The Challenges of Swimming Most everyone has been swimming at least once in their life‚ but competitive swimming is more than just floating in water. Competitive swimming‚ from the inception in 1896‚ has greatly evolved to the sport it is today. It includes four strokes which are; Front stroke‚ Back stroke‚ Breast stroke‚ and Butterfly. Swimming is one of the hardest sports in the world because of the mental and physical attributions. On the mental side of swimming‚ there are many factors
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Last Year I got the opportunity to create a youth swim program out of a Toronto master’s swim club. After swimming with the club for three years and having my own swim instructing experience‚ I approached the head coach with an idea for a new youth program. I pitched that the program would run alongside the master swim to accommodate for parents who desired the convenience of having their children swim at the same time and location. The head coach was receptive to the idea and contacted the athletes
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Dryland training is an essential part of elite and age-group swimming performance. Many swim clubs make dryland too simple or too complicated to succeed. Teams also have poor consistency between groups at their team. These problems increase injury risk‚ reduce effectiveness of dryland‚ and make dryland training unsuccessful. Hi! I’m Dr. John Mullen‚ DPT‚ CSCS. I’m a former National level swimmer and am the developer of the dryland for swimming system‚ I have been around the sport for many years
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How to Swim Butterfly All those who know‚ even a little bit of swimming‚ have come to agree that the butterfly stroke is by far the most difficult stroke in swimming. It may not necessarily be the most difficult stroke to master technique-wise (that title is held by breast stroke‚ as far as I know)‚ but it is definitely the most taxing stroke to swim. Of course‚ one can always argue that any stroke is taxing to swim when you’re swimming with 100 percent effort‚ and that is true‚ but even in that
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Growing up in Hawaii the ocean or the pool was the place I felt most comfortable. My dad is a big reason why I love the water and being so active. He signed me up on the Kona Dolphins swim team when I was ten years old. I immediately fell in love. I loved being able to push myself to swim faster and continuing to beat my fastest times. My coach saw potential in me and continued to push me to become a faster swimmer. But‚ as I got older and entered middle school‚ I grew apart from the sport and desired
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It was the sound of the buzzer that beckoned me to the block. I mounted the block and fastened my goggles tight against my face. I wrapped my toes around the edge of the block and peered down into the clear light blue water. Next‚ a voice spoken from over a speaker told swimmers to “take their mark”. I bent down and within a couple seconds‚ the buzzer went off and I dove into the water. Many memories such as this one come to mind when I think about my first swim meet. My first swim meet is an experience
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1900-In 1900 the Olympic Games were held in Paris‚ France and had the 200 m‚ 1000 m and 4000 m and 200 m backstroke and a 200 m relay race. The Paris Games also had an underwater and a swimming against the current races. The 4000 m freestyle race was won by British swimmer John Jarvis. The 4000 m event was the longest swimming competition event ever held in the history of swimming. The backstroke was used in the Olympics in the sport of water polo‚ for the first time. 1904-In 1904 the Olympic Games
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"When I discovered a month prior‚ it was a major stun." She will contend in 100m backstroke warms on Sunday and would like to better her national record of 1:07.31 in the occasion in Rio. Singh broke Nepal’s dry spell of individual decoration at global occasion‚ asserting one silver (200m individual variety) and three bronze awards (200m backstroke 100m backstroke‚ 400m free-form) amid the twelfth South Asian Games in Assam and Guwahati in India early this year. She has
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principals because I found that by combining both part and whole learning I was able to focus on the small movements and also the movement as a whole. Because I swim train 4 or 5 times a week‚ I was already at the autonomous stage for freestyle‚ backstroke‚ and breastroke so for these strokes I had very little to improve on. However I found that by breaking the movement down I was able to identify weaknesses in my technique and improve on them. An example of this is I focused on my breastroke kick
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TERM PAPER FOR SWIMMING (PE 2) SUBMITTED BY: KEVIN P. ACUÑA AB COMMUNICATION SUBMITTED TO: MR. MICHAEL HINGPIT INSTRUCTOR Swimming as a sport Swimming is a water-based sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA). History of Swimming Swimming has been recorded since prehistoric times; the earliest recording of swimming dates back to Stone Age paintings from around 7‚000 years ago. Written references date from 2000 BCE. Some of the earliest references
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