GAMES – GIMMICKS – CHALLENGES - NEWSLETTER
July 2010
HAVE A FRANTIC FOURTH
Vol 1 - #5
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to date.
AGE GROUP
ROCK BAND OR RACE HORSE: Use rock bands or race horses for send-offs. Kids love it. After each swim yell the name of
a listed rock band or race horse. Then say “rock band”. Swimmer raise hand to vote. Then yell a “race horse”, with voters
raising their hand. Yell the correct one and start the next swim. See page 76 in Games-Gimmicks-Challenges.
Race Horses
Hip Twenty-five
Count It Up
Out Coached
Boston Blitz
Drew’s Delight Chain of Miricles
Jordan’s Party
Cast No Shadow
Country Fair
Magic Berti
XYZ
Album Leaf
Mill Street Blues
Stormy Hostage
Phone First
Stray Cat Blues Poolhall
Three Ladies Man
Shoalihs Tale
Esther Egg
Colihan
Decipherance Met’a Flew
Imamyto
Rock Bands
Leftlane Cruisin’
Coal Kitchen
Green Machine
Longshot
Spazmatic
Black Mambazo
Aceyalone
Nouvelle Vague
Grazyna Auyisuk
AFI
Rose Hill Drive Starflyer
Electric Eel Shock
Two Gallants
Talkdemonic
Darlyne Cain Steel Train
Drowning Pool
Kill Hannah
Suffocation
Shadows Fall
Kid Beyond
Frisbe
Buzzcocks
LAST SWIMMER SWIMMIN’: Each swimmer prints their name on the whiteboard. Then do hardest drill 25’s and if
they make a mistake their name is erased or score ‘em to see who is most coachable. Drills: Back-vertical catch-up,
Kick 10-8-6-4-; Breast; cross pool under lanelines, Wilkie (rt foot w/lf hand-switch); Fly; U/W recovery, 3 K’s, 3 P’s, 3
Swims; Free; Rowdy head-up watch recoveries, Kick 10-8-6-4; Streamline;15m less 7sec, Fishtail, 6 sec whistle.
SENIOR
RACE THE AMERICAN RECORD: Times were done swimming in presently approved suits for more accurate comparisons.
MEN
EVENTS
LCM
SCY
1:42 Phelps 1:32 Phelps 200 Free
1:53 Lochte 1:36 Lochte 200 Back
2:08 Hansen 1:51 Hansen 200 Brst
1:52 Phelps 1:39 Phelps 200 Fly
1:54 Phelps 1:40 Lochte 200 IM
WOMEN
4X{P3x100@1:20 (short rest to set-up an O2 debt
LCM
SCY
{4x50(BO)@1:00
1:55 Hoff
1:41 Coughlin Swim best or developing event and add the four 50’s for a
2:06 Hoelzer 1:49 Coughlin 200 time. Tell coach the seconds below (-) or above (+)
2:20 Soni
2:05 Kirk
the AR. On successive rounds swimmers say, “faster OR
2:05 Hyman 1:51 Coughlin slower” and the seconds over/under the record
2:09 Hoff
1:52 Smit
RACE RYAN LOCHTE: Swimmer performs set and compare 200 IM Lochte’s time in H.S. long course. After each
round swimmers tell the number of seconds below (-) or above (+) Lochte’s 1:52 LC (26+28+33+25). The odd 50’s
are FAST, even 50’s are OVERKICKING. In successive rounds swimmer says, “faster OR slower” and the number of
seconds.
4X{P 100 @1:30 (start on 30 so the 50’s start on the top)
{2x50 @ 50 fly {2x50 @ 50 back {2x50 @ 50 breast {2x50 @ 50 free
{Recovery 200 Back or P 400 ??
FIRECRACKER 400: On July 4th divide the team into two groups, alternating heats, on a 400 Fly, 400 Back, 400 Breast, 400
Free, and 400 IM. Each swimmer records times on a card. Total times determine places. The winner gets a cherry pie.
Handicap times by subtracting the difference ON EVERY SWIM, between their 400 IM and the team’s best 400 IM.
MONTHLY MOTTO: “Crazy Beats Fast” Hornet.SC- Bay Bateman-Like a foot in the grave and one on a banana peel.
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Yours for FAST swimmin’ ,
Bob Steele