Steps to Success S.
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Offering 12 easy-to-follow steps designed to help swimmers learn and master basic strokes, dives and other aquatic skills, this text focuses on the body's natural buoyancy as the basis for all swimming strokes. The book helps even the most inexperienced swimmer build water confidence and move from a simple back float to sidestroke, crawl, elementary backstroke and breaststroke. Proper kicking and breathing techniques are emphasized throughout. Also included are chapters on using a mask and snorkel, executing horizontal and vertial turnovers, and diving safely into the water from pool deck or diving board.
Teachers and coaches need both Swimming: Steps to Success and this companion teacher's guide to teach effectively. Teaching Swimming: Steps to Success follows the same skill progressions as the participant's book and features warm-up and cool-down exercises, management and safety guidelines, rating charts for identifying students' skill levels, 82 drills to fit various skill levels, teaching cues to maximize learning, suggestions for identifying and correcting errors, and a complete test bank of written questions.
This is the second-level continuation of "Swimming: Steps to Success". The book features 18 steps designed to help swimmers review and improve the crawl and breast strokes, learn the new competitive back and butterfly strokes, and master competitive strokes and turns. The book also provides swimmers with the skills they need to be more creative and to explore even greater challenges in the water, including lifesaving and synchronized swimming.