Argumentative Essay About Swimming

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Since the age of five, I have always been on the swim team. During the younger years of my swimming career, I did not attend practice very often. I would take weeks off and the only reason I gave for missing was simply "I did not want to go." My parents never wanted to push the issue because they felt as if it would make me hate the sport and they wanted me to like swimming for me.

The thing about swimming is practice does not only make a swimmer faster but it also makes them swim legally. There are a lot of technicalities in the sport of swimming. For example, when swimming the breastroke there is a certain order that the underwater pullout has to be done. If the pull out is not done the way that is legal, the officials will disqualify the

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