Marlin stage

Aims

• To continue to build the swimmers endurance and refine technique in freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and lifesaving backstroke.
• Introduce butterfly.
• Introduce basic freestyle tumble turn.

Skills

• Freestyle and backstroke kicking drills 100 metres (continuous of both strokes).
• Freestyle and backstroke without fins 100 metres (must show good technique).
• Breaststroke 50 metres (well co-ordinated and performed in a slow controlled manner).
• Butterfly 25 metres (must show good knowledge of skills and master the basic co-ordination).
• Freestyle tumble turns (must be able to master the basic skill involved).
• Lifesaving backstroke (safety stroke to be performed in a slow relaxed manner).