SNZ Events
Epic Swim
High Performance
SNZ Events
Epic Swim
High Performance
To encourage your swimmers to finish swimming with both hands on the wall, try placing suction toys onto the wall for your swimmers to touch at the end of each length. This will encourage best practice from a young age and will motivate your swimmers to swim a full length right to end each time they are swimming.
Learning to somersault in the water is important for learning to tumble turn. Try using the lane rope to encourage your swimmers to form a tight turn - get your swimmers to stand with their tummy against the lane rope and then tumble turn all the way around the lane rope and land where they started. The lane rope can be a great point of reference to help them picture how to move their bodies and achieve a nice tight turn
Learning to somersault in the water is important for learning to tumble turn. Stand in the shallow end of the pool with a noodle. Grab the noodle at both ends with both hands, take a big breath and get ready to exhale water through your nose. Push off the bottom of the pool and do a somersault inside the noodle, try to go straight over and hold onto the noodle at all times, then stand up. Each time try to go a little faster.
For faster and more efficient turns use your core not your hands. First, get a noodle, stand in the shallow and grab the noodle at both ends. Take a breath ready to breathe out through your nose. Push off the bottom of the pool, and flip inside the noodle. Keep hold of the noodle and try not to press down with your hands. After your flip, stand straight up and try it again. Try and do it quicker and faster each time.
