Backstroke

Swimming Swimming is a sport and activity that has existed for centuries, ever since the Stone Age. During the Stone Age men learned to swim to cross rivers and lakes. The activity itself was not practiced frequently until the 19th century. Great Britain started competitive swimming in early 19th century. They held many competitions and since then the activity started to become more well known and started to evolve throughout history. It became known as a sport and it benefited many people. When

As the buzzer bleeps the people are blasting from the wall. They treaded through the water just like sharks chasing their prey. The audience is staying still wondering who will win. Swimmer 3 is in the lead. Wow! Swimmer 5 just passed Swimmer 4 and all the way up to Swimmer 3. Swimmer 5 is just about to finish, but Swimmer 3 is on his tail. Swimmer 1 and 2 should speed it up or it’s over. Swimmer 5 is almost there. 25 meters away, 15 meters away, 10 and 5 meters. Finished! Super! Swimmer 3 beat Swimmer

“Swimmers step up,” the announcer was starting me for my first IM (butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle). I stepped up to the block my knees shaky and I was feeling weak as my stomach was turning in knots. I tightened my goggles and stepped up to the block. “Take your mark” I bent down ready to leap off the block and then “BEEEEP”. Before I knew it I was in the water swimming butterfly in the icy cold water. All that I had been feeling before was gone the shakiness, the weakness

from China swam the 800m freestyle in 7:32 in 2009. Sun Lang from China swam the 1500 m freestyle in 2009. Liam Tancock from Great Britain swam the 50m backstroke in 51.85 in 2009. Ryan Murphy from from the U.S swam the 100m backstroke in 51.85 in 2009 and 2016. Aaron Perisol from the U.S swam the 200m backstroke in 1.51 in 2009 and the 50m backstroke in 2017. Ippei Watanabe of Japan swam the 200m breaststroke in 2.06 . Rafael Ramos of Spain swam

Homework 8a speech 2 Luke Hightower 9-29-17 Attention Getter: Ladies and gentlemen my name is Luke Hightower and i am hear to talk to you about swimming now let's dive ring in to this speech. Credibility statement: Ever since the 6th grade i have been swimming competitively and sense starting this speech i have been doing alot of research on this topic so you can make your own opinion on if you should do swimming. Thesis: The reasons you should do swimming. Preview: To show the Counterpoints

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

second year of swimming, I made it to Mid-Caps, in a relay. I did not medal that year, but it taught me that I had to keep working vigorously to achieve my goal. My goal was achieved when I was eight, when I achieved first place in the twenty-five backstroke. As I progressed to higher levels of swimming, including high school, I experienced the true meaning about swimming. Sweat dripping down my

without dying. I race for my life with a depleted amount of oxygen. The first 50 was easy. This was my butterfly, and I made it seem effortless, but then came backstroke. The after effects of doing butterfly is causing me to circulate more oxygen than I can offer. My breaths are becoming shorter and shorter. After finishing the backstroke, I now have 100 more meters to go. First comes breastroke. That was easy because breastroke is the easiest stroke for me to do, but then came the last 50-the freestyle

Sectionals, a very prestigious swim meet that is hard to swim in. This swim meet takes a whole season to get ready for, and you have to meet standards for it. To get to Sectionals you have to have very fast times and make cuts. When I set goals that season this was one of them. Through the months, prior to this swim meet, I had to train hard for it. It would take a lot of commitment, sweat, and get the times to be able to smell the chlorine of that pool in Greensboro in March. The three things

Being tall, lanky, and uncoordinated (and therefore not particularly good at traditional sports), I was signed up for the Wallingford YMCA Dolphin swim team when I was 10 years old. I certainly wasn’t a Michael Phelps, but I definitely found more success in swimming than baseball, soccer, or basketball, so I stuck with it. During the next few years, I continued to improve my technique in all four strokes, and other intricate parts of swimming including starts (dives), turns, and finishes. I eventually

about to get yourself through the water as fast as you can. The time, of course, is not so important if you are not a professional swimmer. In swimming you have four different styles, which you use to get yourself further. The styles are: butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle. Freestyle has been invented first, and is the most popular and effective way of swimming. As other styles were invented over the time, butterfly was the last style to be officially accepted as the one of them. Butterfly

be swum in different forms; the butterfly stroke, backstroke, breaststroke, front crawl, freestyle, an individual medley, and a relay race. Swimming each stroke requires specific techniques, and in competition, there are specific regulations concerning the acceptable form for the different strokes. A front crawl calls for you to kick hard with your feet, while bringing your arms over your head and into the water one at a time. While the backstroke has many similarities to the front crawl, you float

“Get up now,” My mom yelled down the hallway. “Hurry or you’ll be late!” My brother and I dreaded waking up early to swim, but we had chosen to commit. Even though I’ve competed every year since first grade, I still struggled. That summer swimming taught me to have stamina, the ability to not quit even though it was hard. The first week is always the worst, and the whole team knows it. No one is in shape from being at home doing nothing for the two weeks after school lets out. Especially since waking

“Get up now.” My mom yelled down the hallway “Hurry or you’ll be late!” My brother and I dreaded waking up early to swim, but we had chosen to commit. Even though I’ve competed every year since first grade, swimming still didn’t get any easier. That summer swimming had taught me how to have stamina, the ability to not quit even though it was . The first week is always the worst, and the whole team knows it. No one is in shape from being at home doing nothing for the two weeks after school gets out

half way through the lap, my arms drew weary and began to drag slightly. Don’t stop now, I told myself, you still have a lot more to go! I picked up my speed and drove myself into the wall. Pushing off, I told myself that it was now time to swim backstroke. 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

Swimming is a skill most learn as means for pure survival. However, some people take the skill to the next level, and participate in the sport of competitive swimming. Ranging from local neighborhood summer swim leagues to the world broadcasted Olympics, competitive swimming has participants of all levels. Among these levels is the high school team level, which is commonly found among the many sports on most high schools lists. At any level of competitive swimming, the swimmers showcase their

Swimming has always been a great part of my life it takes hard work and determinations to get the results one hopes for. Many athletes don’t see swimming as work hard sport but I beg to differ. It takes so much energy, time, sweat and tears to get that first place spot. When there is a meet coming up I always talk to my coach beforehand and find out which events and strokes I should start preparing for. I never get nervous about meets until this one particularly, Alief Elsik High School vs. Cy Fair

Almost every weekend during months of April, May, and June, I am out on the water racing. The daily practices are draining and boring, but what makes this sport worth it is when it comes time to race. The minutes leading up to the race are the most stressful and chaotic. All the teams in the category line up bow ball to stern, waiting for the marshalls to give instruction. As my boat and I wait, it's my job to calm the nerves of the rowers and make sure we are all ready to go in a moments notice

Want to drop some time when swimming? Did you know that the most popular events in swim are 100 and 50 meters swims. Because these events go by so fast, you need to make sure that every part of your swim is wickedly fast. Slingshot dives are great for making you faster when swimming because it makes it easier for an ultimate underwater right after you dive and it gives you a lot of power for the rest of your swim. Slingshot dives make it easier to form an ultimate underwater. This is because it

Lucy is just learning a new skill. It is hard for everyone to learn or attempt something for the first time. Lucy thinks, “This was tricky. More than one sailor had been seriously injured or even killed by the crack of a jibing boom. She had to do it right” (Laskey 60). Lucy is learning from her Pap to do a dangerous way to sail. Jibing. I am determined in things such as school, sports, and drama. For example, I once swam a 200 individual medley, one of the hardest events a swimmer can swim. Even