Why Physical Education Is Important

Reflection Paper in Swimming (My Prelim and Midterm Experiences)

Physical education is an important aspect in our curriculum as a student. It is a daily well programmed and appropriately monitored physical activity that can help us to increase our self-esteem, develop knowledge, attitude, discipline, and confidence needed to maintain active lifestyles and acquire the skills needed to develop a positive attitude towards physical activity that will last a lifetime.

I’m the type of person that rather chooses to stay on the pool sides instead of swimming and enjoying the water because I, myself, know that I’m not good at it and doesn’t know about it even a little. So, as I got to know that we will have a swimming class for this whole semester, the first thing that came up to my mind was how I can surpass and accomplished it without failing.

I had so many experiences during prelim and midterm. We started with all the basics particularly bubbling and breathing. At first, it was just fine and a little bit easy for me to perform the so called “Prone float” but as time went by, I started to suffer the difficulty especially in Free Style. It was hard for me because I don’t know what are the proper movement of the head and arms and I can’t swim that long because I don’t know how to breathe in the water so every time I turn my head to breathe, instead of getting air, I always end up drinking water.

I really had a hard time in learning the free style that came up to the point that I was so tempted not to attend the class because I was afraid to be embarrassed knowing all my classmates know how to perform it well except me. But fighting with the temptation was worth it because as time went by, I learned it even though they called my free style “slow motion”.

The most difficult stroke I suffered was the Back stroke because I don’t know how to do even the Back float. While practicing it, my body always tend to get drown that made me drink a lot of water. Drinking