Kiwi Sport

LI: to learn survival skills in the water
This week for swimming I went to my Instructor James and we first started on rotation. We had to do three arm strokes, or six kicks in a row then switch on your back. How we did it was you always have to keep your body extremely flat. So when you turn make sure your hips don't point down or they will weigh you down. So when you successfully turn on your back stay flat. After that we did a couple of freestyle arms.

Later we did a swimming move that helps you go underwater called "Duck Dive". The reason it's called "Dick Dive" is because when ducks go underwater they don't touch the floor. So how we do it is we lift our head or upper body up as high as we can and go dive down. We swam first and then in the middle of the pool we would try to do the Duck Dive and swim to the other platform.

After that we did some Kick Practices. So when we would do the Kick Practices we would do slow arms but fast kicks. The reason we do slow arms rather fast arms is you will get tired easily and waste you energy, another reason is that you have much more control with your arms. An addition to the Kick Practices we did Dolphin Kicks or Dives. Dolphin Kicks or Dive is when your legs are together, and you go underwater and wiggle your body. So you legs will be like the tail of a dolphin.