“SWIMMING

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 What is
swimming?
SWIMMING
- is an individual or
team sport that uses arms and
legs to move the body
through water. The sport
takes place in pools or open
water (e.g., in a sea or lake).
 A
BRIEF
HISTORY
OF
SWIMMING
Swimming can be dated
back to the Stone Age, but
did not truly become an
organised sport until the
early 19th century.
Prehistoric man learnt to swim in
order to cross rivers and lakes – we
know this because cave paintings
from the Stone Age depicting
swimmers have been found in
Egypt. Swimming was also referred
to in Greek mythology.
 
Swimming was not widely
practised until the early 19th
century, when the National
Swimming Society of Great
Britain began to hold
competitions. Most early
swimmers used the breaststroke,
or a form of it.
Based on a stroke used by
native South Americans,
the first version of the
crawl featured a scissor
kick. In the late 1880s, an
Englishman named
Frederick Cavill
travelled to the South
Seas, where he saw
the natives
performing a crawl
with a flutter kick.
Swimming has featured on
the programme of all editions
of the Games since 1896. The
very first Olympic events
were freestyle (crawl) or
breaststroke. Backstroke was
added in 1904.
In the 1940s, breaststrokers
discovered that they could
go faster by bringing both
arms forward over their
heads. This practice was
immediately forbidden in
breaststroke
, but gave birth to butterfly,
whose first official
appearance was at the 1956
Games in Melbourne. This
style is now one of the four
strokes used in
competition.
 FOUR
STROKES
 FREE STYLE
Freestyle is a category
of swimming competition,defined 
by the rules of the
International SwimmingFederation
(FINA), in which competitors are
subject to few limited restrictions
on their swimming stroke.
FREE STYLE
 BACK STROKE
a swimming stroke
executed on the back and
usually consisting of
alternating circular arm
pulls and a flutter kick.
BACK STROKE
 BREAST STROKE
a style of swimming on one's
front, in which the arms are
pushed forward and then swept
back in a circular movement, while
the legs are tucked in toward the
body and then kicked out in a
corresponding movement.
BREAST STROKE
 BUTTERFLY
The butterfly (colloquially
shortened to the fly) is a swimming
stroke swum on the chest, with
both arms moving symmetrically,
accompanied by the butterfly kick
(also known as the "dolphin kick").
BUTTERFLY
THE
END
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PREPARED BY:
Jizza Che L. Mayo
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