Swimming Games: Underwater Obstacle Course

Video Transcript

"In this section I'll be talking about game number fifteen. And it's called, it's almost like freeze tag, but it's under the water and it's really cool. Kids love to play it. So let me show you. I'll show you in the water as well. Pretty much you'll have your legs open, you know, and you'll just tell them to go in between the legs. And they may have to use their arms to, you know pull in between there. And as they go in between your legs then they can, you know, come out of the water. And then they go in between another set of legs. And really all it is, is just you can kind of put it in conjunction with freeze tag and say, make it a little bit more intense, and say "hey once you're frozen if you go underneath the legs you can unfreeze a kid, your know, or a person like that". And that's also another good way of getting them under the water. So depending on the age bracket and how advanced your kids are. If it's too boring to touch freeze tag then have them go in between the legs to unfreeze someone. And yeah so that's kind of wrapping it up. That's all your different games for kids. And it's a good way of pretty much having them use all their body parts. Breathing, arms, hands, legs and really getting them used to the water. And you want to make sure that they're very comfortable with the water as well. The person swims literally in between the legs. And obviously the more kids, the more fun it is because then you build like that much of a longer tunnel. Or you can just set up like a small obstacle course if you have enough people. Where you can set, you know, a child over here with their legs open, then you could just set, set up another person maybe a few feet over with their legs open. And one person could start on one side of the pool and literally just try to swim under their legs. They can come up for air if they want or if they have, they can hold their breath long enough, have them just stay under water. Just have them constantly just go in between legs. And that makes it really fun. And also, you can also incorporate this game, actually and then, and the game freeze tag as well. So as opposed to unfreezing the person, just by the simply by touching them, another way of unfreezing a person in the game of freeze tag, is you can to unfreeze the person is what you do is you swim under them. So the minute you swim through their legs they become unfrozen. That's really fun too if you want to get the game freeze tag a little more sophisticated a little more fun. When you have more advanced swimmers. And that's swimming in between legs or tunnels."