dadi (14) talented swimmers from Beirut
Our Swim Camps and Online Coaching is not only for Masters! These three talented swimmers from Beirut have just experienced that and if they train right and well they will make results not only good in their own country Lebanon but also international!
25 children age 4 to 10 joined our first SwimStars Day Camp in Beirut
Youth camp every day from 08:00 to 16:00Swim school from 16:30 to 18:30Masters training from 19:00 to 21:00
The Masters group is growing
The swim school is booming
10-20 April Beirut, Lebanon. Youth and
Swimming in the sun on Tenerife
Masters Camp
27-29 April Hamburg, Germany. Improve your technique and speed Camp.
4-6 May Stockholm, Sweden. Swim better and faster. Camp for pool swimmers, Open Water and Triathletes!
18-20 May Aspria Hamburg, Germany. Improve your technique and speed Camp
25-27 May Stockholm, Sweden. ”Toppnings” camp for World Masters Championships in Riccione, Italy
16 – 29 July Tenerife, Spain. Youth / Masters Sport and swim Camp.
3-8 September Tokyo, Japan. Masters Camp + 9 September Minami Izu International Open Water Race
28 October – 2 November Youth and Masters Camp. Tenerife, Spain. Great chance for parents and children/youths.
3 February – 17 February 2013 Masters Camp. Tenerife, Spain. Book as soon as possible since this is the most popular camp of the year and we are always fully booked. This time with GC snus2 International Open Masters on the 9th of February. Competition will be in the 50m pool and the 25m pool!
Check out this open water video from our Tenerife Camp
Glen Christiansens International Masters Camps he also includes Open Water Training in the program. On Tenerife, where he set up camps 4-5 times a year he does pool sessions, long course and short course, technique analysis in the high tech swimming flume, fitness sessions, seminars on training, competition, stretching and how to stay fast as you get older. He gets swimmers in all ages and from all backgrounds from beginners to Olympic medallists and from 20 year old to 85 year young swimmers. All feel welcome, have fun, learn a lot and meet new friends for life. So far swimmers from these countries have joined Glens Camps: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Germany, Austria, England, France, Belgium, Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Lebanon, Holland, USA, Venezuela, Canada, Japan, Bahamas……
Christoffer Lindhe: Rolemodel of the week! My son Noe (and myself) has a new hero. Christoffer lost his both legs and one arm in an accident 4 years ago. Now is he training for the Paraolympics on a lane next to us at Tenerife TopTraining. He swims so well, is so fast and is so cool/nice. Wow. This beats meeting Ian Thorpe last month.