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Navigate to Swim & Water Polo Camp, SDA15 lesson #s: Overview, To Do List

Calendar span: M T W Th F
Week 1, June 29-July 2 1 2 3 4
Week 2, July 6-10 5 6 7 8 9
Week 3, July 13-17 10 11 12 13 14
Week 4, July 20-24 15 16 17 18 19
Week 5, July 27-31 20 21 22 23 24
Week 6, August 3, 4, 5 25 26 27

Day 1:[]

Swim & Water Polo Camp Activities by time:

  • Staff to arrive at noon this week. Time shift will come in week 2 for some.

1:15 PM[]

  • Welcome students
  • Check: Who has swim suits?
  • Roll call.
  • Introduction of activities.
  • Introduction of coaches.
  • Squad names? National Parks/2015 choices
  • Photos of all campers taken throughout day.

1:30 PM[]

1:45 p.m.[]

  • Swim safety talk.
  • Swim lesson tasks
  • Transit and transition time discussion

2:00 pm[]

  • Get to the pool, just to visit.
  • Demo: Freestyle or Front Crawl. Go across shallow water.
  • Race between some staff members.
  • Lots of clapping. Break into some groups.
  • Work on getting all to float, face in water, kicking and over to the other side of pool.

Optinal[]

  • How about a team handball game?
    • One hand on the ball.
    • Toss ball to goal / often a mat.
    • Man to man defense.
    • Goalie

2:15 p.m.[]

  • Advance lesson tasks
  • Skill Drills:
  • Most work done in training is on front crawl for the obvious reasons of time, conditioning, space
  • in lanes, speed of stroke, etc. So front crawl starts our drills and fills the priorities for the first week emphasis. The first time trials are also devoted to freestyle, also known as front crawl.

Front Crawl Kicking Drills:[]

1. Kick front crawl using kick board, head raised. (General conditioning exercise).

2. Kick front crawl using kick board with arms outstretched and face in water, breathing on every sixth kick. (improves streamlining and VO2 capacity).

3. Kick with arms extended, hands overlapped, face down between arms. Breathe to the front on sixth kick.

4. As 3, but with head raised to improve power of kick.

5. Kick front crawl - arms at sides - face in water breathe to alternate sides every 6th kick.

6. As in 5 but with head up - to improve power of kick.

7. Kick - arms extended - under water, (feeling use of all of the leg in the kick) (quick breaths and submerge).

8. As in 7 but with hands at sides.

9. Kick on right side, left hand spearing in front, right side of face resting on right shoulder, left hand at side and back straight.

10. Kick on left side with the side of the face resting on left shoulder right hand at side and the back straight.

Drills 9 and 10 will help to check the amplitude between hips and feet.

2:30 p.m.[]

  • Swim skills and drills set
  • test and measurement
  • Swim 10 x 25 on 1 min. Break at 5 for 1 min. Break at 9 for 1 min.

2:45 p.m.[]

  • break
  • Lesson
  • re-fuel
  • 25 press ups.

3:00 p.m.[]

  • Skills and drills for polo - body
  • Water polo rules: one hand on the ball except the goalie

3:15 p.m.[]

  • Skills and drills for polo - goals
  • Passing and receiving of ball.
  • Types of shots: Push, Wrist, Baseball, Reverse, Trick, Skip

3:30 p.m.[]

  • Teamwork emphasis
  • Pick up ball from the bottom.
  • Water polo game play

3:45 p.m.[]

  • Dismissal

4:00 p.m.[]

  • Get on bus


4:15 p.m.[]

  • Insure final participants have departed

Navigate to Swim & Water Polo Camp, SDA15 lesson #s: Overview, To Do List

Calendar span: M T W Th F
Week 1, June 29-July 2 1 2 3 4
Week 2, July 6-10 5 6 7 8 9
Week 3, July 13-17 10 11 12 13 14
Week 4, July 20-24 15 16 17 18 19
Week 5, July 27-31 20 21 22 23 24
Week 6, August 3, 4, 5 25 26 27
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