Name: Student Number: Unit: Sports Analysis. Unit Leader: Sally Hope. Date: 31st January 2006. Assignment: ¡®Describe stroke cycle for Breaststroke identifying phases of propulsion and resistance. Define and analyse the major muscle groups used and the energy system demands made on the body in swimming this stroke over 200 metres in 2 minutes 10seconds. Explain how you would develop both muscles and energy systems using appropriate land and water training¡¯. I declare that
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SWIMMING Competitive swimming in Britain started around 1830‚ mostly using breaststroke. Swimming was part of the first modernOlympic games in 1896 in Athens. In 1908‚ the world swimming association‚ Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA)‚ was formed. Ancient times 10‚000-year-old rock paintings of people swimming were found in the Cave of Swimmers near Wadi Sura in southwestern Egypt. These pictures seem to show breaststroke or dog paddle‚ although it is also possible that the movements have a
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Wynmann‚ a German professor of languages‚ wrote the first swimming book‚ The Swimmer or A Dialogue on the Art of Swimming (Der Schwimmer oder ein Zwiegespräch über die Schwimmkunst). Competitive swimming in Europe started around 1800‚ mostly using breaststroke. In 1873‚ John Arthur Trudgen introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions‚ after copying the front crawl used by Native Americans. Due to a British dislike of splashing‚ Trudgen employed a scissor kick instead of the front crawl ’s
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Swimming General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose Statement: To inform my audience about the history and development of swim along with its applications. Central Idea: Swimming has a long and rich history that dates back way before our generations and is not always as beneficial as we may think. Method of Organization: Topical Introduction I. (Gain attention and interest) I remember joining the high school swim team back in my sophomore year. I remember struggling to catch
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Olympian Michael Phelps‚ competitive swimming has made a name for itself as a sport and spectator event. The Early Years In the early 1800s‚ swimming clubs developed in Britain for young men to showcase their skills. These men used a form of breaststroke and always kept their heads above the water. In a London swimming competition in 1844‚ two Native Americans named Flying Gull and Tobacco bested English competitors by using a stroke that would later become known as the crawl stroke‚ which had
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NOTES Terence Mike Parkin (born 12 April 1980 in Bulawayo‚ Zimbabwe) is a deaf swimmer from South Africa‚ who won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the 200 metres breaststroke. Parkin also competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics‚ as well as the 2005 Deaflympics in which he took home two gold medals. In 2011‚ Parkin saved a young boy from drowning.[1] http://www.sport24.co.za/OtherSport/Olympic-swimmer-saves-boy-20110121. Jump up^ Parkin out to win‚ prove deaf can compete
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“How To” Speech Example Outline Introduction 1. Attention Getting Opener There is no other sport that is more enjoyable to me than swimming. For most people it is baseball‚ or football. For some people it may be running or yoga. For me‚ racing in the water is the best! It may not be a team effort‚ or have an outlined playbook‚ but swimming is still a very competitive sport. 2. Clear Topic and Main Points Today I’m going to tell you how to be a competivie swimmer (Topic). First we will look at
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VERMILLION‚ S.D.—The South Dakota women’s swimming and diving team fell to Northern Iowa (178-122) at the Coyote’s first home meet of the season at the DakotaDome pool. The Coyotes captured four of the 16 events of the evening. Taylor Kidd came out on top in the 200-meter freestyle (2:11.35) with Quinn Fawcett right behind to take second with (2:12.56). Morgan Holt captured first in the 200-meter butterfly with a 2:24.47 and took second in the 100-meter butterfly (1:05.55). On the diving board
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Nov. 12‚ 2012 HISTORY OF SWIMMING 1800-Competitive swimming was first introduced in the early 1800′s in Britain by the National Swimming Society. At that time‚ there were man-made indoor pools in London and the National Swimming Society of England used them for swimming competitions. These events became popular in England and led to the formation of the Amateur Swimming Association in 1880. 1873-The swimming strokes used in this time period were the side stroke and the breast stroke. In 1873 John
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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 often depicted a form of the breaststroke as the first type of swimming or something they used to call the front crawl. Ancient Egyptian‚ Grecian and Roman palaces were often equipped with swimming pools or baths. Often reserved for the elite that used them as relaxation pools and cleaning
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