Practice Set for Form Streamline Shape

Skills To Develop

• To maintain balance skills and…
• Hold long, straight, firm Streamline, from fingers to ankle
• Hold low, stable rotation angle

You want to feel long, straight, sleek and stable at a low-rotation angle in Streamline Position. Along with the sensations from Balance skills, you want to see that you can slide parallel to the line on the bottom of the pool and to slide farther, more easily, the more streamlined and stable your body is. Sliding in Streamline for 6 seconds with these positive feedback signs is a good goal to work towards.

Practice Set

Choose 2 or 3 of the cues from the lesson to work on today.

Then, for each cue, work through these activities, as far as you can go successfully. Take one cue and work through the list. Then take the next cue and work through the list again, and so on.

• 4x on each side Balance Position To Streamline for 6 seconds (time of comfortable breath hold)
• 4 rounds of starting in Balance Position for 1 second, then Streamline Position for 2 seconds, then take 4 strokes
• 4 rounds of ‘6 whole strokes’ holding the same focal point (no breathing)
• 2 rounds of ‘4x whole strokes, Interrupted Breathing, 4x whole strokes’
• 2 rounds of 2x length of pool, whole strokes with interrupted breathing