...narrator describes how her father helps her gain security and confidence while looking underwater. She starts swimming on her father's push, but once at the murky river when everyone is swimming, a girl comes out with a leech on her back and then "for the rest of the summer i refused to go in the water." She gives up on swimming, until later in her life, when her dad convinces her that she should not just give up on it, "I'm sure there are no leeches at the YMCA, but i'll come and watch, just to be sure." This shows that the narrator was always protected...
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...Swimming is one of the best sports around for those interested in keeping fit. It not only provides a great workout, it does so with a dramatically reduced incidence of injury compared to sports like running. Swimming provides a full body workout. No matter what stroke you prefer, swimming uses all the muscles in the body. Additionally, it places extra emphasis on the upper body and on your core muscles compared to sports like running. The water provides natural resistance. Working out in water means your body has to work harder. A 30 minute work out in the pool is worth as much as 45 minutes of the same activity out of the water. This means it is an efficient means to get great results. It is low impact. If you have joint problems that prevent you from running, you can still swim. The water provides natural...
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...“Learning something new can be a scary experience. One of the hardest things I've ever had to do was learn how to swim. I was always afraid of the water, but I decided that swimming was an important skill that I should learn, .I also thought it would be good exercise and help me to become physically stronger. What I didn't realize was that learning to swim would also make me a more confident person. New situations always make me a bit nervous, and my first swimming lesson was no exception. After I changed into my bathing suit in the locker room, I stood timidly by the side of the pool waiting for the teacher and other students to show up. After a couple of minutes the teacher came over. She smiled and introduced herself, and two more students joined us. Although they were both older than me, they didn't seem to be embarrassed about not knowing how to swim. I began to feel more at ease.” Learning to swim made my summers more enjoyable by making my time in the water safer. As a teen that didn’t know how to swim I was terrified by the thoughts of drowning, afraid to look weak or ashamed for not knowing how to swim. Learning how to swim increase my self-confidence and eliminated my fears of drowning. I had to overcome the fear of the water that was a huge step for me. Before deciding to take swimming lesson, I would spend many days on the side of the pool also walking in the shallow end. My instructor started my first lesson with kicking, holding on to the side...
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...A. Website address: URL: http://www.swimmingwithoutstress.co.uk/about-us.html B. Description of the website: This website is established by some coach in UK. In order to help people overcome the fear of water, there are a lot of information about swimming in this website which can be divided into two core parts. For the first part, it is the swimming theory. The readers, especially for the beginning, can refer to the “Swimmer Experiences”, “Swimming technique” and “Swimming advice”. Not only words, there are many pictures and videos to explain the theory so that the readers can clearly understand the complicated theory. Apart from the theory, there is online shop for the swimming products. Except the swimming basis, there are some poolside products which can let the swimming process more convenient, like Goggle Case and lens cleans. These two products can protect the goggle. Moreover, there are training aids for the swimmers to improve their swimming skills while practise. For instance, the Sphere Microfin Hp and Sphere Fitness Gloves can help the swimmer to feel the strength of hands and legs. C. Name any information from the website that can help to improve your swimming skill. These two parts of the website provide some basic reminder for the swimmers, as the writers of the blogs focus on some common problems that the swimmer will face. One of them is quite inspiring, it is about breathing. Unlike the traditional way of teaching beginner to swim which is ...
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...Through bone chilling water and arctic slush, Lynne Cox embarks on one of the most extraordinary swims of her life. In the frigid waters off the coast of Antarctica Cox begins her swim. She compares it to freezer burn or a wet hand grazing cold metal. Once she has started its left to her physical and emotional attributes to pull her through this crucial swim. Emotional qualities such as a confidence, anxiety management, and the ability to set realistic goals are what increased Cox’s chances of succeeding. Throughout Lynne Cox’s story you can experience her thought process before the swim, during the swim, and after the swim. Like most athletes Lynne Cox has a healthy and productive mind. While on a journey such as Cox's a strong sense of...
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...their involvement in Olympic Swimming; Why are there so few African American swimmers? Marcos Mendez Georgia Southern University Abstract This paper explores the phenomena that we see in Olympic Swimming. Whites dominate this sport and African Americans hardly ever participate in this sport. This research paper explores why that is, by examining numerous sources. These sources were obtained using the internet. From the research conducted, their seem to be varying answers to this question. However the main ones are genetics and socioeconomic factors. Consequently, the genetic research is not a direct correlation to why African Americans don’t participate in swimming. Genetics only points out that differences in muscle composition, bone density, and buoyancy have some effect on a person’s ability to swim. The major cause for this goes into the past to segregation and economics. History of Olympic Swimming Swimming was learnt by prehistoric people in order to cross bodies of water. This can be proved in ancient egyptian paintings( 2011 Olympic. Org). Swimming did not truly become an organized sport until the early 19th century when British swimming clubs began to hold competitions. Swimming was added to the Olympic in 1896. History of African American Swimming Now lets look at African swimming. In 1451 when Europeans began exploring Africa. Europeans regarded Africans as “ The best swimmers in the world.” They attributed these swimming skills to constant exercise...
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...Into the Danger Analysis University of the Rockies When I first read the case study " into the danger zone", I thought it was a clean and cut case of the school being held liable for the accident that Lucy Overstreet had when she was diving into the pool during practice. After reading it the second time I realize that the school may not be the only one liable for her accident, but her as well. I say this because she did signed a form stating the risk that can occur from her being on the swim team and she could had left the swim team if she really felt uncomfortable and reported it to the principal what the coach has said to her when she wasn't ready compete in the relay where she had to dive off a starter block. The tort of negligence for this case study may not be easy to prove as one may think when you first read the study. The reason for this is because to prove tort of negligence all 5 elements of negligence has to be proven. The 5 see elements are duty, breach, cause-in-fact, proximate cause, and damages. However I will be looking at how if all the elements can be proven, I will start by looking at duty of the coach. The coach did not do its duty to protect Lucy from being injured at swim practice. The reason I would say this is because Lucy trainers and Lucy herself had told the swim coach that she needed more practice with her diving from the starter block into shallow water. And with this knowledge he did not change her position on the team but encourage to quit...
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...Director’s Concept Board Name: Yingjie Tang DESCRIPTION: | It’s talking about a swimmer swims from long beach to Catalina Island. While she was doing the game, she met some troubles. Finally she overcomes the fear of the helicopter, the oil slick, the exhaustion and the underestimation. The result is she wins the game. | SPINE: | Swimming competition | | | CONCEPT: | Basketball: margarita meets many difficulties like shooting the basketball. Even you missed this point, pick the ball and shoot again. | | | * * METAPHOR IMAGE: Place metaphor image with citation here http://stock.591hx.com/images/hnimg/200909/28/83/16736849182010914415.jpg Additional images (inspired by the metaphor) that further express my vision for this production to my design team) | Place image with citation here.http://i1.sinaimg.cn/ty/k/2008-02-27/U2035P6T12D3497415F44DT20080227073726.jpg | Yao Ming was getting injured in one basketball game. Doctors said he couldn’t go to the court. at all. Then he tried to stand up and did some recovery exercise. He was walking back to the court again. Finally relied on him. They win the game. Like Margarita met many difficulties, she still insist and finally she won the game.. | Phttp://images2.sina.com/newscenter/oth/singtao/000-000-105-109/2008-06-30/e06d37a3a3ae51d817c59f98679d799f.jpg | The actor who played Margarita needs to swing arms in the entire play. Although when we paying attention to the conversation and things happened...
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...to improve this because you need confidence in all of the public services because of the jobs that you could be told to do. | I could improve this by participating in tasks that require me to push myself to reach the goal e.g. rock climbing. | I could improve my confidence anywhere as long as I can make some kind of challenge or obstacle that I have to overcome which requires confidence to achieve. | Swimming | I need to improve swimming because I want to be able to swim without being worried about drowning also I want confidence in the water. | I could improve this by swimming in a pool starting in the shallow end and work my way to the deep part then eventually I could start to swim in the sea. | I could improve this in a pool or in the sea. | Heights | I need to improve on this because I want to be able to climb up high without being worried about the height | I could improve this by rock climbing but I could start off by not going too high and then I could gradually improve the height of the climb and I could abseil back down the rock which could also improve my fear of heights. | I could improve this at indoor rock climbing walls or outside on natural formed rocks. | Development plan Task...
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...STATE UNIVERSITY LA PAZ, ILOILO CITY I. INTRODUCTION SWIMMING Swimming is an aquatic sport which is based on the human act of swimming. Basically, the goal of swimming sport is to complete a given distance in the smallest time. Different swimming competitions are held which are totally based on speed and endurance such as crossing an English Channel. Swimming as a sport, is different from other aquatic sports like diving, synchronized swimming and water polo that involves the act of swimming but the goal is neither speed nor endurance. However, it is widely believe that swimming is the best aerobic exercise in the world. During 19th century, competitive swimming became very popular and the international swimming association, Federation Internationale de Natation (FINA) was formed in the year 1908. Professional swimming develops with the formation of this swimming association. There are thirty six officially individual swimming events including 18 male events and 18 female events. These competitive swimming events are governed and organized by FINA. However, among 36 events only 34 of them are recognized by the International Olympic Committee which includes 17 male and 17 female. (Source: sportslister.com/swimming) WEST VISAYAS STATE UNIVERSITY LA PAZ, ILOILO CITY II. HISTORY SWIMMING The sport of swimming has been recorded since prehistoric times; the earliest recording of swimming dates back to Stone Agepaintings from around 7,000 years ago. Written...
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...The Swimmer By Inger Bülow Smed Andersen 3.x 15-11-2015 “The Swimmer” by is a short story by S.J. Butler. The story centers on a woman, who undergoes both an emotional and spiritual experience. She learn to overcome her fears. The story takes place in the summer. First the woman is in her office that has a view of a river. She finds the heat of the summer unbearable and she therefore decide to go swimming in the river. She approaches the river and hesitates a moment, were the reader is introduced to the character on a more personal level. The reader learn that it is not the first time she has tried to take a swim in the river. She goes into the river and start swimming upstream, against the current. She passes a bridge and she then encounters a beautiful swan. She is mesmerized by the both the size and posture of the swan, but is also frightens her. The swan makes her feel small and unimportant. After that day, she goes swimming everyday hoping to spot the swan and admire it. At first, she observers the swan from a safe distance, but after sometime she approaches the swan. One evening, as the moon rises, she finds that the swan has entangled itself in a fishing line. She sets the swan free, and they both float down stream, until the swan vanishes out of sight. It is unclear whether the swan lives or dies. The events in the story are arranged in a chronological order that covers the range of days in the life of the protagonist, focusing on her experiences in the nearby river...
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...The swimmer Fear is something we all possess, some are afraid of heights and some are afraid of spiders. However, all fears are conquerable, it may be a long and hard process but in the end, it could end up changing one for the good. That is the case in ‘’the swimmer’’ by S.J Butler written in 2011 where we meet an anonymous girl who is afraid of swimming. Contrasting to many other persons with a fear this girl truly wants to overcome her fear. When she does, she discovers a more relaxed and calm side of herself and other beautiful things that she would never have discovered if she had not challenged her fear. Even though it is her fear to swim, she never describes why she is so afraid of swimming and she never describes the water or the surroundings as something ugly, in fact she describes the nature in a positive way. ‘’It is gloriously fresh as she pulls her finger through it’’ (l. 48). The girl is very much ashamed of this particular fear that she has, she feels that normal people swim and it is natural ‘’people have swum for generations’’(l. 20) and that is why she does not want anyone to notice her swimming the river because she’s afraid of what people might think. Finally, when she decides to go into the water all of her fears suddenly comes back and she regrets it. She overthinks the situation, what if someone sees her or current is too strong to swim. Her fear really shines through here and she is very close to going back again as she has done before. When she finally...
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...Fear can be a big part of ones live. Fear of denial. Fear of failure. But just because one is scared to do something, it doesn’t mean he don’t. Fear and overcoming your fear is a central theme in S. J. Butlers short story “the swimmer”. The main character in the short story seems to be a regular woman, working a regular job. But she has a passion for swimming, and when she sits at her desk she can see right down to a river. This is very intimidating for her as she has a burning desire to go swimming. “No one’s out there. If she goes now, she’ll have the river to herself. No one will see. Why she minds this, she doesn’t know. Every day she looks out at the river, and longs to swim in it.”, as we can see in the quote she doesn’t quite know why she thinks about the fact that nobody will see her, but between the lines you can smell a little fear. Maybe not fear as such, but without her knowing why it definitely affects her in some way. Step by step she overcomes this fear and eventually becomes quite addicted to swimming in the lake, and even more when she discovers a big swan. Day by day she moves closer and closer to the swan, but she is very intimidated by it. “The swan looks down at her and she looks away, afraid to meet its eye. Her nan used to tell her a swan could break a man’s arm with its wings − what could it do to her, down here, in the water?”, in the quote you can definitely feel her fear towards the unknown. But despite this fear she possesses a burning curiosity that...
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...Ryan Gengler EN1320 Cypert Monday, October 14, 2013 Unit 4, Lab 1 Have you ever almost drowned? I have and I’d like to describe the event. Some people may get a little chuckle to a large belly laugh because now that I am safe, I look back and part of it is really funny. Most of it gave me the scare of my life. Anybody who has had a loved one, acquaintance or even themselves almost drowned can relate to the fact that things can go from having fun to a life threatening situation in a matter of seconds. Hopefully, my memory of this event will enlighten someone enough to be a little bit more vigilant when around water. My memory of this event begins at Lake Wakonda near Beloit in north central Kansas. We had just finished a day of boating and the boat was parked at the shore where we had made camp. My dad, brother and sister were on shore huddled around the camp fire. Although, I believe my brother was huddling around the fire because he had crashed and burned so much when he was trying to water ski. I think I was about five to seven years old so I can’t remember certain things but I think I had some aunts and uncles there as well. I, however, could never get enough of playing in the water so I was out on a raft in the water. I didn’t think I was out too far because it looked like I was only about five feet passed the boat. As it always is with being that young, looks were a little deceiving and I was either out farther then I thought or there was a wicked drop off under the...
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...“Learning something new can be a scary experience. One of the hardest things I've ever had to do was learn how to swim. I was always afraid of the water, but I decided that swimming was an important skill that I should learn, .I also thought it would be good exercise and help me to become physically stronger. What I didn't realize was that learning to swim would also make me a more confident person. New situations always make me a bit nervous, and my first swimming lesson was no exception. After I changed into my bathing suit in the locker room, I stood timidly by the side of the pool waiting for the teacher and other students to show up. After a couple of minutes the teacher came over. She smiled and introduced herself, and two more students joined us. Although they were both older than me, they didn't seem to be embarrassed about not knowing how to swim. I began to feel more at ease.” Learning to swim made my summers more enjoyable by making my time in the water safer. As a teen that didn’t know how to swim I was terrified by the thoughts of drowning, afraid to look weak or ashamed for not knowing how to swim. Learning how to swim increase my self-confidence and eliminated my fears of drowning. I had to overcome the fear of the water that was a huge step for me. Before deciding to take swimming lesson, I would spend many days on the side of the pool also walking in the shallow end. My instructor started my first lesson with kicking, holding on to the side...
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