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Minnows Swim Practice: Flip Turns, Breaststroke, and Baseball Game

Minnows 1Practices

Dryland Activities

Warmup in Water

100 IM Kick2 x 25 position 11.

Split Up into 2 Groups

Group 1

Hold SL throughout, and push off with feet flexed, legs straight and held together, only feet are turning out. This is to get in habit of flexing or flaring feet wide.

Group 2

No kicking, no breathing. This is the MOTION of Breaststroke arms. Streamline underwater, do the arms at the surface.

Get Back Together in One Group

Create columns for a Single, Double, Triple, and a Home Run. Write easy things to do in the singles, and more difficult things as you increase base hits.

2 ways to play:

  1. Swimmers must answer a swimming related question for each type of hit. If they get it wrong then they get an out and do an "out" activity.
  2. OR Swimmers choose an activity and do it, then if they do it all correctly, or with streamlines and not sloppy they get that base hit. If not, then they get an out.

figure class="wp-block-table">table>tbody>tr>td>/td>td>Single/td>td>Double/td>td>Triple/td>td>Home Run/td>/tr>tr>td>SL +…/td>td>Free Kick/td>td>On back to flags/td>td>On back to flags underwater/td>td>Streamline with fly kicks + 5 FREE + 1 side breath (no lifting) + flip./td>/tr>tr>td> 2 x 25/td>td>BK K/td>td>Free with streamlines/td>td>BK swim. Streamline underwater first, touch the wall on the back/td>td>FREE with fly kicks on streamline, side breaths, no doggy paddle, no lifting head./td>/tr>tr>td> 1 x 50/td>td>Sloppy free/td>td>Back Kick. Touch wall on back/td>td>Back Swim: streamline on back underwater, touch wall on back, no looking or rolling over./td>td>Free with a flip turn and correct streamline./td>/tr>/tbody>/table>/figure>

Question of the Day Answer

Freestyle and Backstroke!

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