On Thursday, June 5th, three competitive swimmers and volunteers from AYLUS Pearland – Yurong Qiu, Yushan Qiu, and Jordana Zhao taught swimming lessons to community kids. This is the 1st lesson in a 3-week-long series.
Yurong, Jordana, and Yushan helped Emma, Darren, Tylor, Jasper, Lawrence, and Audrey as a whole group learn how to kick off the wall. Once everyone has learned the basics of kicking, we split into 2 groups to work on freestyle arms. Yurong and Yushan worked together to help Emma, Audrey, Tylor, and Lawrence more their kick, keeping their heads down for three seconds and turning to the side to breathe, then teaching them a drill so they can work on turning their body when switching arms. Jordana also helped Darren and Jasper with their freestyle arms, having them swim from one end of the pool to the other, working on their technique and how to turn to breathe smoother.
This lesson was very efficient, everyone was either learning something new or improving their technique and skill. All the children had a lot of fun; they enjoyed being around one another and became comfortable with the coaches and the swimmers around them.
Volunteers: (2 hours): Jordana Zhao
(1.5 hours): Yurong Qiu, Yushan Qiu,
Parent on duty (1.5 hours): Hongmei Ruan (Yurong/Yushan) and Lingling Zhang (Jordana Zhao)
