Sporting rescue

Prompt Technical help > of prompt help > sporting Rescue ---- The sporting Sauvetage is a ludic and varied Sport but also a citizen activity which can be practiced by all and at any age. With the passing of years, the practitioner becomes autonomous and responsible in aquatic environment. He will be able to swim, to save and save the others.

The French federation of Rescue and First aid (FFSS)

Created in 1899 per Raymond Pitet, the FFSS is an association of recognized Loi 1901 public utility by the Ministry for the interior within the framework of the formation to the trades of the Secourisme and by the Ministry for the Sports for promotion and the development of the Sporting Rescue.

It develops everywhere where it can it the feelings of the duty and moral education. It improves the techniques and the machines of rescue. It organizes many tests. It prepares the voluntary ones with the federal diplomas and of State on all the national territory.

The French federation of Rescue and First aid counts:

35.000 bachelors
13 Regional Leagues
56 Departmental committees
More than 300 clubs

Its goal is triple:

To train first-aid workers
To organize rescue squads
To put in sporting event the nautical rescuers and the first-aid workers.

The National school of Rescue (ENS)

The French federation of Rescue and First aid set up a National school of Rescue (E.N.S.) to guarantee a teaching of quality, in full safety by framing with recognized competences.

The school of rescue, it is to know to swim, to save, save the others; ``it is the school of the life. '' The child builds himself with the passing of years in order to become autonomous and responsible vis-a-vis any situation. Physical and educational sport, it is the training of a sporting discipline but also of civic and useful act and respect of the environment.

Program E.N.S.:

Training and improvement of the 4 strokes
Initiation and improvement with the techniques of sporting and utility rescue
Initiation and improvement with the techniques of help and first aid
Respect of the environment
Discovered various aquatic environments (closed water, open water…)

Tests E.N.S. are acquired evolution of the child progressively and make it possible to the young children to discover the rescue and to open out in a sport while learning how to save a life.

The National school of Rescue recognizes:

6 degrees of capacity in plain water rescue " bouées"
7 degrees of capacity in coastal rescue " bonnets"

The Sporting Rescue is characterized by two specialities

These specialities are inspired by the situations which one can find in the traditional or professional rescue. The activity has as a will of " to better save and more vite" , it is practiced in competition of the local level on a world level, it is carried out into individual or collective.

The Sporting Rescue is characterized by two specialities: The plain water rescue The coastal rescue

The French federation of Rescue and First aid has as a currency: To preserve and Save

In France, the categories of age are:

11/12 years (youngest children);
13/14 years (tiny);
15/16 years (juniors);
17/18 years (juniors);
19/29 years (seniors);
30 years and + (masters).

Championships of the World are organized every 2 years with some nations among the 113 component the I.L.S. (International Life Saving). They relate to the seniors (with nation and club) and the masters (5 years in 5 years as from 30 years). Australia, country of origin of this sport, knows a national championship as important as football in Europe. The southern hemisphere counts over there already a multitude of professional sportsmen divided in clubs of rescue installed on each local beach. Specialized magazines report their exploits and the television channels diffuse the competitions on the national chains while large companies communicate this energetic and corrosive sport.

Plain water tests

The plain water rescue represents the whole of the sporting tests practitioner in Piscine. 7 individual tests and 5 tests of team are counted. The course of the tests is measured in time: the 8 best stopwatches achievements at the time of the qualificative series give access to the finale of the plain water tests;. There there too exists not only the research of the best place but also the research of the best chronometric performance (better performance, records of France, records of Europe, the World…)

Into Individual:

Rescue of the mannequin:

This test is run on 50 Mr. It symbolizes the research of the person in distress and its towing on the surface in a minimum of time. After having traversed 25m in freestyle, the rescuer plunges towards the mannequin placed between 1m80 and 3m of depth, goes up it and tows it on 25m.

100m, 200m or 400m obstacles: An obstacle of 2m50 on 70 cm is placed at 12m50 of the edge. To each passage, the swimmer must pass under this obstacle. This test simulates the passage of obstacles by the rescuer at the time of the search for a person in distress in a minimum of time.

100m towing of the mannequin with palms: The swimmer carries out 50m in freestyle with palms, recovers a Mannequin at the bottom of water located between 1m80 and 3m, then tows it on 50m without the mannequin not having the head under water.

100 m combined of rescue: The swimmer carries out one 50 m freestyle, of continuation after the turn it continues an apnea of 20 m, recovers a mannequin then tows it on 30 m without the mannequin not having the head under water

100m rescue of the mannequin with palms and buoy tubes (Lifesaver):

The swimmer carries out 50 m freestyle with a buoy tubes and of the palms, a mannequin at the end of the basin recovers, the " clipse" using its " buoy tube" , then reconsiders 50 m freestyle palms by drawing the mannequin.

200m super rescuer: The swimmer carries out 75 m of freestyle, recovers a Mannequin at the bottom of water located between 1 m 80 and 3 m, then tractor draws it on 25 m without the mannequin not having the head under water; fit a pair of palms and threads its buoy tubes, carries out 50 m freestyle palms and " buoy tube" , a mannequin at the end of the basin recovers, the " clipse" using its " buoy tube" , then reconsiders 50 m freestyle palms while drawing the mannequin behind him.

In team:

Relay 4 X 50m obstacles: 4 swimmers take turns on 50 m while passing under obstacles placed at 12,50 m of the edge.

Relay 4 X 25m mannequin: 4 swimmers take turns on 25 m and tow a mannequin on the surface.

Relais 4 X 50m buoy tubes: The team is composed of 4 swimmers. The first share in 50 m freestyle, the second in 50 m freestyle with palms, the third in 50 m freestyle with buoy tubes. The fourth, webbed receives the harness and leaves on 50 m drawing behind him the hung third. That Ci helping itself only of the legs.

Relay lassoing (Line Throw): this test is timed, a rescuer launches a cord to a member " victime" from its team located in water at roughly 12m and draws it towards the wall from arrival from the swimming pool.

SERC : Test of simulation of rescue, which proposes with a team of four rescuers to solve various situations of distress and this in time limits.

Coastal tests

These specialities are inspired by the professional coastal rescue and the will of " to better save and more vite". The coastal rescue gathers the tests practitioner on Sable and water level (Mer, Océan, Lac). One counts 6 individual tests and 4 tests per team in the form of relay

Individual:

Race (Sprint): A rescuer runs on distance from 90m on sand.

Possibly 2 km race: Race of 2 km on sand.

Stroke (Surfing Race)

Board Race (Paddle Board)

Surfing Ski (Ski race): The departure is done in water and the rescuers must carry out a course with their surfing ski delimited by buoys, before returning towards the beach to pass the finishing line materialized by two flags in water.

musical Sticks (Beach flag): The rescuers are lying on sand flat belly, back with the sticks which are planted on a line parallel with the starting line but distant of 20 Mr. There is a stick in less than participants. With the signal, the candidates rectify themselves, are turned over and throw themselves in sprint on 1 of the sticks. That which remains without stick is eliminated

Combined coastal rescue (Ironman Race): The rescuers swim on a distance from 400m, carry out a course with board, a course surfing ski and a race on sand (the order of the tests is drawn with the fate).

In team:

Relay sprint on sand (Beach relay): 4 rescuers take turns on a distance from 4 times 90m while doing a witness (Stick)

Relais Rescue Buoy Tubes (Rescue Tube rescue Race): The machine is a semi-rigid float which one can attach around a victim for then tractor drawing it towards the edge with a cord. Here, there are four team-members: the victim (which can help, but this is regulated), the rescuer, who has palms and the buoy tubes, and two assistants who leave the victim water and carry it or trail it to the finishing line.

Relay Rescue in Board (Rescue Board Rescue Relay): The first rescuer leaves the beach, swims jusqu with a buoy, once arrived, it gives a signal to the second rescuer. The second share of the beach with the board, recovers its team-member with the buoy, and totals two on the board, while finishing with final by a sprint on the beach with the board.

Relais Combines Rescue (Taplin Relay): It is a " ironman" in team, 4 rescuers take turns and they carry out each one one of the tests (sprint, stroke, board and kayak)

Relay Board of Rescue: Course of Board carried out by four relay runners

Relais Swims: Course of Stroke carried out by four relay runners.

Double ski: Two-seater course of surfski.

surfing boat: Surfing boat, with its boat of almost 300 kilos, and its oars reaching nearly 5 meters, its 4 boaties (oarsmen) and its sweper (cox), is a very spectacular race with its course outward journey of almost 400 m while passing through beachcombers of some times more than two meters, and its of the same return outdistances in surfing

External bonds

the French federation of Rescue and First aid
the site of the club Aqualove rescue of Montpellier

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