Reuben's Blog

Hello, Yesterday we had our north school zones at Jellie park. I was a bit nerves and so was my friend Sam Tippen, I was racing in the 50m Freestyle and the 50m relay and Sam was racing in the 50m breast stroke, 50m back stroke and the 50m relay with me. My first event was the 50m freestyle and there was a about 5 kids their so it was a straight final which was good. They blow the whistle to let everyone know that a race was going to start, "take you marks" bang!! we dove in I swam my heart out but with about 15m to go I got caught in a rope so I pop my head up and realise that is was a false start from someone and they did the race again I needed up coming 2nd. At the end of the race my friends said that I was wining the first time they did it. It was then time for our relay with Sam, Rosa and Casey, I went 1st Casey went 2nd, Rosa went 3rd and Sam went lucky last we ended up coming 2nd again. So that means I am going to Canterbury's for Freestyle. Have you been to Z

Hello, Yesterday the people that qualified for zones in swimming went for a practice at QE11. As you know I love swimming and the first thing we did was just a warm up it was 6 lengths of what ever stroke you were doing for zones and in that case it was freestyle for me. I started to get pretty tiring at the last length but I knew I just needed to push harder. The next thing we did was practice what ever we think we need to work on and for me it was my tumble turns and my dives. I started on my tumble turns and our coach/teacher Maree Scott said that they were really good and my dives were perfect. Have you been to zones for swimming ?

Hello, For the past week our hub have been doing swimming lessons at QE11. Before we went we had to have a buddy an my buddy's name was Edu he is Spanish so it was a bit hard to talk to him, but other then that he was great. On our first lesson they said if you can swim 50 come over in the last lane or if you can only swim 25 come in the second lane or can't swim at all wait hear. I went in the last lane because I am a pretty good swimmer, they told us to then swim 50 freestyle, 50 backstroke and 50 breaststroke. After swimming we picked up our buddy's from the little pool and got changed, after that we hopped on the bus to go back to school and yesterday we swam 500m non - stop in 10 minutes. This is great practice for zones in 2 weeks. I love swimming and can't wait for swimming zones. Have you been to QE11 ?