Through out the season Stowe Swimmers learn how to swim all 4 competitive strokes legally as defined by USA Swimming. We focused on swimming legally this week, as every ones conditioning has improved so much in the past 7 weeks.
It may take some swimmers years to master a legal stroke or turn, but with practice, determination, and desire everyone can make the changes needed to legalize their stroke. Swimming a legal stroke/turn means when a swimmer competes in a US sanctioned meet their finish time will stand, where as a non legal stroke would result in a DQ (disqualification). More importantly a legal stroke and turn also helps the swimmer achieve more efficiency and therefore a faster time in the water! To learn more about the legal strokes check out the 2011 USA Swimming Rules book.
The work we did this week will lead us into swimming legally with more efficiency next week, as we continue to build our endurance base while adding more power work & race pace training.
Some stellar highlights this week involved swimmers really making the mental connection to a legal stroke/turn and physically executing one!
Grace Dupuis - Legal back stroke turn
Megan Thomas - Legal breaststroke pull out
Yvain Hoekstra - Legal butterfly (with 2 kick beat!)
Grace Barrows - Legal back stroke turn
Parker Klingsberg - Legal back/breast IM flip
Eugene Petrow - working hard to correct his lazy foot breast stroke kick... you can do it!
Wednesday was partner day & the kids loved it! - we had 8 stations, each taught by one of our own Lane 4 swimmers. They were: Freestyle, Backstroke, Breaststroke, Butterfly, Race Finishes, Breast & Fly turns, Free & Back turns, & Starts! We rotated through the stations, focusing on specific aspects of each skill to help each swimmer. The small groups were a big hit and learning from a peer was even more fun!
Our favorite station turned out to be Backstroke, because it had the best teacher, way to go Oliver Ames, the kids really enjoyed your help!
Best of luck to our 8 swimmers competing in St. Johnsbury this Sunday! Results will be posted next week.
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