Development of three new nostalgic swimming diplomas (Netherlands only)
RECENTLY OUR SWIMMING-BATH and in particulary the group of
people who practice these historical swimming-strokes, got the honor to develop three new nostalgic swimming
diplomas for the NPZ (Dutch National Platform of Swimming
baths).
The old set-up
The old set-up for the current nostalgic swimming diplomas is as follows:
The required skills for the nostalgic swimming-strokes, sticker 1
- Jump into the water from the edge of the swimming-pool or from a starting block with a
jump of your choice followed by 25 meter swimmimg of the seaman's stroke.
- Jump into the water from the edge of the swimming-pool or from a starting block with a
jump of your choice followed by 25 meter swimmimg of the sidestroke.
- Jump into the water from the edge of the swimming-pool or from a starting block with a
jump of your choice followed by 25 meter swimmimg of the Northern kick.
The required skills for the nostalgic swimming-strokes, sticker 2
- Jump into the water from the edge of the swimming-pool or from a starting block with a
jump of your choice followed by 50 meter swimmimg of the seaman's stroke.
- Jump into the water from the edge of the swimming-pool or from a starting-block with a
jump of your choice followed by 50 meter swimmimg of the sidestroke.
- Jump into the water from the edge of the swimming-pool or from a starting-block with a
jump of your choice followed by 50 meter swimmimg of the Northern kick.
- Jump into the water from the edge of the swimming-pool or from a starting-block with a
jump of your choice followed by 25 meter swimmimg of the Spanish stroke.
The required skills for the nostalgic swimming-strokes, sticker 3
- Jump into the water from the edge of the swimming-pool or from a starting-block with a
jump of your choice followed by 50 meter swimmimg of the seaman's stroke.
- Jump into the water from the edge of the swimming-pool or from a starting-block with a
jump of your choice followed by 50 meter swimmimg of the sidestroke.
- Jump into the water from the edge of the swimming-pool or from a starting-block with a
jump of your choice followed by 50 meter swimmimg of the Northern kick.
- Jump into the water from the edge of the swimming-pool or from a starting-block with a
jump of your choice followed by 50 meter swimmimg of the Spanish stroke.
- Jump into the water from the edge of the swimming-pool or from a starting-block with a
jump of your choice followed by 50 meter of swimmimg of which 25 meter of the Trudgeon
stroke and 25 meter of the Trudgeoncrawl.
As you can see from above the distance of a swimming-stroke is emphasised. This will be different
with the new diplomas.
The new set-up
As things look now there will be again three diplomas each with a different level
of difficulty. The big difference between the old diplomas and the new one will
be the variety of swimming-strokes. The current diplomas only have 6 different
swimming-strokes (sticker 3) while the new diplomas will have 25 swimming-strokes.
Provisional the following swimming-strokes are selected :
How the classification between the 3 nostalgic swimming diplomas will be is unknown.
In any case there are 5 swimming-strokes of the 25 which can be marked as a spare. Which
swimming-stroke can be marked as a spare is as yet unknown.
What is known is that there are a mandatory number of swimming-strokes to be swum.
For diploma 1 there is a minimum of 12 swimming-strokes, for diploma 2 15 swimming-strokes
and for diploma 3 20 swimming-strokes msut be swum.
...to be continued