ABA Aquatics - Facilities

The ABA Aquatics programme aims to teach swim skills in a play orientated progressive manner beginning from toes in the water for the first time to staying involved as a sport. It is a 6 level programme.Classes are formed according to the relative skill level of the learner. Swimmers are moved from group to group having completed each skill on their current level before being moved to the next. This is vital to ensure that skills taught later have the required preparatory skills taught in advance. Kids begin lessons from 3 years of age and lessons are open to everyone!

ABA Aquatics Swimming Team

ABA Aquatics Swimming Team is the competitive arm of the learn to swim programme. Swimmers begin their competitive journey over 4 squads - Fundamentals, Development, MESAC Development, MESAC. Practice hours range from 2 hours a week at Fundamentals level to up to 18 hours a week at the top of the programme. With a full gym in house, we also deliver a complete strength and conditioning programme 4.5 - 5 hours a week. Our athletes compete in domestic and international meets within the region.

Fundamentals Squad

2 Hours a week - Monday and Wednesday 3pm - 4pm

This squad is designed to standardise the skills amongst the group in preparation for increasing the volume of work completed. Here we work skills and drills, an introduction to competitive starts and turns and start to increase the distance per swimming session. Swimmers learn clock awareness, lane etiquette, and basic controls at a sub maximal aerobic level.

Development Squads

3 Hours a week - Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday 3pm - 4pm

Swimmers in our development squads learn to add more volume to great technique. It is still very much focused on skills and drills. Effective skill development is about demonstrating effective movement when swimming slowly, when swimming tired, when swimming fast. When the technique looks the same at all 3 - it is mastered.

Athletes begin to enter competition more frequently, starting to create a relationship between the practices and the performance at a competition.

MESAC Development Squad

8 Hours a week

MESAC development level aims to create an awareness of purposeful practice - Sessions are designed to ensure that athletes are following a clear process of skill development including technique, pacing, race skills, starts, turns and controls. At MESAC development level athletes are encouraged to take ownership of their training, performances and practice ethics to ensure that there is a clear connection between competition and practice.

MESAC Squad

12 Hours pool per week

4.5 hours gym per week

MESAC squad is the elite level within the programme. Swimmers achieve qualification standards and achieve podium positions at local, regional and international meets. Here athletes have access to strength and conditioning coaches and use of a fully equipped team gym. Athletes work across all energy systems in a fully integrated performance programme.

ILTP-Pool Lifeguard Award

At ABA Aquatics we don't just have lifeguards, we train them! We currently have 5 lifeguard instructor trainers, with the ability to instruct in both English and Arabic. Our lifeguards undergo rigorous training, conduct inservice training each month to remain rescue ready and are externally audited each year to ensure that we have the most up to date and highly trained professionals in the country.

Our courses are blended, involving online and practical work and are run every 2 months.

Candidates need to be 16 years and older on the first day of the course, be able to swim 50m and to be able to pick a brick off the pool floor from 2m depth.

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