Synchronized swimming

But it means we should be our own person. Contrary to what most people think, Being an individual actually isn’t about being the next Nelson Mandela or Martin Luther King Jr. You achieve ‘individual’ status when you start thinking for yourself and swimming against the…

I learned many valuable lessons from this book which gave me a different view on evolution and life. My first take was that species with shorter life spans evolve quicker and benefit the species as a whole. Before reading this, I believed organisms with short life spans were weak because they couldn’t live long. These organisms with short life spans were able to reproduce way quicker than most organisms. Rapidly, they can evolve which benefits the species as a whole which helps it achieve the…

decided that swimming was an important skill that I should learn. They also thought it would be good exercise and help me to become physically stronger. What I did not realize was that learning to swim would also make me a more confident person. This later would be a great benefit to me in anything new I would try to do and make new experience less stressful and scary. One day, when I was five years old, I asked my Dad to go to the swimming pool. “Dad! Dad! Let's go to the swimming pool…

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…

The Big Boom “Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.” Aldous L. Huxley, an English writer, novelist, and philosopher wrote this quote. After this day, I learned to never take anything or anyone for granted again. Two summers ago, I was training for the Junior Olympics in sailing. The teams coaches, Alex and Anika towed us out to the ocean to sail downwind. It was a perfect day at Del Rey Yacht Club with no clouds in the sky. You could even see all…

record is intact. When people think of swimming, they most likely think of Michael Phelps. He has won 28 olympic medals, 23 of them being gold. He also won 8 gold medals in one Olympics, the most ever won in a single Olympics. Most people consider him the best swimmer and olympian of all time and some even consider him the best athlete of all time. However, while Michael Phelps was a hard worker, his early start as a swimmer, good coach, and perfect…

In 2012 there were four deaths in relation to water polo, hundreds of reported serious injuries and even more minor injuries. With a death rate of 1.06, beaten only by men's softball; a sport to be wary of is water polo because of the constant threat of injuries. Water polo is a game played by swimmers in a pool with seven players on each side. The ball used is like a volleyball thrown into the opponent's net. Sounds simple now but it is not,the game is so much more then that. Three types of…

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…

Edna’s awakening had many manners of the sea: unpredictable, sweeping, free of responsibility. “She was blindly following whatever impulse moved her, as if she had placed herself in alien hands for direction, and freed her soul of responsibility." Swimming is about staying afloat and not getting in over one’s head, something Edna ultimately fails in. In both Chapter VI and Chapter XXIX, this same quote is repeated about the sea: “The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering,…

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…