Required Equipment

Fins Z2 or Hydro

Swim Cap

Goggles

Mesh Bag

Team Suit

Team Cap

Surfers Swim Team

Beginner

Coach Delsi

Enter skills

Swim 25 yards on front 25 yards on back

 

Skills Beginner swimmers learn:

How to use a pace clock: it is a wierd analog clock with only min and sec hand

Streamline kicking on front and back no kickboard

Treading water for 3 min using 2 diffrent kicks

How to Swim all 4 competitive strokes in good form

Learn Flip Turns / Open Turns

Diving Skills deep water and shallow

How to do a start

How to swim a set: Example what does 4x25 on 1 min rest

Basic lifeguarding skills: how to pull someone to shallow water or the wall

Swimming while breathing correctly for each stroke

Breathing every 3 or 5 strokes on freestyle

Swim 500 yards

How to use backstroke flags and do a flipturn on the wall

How to read a heat sheet

Swim in one meet doing 2 diffrent events

 

After they learn these skills they move up to the Intermediate group