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Listen to best practices and interviews with other members of the swimming community to get the most out of your swimming program.
SIP 098: Create Challenges and Games for Swim Lessons
Swimming Ideas Podast
24 minutes 43 seconds
1 year ago
SIP 098: Create Challenges and Games for Swim Lessons
How to come up with a game or a challenge.
- Think of a core skill.
- Put a roadblock into teaching that skill or performing it well
○ Examples
- Evaluate whether it is fun
○ Achievable
○ Simple
○ Too difficulty
○ Teaching the wrong skill
○ Relevant enough to the original skill
Games:
- Think of a core skill, but in more broad terms like:
○ Streamlines
○ Gliding
○ Movement
○ Buoyancy
○ Pushing on water
- Create rules and goals
- Goals are objectives: what the people do, ideally doing the skill you want them to work on, or a target by which the swimmers must do the skill you want to work on to succeed.
- Rules are the roadblocks, or the conditions that lead to struggle and learning
- Evaluate whether or not they're fun.
Swimming Ideas Podast
Fun and effective strategies for swimming lessons, teams, and Aquatic Professionals.
Listen to best practices and interviews with other members of the swimming community to get the most out of your swimming program.