SAILING Physical Literacy Check List
Do I have a clear plan for the program?
Am I modelling movement vocabulary effectively?
Are my words age and sport appropriate?
Are my activities developmentally appropriate?
Am I meeting the needs of participants with varying abilities? Are my progressions clear and relevant? SAILING Have I planned a Get To Know You (GTKY) activity so the kids can meet new people (each time)? Physical Literacy* Are there re-entry tasks to avoid elimination? Camp Levels Crew (on Getaway) • Skipper • First Mate and Sailing Warm up and cool down activities have a Fundamental Movement Skills (FMS) purpose and Sailing provides the following help improve their skills Equipment physical benefits: Is there a skill/activity planned for those waiting on the side (when there is one-on-one or Brava • Getaway • Sails • Paddles • PFD Bytes • Helmets • Tow Ropes • Bailer small group instruction)? • Improves cardiovascular fitness Is there exposure to a variety of activities and Fundamental Movement Skills (FMS)? Fundamental Movement Skills • Increases muscle strength - (FMS) Does the environment allow for maximum participation and practice time? particularly in the back, arms, Body Management Skills: Is there enough equipment for everyone? Rolling • Stopping • Bending • Twisting shoulders and chest, from moving Landing • Stretching • Climbing • Balance Are the wait times short with few line-ups? the sail/rudder for steering Locomotor Skills: Am I motivating the kids to achieve personal bests or learn new things? Crawling • Running • Walking • Dodging • Increases confidence Am I building confidence through encouraging self-competition (improving on own skills not Hopping • Improves self-worth comparing to others)? Fundamental Sport Skills (FSS) • Increases communication skills Am I building a positive environment by making eye contact and smiling at the kids? Steering • Body Position • Communication • Team work Am I providing strength based feedback to each child (more than just good job)? Water Safety • Social Skills
Have I introduced myself (each time)?
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YMCAs of Cambridge & Kitchener-Waterloo *Physical Literacy is the motivation, confidence, physical [email protected] Literacy competence, knowledge and understanding to value and ymcacambridgekw.ca take responsibility for engagement in physical activity for life. Literacy SAILING SAILING Specific Language Progression and Activities • Learning parts of equipment Left side of boat facing forward. Port • Learning to control the sail in different environmental conditions • Balancing in varying conditions Starboard Right side of boat facing forward. • Ripstick - balance while moving or balance on board that is not flat 1 • Songs and Games to learn parts of equipment • Continuous Dodgeball while standing on boards on land (balance) Bow Front end of a boat. • Throw and catch a ball to partner while standing on boards on land • Individual balance – try each position with a bent leg (then switch and bend the other leg) Stern Rear end of a boat. lying on the back, lying on the stomach, sitting, hands and one foot on the ground, one foot on the ground, bent at the waist with one foot on the ground. The system of ropes, cables, or chains employed to support a ship’s (See booklet on Games to Teach Sailing). Rigging masts (standing rigging) and to control or set the yards and sails
5 Rudder A flat piece, usually of wood, metal, or plastic, hinged vertically Questions to Promote Learning and Conversations near the stern of a boat or ship for steering. • What is one new thing you figured out/learned today? Half hitch, figure-eight knot, bowline, reef knot, rolling hitch, clove • How would you teach it or explain it to someone else? 6 Knots hitch, sheet bend, double sheet bend. • What was tricky about today? Easy about today? Head (top of sail) • Tack (lower corner of sail) • Foot (bottom edge of 7 the sail from the tack to the clew) • Luff (forward or leading edge of Main Sail a sail) • Leech (the back edge of the sail) • Clew (bottom back Sport for Life Long-Term Athlete Development corner of the sail furthest from the mast). (LTAD) Model 8 Any sail set forward of the mast (on a single masted boat) or Head Sail foremast (the mast nearest the bow). The LTAD model is an optimal training, competition and recovery schedule for each stage of development. Games and activites in YMCA programs will focus on the FUNdamentals, Learn A horizontal spar (pole) that runs along the foot of a fore-and-aft to Train and Active for Life stages (dependent on age). Boom rigged sail.
10 Jib The next most common sail on a sailboat. It is always forward of the mainmast. 11 Sheet A rope used to control a sail. To shift suddenly and forcibly from one side to the other — used of Gybe a fore-and-aft sail or its boom. Active FUN- Learn to Train to Train to Train to Active for Start damentals Train Train Compete Win Life A sailing craft is said to be “in irons” if it is stopped with its sails 13 unable to generate power in the no-go zone. If the craft tacks too In Irons slowly, or otherwise loses forward motion while heading into the wind, the craft will coast to a stop. STAGE 1 STAGE 2 STAGE 3 STAGE 4 STAGE 5 STAGE 6 STAGE 7 Males and Males 6–9 Males 9–12 Males 12–16 Males 16–23+ Males 19+ Enter at Females 0–6 Females 6–8 Females 8–12 Females 11–15 Females 15–21+ Females 18+ any age Select PFD Find a PFD of appropriate size (does not lift above the bottom of ears).
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