Prosses Report On Swimming The Essays - Aquatics,

Prosses Report On Swimming The In swimming there is no stroke harder to learn then the Butterfly stroke. This is the stroke where the swimmer swims kicking like a dolphin and pulling with his or her hands at the same time under the water and recovering for the next stroke above water with both arms at the same time in an almost circular motion. There are many steps in learning how to execute this stroke correctly. These steps are called drills, when you perform them in the pool. The first drill you should learn is the Kick drill. In this drill you learn to kick with your feet like a dolphin, making sure not to flutter kick with your feet, to move smoothly through the water with your head connected with your spine; this is the position your head is in when you stand with good posture, and make one smooth motion with your arms at your side thrusting only your hips, making a smooth relaxed shallow rolling motion through the water. Also, only one part of your body at a time should be slightly out of the water, starting from the back of your head, and continued down your back to your feet. The next drill to learn is the balance drill. This drill, to me, was extremely difficult to do. The balance drill is almost the same as the kick drill, only the swimmer puts his or her arms out in front of them with one hand on top of the other squeezing his or her head with their arms just behind the ears, remembering the kick drill to keep your head connected with your spine. Make the same smooth rolling motion only this time making sure your fingers are always pointing perpendicular to the wall of the pool, beginning with the back of your arms and head slightly out of the water. Continued down your back and to your feet. When trying this drill, I always moved my hands up and down as I did the rolling motion and it did nothing but make me dive deeper under the water then I wanted to, thus making me go slower. When you can do this drill without drowning yourself, your ready to start your pull drill. The pull drill you should do, is a one arm pull drill. This drill is supposed to help make your shoulders and pectoral muscles more flexible. While flutter kicking, keeping your head connected with your spine, with you arms out in front of you, with one arm, point your hand down perpendicular to the bottom of the pool. Pull back with your elbow bent at about 90?. With your tricep level with the surface of the water until your forearm is pointing straight towards the bottom of the pool, or when your hand is straight with your forearm, then you start to make a pushing motion like your trying to push something down into a hole with one hand at your side until your elbow is straight. Then you recover, with your arm straight. Bring your arm up and over the surface of the water back to the starting position. Repeat this motion, alternating arms until your ready to add the kick. Adding the kick to the stroke is hard to explain but I found that it came quit naturally. It seems that every time you kick, after your head has been briefly part way out of the water, you pull with one arm, and when you recover you should have completed one smooth kick and as you bring you arm over to their starting position, it should seem like the momentum of your arm recovery will give your next kick a jump start. Then, repeat this motion alternating each arm. After all these drills you should be ready to put together the whole stroke which presents new problems. I will start you at the starting block to bring you through step by step a 50 yard butterfly stroke. You're up behind the starting block the announcer says Swimmers step up. You step up on the block, bent over ready to grab the front of the starting block, with one foot in front of the other, the toes of your front foot gripping the front of the starting block or both feet together with toes griping the front of the block. Looking about 6 or 7 feet out into the water, or the place you're gonna dive into out in the water. The starter says, Take