2.12.1 Swimming (Optional)

• Water safety and pool rules
• Water treading technique
• Inverted breaststroke (elementary backstroke) for skill and life saving
• Combining water treading and inverted breaststroke

• explain the inverted breaststroke and water treading technique in swimming
• perform water treading skill in swimming
• perform the inverted breaststroke technique in swimming for skill acquisition
• combine the skills of water treading and inverted breaststroke for skill mastery
• acknowledge own and others efforts while performing water treading and inverted breaststroke

“How is inverted breaststroke used in life saving?”

“Why is water treading skill important?”

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1. Water safety for optional swimming
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Set pool rules, depth marks and watcher habits, and refuse dams, rivers and unknown water as classrooms.
2. Why water treading is important
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Explain treading as the skill that keeps the head up so you can breathe, look and call in deep water.
3. Water treading technique
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Scull at the surface and cycle the legs (breaststroke whip or eggbeater) while staying upright.
4. Practising water treading
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Build calm treading time in standing depth, then slightly deeper only with a watcher, counting honest seconds.
5. Inverted breaststroke and life saving
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Explain inverted breaststroke as a restful back stroke with a free face, used in life-saving travel, not as a licence to tow peers.
6. Body position for inverted breaststroke
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Build a long back float: ears in, hips up, eyes to the sky, in standing depth.
7. Arms and legs of inverted breaststroke
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Sweep both arms together and whip both legs together, then stretch into a glide.
8. Rhythm of inverted breaststroke
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Link recover, power and glide into a slow cycle that keeps the mouth free across a short width.
9. Combining treading and inverted breaststroke
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Tread to look and breathe, roll to the back, travel with inverted breaststroke, tread at the wall.
10. Acknowledging effort and closing safety
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Repeat a short combination, appraise calm skill, and recap that learners are not lifeguards and must never use dams as classrooms.