Players: Small to large groups.
Required: Large sweatshirts or hoodies, trousers, T-shirts.
Goal:
To be the first team to complete several lengths or widths of the pool swimming in a sweatshirt.
This is a timed event. Winners will be determined by the fastest overall time.
Preparation:
Set up teams as to how many sweatshirts and good swimmers you have.
If you have various levels of swimmers use the short length of the pool so that the weak swimmers can go across the shallow end.
Each team shares one sweatshirt for the relay, trousers and T-shirts are optional.
The first person on each team puts the clothes on and everyone else lines up behind them.
Start the Relay:
At the start the leader jumps into the water,
swims across the pool and back,
and then exchanges the clothes on poolside with the next player to do the same.
The clothes must stay on for the entire time while swimming.
Hands must be seen outside of the sleeves of the sweatshirt before the contestant may jump into the water.
No one may help the two team members exchange the clothes.
A 30 second time penalty applies if a team member is helped out of the water before the exchange.
Teams who grab or pull another swimmer will be disqualified.
It's not that easy take off wet clothes and even harder putting them on.
The easiest and fastest way is to take the sweatshirt off holding onto the hands of the next player
so that it slides over the next player's arms.
That's the trick but don't tell anyone until one team needs to catch up.
