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Aquatic Sports
Aquatic sports consist of a wide of sporting events that are performed in the water: there are paint scoring events, endurance events, speed events, and even judged acrobatic events. Aquatic sports involved five main disciplines: diving, apnea free diving, water polo, synchronized swimming, and swimming. The swimming events are tests of pure speed and technique, while the synchronized swimming events are judged based on creativity and originality, among other factors. Water polo, like rugby, is a team event that involves passing on a ball from one player to the other, and trying to shoot a ball through a clearly defined area. Aquatic sports events require a tremendous upper body and lower body strength, and a swimming athlete's training involves work in the weight room as well as the pool. Aquatic-sports and athletes have very well developed back thigh muscles, trapezoids, and deltoids. Successful athletes in the speed events (swimming) have a long narrow body. Taller athletes often have an advantage in events such as the swimming crawl and the swimming medley so their long legs and arms give them a further reach. In this article, we will take a look at all of the 5 disciplines of Aquatic sports, and their key elements.
Swimming. All of the swimming events are performed in an Olympic Pool. The Olympic Pool is 21 meters wide by 50 meters long. In swimming races, each athlete has his/her own lane that they swim in. Each lane is 2.5 meters wide, separated by narrow floats that travel from one end of the pool to the other. All of the swimming events are timed speed events, where the first athlete to finish the course is the winner. There are several variations of the swimming races, and in each variation, the swimmers must us a different technique. The different swimming variations include The Medley, the Butterfly, the Breaststroke, the Crawl, and the Backstroke. The Crawl variation is the swimming technique that most recreational swimmers use and recognize. When executing the Crawl, swimmers propel themselves forward one arm at a time from the prone position. Like 3,000 meter steeplechase, swimming races are speed events, where the simmer to finish the course first is the champion.
Synchronized Swimming. Synchronized swimming is probably more similar to rhythmic gymnastics or competitive aerobics than it is to swimming. Synchronized swimming is a team event that is performed in a pool 20 meters wide by 30 meters long. The depth of the synchronized swimming pool is 3 meters, too deep for swimmers to support themselves with their feet on the pool floor. The event involves a fairly large number of referees and officials, including to judges, assistant referee, meet referee, sound technician, 3 technical monitors, and sound technician.
Water Polo. Water polo is a team event like basketball, where teammates pass the ball to one another and attempt to throw a ball into goal apparatus. Water polo games have 7 players in the pool and 6 reserves. Water polo games are played with 6 player defending or attacking, and one goalkeeper.
Apnea Freediving. Apnea Freediving is the least televised of all the aquatic sports. Apnea freediving involves 5 main disciplines: constant ballast, variable ballast, static apnea, dynamic apnea (horizontal dives) and free immersion. The constant ballast involves a dive down to as deep a depth as possible.
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