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Do ALL THE STROKES!

This was the practice where Jimmy the lifeguard demonstrated that he can reverse dive off a block and look great doing it.

Happy Pride 2022! Today’s workout is a distance builder, and is a good opportunity to focus on your technique over a long distance.

We’re not replacing, we’re just existing.

Tonight’s workout was a combo of kicks and pulls (swim) with planks and squats (pool deck). What it lacks in distance it makes up for in strength training.

This was a freestyle technique workout that focuses on working on form.

Freestyle Skulling

Underwater Freestyle

In addition, here are some beginner freestyle drills to try.

The results are in! Here are the times for the first drag race.

	Backstroke	Breaststroke	Butterfly	Freestyle
Valentina	0:30	0:31	0:34	0:19
Cathleen Baltimore	0:28	0:21		0:15
Giardia	0:17	0:16	0:27	0:16
Dia Betty	0:21	0:30	0:14	0:13
Georgess	0:21	0:29	0:14	0:19
Alaska Thunderfuck	0:28			0:20

When we do the drag race again we will compare results.

Sprints are so last week! Tonight’s workout was a back and breast drill workout focused on building technique.

You can read more about the backstroke drills or the breast stroke drills.

It’s Ru Kral’s Drag Race! Our first ever sprint timing workout to get the timings of different strokes that rule the (swimming) world.

Happy Lemon Chiffon Day! Today’s drill workout provided plenty of free and stroke drills for us all. Also, we watched Nick “Shake it Off”

KC Wave practices will resume on July 6th, 2021 at 8PM at Swinney rec center. Please see the Join Us to get instructions on paying quarterly dues and joining the team. Look forward to seeing you all again!