Kiwi Sport

LI: to learn how to be safe in water
This week when we got to Swimming we first talked about Ocean and River Safety. There are some rips in the ocean. A rip is a patch of smooth water. In the ocean when there are rips you have to let the rip take, but you have to go on an angle then go on shore. When the rip is taking you on an angle to the shore you can get yourself up. If you are in a river, the river is always flowing to one direction. You have to do the same. Let the current take you on an angle then go on shore.

Then when we talked about that we got with our Instructors. We first did sculling feet first. Why we did feet first rather then head first is because you could hit something with your head, its better getting hit on the feet. Secondly when you bounce on the object (rocks, logs, etc) you can push yourself back. Sculling is when you lie on your back and use you hands to move. After that we did low dive. We had to jump in water while our hands were above our heads. We had to dive in an angle, rather then flat. Then we did streamlines. Streamlines are when you have you arms straight above your head, when we did that we also added arm strokes. Then after that we did a rotation. We were floating on our front then we had to rotate on our back when our energy is gone on the front. Then when it was the end our instructor said to jump and high five him, then do a swimming skill.