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Minnows Practice Plan: March 5, 2020

Minnows 1Practices

100 IM Kick2 x 25 position 11.Review 3 things for Streamline before first 25.1) Lock your thumb.2) Squeeze your ears (back of head).3) Look down (with your whole face).Review 3 things for Position 11 before second 25:1) Keep your arms straight.2) Stay at the surface (even when you breathe).3) Look down (with your whole face).

Game – Dice Roll Challenges

table class="wp-block-table alignfull has-subtle-pale-green-background-color has-background is-style-regular">tbody>tr>td>1) 5 Front flips between the “T” mark and the wall./td>td>2) 2 front flips where feet, paint the wall as they go around, over the head and back to the floor./td>/tr>tr>td>3) Push off on your side, underwater, with arms stretched in airplane. One arm aiming up, other arm aiming down./td>td>4) Only using your hands without your feet touching the ground or pushing off the wall, move from the first person corner, to the yellow, across the lane, and back to the wall corner moving in a square./td>/tr>tr>td>5) Have a friend hold a floating smiley face toy at the flags. Do a streamline underwater and come up, underneath the toy to touch it with your fingers without looking./td>td>6) Do 5 jumps off the bottom in SL where your belly button gets above the water. Start in water up to your chest./td>/tr>/tbody>/table>

Form partners.

Other person pushes their feet to launch them forward in streamline.

The pushing person can’t go past the flags or the “T” mark. Set a distance that the streamliner needs to travel to pass the challenge, without falling out of streamline or kicking.

Pusher can use the wall to push. This is encouraged.

This is part of a larger system

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