I am planning a meet and I would like to include a couple of "fun" relays. I need some ideas. Minnesota Masters Swimming does a "Reindeer Relays" meet each December and I found descriptions of a few of their races (see below). Does anyone else have some suggestions for fun relays? (Note that this meet will be held in a public high school, so the relays cannot include alcohol...)
--Tarzan relay - each swimmer must swim with his head out of the water
--Ballet leg relay - each swimmer must do backstroke with 1 leg out of the water, pointed in the air
--Reindeer relay - each swimmer dog paddles while wearing antlers (which are passed like a baton from one swimmer to the next)
--All-Fly relay
--Kicking relay
Originally posted by kaelonj
In college our conference did a relay meet, where we swam relays of all the strokes, and IM relay. mixed relays, crescendo.
Jeff
Did one of those when I was in high school. Most interesting was the 4x50 backstroke relay. (This was before the current flip turn rules.) Legs 2,3,4 went off the blocks. (Leg 1 started in the water.) 2,3,4 were allowed one stroke after emerging from the dive to get on their backs. (Also no underwater dolphin kicks on backstroke starts and turns in those days. I wonder how they would handle that on the start in a relay like this now... Probably require you to get on your back underwater if you wanted to do underwater dolphin kicks on the start...)
Originally posted by kaelonj
In college our conference did a relay meet, where we swam relays of all the strokes, and IM relay. mixed relays, crescendo.
Jeff
Did one of those when I was in high school. Most interesting was the 4x50 backstroke relay. (This was before the current flip turn rules.) Legs 2,3,4 went off the blocks. (Leg 1 started in the water.) 2,3,4 were allowed one stroke after emerging from the dive to get on their backs. (Also no underwater dolphin kicks on backstroke starts and turns in those days. I wonder how they would handle that on the start in a relay like this now... Probably require you to get on your back underwater if you wanted to do underwater dolphin kicks on the start...)
