Front Crawl 101

The way you position your body could depend on how you kick. If you are in a slouchy stance, then you won’t get a good kick. But, if you stand in an athletic stance then you can get the most out of your kick. An athletic stance your knees are slightly bent, your resting on the balls of your feet, and your body weight is centered at your hips. Place the foot that your are not kicking with skightly in front of the kicking foot. Toes on both feet should be facing toward the place of contact.

One way is called a beach start and the first thing a person should do to perform this type of start would be to strap themselves to the board. The boat drives away from the beach you hold onto the rope you’re your knee boarding. The second way is the most used and I call it a deep water start. The deep water start begins with me laying on the kneeboard with the strap to my side and holding the rope out at the edge of the board. As the boat starts to pick up speed the kneeboard begins to lift up higher out the water. This happens because the tilt of the board pushes on the water causing the water to push back which gives the board its lift. While the boat is still speeding up I begin my move up the board by pulling my knees up toward my chest. As I am pulling up my knees, I slowly start to lean back on the board. This is to keep the right amount of lift while I am still getting up to speed. Now that I have my knees in the knee slots I grab the strap and secure myself to the board so I don’t fall off. Once I am settled in on the board and have the boat running about 25 mph the kneeboard and I have no problem with balance. Because of my new speed I can knee on the board and not worry about fall over. The reason behind this is simple, speed, without moving across the water kneeing down on the board was nearly impossible. Now that I am traveling across the water I have the lift from the water and a small amount of drag. In

Force summation is the combination of forces produced by different parts of the body (Kent, 2007). When a person is moving an object, several different parts of the body act together to maximize the force. The strongest and lowest body parts around the centre of gravity (trunk and thighs) move first, followed by the weaker, lighter and faster extremities (foot). This is known as sequential force summation and results in fast accelerations. When several body parts are used in a skill, their sequence and timing are important. Big muscle groups are used first progressed by smaller muscles and body parts (Government of Western Australia, 2011). My partner built up momentum during the run up and then correctly swung her kicking leg behind her body to generate speed which provides the body with energy and force to transfer onto the ball. However, she focused on her run up and leg movement too much and consequently her force was not concentrated in the correct way and didn’t effectively follow through. In future, my partner should kick the ball with an

As a young child Fanny started off learning to swim at the Coogee Baths. She only trained in breast-stroke at first as it was the one single event that women could compete in a championship for. Whilst she was still in school she competed and won her first state title during 1906. Soon after this she learnt and perfected the Trudgen crawl and then later switched to the Australian Crawl by 1911.

The first step in getting the perfect kick is to have a good approach to the football. The approach to the football is very important. If the kicker is not on a straight

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

Now on my back, I began to swim a stroke the complete opposite of the more commonly known freestyle. My arms started to swing like they had lost all attachment to my body, but my legs seemed to refuse to kick. I kicked and splashed the water as hard as I could, but my arms seemed to be doing the only work. My arms were already tired enough from swimming butterfly, I didn’t know how long I could actually keep this up.

We watch him for signs. His arms are steady at the catch, his cadent feet tick in the stretch, they know the lesson well.” In these two sentences you can picture what is going on, and in these two sentences the author shows us again how good of technique this swimmer

Another swimming pioneer, Fredrick Cavill , helped further develop Trudgen’s stroke into an even faster stroke known as the front crawl (livestrong.com).

In freestyle the objective is to jump as high as you can and stay in the air as long as you can. You need to be confident and willing to give it your all. You cannot be scared. While in

Thesis/main topic – Learning how to swim is essential for being around water, it will help strengthen a person confidence, improve your physical fitness, and provide an area for stress release.

I opened my eyes at the bottom of the deep end and saw water swirling around me. “How in the world will I ever reach the top?” I thought. I repeated Emily’s words in my head, “You can do this, Clover, You can do this Clover, You can do this, Clover!” I did what years of swim teaching at Daland had taught me. I pushed the bottom of my feet against the bottom of the water.

The placement of the non kicking foot determines the direction of the kick. The support leg also acts as a stabilizer by flexing at the knee once the foot makes contact with the ground. (Lees, Asai, Andersen, Nunome & Sterzing, 2010) Pictured below in Figures 1 and 2 are two different athletes with very diverse abilities. You can see both the direction of the planted foot and the flexion of the knee in both players.

The angle of entry of the hand is important in improving drag force and propulsion. This is because the hand controls entry into the water and flow of water over the hand. Drag propulsion can be used effectively to improve my paddling technique, by making my strokes longer and larger, similar to the “S” stroke. Instead of them being short and wide, causing little propulsion because of this propulsion principle.

There are many aspects and components that make up the sport performance of Olympic diving. To become an excellent diver, one must integrate the six components of a Sports Performance Program. The six training components include, flexibility, cardiorespiratory, core, balance, plyometric, and speed, agility, and quickness. This paper will be covering three of the six components, which include: balance, plyometric, and speed, agility, and quickness.