Breaststroke

having team get togethers, dinners, and helping each other feel positive about how we were going to swim at Conference. Two weeks later at the Conference meet I had my best races ever. I dropped more than seven seconds off of my best race, the 100 breaststroke, and dropped four to ten plus more seconds in my other events as well. Since swimming is a sport where success is so largely based on the mindset you have when training and competing, having a team full of friends and coaches to support me lead

recreational activity. By the time 1837 rolled around the National Swimming Society held six different competitions around London. In 1875 captain Matthew Webb was the first person to swim the English Channel. He completed the swim using the breaststroke technique for 21.26 miles. This record would not be broken for another 36 years. In the year 1896 men’s swimming became part of the first modern Olympic Games. The first European swimming competitions were in 1889 in Vienna. The world's

My path with swimming was littered with many triumphs and extremely dramatic failures. The summer of 2014 had been one of the most spectacular defeats for me by losing a championship by 0.01. As I set myself up for the next summer of 2015, I didn’t want to focus on anything except not making a fool of myself in front of hundreds of people. I learned my swim team had hired yet another new coach, which I despaired at the thought of. We went through coaches faster than any other team around and it

You shoot up from your warm bed. You rub the sleep from your eyes and glance at the clock, which strikes 6:10. It seems as though your heart skips a beat. The cozy blankets try to keep you enthralled in their warm grasp as you jump from their reach. The bus to Buffalo leaves in twenty minutes and you should’ve woken up an hour ago. You frantically toss on your oversized sweatshirt and leggings and race to the kitchen, in hope that you have time to sneak a quick bite to eat. As you run in, you

Drag is a common force in the universe, and occurs in everyday life especially in water. Mr. Redman states that,” forward is a propelling force; drag is a force that hinders that motion” or is the force acting in opposition to the motion of an object. Parachutes are a great example of this force; when air is trapped in the nylon of a parachute, it creates drag slowing the velocity of the parachutist. Water drag is acted upon swimmers at all times. Hydrodynamics show that materials of the swimmers

A Biography about a dad My father, Nat Umpornpuckdi was born on October 24, 1962 in Bangkok, Thailand. His parents Wanna Umpornpuckdi (mother) and Kanit Umpornpuckdi (father) and Pam Ratawessnant (sister) were all well educated people. My father was primarily home schooled up until sixth grade due to my grandfather Kanit needing to move around frequently due to his job. After being home schooled, he was sent to a boarding school called Bangkok Christian College for the remaining years of his education

There are military forces that are capable of being deployed anywhere at any time all over the world these forces are know as Special Operations Forces (SOF) and they are the most elite soldiers in world. They receive the most advanced technology and have one of the highest successful mission rate in the US. Special Forces units like SEAL Team Six be deployed anywhere, get the job done, and be gone in a flash. Their training is notoriously hard but this training gives them the abilities to complete

Michael Phelps: U.S Pride in Swimming Luiz Gustavo Machado Gulliver Schools Sport is important for mankind for the benefits it brings in terms of entertainment and physical activity. It is valued in the world and particularly in the United States. One of the most famous sports is swimming, not only because it is interesting to watch, but also because swimming is a precious ability of humanity. Swimming is one of the sports that are present in the Olympics Games, which is the largest and most relevant

Academic disciplines rely on key factors that develop and convey main ideas in an argument. Such factors include the type of evidence used, the vocabulary that is contained within the argument, and the overall effectiveness of the argument presented. Each academic discipline has unique methods to convey ideas that are consistent with other works within the same discipline. Dr. Keith Bell, in his book The Nuts and Bolts of Psychology for Swimmers, argues that the key to swimming is the mindset

I walked over with the first years, so the babies and I learned all of the strokes. Freestyle, which is the most basic and known stroke. Backstroke, which is basically freestyle but on your back. Breaststroke, which how I learned it was monkey, airplane, soldier. Those are the movements you do in the water for that stroke. Last and to me certainly least butterfly, which is the hardest stroke to accomplish and my least favorite stroke, I honestly still