By Richard Pifer

Swimming

Table Contents1. What's swimming?2. The pool3. How to swim?4. The strokes5. Current Olympic Records

Imagine Imagine your on a swimming block thousands

of fans cheering, you look out and see nothing but water out of you mired vanquisher goggles. Then you here the starter says “take your mark” you go into a squat position. Then the gun sounds you dive in and start kicking under water and that’s when you enter the world of swimming.

Chapter 1: What’s Swimming? Swimming is a sport where you move

through the water as fast as you can. Swimming is also one of the best exercises for keeping physically fit. Today thousands of swimmers compete in meets for there schools or there summer clubs or there winter teams but some swim just for fun, people of all ages enjoy the sport of swimming. There are four main strokes I will touch on later including, freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly

Michael Phelps swimming Breaststroke.

Chapter 2: The PoolThe pool varies in depth from in the deep end 10ft to 20ft deep, and in the shallow end 3ft to 6ft deep. The pool is usually 50 yards in the summer and 50 meters in the winter. Usually they will put in an bulkhead to split the pool in half to make it 25 yards or meters or sometimes there are 25 yard or meter pools for most people under 16. It has to be 74 degrees for competition.

North Carolina University pool.

Chapter 3: How to Swim?

I was taught a long time ago at the age of 3 how to swim competitively. I learned at goldfish swim school they taught me the four main strokes I’ll touch on later, also how to move my arms and legs

through the water like a torpedo as fast as you can and how to keep your arms and legs together in motion on butterfly. And now eight years later I remember what they told me including how to kick butterfly kick under water for every stroke besides

breaststroke you do a pullout you also want to know how to dive up and out through the water.

Goldfish Swim School.

Chapter 4:The Strokes

There are four main strokes as I said before including Freestyle, Backstroke, Breaststroke, and Butterfly. First off Freestyle, Freestyle is the act of moving your arms in and shooting forward and kicking you legs up and down as fast as you can. Backstroke is a lot like freestyle but your on your back. Breaststroke is the act of moving your arm out around and then repeat and you move your legs up out and around. Finally butterfly the act of moving your arms in an wind mill motion at the same pace around and you put your arms and legs together up and moving them up and down at the pace two kicks per one stroke.

Chapter 5.1:Current Men's Olympic Records Freestyle50 free: Cesar Cielo Brazil, 21.30100 free: Earmon Sullivan Australia, 47.05200 free: Michael Phelps U.S.A, 1:42400 free: Sun Yang China, 3:401500 free: Sun yang China, 14:31

Chapter 5.2:Current Men's Olympic Records Breaststroke100 breaststroke: Kosuke Kitajima Japan,

58.91

200 breaststroke: Kosuke Kitajima Japan, 2:07.64

Chapter 5.3:Current Men's Olympic Records Backstroke100 backstroke: Aaron Peirsol U.S.A, 51.94

200 backstroke: Ryan Locthe U.S.A, 1:53.94

Chapter 5.4:Current Men's Olympic Records Butterfly100 fly: Michael Phelps U.S.A, 50.58

200 fly: Michael Phelps U.S.A, 1:52.03

Chapter 5.5:Current Men's Olympic Records IM200 IM: Michael Phelps U.S.A, 1:54.23

400 IM: Michael Phelps U.S.A, 4:03.54

Chapter 5.6:Current Men's Olympic Records Relays400 Free relay: Michael Phelps, Garret

Webber Gale, Cullen Jones, And Jason Lezak U.S.A, 3:08.24

800 Free relay: Michael Phelps, Ricky Berens , Ryan Lochte, And Peter Vanderkaay U.S.A, 6:58.55

200 medley relay: Aaron peirsol, Brendan Hansen, Michael Phelps, Jason Lezak U.S.A, 3:29.34

What You LearnedI hope you have found this book useful as a source

for learning about swimming. I know that if you read this book you at least learned one thing that is swimming isn't a sport that whenever you play it it is competitive you can just do it for fun. I feel swimming is the best sport for getting refreshed and having also even getting in shape. I know some people think swimming requires the least amount of effort out of all sports but it doesn't’t it requires tons of effort and skill you sometimes sweat more in swimming then in football just you cant feel it because your in water.

GlossaryBulkhead: a dividing wall or barrier between

compartments in a ship, aircraft, other vehicle, and a pool.

Torpedo: a cigar-shaped self-propelled underwater missile designed to be fired from a ship or submarine or dropped into the water from an aircraft and to explode on reaching a target.

Pullout: in swimming the movement of diving into the water on breaststroke and pulling your arms down with one butterfly kick then you start swimming

GlossaryRelays: a group of people or animals engaged

in a task or activity for a fixed period of time and then replaced by a similar group.

IM: Individual medley (Fly, Back, Breast, Free)