9. Competitive Swimming / Festival
https://vimeo.com/848038759?share=copy
Swim Festival in Uganda
Tail that wags the dog, too often.
Kevin DeForrest’s never heard this at the pool.
Swim Teams!
Grown Up Swimming
21. Game culture explained
How to Host a Successful Game Night
Podcast: 29 minutes, WNYC
Guest: Andrew Lynch, Community
development and inventory manager at a
game store, Brooklyn Strategist.
Board games are a great pastime, lasting
anywhere from 3 minutes to many, many
hours. Learn about the best games to play and
get tips on how to host a well run game night.
http://www.wnyc.org/story/how-host-
successful-game-night/
22. Multi-generational Game Night
Posting from a Church
Game Night Potluck - January 27 at 5:30
Please RSVP by Thursday!
As we welcome the new year, let's come together to share delicious food,
laughter, and fun. Please sign up to attend and bring a delicious dish
here. If you'd be willing to bring a game and lead it, please sign up here.
Please plan to pack in and pack out (bring your own dishes and utensils
and take them home to wash.)
23. P.E. Games
https://americancoachingacademy.com/team/
https://www.loom.com/share/757df50bf6b04a1385cbd43ee
d636f7a?sid=d33a9ab3-293f-4164-bcd4-a2857e40d866
Cooperative Games, Terry Orlick
Bob Steele’s Games & Gimmicks
35. Test Sets
https://isca.blue/swimming-test-sets-hub-page/
Favorite: 25 x 25(yards or meters) @ :25
Teaches distance, time, counting, clock management, pace.
Run the distance with a lane line spread in the grass.
In water run the width (25-feet, ish)
Advanced: Pulse Plots from SprintSalo (ebook)
Test sets work wonders as data gathering, displays progress, familiar.
Connecting the fitness with performances.
36. Tell stories. Gather stories!
S6.CLOH.org
Stories of Water for Kids
Perspectives matter.
Experiences.
Entertaining.
Water safety!
Tours too.
Bonus: Host Shark Tank Stories,
for $ @ pool.
41. Phone charge with Coke & potato
https://vimeo.com/909212363?share=cop
y
42. Knot around Tree
https://www.loom.com/share/952469affe4d4b679e25f551e762
092b?sid=b81be3f7-ba46-4ab4-958b-53a321eaf6d7
Any space works
Scout centric
Craft-like
Following instructions
Learn first, then teach another
Daily challenge
43. Murals
Go with staff strengths!
Always time for art. Lean into talents
of others. Summer-long project.
Shows off elsewhere, including
parades.
44. $29 lifetime calendar app
Get AppSumo, TidyCal
Example at https://Rauterkus.com
Use for booking private swim lessons for staff.
Can obtain payment with the reservation.
Integration with Google Calendar.
Or, add landing pages, build a contact list.
45.
46. Drama, play, theater script
Mental Skills for Young Athletes (course)
Also a script version for a drama production
47. Deep Dive Ideas
Pending
UCAN Boat, includes Build a Boat
U CAN Do Triathlons, includes Barefoot Biathlon
Podcast: Swim Guide
Webinars: Swim Fin, Dual Boards, CS Magazine
Available Courses:
U CAN Teach
Yoga
Of course:
Lifeguard Certification & CPR / First Aid
Swimming pools are the greatest learning labs ever invented.
Best classroom in the school.
Banner: Welcome to the <MHCC>, home of the greatest learning laboratory in the discovery and pursuit of individual and group excellence.
Entering a space...
Self discovery.
You can’t hide in a lycra swim suit.
Swim caps can be stretched and return to their original shape and size. A brain is different.
70 minutes. But there is more. And, more coming. And even more if you help as well.
Brainstorming.
Questions and interactions welcome, at end and each page.
Gratis for a year.
Some items: Deploy right away.
Flag.Flip sides - flag
Webmaster
Gangs culture
Swim pools front lines for racial miss-steps.
Playing well with others.
Kids on social media
Expensive play? Climbing gyms.
Director of the Sports Complex…. Beyond the walls of the pool.
Kids swim, of course, but they’re here for hours. I want them to take a break. I want to help facilitate transitions among water, court, hydration, etc.
Presentation goes past the water with ideas.
Sports Complex
Out of the water, out of the box.
Connections among activities to in-water / in sports successes.
Sports should present witnesses to brushes of excellence. Value in a teammate that triumphs.
Sports are games of space, time, relationships.
Teach to grow new lifeguards.
Plant seeds.
10-year old, be a lifeguard in 5 years.
You’ll work here, I hope.
When coaching, coach so well that the swimmers will one day be confident to coach their own kids. Coaching future coaches. Lots of WHY talk.
Physical literacy.
Have the kids coach themselves. Own their data and destiny.
Watch your kids swim. MHCC shout out. On the phone as a distraction.
Sell an Olympic Attitude. Olympic skills. Connect to the games.
Paris. LA.
Give kids valuable experiences. Then the parents are going to be happy to have the kids at the pool for longer times.
Make friends. Learn to communicate. Grow in confidence. (soft skills)
Weight belts too.
Tag bases, like baseball.
Double brick,
Triple brick.
Weight belts are great at equalizing the game play too.
If too silly or too dumb, well, put this on and play along.
My world, Equipment is out for the public to use.
Story of locking up equipment at Canon Mac.
Fins are in buckets in the shade – all day.
Free weights – weight bench.
For many, that’s all that is needed.
Muscle Beach.
Pull up bar.
TRX. (home made)
Sports Psych Game -
The Moth
Shark Tank
Movie nights.
Movie week.
Olympic Watch Parties
(Detroit for NFL away game)
MHCC TVs at the bar.
Party to watch a big golf event – sun issues in daytime projection
Pool tablet
Tic Toc Dance
Latest, positive, viral craze?
Get kids off the screens – impossible. Like the gang, I want to engage them in robust, positive challenges.
Dream: Rasberry Pi.
Why not at a swim pool too? Demonstration. Empty the pool.
Course: UCAN Boat
Build a boat. Anything-that-floats.
Cardboard.
Kayak
Flipping is hard!
Long-term dream, Canoe Water Polo, for 2026 presentation.