to swim an Individual Medley swimming event. Swimmers propel themselves through the water using four different arm strokes and four different kicks. Each arm stroke has a kick designed to meet the tempo of the swim. We refer to the strokes in the order in which they are performed, the butterfly stroke, the backstroke, the breaststroke, and the freestyle stroke. The four strokes are consistently swum in this order based on the rules that govern competitive swimming. Butterfly Stroke The butterfly
California. Missy’s full name is Melissa Jeanette Franklin. Her dad; Dick is a business executive and her mom D.A. is a doctor. Her nickname is Missy the Missile, and her dad gave her that nickname. Missy started swimming at the age of five years old. Missy’s mother is afraid of swimming, so she took missy to swim lessons at a young age, so Missy wouldn’t grow up with the same fear. When missy was 13 years old she competed in ...
story, we have to go back to the beginning of the school year of August 2012. When I started at Lutcher High School, I decided to join the swim team. I was only a seventh grader, but I wanted to be part of the team with my older cousin, Kadam. Swimming started, and I struggled due to my size and strength. I never gave up, though. My goal was one day to follow in my cousin’s footsteps and qualify for state. My cousin, Kadam, was unexpectedly killed in a car accident a week before the state meet
new? I had never imagined myself competitively swimming. It was so different from anything I had ever done before, but trying it was the best decision I could ever make. My friend Amber had been part of Mingo Central High School’s Swim Team since our first year. Actually, she was the only one on the Swim Team that year. Junior year I told her I would join. Amber and I were walking in the hallway when they called for anyone interested in swimming to go to the Commons Area. Now, had I been alone
Imagine swimming in the big Olympic pools. All you can hear is the muffled noises of ecstatic fans cheering. All you can feel is the water urging you to keep swimming. Then you reach your hand out and feel the wall. You emerge out of the crystal blue pool water and have won! Michael Phelps and Dara Torres are two extraordinary swimmers who live their lives in the Olympic pools. Both Torres Is Tops and Michael’s Magic deal with the challenges and successes of Dara and Michael’s Olympic careers
work, high physical demands at practice, having to eat almost every three hours, and trying to maintain a normal life, the weeks are exhausting. It is no wonder why the NCAA has set a maximum number of hours to train each week in regards to college swimming. All of these factors play into the hopes that when a swimmer tapers, or rests for a meet so that they are in top condition to compete, they will be able to swim faster than they ever have before and hopefully achieve a best time or get a new “cut”
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
Mehmed Istar-4496732 AHE-1127 Aquatics Assessment 2 Tutor: Andrew Hammond PART A Learning & Teaching swimming After a 4 week teaching experience with the students from the Western English Language School, my knowledge about teaching children how to swim has dramatically expanded and improved. This experience has taught me a lot of important things, such as how to make lessons fun and enjoying for the students, to always have a smile on my face rather than looking like a nasty teacher
The evolution of swimming Daniel Ruiz Swimming started in ancient times it can be dated to prehistoric times, we can know this because The Bible, The Iliad and, The Odyssey all contain information about this sport (ICNsportsweb, 2014). Egyptians also incorporated this information, in their old clay there are humans swimming the crawl style; these clays are from 4000 B.C. An old story about swimming says that it was necessary to learn how to
that persistence is essential in almost everything. My odd venture began when I almost drowned in the ocean. My near-death was because, even though I was already eight-years-old, I had yet learned how to swim. Thus, my mother insisted that I take swimming lessons. My experience learning how to swim has taught me to make a habit of seeing things through completely and being persistent in all endeavors. Throughout most of my younger years, I attempted to stay out of the ocean when at the beach due to
Guest Post Keywords: Swimming Lessons Omaha Common Breathing Mistakes to Avoid While Swimming Swimming, more than any other sports, involves a lot of technicalities and strategies. Expert swimmers, having their way through the waters for years now, are aware of the difficulty level of swimming. In fact, swimming is one sport that is as much fun as it is challenging. It is not without reason that many people, in spite of being willing to learn swimming, give up because of certain problems. And one
Competitive Swimming People have been swimming since the Stone Age, but it wasn’t until the 1830’s in England when swimming became a competitive sport. This was a direct result from the creation of the first indoor artificial swimming pool in 1828. The Olympic Games adopted swimming in 1896 but were held in open water for the first four Olympics. In the 1908 Summer Olympics a 100m pool was built which marks the first artificial Olympic pool. Pools of 50m and 25m are more commonly used today and implement
rappers must possess the ability to freestyle with comfort. The basic concept of free styling is to rap and make up the lyrics as you go along. A free styled rhyme is usually one verse long, or about one minute. A lot of rappers who are famous don't freestyle and are open about it. Since most rappers are driven by selling records and making money, they don't see any value in free styling. When a rapper releases a record commercially, they don't put freestyles on their record, they only release
The Origin of Fencing, Rowing, Tennis, Cock-fighting, Swimming, Golf, Badminton, Boxing and Bullfighting It is thought that the Egyptians began fencing as a sport and this is derived from images on walls and relics from that time. The images show fencers wearing forms of protective clothing, earflaps and having covers on the ends of their swords. It is also thought that they may have been used to let fighters practice their swordsmanship, without any danger of being harmed. Fencing will
officials, along with a majority of the competitive swimming world, believe that long-length high-tech swimsuits give swimmers an unfair advantage. In 2010, FINA, The International Swimming Federation, banned all high-tech suits, but let the world records that the athletes wearing the swimsuits set stand. This rule will affect competitive swimmers of all ages. USA swimming follows the international governing body rules. The sport of swimming will not continue to progress if we do not allow swimsuit
swimsuits. Because of this, most International Swimming Federation officials, also known as FINA, along with a majority of the competitive swimming world, believe that long-length high-tech swimsuits give swimmers an unfair advantage. In 2010, FINA banned all high-tech suits, but let the world records that the athletes wearing the swimsuits set stand (Dyer 7). This rule will affect competitive swimmers of all ages, including United States swimmers. USA swimming follows the international governing body
Swimming by definition is “to move along in water by means of movements of the body or parts of the body, especially the arms and legs, or (in the case of fish) tail and fins” (Swimming). The sport of swimming has a long history, from the beginning with the Egyptians and Hittites, through the competitive athletes of this century. While the history of competitive swimming is more in depth and has more information about it, the ancient history has a more solid background (MLA 7th Edition). In Egyptian
Swimming Techniques and Physics 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
cherry colored kickboard from a shelf, I trotted back and hopped into the ice cold pool, alongside my peers as we waited for our swim instructor, a young blond in a strappy one piece swimsuit, to give us our warm-up task. Being a five-year-old girl, swimming class was the highlight of my day, since it was the only activity I was doing on this Saturday morning. Opposite the pool, I spotted my mother with my younger brother in her lap while he was playing a game on her phone. As I raced by my peers in
the very first year that the Worland High School Swimming and Diving Men’s program won state as a team. It all started when the pool was first built in the late 1970’s. This is where most of the young children learned how to swim and or became competitive swimmers in middle and high school. Creating basic building blocks for essential survival skill, this was a key essential for most children; from learning butterfly, breaststroke, backstroke, freestyle, elementary backstroke, side stroke to our floats