High School
Check High School link for a link to your local high schools swim team.
This page is about highschool age swimmers that are swimming for surfers.
Skills High School swimmers learn:
Streamline kicking on front and back no kickboard no breathing for 25-50 yards
Treading water for atleast 20 min using 4 diffrent kicks not using your hands
Learn to swim without goggles on
How to Swim all 4 competitive strokes in perfect form
Learn Fast Flip Turns / Fast Open Turns
How to do a fast start
How to do a fast relay start
Swimming while breathing correctly for each stroke
Breathing every 5 or 7 strokes on freestyle
Breathing looking down on breaststroke
Pluging your nose with your lip on a backstroke start
Swim in atleast 12 meets a year
Swim 1650 in a meet
Swim 200 IM in a meet no DQ
How to figure out were the wall is without goggles on
Teach a younger swimmer How to read a heat sheet
Teach younger swimmers new skills
Teach younger swimmers team cheers