Practice Set for Make First Connections

Practice Set for Make First Connections

Skills To Build

•  To maintain recovery swing skills and…

•  Have the entry arm be pulled in by gravity

•  Connect the entry and torso rotation

•  Have the entry arm slide in without a splash, no waves

•  Have Lead Arm hold extended position until Entry

•  Slide into your best Streamline Position

Practice Set for Make First Connections

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.

•  4 to 6x, for each side, Standing Entry To Streamline

•  4 to 6x, for each side, Streamline Swing to Balance Position for 6 seconds (time of comfortable breath hold)

•  4 rounds of ‘4 to 6x Streamline Switch with pauses’

•  4 rounds of ‘4 to 6x Streamline Switch without pauses’

•  4 rounds of gradually faster swing, gradually bring forearm out of the water

•  4 rounds of ‘6 to 8x whole strokes’ holding the same cue (no breathing)

•  2 rounds of ‘4x whole strokes, Interrupted Breathing, 4x whole strokes’