strokes 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
The regular person thinks that swimming isn’t really complex. One person just swims down and back and thats it. Nothing else, nothing more deep into the sport and nothing really changed about it either. But how has swimming changed as a sport in the last 50 years? The sport has changed so much throughout the last 50 years because what the American people are doing to improve the sport. Swimming has been almost the same sport since the 60’s-70’s, but things that have changed are the swimmers, technique
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 ...
are squeezing your arms and have one hand over the other, you want to put your streamline behind your ears. To keep your arms tighter so you can shoot out into the water farther. You’re going to want to keep your body in a neutral position when swimming breaststroke. This means that you want to be in a relaxed, but aggressive, position. The pull of any stroke is the motion of the arms. You want to have a good pull in breaststroke because, if you have a good pull then you should be able to shoot
six times a week and began to warm-up and warm-down properly between every swim. One day, the training paid off as I achieved my first state cut in fly, and later on, I broadened my strokes and achieved the cuts in Backstroke and in the Individual Medley as
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
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
Missy Franklin: The Swimming Sensation At just six months old Franklin’s mother D.A. enrolled the two of them into and “mommy and me” swim class. While babies cried and wailed around them, Franklin grinned under the water (Miller 15-16). She was always meant to be a swimmer from the very beginning, and she put great deal of hard work and dedication into making it a lifestyle for herself. Her hard work and dedication made her an excellent swimmer, athlete and an all around
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
HISTORY OF SWIMMING Swimming was invented before recorded history. Humans discovered how to swim by accident. A person probably fell into the water and struggled to shore using a dog-paddle stroke. There was an Egyptian hieroglyph for swimming dating from 2500 BC. The ancient Greeks and Romans made swimming an important part of their military training programs. There have been known swimming contests that were organized in Japan as early as the 1st century BC. During the Middle Ages in Europe,
technique, and experiment with workout schedules in an attempt to defeat time. Yet there are no shortcuts to winning, and workouts are agonizing. I took part in my first swimming race when I was ten years old. My parents, fearing injury, directed my athletic interests away from ice hockey and into the pool. Three weeks into my new swimming endeavor, I somehow persuaded my coach to let me enter the annual age group meet. To his surprise (and mine), I pulled out an "A" time. I furthered my achievements by
and Swimming Introduction ============ I have chosen football and swimming as the sports for this investigation. I felt football would be appropriate as it is a major global industry, which generates billions of pounds. In the UK it is a sport, which is of huge importance to all sections of the media. [IMAGE]Statistics show that swimming is the most popular physical sport (after walking) in the UK according to the national statistics online 2002. However unlike football swimming suffers
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”
the events described by the book. The movie, on the other hand, only shows Edna swimming out, struggling a little, and returning to shore. In addition, the movie doesn’t mention the strength and joy Edna feels after this experience. She states that she "never was so exhausted in [her] life. But it isn’t unpleasant…it is like a night in a dream." (Chopin, 31) 	At the end of this story, Edna kills herself by swimming out into the ocean. The movie shows just that, omitting two very significant symbols
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
Discovery Swim team My third swimming observation was a high school swim team. A high school swim team was different than the swimming classes that were held at GGC. The first thing the swim team did as soon as they entered the pool area was swim a 300 yards, which was a warm-up. For many students this was a killer because that meant they had to swim a total of 6 laps. As I observed I saw that this swim team was different to another swim team I observed later. There were two coaches but they mostly
order to keep them safe. Sacrifices can be made by giving up physical things, emotional things, and giving up opportunities that would drastically change one’s life. For instance people make physical sacrifices for love. People who volunteer in swimming competitions “give of themselves for the love of the aquatic sport”(Ingram 1). The athletes who practice the sport dedicate “countless hours” (Ingram 1) to fulfill their goals. Without dedicating a lot of time to the conditioning of their body they
Synchronized swimming, also known as pattern swimming or water ballet, is an Olympic sport that mixes swimming with ballet and gymnastics, and includes diving, stunts, lifts, and endurance movements. It developed from ornamental swimming and into a recognized sport in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with swimmers performing round-dances in the water as a swimming art form. Who invented ornamental swimming? One of the American founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin, was actually a pioneer for
There is no all-embracing definition of what is known as intense kayaking. This is because every definition will be on the experiences experienced by every kayaker. However, a closer look at intense kayaking will reveal that intense kayaking is generally considered by those kayakers who find a lot of fun kayaking is bustling waters. Keep in mind that intense kayaking will also warrant the need of very special kayaking skills. You may want to get yourself involved in intense kayaking. There is no
condition until my sophomore year of high school, however I experienced SVT since I was in middle school. I never knew anything was wrong and I lived my life normally without a care in the world. September 2012, it was the beginning of my second year swimming for Wawasee High School. It was a Saturday practice, which meant that it was going to be an easier one. I remember feeling the funny