Help, how to teach eggbeater treading?
Hey all, I (21F) have a 13y/o student who’s been taking lessons from me for several summers.
She can swim freestyle, backstroke, and breaststroke. However, she can only tread for 13 seconds even though we’ve been practicing it every lesson last summer.
She has a tall and lanky build which I suspect may be making it more difficult for her to tread. Also, she’s had a bad swimming experience where she was scared of drowning- and she seems more jerky/stiff while treading despite our drills which isolate arms/legs with noodles, and trying to relax while treading.
At my swim school, we only learned how to teach the kiddie version of treading (stomp feet and move arms), and not the eggbeater version.
I don’t know any drills for eggbeater-nor do I know the best way to break down the movements step-by-step to the student.
Any advice would be helpful!! I forgot how I learned eggbeater treading back when I was a kid 🥲