Breaststroke

This stroke is very strict and yields the most disqualifications. On the backstroke-to-breaststroke turn, a swimmer cannot flip to the stomach (USA 23). All swimmers must touch the wall while remaining on their backs. Push off the wall while on the stomach, and pull the body into a tight streamline. Complete only one dolphin kick as the momentum begins to wane. Stroke the arms simultaneously through the water, down to the hips. This motion should be similar to opening up a stage curtain. Each swimmer is allowed one underwater stroke; this is the only time the arms can come close to the hips (USA 20). Use the legs to frog kick and break the surface before 15-meters. The breaststroke is hard for many people to do; the trick is to create a rhythm. When done correctly, the body should be moving through the water like a caterpillar on a twig. For each pull there should be one kick, and both sets of limbs must stay together. This stroke takes hours of practice to accomplish, but after understanding it, the breaststroke is very easy. Most females are better at this stroke than males, but everyone can learn…

Age, Teen, and Adult Having mastered the fundamentals, students learn additional water safety skills and build stroke technique, developing skills that prevent chronic disease, increase social-emotional and cognitive well-being, and foster a lifetime of physical activity. In Stroke Introduction, Stroke Development and Stroke Mechanics, swimmers are introduced to the four competitive swimming strokes as well as rescue skills and healthy lifestyle habits. Stage Descriptions: Stage 4 / Stroke…

three-meter dive earned her first place. One the one-meter dive, Schank finished third (231.10) with Haley Pederson right on Schank’s tale to take fourth (231.05). Alongside Sabadeanu’s first place finish, she also earned third place in the 100-yard backstroke (57.80), fourth place in the 200-yard individual medley (2:09.74) and swam the first leg of the 200-yard medley relay that captured fourth place with a time of 1:48.33. Other members on the relay include Kassidie Cornell, Theresa…

Terence Parkin Adley Rose Terence Parkin is an amazing swimmer who is deaf. Parkin is considered the Michael Phelps of the deaflympics. Terence Parkin was born on April 12, 1980 in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe is a place in South Africa. Parkin is currently 36 years old and he still currently lives in South Africa. His parents are Neville and Bev Parkin. He is also married to Ingrid. He has 2 daughters; Shayla and Leya Parkin, they are also swimmers. Terence Parkin has had many accomplishments…

My sophomore swimming season marked my transition to adulthood. My journey to sectionals taught me to reach higher and push myself to attain goals that at first seem unrealistic. Ever since I began swimming at a young age, breaststroke has come easily to me. I would place in the top twelve at swim meets, but there was still room for improvement. During my sophomore year, my head coach, Kyle, saw potential in me, took me aside at practice, and told me that he believed I had the ability to…

body, so we should expect to see larger differences in the vertical offset in swimming than in running because the former uses upper body strength to a greater degree” (15). Women generally have less upper body strength compared to men and are smaller in size. Women’s lack in upper body strength is a contributing fact as to why men have fast swimming times. The variations in upper body strength between women can be a contributing factor to the improvement of women’s times over the years. It is…

For example, Leonardo da Vinci had made sketches of lifebelts. In 1539, Nikolaus Wynmann, a German professor of languages, wrote the first swimming book Colymbetes. (“Early Modern Era”) This book was written to reduce the dangers of swimming. Many people were fascinated with swimming and connected it to their passions of writing. A book called The Art of Swimming was written by a French author, Melchisédech Thévenot in 1696 had described a breaststroke being significantly similar to the modern…

My breaststroke could have easily been mistaken as a frog swimming the identical, flawless stroke in a pond. I beat my seed time by a tenth of a second. Just enough to put me right on the brink of making The Finals. I was seeded 8 out of 8, which meant I would be placed in Lane 8, the slow lane. The thought of being seeded last in the competition enticed me. The Finals crept up on me like a lion stalking its newly crowned dinner. BEEP! The Final race had quickly ignited and the ice in my veins…

your own thoughts, feelings and needs in life before those of others. If you fail to do this, you’ll be so stressed that you won’t have the will to tend to others when it really is necessary, and when that happens, both the foundation and the deck of the bridge of life collapse. The final part of the bridge of life is the towers and the cables and anchors that hold them up. Personally, I feel that this is the most important part of the bridge of life. My own bridge of life is decked with…

into being tougher because I don’t really have asthma—only sort of. Swimming was one of the activities where I chose not to use my inhaler because I had always been fine before. Thus, as I gazed out on the choppy gray waters from my great-aunt’s trailer home I felt no fear. For six years, I had been forced into swimming lessons, so I was pretty confident in my swimming skills. Even though I had quit before mastering the butterfly stroke, I could still breaststroke decently. When I felt the…