Description
Target Audience: Aimed at all those who, not being or not considering themselves swimmers, are attracted to open waters and yearn to enjoy them in some way without having to go through swimming courses or training in a pool beforehand.
Description: A group outing to the beach and sea, and familiarization with open waters through individual and group aquatic exercises, basic swimming, and safety. For the peace of mind of the participants in this workshop, the waters should preferably be clear, but above all calm, so beaches with easy access to the water, sheltered areas, or accessible and shallow lakes will be chosen.
Schedule: May to November
Duration: 2 hours
Capacity: 10
Price: 20 €
Location: Quiet beach or cove with easy access to the water
Materials provided by the user: Swimsuit
Materials provided by REWIN: Diving goggles, snorkel.
Structure:
- Welcome
- What will we do? (Duration, parts)
- Introductions (participants and James. Keep it brief)
- Concept
- Safety
- Understanding the environment as a provider of tranquility (land and sea). Topography: shape and material of the seabed, depths, entry and exit points to the water, distances, visual references.
- Water: currents, temperature, transparency, waves, cleanliness.
- Biology: jellyfish, fish, organisms, vegetation.
- Hazards: boats, fishermen, rocks, currents.
- Self-awareness
- Physical condition (Do I have health issues? Do I breathe well? Am I resilient? Do I get cold?)
- Water skills (Can I swim? Can I float? Can I hold my breath to dive?)
- Psychology (Am I relaxed? Do I feel comfortable in the water? Do I have fears?)
- Materials
- Basic knowledge of goggles, cap, swimsuit, fins, wetsuit, buoys. Other accessories will be shown in the advanced course (GPS, Vaseline…)
- Method
- Development of aquatic skills
- Efficiency in floating (movement of hands, legs, and feet)
- Calmness in micro-apneas (expiratory immersions, time, upright and inverted)
- Basic swimming (stroke exercises, breathing, body position, bubbles)
- Small swum sections (buoys, parallels) in different styles (freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke)
- Optional: final micro-race for fun
- Ecoswimming
- Conclusions
- And now what?
- Continuity of the development of aquatic skills
- Group outings (how to find open water groups, Lloret, Calella, etc., on Facebook, Instagram, Internet)
- Other Integral Rewilding workshops
- Final fellowship breakfast at a nearby collaborating beach bar
- Safety
