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Basic Safety Guidelines, Survival/Rescue Skills, Treading, Survival float,…
Basic Safety Guidelines
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Learn about swimming, boating, and first aid, and be sure that others in your group also are informed
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Follow these basic safety tips whenever you swim in any body of water –pools, lakes, ponds, quarries, canals, rivers, or oceans
Survival/Rescue Skills
Reaching assist, throwing assist, compact jump, treading, survival float, survival travel, disrobing
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Treading
To Tread
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Make continuous broad, flat, sculling movements with the hands a few inches below the surface of the water in front of the body
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Use a scissors kick, breast stroke kick, or “egg beater” kick with just enough thrust to keep your head above water. DO NOT USE a flutter kick.
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Treading water keeps you upright in deep water with your head out of the water. This is an important personal safety skill for all swimmers. This skill is also useful for life saving purposes or for watching or conversing with another swimmer. You can tread water using your arms only, your legs only, or arms and legs together. Use the scissors, breast stroke, or rotary (or egg beater) kick along with sculling movements of the arms and hands. You should learn to tread water in a relaxed way with slow movements. Move the arms and legs only enough to keep your body vertical.
Rotary “egg beater” kick – gives continuous support because there is no resting phase. This strong kick is used in water polo, synchronized swimming, and life guarding.
Sculling – a way to move through the water using only your hands and forearms.
Survival float
The primary objective of the survival float is to allow an individual to remain afloat in deep water with minimal effort. This skill would be used when land is not visible, you are tired and in warm water
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To learn these skills quickly, you must first to able to comfortably hold breath with your face in the water, be able to exhale underwater, get a breath by lifting the head above the water, float fully relaxed in a face-down position, and must have gained confidence in being in deep water
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Disrobing
Pants: tie the ankles of the pants together seal the waste band and float
Shirt: Blow air in the shirt through the collar of the neck
Survival Travel: This stroke is used in conjunction with the survival float. Its greatest value is that it allows floaters and non-floaters alike to cover a considerable distance in the water with a minimum expenditure of energy. However, swimming long distances to safety should be a last resort. This stroke is not to be used in cold water
Elementary Backstroke
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1) Arms recover; thumbs along side - Heels drop; ankles hook
2) Hands @ shoulders; fingers point out - ankles hooked; toes pointed out
3) Arms extend for catch - Feet move out, toes first
4) Arms begin pull - Feet move out and around
5) Arms in mid pull - Ankles hooked, push with the outside of ankle
6) Arms finish pull - Toes point; legs squeeze
7) Streamline your body; glide
Side/back stroke
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Steps for BREAST STROKE
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heels up
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- Hands under chin; feet move out
- Head drops; leg thrust; arms extend
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