Dragon Fire – Beijing Kids https://www.beijing-kids.com Fri, 19 Aug 2016 08:08:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 Meet the Coach: Salauddin https://www.beijing-kids.com/blog/2015/11/13/meet-the-coach-salauddin/ https://www.beijing-kids.com/blog/2015/11/13/meet-the-coach-salauddin/#respond

Salauddin is a swimming coach with Dragon Fire Swim. From Bangladesh he has been living in Beijing for 9 years.

How long have you been coaching? 10 years

What made you become interested in coaching?
My last swimming coach inspired me and made me interested in taking up coaching.

What coaching qualifications do you have?
Bangladesh Institution of Sport Coaching Certificate, Bangladesh Swimming Federation Coaching Certificate, Bangladesh Level (1) Level (2) Swimming Coaching Certificate, Beijing Sport University Swimming Coaching Certificate.

What were your favorite sports to play when you were a student?
Swimming, football, and cricket.

How would you describe your coaching style?
Scientific and technical, that’s how I’d describe my coaching style.  

What do you find most rewarding about coaching?
When I see my student swimmers doing better and better every day.

And most challenging…
Competition time!

You can contact Salauddin at Dragon Fire, email dragonfireswimming@gmail.com, visit their website, or call 136 0106 4534.

 

beijingkids Shunyi Correspondent Sally Wilson moved to Beijing in 2010 from the UK with her husband and son. Her daughter was born here in 2011 and both her kids keep her happily busy. In her spare time, Sally loves to stroll through Beijing’s hutongs and parks. She is a (most of the time) keen runner and loves reading: books, magazines, news, and celeb websites – anything really. Sally is also a bit of a foodie and loves trying out new restaurants.

Photos: Courtesy of Dragon Fire Swim

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Registration is now underway across a range of sports after school activities, so if your kids are looking to improve their game, hone their skills, or take on a totally new challenge, there are plenty of options available across Shunyi. Why let the kids have all the fun? There are classes for adults too, from toning through yoga, or going for the burn with CrossFit.

Beijing Dragon Fire
Dragon Fire provides swim coaching at Western Academy of Beijing (WAB), the British School of Beijing (BSB) Shunyi campus, and Dulwich College Beijing (DCB) Legend Garden campus, with a comprehensive program of coaching to suit all ages and abilities. In addition to their swim program, they also run gymnastics as an after school activity, at DCB Riviera Campus. For more details contact (136 0106 4534, beijing@dragonfire.com.cn) www.dragonfire.com.cn

Flips & Kicks Plus
Registration has opened for this season’s Flips & Kicks Plus gymnastics and martial arts coaching programs. All programs are taught in English by fully qualified international staff. Karate is a good art form for personal development, encouraging focus and discipline. Gymnastics is a great foundation for any sport. Coaches use their own Badge Award Scheme to help keep students enthusiastic and thriving to improve. Their new schedule is as follows:

Friday Gymnastics at WAB from August 29 to December 5
Beginners: 4-4.55pm  (RMB 1,560)
Returners: 5-5.55pm  (RMB 1,560)
Intermediate and Advanced: 6-7.25pm (RMB 1,820)

Sunday Gymnastics at WAB September 7 to December 7
Beginners: 9-9.55am (RMB 1,440)
Returners and Intermediate: 10-10.55am (RMB 1,440)
Advanced: 11am-12.25pm (RMB 1,680)

Monday Gymnastics at BSB Shunyi September 1 to December 8
3 to 4 years old: 3.30-4.15pm (RMB 1,560)
5 to 6 years old: 4.15-5pm (RMB 1,560)
7 years and over: 5-6pm (RMB 1,560)

Karate and Martial Arts
7-12 years old: Wednesday 4.30-6pm at BSB Shunyi (3rd floor) RMB 140 per class
7-12 years old: Sunday 12.30-1.30pm at WAB RMB 140 per class

To enroll in any of the above classes, fill in the application form (available here) and send a copy as PDF-file to info@flipsandkicksplus.com

O’le Skate
The people behind O’le Sports are introducing a public after school activity at Beijing Riviera. The sessions will take place every Friday at 4.30pm, starting September 5. Anyone aged 6-16 years may take part, and you don’t have to be a Riviera resident. The cost will be RMB 150 per session and to register simply fill in the form on their website.
For more details contact Beijing Riviera, No1 Xiang Jiang Bei Lu, Chaoyang District (186 1045 3101, peter@ole-sports.org) www.ole-sports.org 

YOGA at Human in Motion
Human in Motion has welcomed a new Yoga teacher at the studio, Esme Kan will be teaching one class per week on Mondays at 10.30am.Additional classes may be added, if the Monday class proves popular. Kan is from the Netherlands and in 2012 she completed a Yoga Alliance Certified Yoga Teacher Training Course in Shanghai, she has been teaching yoga since March 2013. To book a session contact Human in Motion, Cathay View Plaza, 2a, Xiang Jiang Bei Lu, Chaoyang District (8470 3616, 136 7129 4008, humaninmotion@yahoo.com) www.humaninmotion.com.cn

CrossFit
This high intensity fitness program incorporates constantly varied, functional movements, suitable for people of all ages, sizes, shapes, and levels of fitness. Class schedule is as follows:
Weekdays at 6am, 9am, and 5.30pm
Mondays and Wednesdays at 6.30pm
Saturdays at 8am and 9am

If you fancy giving it a go, to find out what it’s all about,come along to one of the free trial classes. Located at Pinnacle Plaza (behind Jenny Wang, next to Gold River PGA Golf School) the trial classes will take place at 9am on August 23, 30, September 6, and 13. For more information contact (186 1257 2313, Bernard.Yapp@crossfit86.com, 186 1262 8095, Samuel.Lian@crossfit86.com) www.CrossFit86.com

 

beijingkids Shunyi Correspondent Sally Wilson moved to Beijing in 2010 from the UK with her husband and son. Her daughter was born here in 2011 and both her kids keep her happily busy. In her spare time, Sally loves to stroll through Beijing’s hutongs and parks. She is a (most of the time) keen runner and loves reading: books, magazines, news, and celeb websites – anything really. Sally is also a bit of a foodie and loves trying out new restaurants.

Photos: Crossfit Fever, David Bannister, Erica, Lyn Tally (Flickr)

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After almost 20 years of nurturing Beijing’s Dragon Fire Swim Team, founder Kevin Hua is expanding the team not only beyond the pool, but beyond the city limits. Starting August 27, Dragon Fire Shanghai will take its first dive into the pools of the British International School (BIS) in Shanghai. Though the expansion is a big step, Hua is still taking time to nurture the Dragon Fire’s Beijing programs. In addition to the school year swim practices, Dragon Fire is developing a kids’ gymnastics program slated to begin this October.  

 
 
This is not the first dry-land activity that Dragon Fire has organized; the Dragon Fire Softball League meets every Sunday from 9am to 12 noon at the Asia Games Center. Aquatically inclined grown-up are also welcome to join adult swim training every Saturday at the Western Academy of Beijing (WAB) from 9:30am to 10:30am.
 
Currently in the middle of the summer sessions at the Canadian International School of Beijing (CISB), Dragon Fire holds practices during the school year at WAB, CISB, and Beijing Rego British School. The 2012-2013 season starts Monday, September 3 at Beijing Rego British School.
 
Hua founded Dragon Fire in 1994, and the first season started with only 20 kids. Without a consistent place for the team to swim, Hua held practices in the pools of various local villas. The team started to truly grow as parental support helped catapult the club into international school pools. “Now we have 300 kids,” says Hua, “and 14 instructors.” Before he was a coach, Hua was a competitive swimmer. He started swimming at 5 years old and swam at Beijing Sports University. “I trained all day like four times per day. I lived in the swimming pool,” says Hua, adding that though he ranked well, it wasn’t quite high enough to swim professionally in China.
 
Dragon Fire holds monthly in-house swimming competitions among its more than 300 swimmers, and team members also attend international competitions in Hong Kong, Bangkok, and Singapore. Despite the competitions, “Dragon Fire is like a big family,” says Hua, and is active in caring about the greater community. “We raised money for local schools, and we raised about RMB 100,000 for the Sichuan earthquake.”
 
Dragon Fire offers baby swimming lessons for children who are 3 years old, and lessons for older kids are grouped by both age and ability. Hua explains that instead of the Chinese training method, which emphasizes frequent, hard training at a young age, at Dragon Fire “we focus on technique. After [a child is]13 years old we do more lap training and drills.” Instructors are an international bunch, and Hua says some of them are national champions in their home countries. All are certified instructors and are excellent at interacting with their swimmers.
 
Prices for joining depend on how many times a week a child dives into the pool. Once-a-week rates are RMB 120 per dip, and go as low as RMB 80 per session for those who attend four or five times per week.
 
For more information on Dragon Fire, email dragonfireswimming@gmail.com, visit their website, or call 136 0106 4534.

Photo courtesy of Dragon Fire Swim Team.

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