Lesson 12 – 30 minutes
Learning outcomes
- Develop a beach sprint arm and leg drive technique.
Preparation
- Marker cones.
IMPORTANT
If you are not confident coaching the skills in this lesson, bring in a surf sports athlete or coach to help deliver the lesson.
Coaching Points
BEACH SPRINT ARM AND LEG DRIVE:
- Point feet straight ahead and place them in a straight line.
- Maintain high knee lift.
- Bend elbows at 90 degrees, hold hands slightly clenched.
- Swing hands to eye level on forward swing.
- Lean body slightly forward and relax arms, body, shoulders and head.
- Hold head steady in normal position looking 20–40 metres down the track.
Demonstrate
- Move to an area that has a hard surface (i.e. grass) and demonstrate a strong arm and leg drive technique while talking the participants through what you are demonstrating.
Activity 1
- While on a hard surface ask participants to walk using the technique just learnt.
- Keep repeating the exercise increasing the speed each time.
Activity 2
- Move to the beach and ask participants to repeat the exercises on the sand.
Activity 3
As this lesson is on arm and leg DRIVE this is a good time to set up some beach sprints that require the participants to sprint as fast as they can over short distances.
- Set up five lines 10 metres apart marked lines in the sand and by marker cones.
- The idea of this activity is to start the participants on one of the end lines and have them jog to the first line, when they get to the line they sprint as hard as they can to the next line, then jog to the next line
and finish by sprinting to the last line. - This exercise will help participants focus on using arm and leg drive while sprinting between lines, in manageable groups have participants line up on the start line.
- Use ‘Take your marks’ – ‘Get set’ – ‘Go!’ to have participants practice their skills and really drive themselves off the mark each time.
- Repeat for up to 10 times until the skills become second nature.
ASSUMED SKILLS
This lesson assumes participants have acquired previous skills from earlier awards:
- Standing beach sprint starts • Basic beach sprint running technique • Crouching beach sprint starts and finishes.
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