Human swimming

Sharks swim faster because of their special skin. Through the learning of this, we created artificial human “shark skin” swimsuits to enhance our performance at water sports such as swimming. This innovation has not worked very effectively. According to the article, Shark Skin Boosts Swim Speed and Cuts Drag by Adrian Bishop it states, “Shark skin is coated in sharp scales, similar to teeth, called dermal denticles (or (placoid scales) that affect the flow of water to reduce drag and increase thrust.” The Speedo Fatskin II swimsuits aims to use the concept of shark skin to improve athlete’s swim times. Harvard University’s George Lauder says that “… the idea behind the high-tech swimsuit needs more consideration ...” He personally believes that this high-tech swimsuit is not similar to shark skin at all. He does think that Speedo can improve the swimsuit in other ways. Lauder believes…

I like swimming, I always do. My peacefulness translates into the deep blue pool of water. It is not the deep blue in terms of sad emotions, much emphasis underlies below the water. Your body feel free, diving in the water resonated by the amplification of your waves from every stroke you have made. Being calm and relax are the key of essentials in swimming, to stay afloat as well as to be efficient in the water without a judder of tiredness. My swimming teacher nags about it a lot until it is…

I’ve been a competitive swimmer since I was eight, and the lessons I’ve learned from the sport are invaluable. Compassion, leadership, grit. But for the first few years, I was mostly in it for the rewards. I loved going to meets and winning ribbons; practice not so much. However, something changed, I eventually learned to appreciate the daily struggle of swimming and began to focus on the lessons beyond the returns. There’s one particularly brutal swim practice that I attribute my change in…

What is water? Water is a colorless substance that humans can’t live with out. Water is an essential ingredient for human existence. This is how most humans would describe water, but when it comes to me; I describe water as my second home. When I was younger I would spend a lot of my time at my grandparents condo in Florida. The community they lived in had a huge swimming pool that I would go to every time I visited them, I would spend hours playing in the pool and my grandparents would have to…

off, turning my head to the board. Swimming has been a main influence in my life for the past decade. Waking up at ungodly hours, jumping into a ice cold pool in the middle of January, and swimming laps for several hours doesn’t sound very appealing for many people. Most swimmers will agree that it isn’t worth the time, yet for some odd reason, we continue to jump back into the water and attempt not to drown. Even after all these years of the pain and torture, I vividly remember the first…

Swimming has become an extremely popular and well-enjoyed sport or activity. But what most people do not know is the origin of this unique sport. Swimming can be dated all the way back to ancient times as prehistoric men had to swim in order to cross large bodies of water, but there were also many written works related swimming in the Early Modern Era and moreover, swimming eventually became a competitive sport during the 19th century. The competitiveness of swimming has translated into…

Have you ever seen someone dive off the diving board? Do you enjoy swimming? Well now I’m going to give you a little more information on swimming and what the physics of it is. You will see swimming in a whole different way. Gravity is always affecting you while swimming. Even you don’t think it is. Force of attraction by which terrestrial bodies fall toward the center of the earth. Newton’s first law of motion has a part to do with swimming. An object in motion stays in motion until another…

revelations of my character. When I entered high school, I had to play a sport because it was my mom’s rule, “you will participate in minimally one sport”. As a result, my brother played football, ran track, and swam. My eldest sister played volleyball and swam and my other sister was a swimmer. Therefore, my choice was easy, swim. I initially joined the swim team in order to maintain the Mitchell legacy of Shadow Ridge High School swimmers. While my siblings' participation was a big factor in…

bathtubs are filled with freshwater and the ocean is filled with salt water. Many people question the difference between saltwater and freshwater concerning drowning. To understand the difference between drowning in freshwater versus drowning in salt water it is important to understand how red blood cells react with both hypertonic and hypotonic solution concerning the cell transport process, osmosis. When people go swimming, they will sometimes question the likelihood of surviving if they…

barriers and inequities within sport and physical activity. Figueroa’s Framework also relates to me, as an athlete, towards swimming. The two most important levels that help make my own personal participation and enjoyment in swimming is Individual and Interpersonal.…