The most famous sports activity in the world is swimming. People like to watch a world famous swimming match. They can keep awake until midnight to watch such a match on their TV. They watch it not only for the sports activities‚ but also for entertainment. Moreover‚ these reasons make me choose swimming become my hobby. Nevertheless‚ three more things make me love swimming very much; as if some advantages that I get from this sport activity‚ swimming’s stroke that I cannot get in the other hobbies
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History of swimming The sport of swimming has been recorded since prehistoric times; the earliest recording of swimming dates back to Stone Age paintings from around 7‚000 years ago. Written references date from 2000 BC. Some of the earliest references to swimming include the Gilgamesh‚ the Iliad‚ the Odyssey‚ the Bible‚ Beowulf‚ Quran and other sagas. In 1778‚ Nikolaus Wynmann‚ a German professor of languages‚ wrote the first swimming book‚ The Swimmer or A Dialogue on the Art of Swimming (Der Schwimmer
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I am a high school student who tries to balance the amount of sports I participate in with the arts. Every fall‚ I participate in high school swimming; every winter I participate in archery and Family of Christ’s all church musical; every spring I participate in high school softball; every summer I spend swimming on a club team while training for archery and softball over the off season; while year round I take piano lessons and participate in rehearsals for my church’s student led choir. Needless
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Lab Swimming I Matthew R. Holder Yuanyuan Lian (Summer) 04/07/2015 During a week of swimming class‚ I found myself getting more and more comfortable in the water‚ and my freestyle improved a lot than before. Before take this class‚ I learn freestyle from watching other people swim; however‚ I still feel struggle when I use freestyle to swim. After we learn freestyle in class and practice in class‚ I become much more comfortable with freestyle‚ I am really happy now I can freestyle without stopping
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to swim in their sizable swimming pool. It has a 15-ft deep end‚ a separate hot tub‚ a slide (not a particularly safe one‚ but still fun)‚ and a diving board. However‚ the only thing that I couldn’t stand about it was their robotic pool cleaner. The very cleaner that would soil my playtime and send me into terrified hysterics. My fear of the cleaner was so intense‚ I managed to get my sister to be terrified of it too. We both would observe its pathing around the pool‚ what days my grandfather
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Swimming Swimming is the act of moving through the water by using the arms‚ legs‚ and body in motions called strokes. The most common strokes are the crawl‚ backstroke‚ breaststroke‚ butterfly‚ and sidestroke. Some scientists believe that human beings are born with an instinctive ability to use their arms and legs to stay afloat. That instinct‚ however‚ disappears within a few months after birth. Later in life many children and adults learn to swim in order to be safe around
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Research Paper In Basic Swimming History of Swimming The history of swimming goes way back to that of prehistoric times. Books written from 2000 to 1500 BC including the Bible have references to swimming. It was mostly used in these times as a means of cleansing. Any form of competitive swimming wasn’t formed until the 1800’s in Europe. It was included in the first Olympics in 1896 in Athens‚ Greece. It was noted that Ancient Egypt had cave drawings of humans swimming in the nearby sea. They
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Wellness 2 Essay on Why Swimming Should be Part of the Wellness Curriculum 10/09/2012 Swimming: An Important Life Skill Swimming is a very important and necessary life skill to have; for this reason it should be included in part of the wellness curriculum at Newington High School. If a person has the proper knowledge of life saving skills/techniques‚ he or she will be able to save his or her own life as well as other people. Swimming is also an abundant way of exercise. Lastly‚ it is a pleasurable
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HawaiiAnchialine Pools: T: Julia Russo and Linds Hawaiian Anchialine Pools: ʻŌpae ʻUla The ʻōpae ʻula and the Hawaiian anchialine pools have been a large part of Hawaii’s environment. We chose this topic because we wanted to learn about a Hawaiian species because we were both raised in Hawaii‚ and that the ʻōpae ʻula is endemic to Hawaii. We chose to do a poster board so we could reflect and make the things that we say easy to remember. In the Waianapanapa Cave‚ people are putting guppies and
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practice. In this paper I will be showing the benefits of strength training and conditioning and their state today through swimming. We will look at swimming training programs for a front crawl 100m Olympic competitor. Swimming had been practiced as early as 2500 BC in Egypt and later‚ it was practiced in Assyrian‚ Greek‚ and Roman civilizations. Competitive swimming however began in Europe around 1800 with breaststroke being the only known stroke. The trudgen today known as front crawl was
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