Pe2 Sports Handbook

Physical 11 STEM Education Kasey Ysabelle Carbonell &Arciaga

what is swimming?

Swimming is the sport or activity of propelling oneself through water using the limbs. Competitive swimming is usually performed in a 25m or 50m pool, using various stroke styles. Some other officially regulated strokes by International Swimming Federation (FINA) include freestyle, butterfly, breaststroke and backstroke.

HISTORY OF SWIMMING Swimming originates from the first humans who had to swim in order to find food and avoid starvation. However, swimming as a sport didn't begin until 1800. Athletic swimming is believed to have started in Britain. The National Swimming Society was formed around the, and they held races in indoor swimming pools around Britain. The first swimming championships was held in Australia in 1840s. In 1896, the first ever modern Olympics were held in Athens, Greece. Swimming was featured as on of he sports at these oOlympics, and has stayed an Olympic sport ever since. At the time, there were just four swimming events: Two 100 meter events, a 500 meter event, and a 1200 meter event. One of the 100 meter events was only for sailors, and was first won by Greek sailor Ioannis Malokinis,



RULES AND REGULATION

GENERAL SWIMMING DURING THE RACE REGULATIONS As a rule, competitors may not walk during a race. But they can stand (for resting) ASA technical rules for swimming during a Freestyle race or a Freestyle leg of regulate the start of a race. a Medley race. Swimmers cannot start swimming or be Each swimmer must make physical contact moving before the starting signal or with the end of the pool or course when buzzer. Doing so will be a false start and turning in all races. the offender will get disqualified. The turn must get made from the wall and A disqualification can occur before the it is not permitted to take a stride or step starting signal goes off. In this case the from the bottom of the pool. starting signal would not get given. The After completing the race swimmers must remaining swimmers would get recalled remain in the water and in their own lane. and the race starts again. They must wait in their lane until the referee (or other official authorized by him) releases them.

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GGLLOOSSSSAARRYY OOFF TTEERRMMSS Duck- Drill where you keep the elbows tight to your sides and move the forearms ‘A’ Stroke - Your best stroke, often FC, back and forth (like duck legs) to propel but can be others yourself through water Aerobic Longer distance, moderate Easy - Usually swim down or warm up, a intensity, short rest period swimming slow easy stroke focusing on stretching out sets that focus on building endurance the stroke and warming up or down. Anaerobic - Shorter distance, high Elbows High - Drill where as it sounds on FC intensity, long rest period swimming you keep the elbows bent and high out of sets that focus on building power the water on the recovery Ascending - Getting slower (i.e. the FC - Frontcrawl often referred to as time taken increases) Freestyle or Free Fly - Butterfly Back - Backcrawl occasionally BF Backstroke - Backcrawl FR - Freestyle or Free (normally Frontcrawl, BBM - Beats Below Maximum (Heart but any stroke will do as long as you can Rate). maintain speed) BC - Backcrawl or Backstroke or Back Free - Freestyle - normally Frontcrawl, but BPM - Beats Per Minute (Heart Rate) any stroke will do as long as you can BR - Breaststroke sometimes also BS maintain speed or Breast Breast - Breaststroke BS - Freestyle - Normally Frontcrawl, but any Can be Breaststroke or Backstroke – stroke will do as long as you can maintain check context! Catch-up - Drill where speed on FC one hand stays at full stretch Gala - Competition (also called a Meet) ahead until the other meets it then it Go off - Time in which you have to begins the stroke complete a swim or set of repeat Descending - Getting faster (i.e. the distance/times inclusive of rest time time taken reduces) Grab Start - A type of Dive Start. Can also Dive Start - Diving entry from the refer to starting from in the pool holding blocks in the deep end (usually either onto the side a grab start or a track start) HR/HRT - Heart rate Dolphin Kick - Simultaneous leg kick HVO - High Velocity Overload – Swim part used in Butterfly of the length (no more than 15m) at full DPS - Distance Per Stroke speed without breathing, rest of the set Drag - Drill where on FC fingertips distance swim easy drag through the water on the IM - Individual Medley (all four strokes recovery (also known as trickle) together in order Butterfly, Backstroke, Drill - A controlled form of stroke Breaststroke and Frontcrawl) Intensity - designed to draw attention to a Run on a scale from 10 – 20 with 10 being particular aspect of that stroke: easy and 20 being as hard as it gets Catch-Up , Drag, Salute, Elbows High, Kick - Legs only (no pulling) Zip-up, Doggy Paddle, Duck, and Kickboard - A flat float used for doing kick many more



Name: Kasey Louis Carbonell Age: 17 Birthday: May 07 School: Casa del Nino Montessori and Science High school Authors Name: Lauryn Ysabelle A. Arciaga Age: 17 Birthday: September 01 School: Casa del Nino Montessori and Science High school

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