Why we do this? 200m Obstacle swim.

Similarly to how army works, for every lifesaving competition event, there is a certain rational or argument of how we do things. For the next few blogs (if no one else blogs) will be on the different events, their rationales and how we can train to perfect them. Of course, these are all my personal thoughts.

These training styles may differ from place to place, and based on personal preference.
Completion starts out long long ago, where a few people come together to see who is better at a certain trade.

Obstacle Swim.
Rationale.
This is akin to doing an underwater search for a victim or going under an obstacle to a victim under the obstacle.

How we train?
Keep doing surface dives. Practice makes perfect. Make it 4 strokes to 1 surface dive to practice diving. Aid the dive with a breaststroke pull and kick to touch the floor, bring your knees to your chest and kick off the floor with both legs. For some, they do not like for hands to touch the floor before kicking off the ground. (personal preference)

When going up make sure hands are straighten, (a good habit, esp when surfacing at sea, might have debris, hull of boats) continue flutter kicking or dolphin kicks and surface with freestyle.

Note when going down, the surface dive, not to be a sharp 90 degrees down. Adopt a 45 degree angle for more distance. Note your breast stroke, not to do your breast stroke kick in the air.