Swim in clothes
£0.60 – £1.75Price range: £0.60 through £1.75
Ability to swim non stop over 25 meters in pyjamas or similar clothes attire.
AD16
Description
This is such an important thing for swimmers to experience as it changes their movement/confidence/ability in the water. It is vital that swimmers experience this as a basic life survival skill.
We suggest to achieve this award the swimmer has to swim non stop over 25 meters in pyjamas or similar clothes, tread-water for a stipulated amount of time.
The ability of the swimmer to wear clothes is at the teachers discretion but we advise they can swim comfortably over a distance of 100m in a costume alone.
Lesson ideas
This award is aimed at confident unaided swimmers, to give them the experience if they fell into water dressed, then they are aware of how being dressed will affect their ability and how it will feel to swim/tread-water.
For more advanced swimmers who are more confident, then they can remove the clothes whilst treading water before swimming back to a safe point.
From a clothing point of view we recommend parents send old clothing that they don’t mind the chlorine taking the colour from. An old t-shirt and shorts or pyjama’s. For the more competent/stronger swimmers, if they easily swim with short clothing on then try full length pyjama bottoms/leggings and long sleeve tops.
The lesson plan may be just to experience swimming over a given length, or collecting sinkers, removing the clothes in the water or treading water for a given time
Be aware swimmers will get tired quickly and to adjust your lesson accordingly to your groups ability.
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