skills. First Class rank requirements start you on your way to becoming a good swimmer‚ but you need additional skills to begin training for the Lifesaving merit badge. You need to master the front crawl‚ sidestroke‚ breaststroke‚ and elementary backstroke. These are introduced in your Boy Scout Handbook and reviewed here‚ but you will probably need formal instruction to master them. Do not assume that your Lifesaving merit badge counselor will teach you swimming and lifesaving at the same time. Your
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not require expensive gear. A swimsuit and a pair of waterproof goggles and you are set to swim. There are four strokes in competitive swimming. The freestyle which is my personal favourite has no restrictions. The three other styles are the backstroke‚ the breaststroke‚ which is commonly called as frog style‚ and the butterfly. The
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Content 1.1 Introduction 1.2 History 1.3 Breaststroke 1.3.1Technique 1.3.2 FINA Rules 1.3.3 Breaststroke Diagram 1.4 Backstroke 1.4.2 Technique 1.4.3 FINA Rules 1.4.4 Backstroke Diagram 1.5 Reference 1.1 Introduction Swimming is a sport or activity of propelling oneself through water using the limbs. Swimming is also defined as to move through water by means of the limbs. It is an action moving as though gliding through water. Swimming
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ha ha. Elven. Silly name. I almost laugh out loud. I stop myself. Don’t make a bad impression I tell myself. He might think I am crazy. “Can you go there” He points to the other end of the pool. “Backstroke.” I nod my head and push off the wall. I am on my back. I do my everything but perfect backstroke. It takes me forever to get across. I sink a couple times and turn to my stomach. Inch by Inch. Foot by Foot. I eventually get to the other
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just chose not to swim. The evolution of swimming history expanded during the middle ages. A number of individuals took it upon themselves to write books about swimming. They were often focused on the ability to not drown rather than a perfect backstroke as you would imagine. Life saving concepts and techniques began to form throughout the next few hundred years and around the 18th and 19th century the sport began to evolve into more of a competition than
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Breast Stroke The breaststroke is a swimming style in which the swimmer is on his or her chest and the torso does not rotate. It is the most popular recreational style due to its stability and the ability to keep the head out of the water a large portion of the time. In most swimming classes‚ beginners learn either the breaststroke or the front crawl first. Since the breaststroke can be swum with the eyes almost always above water‚ it is important in lifesaving‚ as it allows the rescuer to approach
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sport. There are many basic ball-handling skills needed to play the sport: picking up the ball‚ passing‚ wet or dry passes‚ shooting‚ faking shots and swimming with a ball in hand or in front. The players also have to master their front crawl and backstroke swimming techniques perfectly if they want to swim up and down the pool so many times. They also have to be able to tread water using a
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in the swimming direction. One arm relaxes while the other is driven forward. The head is to be kept down in the water when not breathing. To breathe‚ the head turns sideways out of the water and air is to be taken in by the mouth not nose. The backstroke‚ also recognized as the back crawl‚ is a type of stroke where the swimmer cannot see in which direction he/she is swimming towards which makes it difficult to tell when nearing the wall. The knees are kept underwater and slightly bent while the
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When I was on the swim team during my sophomore year‚ I became a leader and lead our swim team to victory. The first few meets that buffalo grove high school participated in‚ victory did not seem like a possibility. Fortunately ‚ with intense training from our new coaches and leadership skills from the older swimmers‚ we were able to turn that losing streak around into a glamorous victory. When the time came around for the practice 5 days before the meet. Ultimately my strategy was the 100 x 100’s
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The Challenges of Swimming Most everyone has been swimming at least once in their life‚ but competitive swimming is more than just floating in water. Competitive swimming‚ from the inception in 1896‚ has greatly evolved to the sport it is today. It includes four strokes which are; Front stroke‚ Back stroke‚ Breast stroke‚ and Butterfly. Swimming is one of the hardest sports in the world because of the mental and physical attributions. On the mental side of swimming‚ there are many factors
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