techniques evolved and take an active approach into applying these physics into their own strokes. This report will state a brief summary of the physics of swimming and its mechanics and then continue by describing the technique of the freestyle and backstrokes. A beginner swimmer must learn how to float in water. This is known as buoyancy, water that exerts an upward force against an object to the weight of the water that would be pushed aside by the object. For example, take three glass bottles the
The regular person thinks that swimming isn’t really complex. One person just swims down and back and thats it. Nothing else, nothing more deep into the sport and nothing really changed about it either. But how has swimming changed as a sport in the last 50 years? The sport has changed so much throughout the last 50 years because what the American people are doing to improve the sport. Swimming has been almost the same sport since the 60’s-70’s, but things that have changed are the swimmers, technique
as rewarding. My new reward was accomplishing a new goal. My first goal was to stop getting last place, stop being disqualified. It took many practices and a few swim meets to meet my goal. In order to stop being disqualified, I changed from Backstroke to Breaststroke. I had a little more struggle with Breaststroke, but I enjoyed it better. At first, I was disqualified for incorrect form, then after hours and hours of practice, I had the technique down. I still was not very fast at swimming
Missy Franklin is known in the world for her talent as a swimmer. But what awards did she receive? Where did she grow up? And how did her life change after the Olympics? Most people care about who she is as an athlete, and as an Olympic medalist. But the real question is... Who is she as a person, and as an ordinary (well almost ordinary) high school student? To get to the Olympics an athlete has to have grit, and Missy Franklin has it. Missy didn’t give up and has grown up to be one of the best
themselves through the water using four different arm strokes and four different kicks. Each arm stroke has a kick designed to meet the tempo of the swim. We refer to the strokes in the order in which they are performed, the butterfly stroke, the backstroke, the breaststroke, and the freestyle stroke. The four strokes are consistently swum in this order based on the rules that govern competitive swimming. Butterfly Stroke The butterfly stroke is the first stroke of the individually medley event.
Swimming is an activity that’s been around for a long time. Some of its first forms have been in ancient caves that have illustrations of people swimming. Some others include in the Greek epic poems “The Illiad” and “The Odyssey.” During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, swimming began to be a structured activity and later on in history became a popular sport. In 1896, it was a portion of the Olympics in Athens, Greece and it continues to be part of the summer Olympics. Currently, swimming
endured three hours of training six times a week and began to warm-up and warm-down properly between every swim. One day, the training paid off as I achieved my first state cut in fly, and later on, I broadened my strokes and achieved the cuts in Backstroke and in the Individual Medley as
Katy Swim Club Ways of Swimming Better for Backstroke Swimmers Swimming is an amazing exercise and it is one of those rare workouts that never bore us. This is primarily because swimming involves a variety of styles and techniques and learning and practicing each is fun and relaxing with a lot of positive benefits for the mind and the body. Now, out of the four main styles of swimming namely, breaststroke, backstroke, front crawl and butterfly, backstroke is the only one that is swum on the back.
Swimming by definition is “to move along in water by means of movements of the body or parts of the body, especially the arms and legs, or (in the case of fish) tail and fins” (Swimming). The sport of swimming has a long history, from the beginning with the Egyptians and Hittites, through the competitive athletes of this century. While the history of competitive swimming is more in depth and has more information about it, the ancient history has a more solid background (MLA 7th Edition). In Egyptian
“You want to have purpose in every stroke you take during a swim, if you do this you will succeed.” Candace Pearson. This is what my coach said to me before my very last breaststroke race of the season last summer. What does this mean? you might ask. That’s exactly what I asked myself before I got into the water. There are many ways to have a perfect breaststroke. Head position is one of the first things you need to know when talking about breaststroke. To resist the most water around the head
To start off this story, we have to go back to the beginning of the school year of August 2012. When I started at Lutcher High School, I decided to join the swim team. I was only a seventh grader, but I wanted to be part of the team with my older cousin, Kadam. Swimming started, and I struggled due to my size and strength. I never gave up, though. My goal was one day to follow in my cousin’s footsteps and qualify for state. My cousin, Kadam, was unexpectedly killed in a car accident a week before
Physics can be applied to every movement, job, sport and task that we perform every day. Perhaps one of the most difficult sports in my opinion is competitive swimming. Swimmers work against many forces as defined later in this paper to move their bodies through the water. The most common swimming techniques and or strokes include the: front crawl, back stroke, breaststroke, butterfly stroke, sidestroke and the dog paddle. Swimming isn’t exactly natural for humans with the exception of being in the
Western has multiple sport programs that are compatible with this question. However I am going to discuss the swim team because of my connection I can easily see the connections with the sport product tonium. Tangibility it the first attribute to the spectrum. In regards to swimming there are multiple things that fall into this category. Their is the actually apparel on their body that is needed such as the swimsuit, the goggles, and the swim cap. Then there's the equipment that is used during practice
Supraventricular tachycardia, a rapid heartbeat that develops when the normal electrical impulses of the heart are disrupted. This condition is also known as SVT and it affects thousands of people. It’s also very common for teens to experience SVT, yet the way I discover this condition may have been different from others. Before, I had never heard of this condition until my sophomore year of high school, however I experienced SVT since I was in middle school. I never knew anything was wrong and I
With winter closing in Thomas Jefferson can expect winter sports to be rushing in. With another new coach and a fresh year, many things are expected for this year’s swimming season; let’s dive in! Justine Sullivan, the new swim coach, enters her first season at TJ with plenty of coaching experience, previously coaching for 10 years. She coached for many leagues, such as and recreation centers such as, Denver Parks and Recreation, USA swimming, Country Club Leagues, and YMCA Leagues which provided
The occupation that is displayed in the following pictures is the occupation of swimming; specifically competitive swimming. How does this occupation contribute to the person’s identity, quality of life, and well-being? The occupation of swimming can influence people differently. For my client it is not just a form of leisure, an IADL or form of social participation. It is an occupation that has provided a specific role for him, it has become a part of his routine, and it has influenced what
Olympic events were free style (crawl) or breaststroke. Backstroke was added in 1904. In the 1940s, breaststroke swimmers discovered they could go faster by bring both arms forward over their heads. Ur body is longer when you do that. This practice was immediately forbidden in breaststro... ... middle of paper ... ...ter swimming event was held, as was a 200-meter obstacle event and 200-meter team-swimming event. The 200-meter backstroke also made its debut. In 1904, the first breaststroke event
Each style involved various muscles such as biceps, triceps, deltoids, pectoralis, sternocleidomastoid and many more. Freestyle swimming stroke involves more muscles compare to other style stroke. Backstroke is similar to the freestyle stroke. Muscles involved in freestyle and backstroke are the arm’s muscles which is the brachioradialis (forearm flex muscle), thenars (hand muscle), biceps, flexor digitorum profundus (forearm extend muscle), triceps and deltoids (shoulder muscle). In addition
the five kids in my dad’s family, and was a competitive swimmer throughout the early part of her life. Her swimming was so good that she got a scholarship to swim for Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama. While at Auburn she became one of the top backstroke swimmers in the nation and qualified for the Olympic trials to try to get into the 1980 Olympic games in Moscow, Russia. At that time Russia was the Soviet Union and in the Cold war with us here in the United States. Swimming was also not the only
become. When the child is young they are taught the two easiest strokes, Freestyle and Backstroke. Freestyle and Backstroke are consisted the easy because for Freestyle the child is to lay of there belly in the water and move there arms (one at a time) out of the over, and over top of there head and then back in. While they are moving their arms they have to fitter kick, meaning moving on foot at a time. Backstroke is closely related to Freestyle because the child is doing the same motions from Freestyle