Level 3 - Freestyle Techniques for the Pool and Open Water
Regular price $995.00 Save $-995.00Freestyle Techniques for the Pool and Open Water
Recommended Attendees: The Level 3 Course is a 2-day course that all levels of swimmers (except beginners) interested in learning proper techniques AND understanding how to create and implement a training program while still improving on stroke technique.
Course Description: This course includes the Level 2 technique day with an additional emphasis on technique work focused on learning to swim in the open water PLUS a day of implementing what was learned in the technique phase and applying it to a training environment. Day 2 of the course is focused on ingraining skills learned from day one through in-water training sessions. All the goals and tasks of the Level 2 course are achieved while also learning more about open water swimming and an open water freestyle stroke.
Goals
- Implement all Level 2 Class Goals
- Learn the Fundamentals of open water swimming (in a pool environment)
- Create open water simulation swims
- Learn open water breathing
- Learn open water sighting techniques
- Use open water alternative strokes
- Comprehend survival skills used in open water
- Understand becoming the “BOB”
- Know skills needed to Swim straight
- Experience practice sets to ingrain proper form into stroke
- Understand energy system training
- Implement the “Improvement Cycle” in training
- Train to your end. “specificity of training”
- Know the fundamentals and variable in creating your own program
- Develop your own program
- Advance from theory to practice
- Know your level of swimming and how to progress
Take Aways:
- Video analysis
- Training tools to create own practices and advance to next swimming level
Syllabus:
- Available through link
Items needed:
- Swim suit
- Water bottle
- 2 pairs of googles
- Front Snorkel
- Training fins (Zoomers or TYR type short fins)
- Writing material
