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A collection of questions and answers related to the water safety instructor exam. It covers various topics, including course requirements, teaching techniques, stroke analysis, and safety procedures. Useful for individuals preparing for the water safety instructor certification.
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What do you need to do to be reauthorized as a Water Safety instructor? - ✔✔ Must take rest within 90 says of expiration date (2 years) Once a year a course record as to be put in course of records - set number of swim lessons teach within a year, sign code of conduct, instructor agreement, meet with red cross rep videos for what courses? - ✔✔ used for additional information/review and show and help with demonstrations water safety Know what courses you can teach as a WSI - ✔✔
What the objectives of Level 1 Learn-to-swim - ✔✔- introduce basic aquatic skills, which participants continue t o build on as they progress
What factors can help a person to assist them float on their back - ✔✔Tilting the head backward to look upward arms above your head inhaling knees bent shortening center of mass What techniques can reduce form drag - ✔✔streamline body parts close to body Which kick is the least effective in trending water - ✔✔flutter kick What are the different parts of the arm stroke (power phase w.o recovery) - ✔✔1) catch - part of the power phase move into position to apply effective force - push water hand first catches the water, move body forward,
It uses the Chicken, Airplane, Pickel or Tickle, T, Touch arm movement Glide symmetrical Sidestroke technique - ✔✔It has a glide It is the only stroke performed on the side of the body It uses a scissor kick One ear should be in the water The lead arm is closes(t) to the bottom of the pool, the trail arm is closes(t) to the surface Arms and legs shouldn't break the water's surface The top leg kicks forward, the bottom leg kicks backward. The legs never cross during the scissor "snip" It is a asymmetrical stroke Breast stroke technique - ✔✔Oldest known swimming stroke Commonly the slowest competitive stroke Only competitive stroke where the recovery happens underwater The stroke is symmetrical Has a Pull, Breath, Kick, Slide sequence It uses a whip kick The kick generates more power than the arms Butterfly technique - ✔✔It evolved out of the breaststroke Both arms recover above the water at the same time Most swimmers breath forward, although breathing to the side can occur It uses a dolphin kick, which is more like a body movement - kicks per one arm thing What causes the knees to break the surface on elementary backstroke? - ✔✔When the hips drop
arms are doing doggy paddle; cannot go underwater unable to fix anything on their own need specific instructions level 4 swimmer doing breastoke - ✔✔arms moving in circles and are pushing arms all the way down to their hips sidestroke and elementary backstroke - ✔✔face out of the water, sidestroke scissor kick treading water - ✔✔rotary kick/egg beater kick shallow angle dive - ✔✔arent going directly down, on top of water, out further (standing) straight angle dive - ✔✔going directly down, deeper a way to help make a lesson easier for someone struggling - ✔✔slow teaching down call an aid try to have less students in your class decrease student to teacher ratio level 1 kid that keeps coughing and sputtering - ✔✔tells us that the kid does not know how to hold his breath Teaching motor skills - ✔✔direction and instruction, plenty of time to practice, reinforcement, corrective feedback, encouragement value in block plan - ✔✔To divide course content into individual class sessions.