Exploring The Art Of Swim Team

My parents tell me that I took to swimming like... a fish takes to water. It is a safe place where I can float free of worries. Driven by passion and dedication, I decided to begin swimming competitively. Competitive swimming requires an intense level of determination and discipline. Forcing myself to get out of my warm bed at 5:30 in the morning to put on a still-slightly-damp swimsuit and stand in 40-degree weather waiting for practice to start. Putting up with limited lane space and irritating swimmers who think they are faster. Making a conscious effort to work on my stroke form, turns, touches, and techniques. The water becomes a whirlpool of injuries, losses, wins, friendships, enemies, and sickness. The water becomes home.

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

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

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.

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

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.

While everyone else treaded and paddled in the water, I was sent home because I was screaming uncontrollably, holding onto dear life nearly ripping the skin off my swimming instructor. I have never liked being in water. I never went near it. I was even scared of standing on the wooden planks at Pier 39. I was embarrassed when my mother signed me up for swimming lessons again when I was in 8th grade. I was the oldest and the tallest student in the entire group, but I was eager to learn. I took a deep breath and submerged myself into the chlorine-filled water. After three months, I was able to dive and swim in freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke and butterfly

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.

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.

When I look at large groups, the first thing that I have experienced is my swim team when I was in high school. There were many things within our swim team that made it into a large group, a group characterized by the presence of a formal structure that mediates interaction and, consequently, status differentiation, such as the coach was the head of the group, followed with captains, then seniors, juniors, sophomores, and freshman (Conley 162). The formal structure that we followed was that the coach told everyone what to do and then from that, the captains helped refine the technique within the rest of the subdivisions. Similarly, when looking at the social dynamics, it was very evident who was the coach compared to the swimmers and who were

Personally after reviewing Swim n’ Sport, I find the business quite intriguing but, I would not choose to work for the company. I’ve worked in a high end retail store very similar to Swim n’ Sport, it was a unique job mostly because the majority of the clientele were wealthy. Working my way up the corporate ladder is a big part of what I will be looking for in a future/stable job and Swim n’ Sport doesn't seem to have an acceptable background of promotional opportunities. I see working for this company as a good starter job for someone young wanting to acquire knowledge in retail sales, unless having the right connections.

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

A lot goes into any sport. The time, eating right, the endless hours of training. Swimming is not any different, minus the fact that when we train we stare at a black, lifeless line for hours on end. Its boring, torturous and, exhausting mentally and physically. But it all pays off in a fraction of a second.