Kiwi Sport

This week Thursday we had our second kiwi sport swimming session at the YMCA Laggon pools in Panmure. Today our coach was Helen instead of Cameron. Today we would be doing some skills and a sequence of skills. Also a treading challenge.

First we went over swimming life skills. Like what to do in an ocean rip, and what we do went we get into a boat. Then we got into the pool and started off with doing stream lines. We put our hands up straight and above our ears, and a couple people went at a time. After reaching the end platform, we went on the other side and stream lined back.

Then we did sculling on our backs using our feet to kick and our hands to go in a wave motion, going thumbs up and thumbs down to push us to the end platform. Then we did it one more time so that we have done it two times in total. Everyone was able to complete this skill pretty easily. We also had to remember to keep our head up.

After that, we did our challenge which was 3 minutes of treading without stopping. We could use a pool noodle if we would like to so that it could help us. After a minute and a few seconds I felt that I needed a pool noodle so Helen gave me one. If someone was to touch the ground of hold on to the wall we would have to start again. Everyone was able to manage the challenge but we were a little tired after that.

Later on we did a sequence of skills from one platform to another. Helen also gave us some to do as well. Some of the skills had to be from what we did in this session. First we created our own, of 4 things. I decided to do streamline, treading, rotate, and sculling. The one Helen gave us was lay on our front for 5 seconds, rotate horizontally into back float for 5 seconds, then sculling on our backs, stream line, then free style hands to the end of the pool to the end platform. Then we did another sequence by Helen to do mushroom float, tee float, then streamline to the end.

Finally, we said goodbye to Helen and climbed out of the pool. We had to think about a sequence we will do next week as well.