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Loren Eiseley Nebraska anthropologist, ecologist, essayist, and poet

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Introducing the TADPOLE!   We've always used elementary backstroke arms with no kick as way to help swimmers learn to establish and maintain aquatic balance.  Aquatic balance is the most important swimming skill.  We will continue to teach this first, but to give it even more importance, I have decided to make this skill a stroke - the Tadpole.  Now, when swimmers have learned to do this skill they will have mastered the entire Tadpole stroke instead of half of the elementary backstroke.

The words for the Tadpole arm pull are "Tickle, T, Touch."  The new words for the elementary backstroke are "Little Starfish, Big Starfish, Swim!" (Thanks, Connor Skutt!)

The skills sheet has been updated to reflect the emphasis placed on the Tadpole.

Again, we have not changed our teaching method or skills progression. Someday when the Tadpole is added to the Olympic program, you can say you swam it here first!

Swim for good times!

-Jeanie Neal, March 2008