How to run and record badge tests.
📄Test day score sheets 📄 Foundation sign-off sheet
- Safety first. Never run a breath-hold or underwater test without a safety watcher. No hyperventilating.
- Witness. A second person is present to confirm every result.
- Best attempt counts. Players can retry and re-test later.
- Highest level wins. Award the highest level reached; levels don't have to be earned in order.
- Yard pools. Multiply yards by 0.9144 for metres.
- Stopwatch and pace clock
- Measuring tape and the exact pool length
- Two lane lines
- Pucks, sticks, fins, masks and snorkels
- Targets: 30 cm, 20 cm and puck-width (about 8 cm)
- Height obstacles: puck, goal-tray height (15–20 cm), marker (33–46 cm), obstacle (51–61 cm)
FoundationConditioningPowerPrecisionRecording results
- Watch during training. The player completes the full task once.
- Bronze and Silver in training. Gold in a game or scrimmage.
- At least Bronze in every badge completes Foundation and gives Coral.
| Test |
How to run it |
| Under Water Swim |
One breath, controlled swim. Underwater turns allowed. Record distance. |
| Static Breath Hold |
Out of the water, seated and still. Record time. |
| 30sec Simulations |
Submerge before push-off, full length underwater, touch the wall before surfacing. New length every 30 s (25 m) or 27.5 s (25 yd). A missed start, incomplete length or stop ends the test. Record lengths. |
| Cooper Test |
10 minutes, legs only, no stopping. Full lengths × pool length + last part-length. Record distance. |
| Test |
How to run it |
| 25m Flutter UW |
Push off the wall, flutter kick underwater, stop on the hand touch at the far wall. |
| 25m Dolphin UW |
As Flutter, using dolphin kick. |
| Explosive Start |
From the wall, 12.5 m underwater with fins, any kick. Stop when the hand passes over the finish puck. |
| Test |
How to run it |
| Puck Batting |
Coach flicks from within 1 m, inside two lane lines. Stick only; glove or foul is a miss. 5 attempts. |
| Pass Accuracy |
Pass or flick to hit the target. 5 attempts. |
| Pass Distance |
Controlled flick into the zone. Measure to where the puck stops inside the lane lines. |
| Pass Height |
Clean flick over the obstacle. 5 attempts. The measured height counts. |
- Write each result on the score sheet during the session.
- In the portal, open your club's badges and choose the badge.
- Select the player (or several), and the level reached.
- In the reason field, add the result and witness, e.g. "Cooper Test 690 m, 25 m pool, witnessed by J. Smith".
- Award. The player is notified and the badge shows on their profile.