The begining of children aged 9-12 years in the racing business is pre-racing category. At this level, children have perfected the four swimming styles (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly) and are ready to participate in swimming competitions with the main objective to maximize performance.

Required components are:

• Persistence and patience
• The appetite for work
• The sports spirit

• The mind is what directs the body!
• Try to have excellent performance and not the maximum!
• Learn to balance first, to align and stabilize your body in the water. All others will be easier!
• Search how to reduce water resistance (for better water slides).
• Search how to take advantage of water resistance!
• To be able to swim comfortably and easily need great effort!
• [Hear] the water, feel the water, become one with water. Swim [quiet]
• As  hard as you practice that’s how hard you will be able to race!
• Exercise does not lead to perfection! The correct practice makes perfect. That you do in training is what will determine your path in racing games!
• The fastest swimmers are the ones who know how to swim too slow!
• You have the maximum speed when you are starting and when you push the wall at a turn. Take advantage of it!
• When you swim, Swim with water as an ally, do not [hit] it with the movement but slide on it gently. Try to feel your body, on the water [higher] than it really is!
• Do not think that you push water. Learn to support yor forearms, wrists and palms on it.
• The driving force is generated by the buttocks and the trunk of the body. Use your hands to restore and to give more speed to the body.
• You must learn to feel relaxed!
• Never look back!
• Attack at your race!
• Swim smart, use your mind and hold your head steady!
• Imagine yourself to succeed your goals but also to exceed them!