FoBSP - Friends of Bude Sea Pool

'Meet the team' event
2025-03-23 13:30 - 14:30 (Europe/London) | Bude Surf Life Saving Club, Crooklets Beach, Bude, EX23 8ND
Meet the Team Event – March 23rd, 2025, at 1:30 PMBude Surf Life Saving Club – Crooklets Beach Bude
This year, we are hosting a “Meet the Team” event before the AGM. This is an informal opportunity to meet the people behind FoBSP—including our Trustees, Committee members, staff, and volunteers.
The event is open to the public, so please feel free to invite friends and family who may be interested in learning more about the Pool and those who help take care of it.
There will also be tea and homemade cake on offer, lovingly made by our amazing baking volunteers!

Quiz Night
2025-03-19 19:30 - 21:00 | Exclusive Bude Golf Club, Burn View, Bude, EX23 8DA, United Kingdom
Quiz Night Alert!

Join us for a fun-filled Quiz Night in support of Bude Sea Pool

– Bude Golf Course
– Wed 19th March
– 7.30pm start
– £30 per table team of 6

See you there!

Open Water Technique Session - Arms
2025-03-09 15:00 - 16:00 | Bude Sea Pool, Bude Sea Pool, Bude, EX23 8HN, United Kingdom
This session is for acclimatised open water swimmers who’d like to improve their freestyle swimming and need support with their technique.

Introduction to Winter Swimming
2025-03-09 13:00 - 14:30, 2025-02-09 13:00 - 14:30, 2025-01-05 13:00 - 14:30 | Bude Sea Pool, Bude Sea Pool, Bude, EX23 8HN, United Kingdom
This session is perfect for people who can swim, but want to swim outdoors or for the first time. The emphasis of this swim is feeling comfortable in the water. We approach outdoor swimming safely and responsibly whilst exploring and enjoying the natural environment. We will teach you: • How to manage the cold • The Cold Water Shock Response • Dive Reflex • Swim Failure • How to avoid hypothermia • After Drop • Warming up • Equipment needed • Clothes to wear • Sea conditions – wind, swell, breakers, rips

Open Water Technique Session
2025-02-09 15:00 - 16:00 | Bude Sea Pool, Bude Sea Pool, Bude, EX23 8HN, United Kingdom
Freestyle kick is an important part of having a strong and powerful freestyle stroke. Here are 4 reasons why freestyle kick will help improve your freestyle. • Creates the ideal body position Kicking while freestyling not only adds propulsion to your stroke, making you swim faster and longer, but it also helps create the ideal body position; high in the water, long through the core and legs in line with your torso and arms. • Adds propulsion to your stroke By having a consistent freestyle flutter kick you help create more propulsion to get your body through the water. This propulsion helps to move you through the water faster and smoother and it also takes a lot of the load off your shoulders, which helps reduce the onset of shoulder injuries. • Keeps your stroke balanced Kicking helps to keep your freestyle stroke balanced and together. A consistent kick will leave you looking smooth in the water; with long arms, a high body position, and a good breathing pattern. With just the right amount of kick, it will also help with your endurance during those longer open-water swims. Freestyle kick helps to keep the stroke balanced • Complements your arm strokes Because freestyle kick helps to give you the ideal body position, it also adds more power to your hip rotation. This helps to add more drive and propulsion to your arm stroke creating a more dynamic arm pull. In turn, helping you swim faster and easier, while also creating more upper-body strength.

Open Water Technique Session
2025-01-05 15:00 - 16:00 | Bude Sea Pool, Bude Sea Pool, Bude, EX23 8HN, United Kingdom
Your freestyle pull produces most of your propulsion while you’re swimming, but there are many things that can affect your technique and slow you down. The pull is your engine in freestyle. It’s responsible for most of the propulsion you create, and it’s what helps you move forward and create speed. Although all the components of freestyle are important and required, the pull is the most important when it comes to moving forward. It’s where most of the work is done. A great pull is simple. The goal is to create a large paddle with your whole arm and then use that paddle to push backward against the water and move yourself forward. There are two major components to the pull. The first is more of a set-up phase. After your arm enters the water, it needs to be repositioned so that it faces backward, ready to push against the water. Once it is, then the second half of your pull begins: a strong and fast motion that pushes water backward and moves you forward. Executing both components is critical for a great pull.

Chat, Snack, Sip & Dip
2025-01-01 10:00 - 14:00 | Bude Sea Pool, Bude Sea Pool, Bude, EX23 8HN, United Kingdom
Sadly due to adverse weather conditions we are cancelling our New Years Day Dip event ☹️
We will instead run Open Hub as usual from 10-12ish (with its limited dry changing space) with hot drinks and some extra bakes from our wonderful volunteers!
We wish you a happy wet and windy New Year’s Day!

Open Hub
2024-12-22 10:00 - 12:00, 2024-12-21 10:00 - 12:00, 2024-12-20 10:00 - 12:00, 2024-12-19 10:00 - 12:00, 2024-12-18 10:00 - 12:00, 2024-12-17 10:00 - 12:00, 2024-12-16 10:00 - 12:00, 2024-12-15 10:00 - 12:00 and 12 more dates | Bude Sea Pool Hub, Bude, Cornwall, EX23 8HN, United Kingdom
The Hub is open for all members of the community to use to warm up after a dip in the Pool. It is not for changing, which must happen outside. Donations to support Friends of Bude Sea Pool and for refreshments.

Quiz Night
2024-12-05 07:30 - 21:00 | Olive Tree Bude
