Founded in Bloemfontein, Neptune Aquatics has gained a reputation for being a highly competitive and successful swimming club at all levels, and it is home to numerous swimmers and athletes who have excelled and continue to excel nationally and internationally.
Our swim coaches help their swimmers develop confidence in themselves and in swimming and help to give them the tools to pursue their goals.
Swimming provides an excellent full body workout. Our Coaches and Instructors are qualified, prepared and eager to help you to dive in and to reach your goals.
By joining Neptune Club swimmers qualify for Regional, Provincial and National affiliations.
Our coaching team are all swim and SA Swim qualified and certified.
Swimming exercises encompass both cardiovascular activity and strength training. Engaging in swimming provides a comprehensive workout that not only tones muscles but also enhances strength and endurance.
The Learn to Swim programme teaches the principles of aquatic safety, water orientation and survival techniques the core aquatic skills. These are the basic skills a swimmer requires to be comfortable, and easily advance in the aquatic environment once mastered, and include; Aquatic Breathing.
Through a structured teaching programme, children will learn the competitive laws of all strokes, turns and starts whilst building a base fitness level.
Junior Swimming Lessons 5 - 14 years. Lessons are divided into stages where children will learn fundamental movement skills before having the opportunity to develop in a specific aquatic discipline. At each stage there are a range of outcomes children must achieve in order to progress to the next stage.
At this level swimmers still refine skills, but training becomes more serious and is designed by professional coaches to get athletes to peak performance when they are physically and mentally prepared to do so.
Masters swimming is a special class of competitive swimming for swimmers 25 years and older.
Aqua circuit training offers comparable advantages to traditional land-based training, frequently requiring less equipment and presenting a broader range of exercises. The resistance provided by water enables athletes to engage various muscle groups, thereby enhancing overall flexibility and strength.
These classes are available in private, team and squad format.
Our objective is to unite professional athletes from various sectors of the aquatics field, to foster networking, to education, to create advocacy, to enrich, and to enhance the level of the aquatics industry throughout South Africa.
Swimming South Africa is the governing body for the sport of swimming in South Africa, recognised by the FINA.
Free State Aquatics will strive to serve the community and the country in developing excellent swimmers.
Developing excellent swimmers and bring the basic of swimming to the community.
Neptune Aquatics is privileged to provide the finest training facilities for our training programmes. Our swimmers in Bloemfontein can choose from the following venues…
During my coaching years from 2013, I have successfully coached several talented swimmers, obtaining qualifying times and numerous places on district, provincial, and national levels (Level 1, Level 2, Level 3, Jr National & Snr National Level). Specifying the exact number of qualifiers and places will take a long time.
Important, I have also taught swimmers to be water safe, to better themselves, to be disciplined to achieve the best of their ability, not all swimmers are the same, they are all individual champions.
I have been district coach for Fezile Dabi on numerous occasions as well as Free State coach, also for SA Schools. I travelled to Italy with the SA Development Teams twice. (2014 & 2015)
I am involved with many school children swimming for Neptune Aquatics who have done exceptionally in different sports platforms. I coached Eunice High School and Primary School last season. My goal is to produce outstanding results and drive in competitive swimming.
Coaching swimming is my passion and I am always eager and available to improve my knowledge through further training. I endeavour to attend as many possible courses as possible and I will always avail myself to SSA wherever I may be needed to improve the sport in our country.
