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    How to Learn Swimming

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    is done through an alternate movement between the hands and the legs. Your head is not submerged in the water to help you breathe normally. The different techniques in swimming involve freestyle or the crawl‚ backstroke‚ butterfly stroke and breaststroke. The easiest and most popular

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    Essay on Swimming

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    Sylvia Sarisly. I love swimming. April 1‚ 2009 Finally the warm days are here! Waiting for them meant an eternity for me‚ because I love swimming‚ but I don’t like to swim in the cold weather‚ and finding a pool‚ big enough for lap swimming‚ that is really WARM – 80 degrees at least- is very hard to find. Here in California‚ just few pools have warm (more then 80 degrees) water‚ and needles to say‚ the beach is a fridge-cold water place for me. I go to enjoy the sun‚ but nothing like the

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    Persuasive Essay Swimming

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    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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    Fat Girl Research Paper

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    which almost equals the calories burnt by walking 7 miles. Besides‚ when swimming‚ swimmers use every single muscle to go forward. The four main strokes of swimming (freestyle‚ breaststroke‚ backstroke‚ and butterfly) all have obvious effects on weight loss. However‚ freestyle and backstroke rely more on arms‚ while breaststroke and butterfly use more muscles on the waist. Girls can customize their workout plan according to their individual requirements. In a word‚ swimming is a good sport for girls

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    Swimming

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    ------------------------------------------------- Midterm Report ------------------------------------------------- In ------------------------------------------------- PHED 1282 (Individual/Dual/Corporative Swimming) ------------------------------------------------- Saturday 11:00-1:00/1:30-3:30 ------------------------------------------------- gym ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Submitted by: -------------------------------------------------

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    Swimming History

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    around 1800‚ mostly using breaststroke as the primary stroke. In 1873‚ John Arthur Trudgen introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions‚ after copying the front crawl used by Native Americans. Swimming was part of the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 in Athens. In 1908‚ the world swimming association‚ Federation Internationale de Natation (FINA)‚ was formed (“History. . .”). The butterfly stroke was developed in the 1930s and was at first a variation of breaststroke‚ until it was accepted

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    types of joints

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    Basketball Synovial joint 1 A synovial joint is a joint that allows a wide range of movement. These are important when analysing sporting movement. The first synovial joint that I will look at is the hinge joint. The hinge joint can be found in the knee and elbow. Hinge joint can only perform two types of movement – flexion and extension. When analysing a jump shot we need to get into a set position where our elbow and knees are flexed it is a hinge joint that allows us to do

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    Mechanics of Swimming

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    underwater and slightly bent while the feet kick making small splashes. The continuous movement of the legs is what keeps the body floating and moving. The arms positioning is parallel to the arm positioning used in the crawl except in reverse. The breaststroke is acknowledged as the slowest stroke however it can be swum powerfully with speed. Similar to how a frog swims‚ the knees are bent and then the legs push out straight and clap together in one swift movement. During this time the arms are placed

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    wrote the first swimming book‚ The Swimmer or A Dialogue on the Art of Swimming (Der Schwimmer oder ein Zweigespräch über die Schwimmkunst). Competitive swimming as we know it today started in the United States started around 1800‚ mostly using breaststroke. Many Americans often used swimming competitions to settle differences in the frontier‚ such as property rights. In 1873‚ John Arthur Trudgen introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions‚ after copying the front crawl used by Native

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    Narrative Essay Anxiety is an issue that I have struggled with and will most likely continue throughout my entire life. It affects my daily life‚ with constant mild stomach aches or my non-stop jitters‚ but my anxiety was never visible to other people. However‚ one race in particular‚ will stay in my mind because it was the day I revealed my inner burden to a crowd of screaming parents and coaches and it taught me how to overcome my anxiety. I had woken up from a nap‚ when my mom hollered from

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