New Home for Spitfires

Spitfires finswimming club now meets on the first Saturday in the month at the Aldershot 50m pool from 3pm - 5pm. Meet in reception from 2.45. The cost of the lane bookings is shared between everyone.
Please mail simon.kidd@btinternet.com for more information.
Directions and postcode are on the right side links.

Looking for new home

The Southampton Spitfires are currently looking for a new home. We train occasionally at the 50m pool in Aldershot and are planning to return to weekly training sessions soon - somwhere in Hampshire. In the meantime please look at the British Finswimming Association home page.

Next Training Session Saturday 15th July 4-5pm at Aldershot.

There is no training this Sunday at Shirley since we will be joining the BFA training session at Aldershot pool on SATURDAY. Please meet in reception at 3.30. You do need to let Simon know if you are coming - please leave a comment here. Please also ask if you need directions.

Next Training Session Sunday 9th July at Shirley Pool

Normal training session on Sunday 3pm to 5pm. Please leave a comment to confirm you can come. See the link for directions.

Next training session Sunday 2 July at Shirley 3pm

normal times again 3-5 on Sunday 2 July at Sirley pool. Please do leave a comment if you wish to come so we can confirm the pool booking. thanks

Dutch Open Results

A new set of PBs for me...still getting faster
50m apnea 21.26 seconds with a crummy start - better next time you see....
50m surface 24.16s
100m surface 54.11s
200m surface 2min 4s
remind me to enter more races next time

Saturday 10th June @ Aldershot

Another fantastic session at Aldershot. 11 finswimmers in 2 lanes.
All getting ready for the Dutch open next weekend. No session next weekend as we are at the Dutch open...

Next Training Session Sunday 4th June @ Shirley - CANCELLED

Sorry this has been cancelled - next session will be Sat 10th At Aldershot - see below

2 weeks break due to peoples travels. Back on 3rd June from 3-5pm at Shirley Pool. Please leave a comment if you are able to come.

Sunday 14th May

First training session at Aldershot went really well today.
Jason on the poolside and Tom, Simon and Gunnar in the water. Sets were:
400m warmup
400m power work against the float: 10 strokes upright float, 10 flat float and then to the end.
200m tick tock with pace increase at the 25m
4 x 200m tick tock full 50m length
400m straight swim with snorkel alternating lengths with arms out from and arms at side.
swim down: 50m bf, 50m fs, 50m fs, 50m fs, 25m fs, 25m bs, 50m bs, 50m apnea small fins.

The next training session at ALDERSHOT is Saturday 10th June 4-5pm. Arrive for 3.30 warmup. Also note if you have not been before you will need £2.00 for your associate membership of the Garrison
(you have to fill in a form and get your photo taken - so please allow some time for this)

Dates for Aldershot Training Sessions

Dates for finswimming training at the Aldershot Garrison pool are:

Sat 13th May = CANCELLED
Sun 14th May from 2:00 -3:00 pm
Sat 10th June
Sat 15th July
Sat 12th August
Sat 9th Sept
Sat 14th Oct
Sat 23 Oct
Sat 11 Nov
Sat 25 Nov
Sat 9th Dec

all other times from 4-5 pm with 30 mins warmup and swimdown in the open swim session (no fins).
Please leave a comment if you are interested.