Exploring The Art Of Swim Team

In addition, to being a very healthy sport and having an amazing coach, College of the Canyon swim team is marvelous because the swim team is co-ed. The benefits of being part of a co-ed sport are the opportunity to build respect for one another. Many of the swimmers on College of the Canyons come from swimming backgrounds many swam in club teams, others did high school, and some did water polo but, all the swimmers prove they are strong and fast enough to be on the team and because of that, they gained respect from the other swimmers. Unlike, same-sex sports many of the players usually become jealous of one another which can result in arguments, fights and poor performance during their sporting event. Another, advantage of being part of

In order to acquire a more advanced knowledge on training programs, throughout this term our class has been studying the ‘Training Principles’ to help improve ourselves in the sport of Aquathlon as we are to perform a 2km swim and

As I mentioned before swimmers aren’t based on their ability to master the techniques but also in the values they posses. The values they posses are respect, honesty, fairness and courage. I had to learn and use those values everyday I went to swimming practice. There’s one thing that I needed to have to become part of the discourse community, which was being passionate about swimming and not giving up. At the beginning it was really hard for me not to give up when I was exhausted, but after becoming more passionate for swimming I never gave up. There were moments when I thought of giving up, but I knew that if I really wanted to call my self a swimmer I shouldn’t give up and I didn’t. For example, once I was in a Swimming Festival in my High School where I competed the four different strokes. I always finished second in the 50-meter freestyle race, but that day I decided I would end up first place. The race started and I jumped into the water and started pacing my self so that I would finish strong. In the first 25-meters we were all tied up and I was starting to feel tired. But I knew I couldn’t give up, so I took a deep breath and pushed harder. I pushed harder and was able to win the first place. After this race, I realized that even though I felt like giving up, something inside me was telling me to push harder and that thought led me to success. I was able to

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I worked with youth at Chicago Youth Center being a Junior Lifeguard. I taught ages 5-18 numerous techniques of swimming. I taught them life lessons through swimming as well. I volunteered because I think more youth need to know how to swim. Many children drown due to not knowing how to swim.

First, ensure your body is flat and facing down, parallel to the waters surface. During the stroke, keep the body as horizontal as possible to avoid water resistance. Hips should remain in line with the shoulders, while the head should remain central. Avoid over exaggerated movements, keeping strokes smooth and well-timed.

Along with the above tips, as a swim parent, it is essential that you never put peer pressure on your child as peer pressure can be greatest enemy to a child on his way of learning something new. Every child is gifted and with your help, he/she will definitely emerge to be an expert in swimming.

Stop, right now, think of the last time you went swimming, think of how many times you've gone swimming, how high is that number? It's engraved into our lives, not only is it a fun way to relax, but swimming is a survival skill needed for many species to use in their lives. Swimming is part of nature, almost every living species has a natural instinct of how to swim right from birth, but humans don't, why do you think that is? Over the years, swimming from a competition stand-point has advanced and changed along with technology. My goal is to learn about: the regulations of competition swimming (rules and strokes), the technological advances that are pushing athletes to go beyond old records, and what is happening with swimming in your neighborhood.

On swim team, I had practice most every day other than the weekends because we normally attended a swim meet on Saturdays. I won the academic athlete award both years I participated. I swam for the high school team in eighth, ninth, and tenth grade.

"BEEEEEP!" Turning off the familiar but annoying sound of the alarm, lying in bed until the last possible second, I admit: this is the big day. All those practices and early mornings will be rewarded today. Finally crawling out of bed to get ready for the meet, I grab my goggles, a towel, water, and a quick breakfast on the way out the door. Checking in with the coach before finding the rest of the team as the pool area becomes louder with every passing minute while more and more people arrive at the big event. Sitting and resting, I try to save all my energy for the race. I put my headphones in and turn music on as I try to begin to focus. Talking to friends to try to calm nerves. It is time.

In the short story, “The Swimmer” written by John Cheever an American novelist states, “Neddy remembered the sapphire water at the Bunkers’ with longing and thought that he might contaminate himself—damage his own prosperousness and charm—by swimming in this murk, but he reminded himself that he was an explorer, a pilgrim, and that this was merely a stagnant

The first stroke we learned to do was how to do the freestyle stroke. With this stroke, you must focus on reaching out in front as far as possible, and pulling the water back behind you while kicking in a fluttering motion. The motion of your arms should look like a windmill spinning. In the backstroke, the swimmer has his or her back facing the bottom of the pool while flutter kicking their feet and doing their arm strokes. The way the backstroke is different is because with the arm stroke your arm is going in the opposite direction as the freestyle stroke and you must let your outside little finger enter the water first for the most efficient way to catch and push the water. Lastly, we learned the breaststroke. In the breaststroke, your legs are kicking in a frog like way to push the water back with the bottoms of your feet. In the youtube video it says that you must sweep your arms outward while trying to catch as much water possible. When at the end of the arm stroke, the swimmer's head can come out of the water to take a breathe. Those are each of the stroke we have used during class time in Physical Education

There are many different varieties of swimming strokes; a freestyle stroke, a breaststroke, butterfly stroke, back stroke, side stroke, as well as a elementary side stroke. Each of these range in proficiency. Beginning with the freestyle stroke, you must first begin concentrating on each and every specific aspect of your stroke, You find your head position, reach forward, rotate

As I previously mentioned, I will describe the four basic strokes that swimming consists of, such as the freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly

Synchronized swimming is known as both an art and a sport. It is the most glamorous sport I ever see, girls have the grace and femininity of a Classic Ballet dancer. They use sparkling costumes and a lot of waterproof make-up. Swimmers perform a dance routine that starts on the deck of the pool, where they make poses, and take to the water in ostensibly artistic fashion. The sport requires great strength, endurance, grace, and timing. They also have to smile the whole time, even if their teammate kicks them in the face during the performance. Accordingly to this, that is why people like me, see it as an art thing not a sport. It looks so easy when you see the swimmers doing their performance without any efforts. But then, my daughter who