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Lifesaving Sport Guides
Click on these links to download Blondie's guide to the different lifesaving sport events. Each guide contains a brief description of the event, and a summary of the basic technique to get you started..
How To Win Competitive Lifesaving Incidents
This PowerPoint presentation starts with an outline of what a Simulated Emergency Response Competition (Or SERC) involves, then it takes a brief look at the BULSCA rules and the basics of lifesaving incidents. It moves on to analyse past mark schemes and finishes with some proven strategies that could help your team improve their performance in incidents.
This advice has been tailored for university lifesaving clubs competing under the British Universities Lifesaving Clubs Association (BULSCA) rules, but the advice can be easily adapted to any competitive lifesaving incident.
20070220-Blondies_Guide_To_SERC-DFielding.zip (1MB Zipped Powerpoint Presentation)
Open Water Swimming
This guide explains the basic techniques involved in the International Life Saving (ILS) Surf Race event. This guide was developed during Oliva 2007 with assistance from Lauren Dyson (Southampton University Lifesaving Club).
Choosing Fins For Lifesaving
This short guide explains what to look for when buying fins for lifesaving. It briefly mentions fibre-glass fins, but focuses on rubber "scuba style" fins which are more appropriate for young competitors. The guide talks about the factors to take into account when choosing fins, recommends some places to buy them and briefly tells you how to look after your fins.
Practice Incidents
Click on the link to download an example dry incident and mark-sheet...
20080708-KLSC_Dry_Incident-DFielding.doc
Click on the link to download an example wet incident and mark-sheet...
20080708-KLSC_Wet_Incident-DFielding.doc
Click on the link to download an example open-water incident and mark-sheet...
Incident Training Exercises
Do you struggle with Simulated Emergency Response Competitions? Do you want to improve, but you're not sure where to start? Do you find practising incidents takes ages and your competitors get bored waiting for you to set up another new incident? Well, here's a set of 13 different exercises that you can use to practice for competitive lifesaving incidents...
Beach Sprints
This guide and acompanying video explain the basic techniques involved in the International Life Saving (ILS) Beach Sprint event. This guide was developed during Oliva 2007 with assistance from Dominic Roberton (Southampton University Lifesaving Club) and Ollie Croad (Nottingham University Lifesaving Club).