In and Out of the Pool I spend twenty hours a week in the pool and I have been doing it for a little over eight years now. I would not consider myself in expert in swimming, but I would say I know more than the average person. I have learned to love the sport over many years and I have had the chance to spread my knowledge to others. This past summer I was the assistant coach on my neighborhood summer league swim team and I got the chance to teach the younger swimmers. I got to experience a change in my role at the pool. No longer was I the swimmer, I became the coach. Once I learned the literacy of swimming overtime, I not only gained it, but I was able to spread my literacy to others through changing my role at the pool. When I was five …show more content…
People feel like they know the basics, but there is a lot more that goes along with it than just freestyle or any other stroke. I have had to learn about about drills, underwaters, the dive, and other aspects. It has taken me time to learn these parts. Even though that I am now a collegiate swimmer, I still am learning new literacies every day. A new coach requires new terms and new learning. It was not until this past summer when I realized how teaching young children the literacy of swimming is actually hard. I’d say I am fluent in the swimming lingo, but these six year olds barely knew anything. This was a whole new experience for me, but sharing this literacy with others reminded me of my love for the …show more content…
It is a whole lot different than being the athlete. For example, when teaching the six-year-old freestyle I could not explain it in technical terms. I had to change the literacy into something that a child would understand. I learned the ways to teach the strokes in a fun and relatable way. I taught freestyle like you are scooping your favorite ice cream. For a six-year-old, that made a lot more sense. Learning the skills that come with coaching was such an awesome experience. Seeing the younger swimmers learn the literacy of the sport throughout the season was incredible. It was heartwarming to see a child go from not knowing anything about swimming to knowing how to do two or more strokes at the end of the season. It made me so happy that I was able to share my knowledge with
I have been swimming year-round on a club team since the age of six and when I was younger improving came relatively easily. However, around age 13, I hit a training plateau despite having the same work ethic and focus that I had previously had. I grew to despise swimming and at points I wanted to quit. However, unlike Junior, I had role models and mentors who were positive influences on me and who helped me to overcome this challenge. Primarily, I had several of my best friends on the team who convinced me to keep persevering and to not simply quit the sport that I loved so much just because I was no longer dropping time. For example, every day I watch my close friends Lizanne and Cate come to practice and give it their all, regardless of the numerous injuries and medical issues that plagued their swimming career; their positive outlook and dedication motivated me to try even harder than I had before. Moreover, I had by parents, something that Junior did not have; my parents were always there to support me after yet another disappointing meet reminding me that “you get five minutes for a win and five minutes for a lost”. My parents where my voice of reason as I tried to work through my issues; they were always there to encourage me, but also were very honest with me
I’ve been involved with sports since I was 2 years old, participating in these taught me more than the sports themselves; they taught me who I am. I put in countless hours of gymnastics practice, so many that the majority of kids couldn’t imagine the dedication needed to become a state and national champion. It taught me a few of the most vital lessons that I will ever learn; to contribute 100 percent in everything I do and to balance various aspects of my life. Gymnastics also taught me perseverance, how to work harder to achieve a goal, no matter how difficult.
Ever since I was a young student, teachers knew that I was not a normal kid. These teachers saw qualities in me that they could not see in many students at that age level. They saw a child who had a profound love to know more and had the ambition of a decorated Olympic swimmer to learn not just the material that was being taught but why it is being taught and how I can I use this information to make people’s lives better. Fast-forward to today, and you can clearly see that not much has changed except my determination to learn and my love to help others has done nothing but expanded.
And last of all, if you do not know what you are doing. Then you are not benefiting yourself or the people you are coaching/teaching. Even if you have only a little bit of knowledge about the sport, you would still have at least some knowledge. And having a little knowledge is better than none at all. Because if you have no knowledge of what you are doing, you are letting yourself down by failing at doing what you are supposed to be doing. And you are also letting the people you are coaching down because they are wanting to get better and you can not help
As a competitive swimmer, I train 19 hours a week as a member of the University of Manitoba Bison’s Men’s Swim Team. However, growing up, I was never a great swimmer. I just didn’t have the classic swimmer body type—tall, long limbs with big hands and feet—but I loved the sport. Looking back, I can imagine how my parents felt. Their short, scrawny kid desperately wanted to be in a sport that he wasn’t meant for.
I want to be a Junior Swim Coach because I want to help teach the young swimmers not only how to swim, but to have fun while they are doing it. I also want to be a Junior Swim Coach because I remember how much I learned from my junior coaches and how much fun it was being on the Junior Swim Team. Because of this, I would like to give every Junior Swimmer the same experience I had. I think I am a good fit for the program because I work very well with kids. I am able to have fun with them and be a leader to them at the same time. I believe that having an “out-of-the-water” relationship with the kids I coach is a vital quality in being a good coach and mentor. I think I am able to have a good relationship with the kids and bond with them while
I have done swim for all four years of high school with this last year being on of the captain of the team. I took the role of swim captain very seriously. I tried to plan as much activities as I could to bring our horizon swim team together. I lead our team and helped the other swimmers when I could and I like to think I did a pretty good job at being captain this year. I had also done track for three years. I was on the distance team all three years, I may not have been the best runner but I had a lot of fun being apart of the wonderful track team and supporting my team mates.
Presently scientist are conducting research to help people gain new techniques in swimming. While scientists continue research for new swimming techniques, they must start with early techniques of swimming as a sport and part of life. Learning how to swim is not easy. However, swimming is physics. There are laws, buoyancy, drags, and motions. To become a good swimmer one should take initiative to learn how certain techniques evolved and take an active approach into applying these physics into their own strokes. This report will state a brief summary of the physics of swimming and its mechanics and then continue by describing the technique of the freestyle and backstrokes.
The study of physics and fluid dynamics in swimming has been a field of increasing interest for study in the past few decades among swimming coaches and enthusiasts. Despite the long history of research, the understanding of how to move the human body effectively through the water is still in its infancy. Competitive swimmers and their coaches of all levels are constantly striving for ways to improve their stroke technique and overall performance. The research and performances of today's swimmers are continuously disproving the beliefs of the past. Like in all sports, a better understanding of physics is enabling the world class swimmers to accomplish times never before thought possible. This was displayed on the grandest of scales in the 2000 Olympics when Ian Thorpe, Inge De Bruijn, Pieter Van Den Hoogenband and a number of other swimmers broke a total of twelve world records and numerous Olympic and national records.
My personal philosophy is: I am a coach because of my love for the game and my wanting to teach this passion to others. I believe that playing a sport will not only prepare a child to win, but also for life and the challenges that come with it. I will strive to help every athlete to compete to the best of their ability, while ensuring that are learning skills that will later on better them in their everyday lives.
The coach becomes a motivator and a facilitator of growth or athletic skills. This growth will ultimately lead to the attainment of individual and group goals. For the sports team, the coach will lead its members’ growth in developing training, providing encouragement, and monitoring their progress. The player will become more skillful in the game. More skillful players win. Sport coaches will assess their players’ overall strengths and weaknesses by placing the player in a position which accentuates their positive attributes, in an attempt to overcome any negative aspects.
Becoming a coach has different ways. It can take some college, often teachers must teach in a field that matches their bachelor’s degree. Now there are coaches that teach as well or athletic coordinators. Athletic coordinators are coaches that deal with just sports and do not teach. Those have to go through a different process that regular coaches. For becoming a coach some have to know some health levels. With being a coach , athletes often get hurt and need to know how to properly take care of it. Sometimes when wanting to coach a specific sport you may have to have some background with that sport. Why would they just throw someone to teach kids something when the coach doesn 't know what he is talking about. It better to have a coach with experience to pass good skills to
As a teacher my primary goal is to maximize student success. For me to accomplish that I need to create an atmosphere where students are enthusiastic and intrinsically motivated. Even though we do live in an extrinsic world, students need to have an attitude of doing things for themselves. Physical activity is a great way to demonstrate intrinsic rewards. By participating in regular physical activity students can reap the rewards of helping another succeed, giving complete devotion, increasing both health and skill related fitness, and also getting their own endorphins flowing. In life it is important to learn to to work well with others and team sports are a great way to incorporate ...
The main goals behind Sport Education are to help students become knowledgeable about different sports and activities to the point where they can participate in these outside of the classroom to stay active. Also it teaches execution and strategies and encourages competitiveness. It is important for kids to be competitive because they will have to be in life and it will teach the importance of winning and losing the right way. “Sports offer kids a great chance to work cooperatively toward a common goal. And working coope...
Millions of sports fans anxiously anticipate tuning in to view their favorite sporting events each season. Whether it 's the Super Bowl, NBA Championship, or The World Series, fans are treated to a performance by some of the most talented athletes in the world. These athletes have trained vigorously in order to make their dream of playing in their major sports championship a reality. Many of these athletes began developing their skills by playing competitive sports at a young age. In addition to gaining extraordinary skills, these children and others who participate in competitive sports acquire knowledge that is beneficial to everyday life. My knowledge and experiences with competitive sports began at the age of five. Through my exposer with competitive sports, I gained good communication skills, self esteem, and learned the value of work ethics.