...Learning how to swim: a real challenge Learning something new can be a very unnerving experience. One of the hardest things I have ever had to do was learn how to swim. I have always been afraid of the water but I believe that swimming is a very important skill for one to develop either for essential or fun reasons. What ever the reason is, swimming is a good exercise and promotes discipline. What I didn’t realize was that learning how to swim would help me become more self-confident. Luckily, my swimming lessons were not a painful experience because my instructor was a person that I already knew: my girlfriend. She used to be a swimming instructor and I was present in a couple of sessions in the past with previous students she had. Therefore, I knew how she worked. Her smile and patience were motivating enough for any shy student that wished to learn how to swim. The first emotion I would have expected to feel was embarrassment for being a rookie in something that my own girlfriend was already an expert. However, this didn’t happen at all. In fact, I felt so excited because I was going to experience something new with a person I already knew. That means that I saw the bright side of things. Nevertheless, my biggest concern was that I had to face my biggest fear: the water. Floating was the very first thing I learned to do. She had me put on water wings on each arm until I was able to float. So half of my fear was gone as soon as I felt I was...
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...If you’re a student attending classes, you have probably experienced many moments when it was hard to make yourself settle down and study, even when an important exam was coming up. If you’re like most students, you put off studying until the very last minute. The night before the exam, you’ll stay up all night cramming, getting little or no sleep. In the morning, you’ll drag yourself out of bed, wake yourself up with lots of coffee or sometimes some cigarettes, and go into the exam feeling exhausted, stressed out and nervous all at the same time. You’ll find it hard to focus or think, and you’ll be cursing yourself for not starting to study sooner. And not surprisingly, unless you’re blessed with natural brilliance, or you happen to know the subject matter extremely well, you’ll probably do terribly on the test. If this is your typical method of studying, you already know it doesn’t work. Every time you go through this ritual, you tell yourself that you’re going to smarten up the next time you face a big exam. Next time you’ll start to study weeks in advance, you say. But instead, you keep repeating this crazy pattern. Why does this keep happening? And what should you be doing instead if you want to get better marks? Well in this study, it will not just evaluate each student’s performance in studying, but also try to know what improvements they should do as well as show correlations about several things that affect their studies either into bad ones or good ones. If you have...
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...Learning to Swim Can Be Scary “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...
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...How to learn how to swim without getting wet. ‘How to learn how to swim without getting wet’ is a quote which refers to trying to be able to learn to do something without actually experiencing it yourself and completing the task and relying on another persons advise. If we relate this quote towards the way we learn in university, it can relate towards the way that many students may establish the way of learning in university, and rather than being practical and focusing within lessons and attempting all tasks and completing coursework, many students may always rely on the help of other students and take their notes to revise and complete work this way they will not be learning on the basis of their own effort and putting in the hard work leading to them not being able to learn anything. Relating back to this quote if a person wants to learn how to swim without getting wet, there are many alternatives to this, for instance practicing the swimming movements that you will need to know to help you to begin to learn to swim. However practicing inside water and practicing out of water can be a very different experience, and still not teach you how to be able to swim properly, this goes for if we took a persons advice and their experience on how to be able to swim and the different techniques that would need to be used, even despite knowing what we would need to do it would still be difficult for us to jump straight into the water and be able to adapt ourselves into...
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...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 and “ From being brought up from infancy to swim like fishes ( 2010 Black Swimming hall of fame).” African slaves played crucial roles in cities all around the world. Cities such as Havana, Veracruz, and Cartagena (2010 Black Swimming Hall of Fame). Many of the slaves in these cities were used as divers who retrieved sunken treasure and precious items. However many slave...
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...Let go of your fear. A lot of people put off learning how to swim because they're afraid of drowning. While drownings do occur, most of them could have been prevented by simple safety measures. Follow these guidelines whenever you're swimming, and the odds of drowning will decrease dramatically: • Never swim alone. Always go swimming with one other person who is a strong swimmer, if not several other people. • Don't start out swimming in moving water. If you're learning to swim in an ocean or river, you'll need to be more aware of the motion of the water. If you must learn to swim this way, try to make sure you're with someone who knows what he or she is doing, and be sure to read the step about getting out of a riptide or a rushing river (below). • Stay within a depth you can handle. When you're first learning how to swim, don't venture into water that's too deep for you to stand in. That way, if something goes amiss, you can simply stand up and breathe. • Never swim during inclement weather conditions. Swimming in a light rain shower should be fine, but if you see or hear a storm approaching, get out of the water immediately. This rule is to be followed regardless of how well you can swim. • Don't swim in water that's too cold. Moving your limbs to paddle can become suddenly difficult if you're in frigid water. Get used to floating. When you're in the water, hold on to the side of the pool or a dock, and let your legs float out behind you - they should lift easily if...
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...Learning Can Be Scary Learning to Swim Can Be Scary “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...
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...options: Display Time and Date Swim Fitness Summary Calculator Sentence Analyser Exit The incomplete code solution (in the source file called MenuDrivenProgram.java) is in the same Assignment 1 folder, available via myRMIT. The partially completed program already has code to display the menu. You should study the code and then compile and execute it without implementing the following options. This will allow you to understand the flow of execution of the program, as is. a) Once the processing for the selected option has been completed the program should return to the menu (that is, the program should not terminate). b) You do not need to handle runtime errors of any kind for this assignment and you may assume that the user will always enter input in the correct format. This applies both to the menu itself and the processing of the menu options. Program Features Menu Option A - Display Time and Date (10 marks) The program should retrieve the current time and date from the system and then display it in the format shown below: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + Mon 23 Feb 20:46:02 AEDT 2015 + +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ You are encouraged to do a little research on how to retrieve the current time and date in the required format - it is permitted to discuss different approaches in the forums / facebook group but to not share your actual code. 1 Menu option B - Swim Fitness Index Calculator (15 marks) The program...
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...Transition ……………………………………... 39 Weight Training – Detailed Program ……………………….. 47 Nutrition …………………………………………………………. 65 Appendix Thinking About Doing a TRI? ……………………………….. 71 Methods of Heart Rate Training …………………………….. 79 Open Water Swim Tips and Techniques ………………….. 85 Tips for Riding in Traffic ……………………………………... 91 3 © 1999-2005 The Kent Group and Tri-Newbies Online. All rights reserved. www.trinewbies.com 4 © 1999-2005 The Kent Group and Tri-Newbies Online. All rights reserved. www.trinewbies.com 11 Week Calendar 11 Week Sprint Distance Program – Beginner 11 Week Calendar Mon OFF Tue Run: 15 min Wed Bike: 5 miles Thurs Swim: 200 yards Fri OFF Sat Run: 15 min Sun Bike: 5 miles OFF S: 200 yds R: 15 min Bike: 6 miles Swim: 200 yards OFF Run: 20 min Bike: 8 miles OFF S: 200 yds R: 20 min Bike: 6 miles S: 300 yds W: 30min OFF Run: 30 min Bike: 10 miles OFF S: 300 yds R: 20 min Bike: 8 miles S: 300 yds W: 30 min OFF Run: 40 min Bike: 10 miles OFF Run: 20 min Run: 30 min Swim: 300 yards Swim: 400 yards BRICK Swim: 400 yards Swim: 400 yards Run: 40 min Run: 40 min Bike: 12 miles Bike: 15 miles OFF BRICK OFF Run: 30 min Swim: 400 yards BRICK...
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...Jeannette’s swim lesson at the Hot Pot is a model for how her parents may come off as cruel, but they also have a genuine care for their children. Although Jeannette sees her Dad’s swimming lessons as cruel, underneath the brutality of the swim lesson Rex has a genuine care for her. Jeannette thinks that Rex’s teaching style about swimming is harsh. After Jeannette sank for the first time Rex pulled her to the side. Rex “picked her up and heaved [her]”(66) back into the middle of the Hot Pot. Jeannette thought this is mean because Rex is just throwing her into the middle of the Hot Pot and expecting her to learn how to swim on her own. Although Jeannette thought that her dad was brutal, she kept reaching out to him for help because she needed him for help. Rex “pulled [his hands] back”(66) when Jeannette reached out...
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......He had never slept in a better bed, Rainsford decided. That night Rainsford was thinking of how he was going to get off this doomed island. He thought of signaling for help with fire, but he had no way of lighting a fire. He came up with the next best idea to swim off the island. As Rainsford woke up he heard the sounds of the dogs barking. “Shut up you stupid hounds. I am trying to have a peaceful morning. But, it continued to the point that Rainsford took a gun from the General’s collection and shot a dog. BANG. As the dog fell to the firm ground, all the other dogs stood still. “Finally, some peace and quiet. I guess the way to get it is by shooting.” Rainsford scavenged the kitchen and only saw a box of oatmeal. As he boiled water on the old stove top, he began to think of where he would swim too. “South America,” he said as he jumped up....
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...1. What motivational forces and factors can you see in this case study? The biggest motivation factor for the protagonist and his friends to undertake ‘The Hellespont swim’ was its reputation of being a difficult, rare and almost impossible act. The whole swim thing had great mythological stories attached to it and the belief that it was swimmable by Gods only added to their conviction to do the same. The protagonist said about it on numerous occasions and had a strong desire of doing it himself. The fact that Byron, who was club footed due to a physical deficiency, was able to do it in his second attempt, pushed them even more. Also they were not professional swimmers and by doing this they wanted to enter this elite club of few people. They might have thought that being the amateur swimmers, if they are able to do this, the achievement will be even more glorified. Later in the case study, once they committed to it by depositing the amount, they never looked back. They started giving it their best and practiced it to their capabilities. Once they reached the Cannakale, their organiser ‘Huseyin’ made it into a big event and informed it to the media. The fact that media will be covering their swim and a lot of people will come to know about their success or failure made them even more determined. His comment that “failure would not be private” clearly reflects that they were committed to do it by all means. 2. What motivational theories and concepts are illustrated in the account...
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...SEMESTER 1 2015/2016 Co-cu No: MPU-24L2 LOG BOOK CO-CURRICULUM SWIMMING |photo | Personal Information Name : NG JU YI Student’s Reg. No : 14ABD00994 I.C No : 961210-33-5013 Telephone No : 012-2281306 E-mail : jy_1210@outlook.com Course of study : DMK Current address : NO.Block C-308,Taman Kolej Perdana,31900 Kampar, Perak. Additional info: 1. 2. 3. 4. Performance Evaluation Throughout the practical session, the performance of all the students who enroll in the co-curriculum course will be evaluated through marks and graded. However, the grades will not contribute to the GPA and CGPA. Games/Sports & Cultural courses are evaluated based on the following: i. Attendance 20% ii. Log Book 20% iii. Involvement 10% iv. Achievement 10% v. Technical skills 40% Attendance 1. Students who are absent from the Co-curriculum course and present a letter/proof of the reasons stated below will be considered present with a remark: a. Medical Certificate (MC) b. Represent TAR University College for external events c. Death of IMMEDIATE family member 2. Students who are absent with the reasons below will not be considered present: a. Involvement in club/societies/school...
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...2012 RACE GUIDE Racing for GB F Race for the nation and visit Middle Earth? Sounds good to us. One age-grouper explains why he’s aiming to be in Auckland come October 2012 rom Athlone to Australia, China to Pontevedra, age-group triathlete Robbie MacNab has been a part of the hugely successful British team. But what does it feel like to pull on the GB kit? I always feel proud to put the GB kit on. I’ll never forget the feeling the first time I qualified; I grinned all the way on the three-hour drive home. Added to that was seeing my parents’ faces when they saw the kit for the first time at the Euro Champs in 2010. Even if I never manage to qualify again, those moments stay with you forever. The sheer size of the GB Team is impressive. You start to recognise people from races during the year, and it only takes a few minutes of waiting at the airport before someone with the telltale bike box says hello. In Beijing all the GB guys were racked together and everyone was wishing each other luck. You get great support from the crowds too; for the Euro Champs in Spain it could’ve been a home race with the number of GB supporters! Racing for GB means I’ve visited places I may not otherwise have gone to. I’ve seen the Great Wall of China and spent time in Australia. But I’ve never been to South America so if the Worlds were over there it would be a great excuse! I’d like to race the Worlds in Auckland, and I’ve moved up an age group so it’ll be interesting to see where I fit in...
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...Jarrett seems to suffer from his emotional-stress, which shows through his state of mind. Conrad is depressed due to his loss of his brother Jordan Jarrett. Conrad also deals with his unloving mother that wants nothing to do with him. Furthermore, Conrad’s old swim team talks badly about Jordan Jarrett. Conrad becomes emotionally stressed due to the loss of his brother, his unloving mother, and the swim team’s actions. Conrad Jarrett is emotionally destroyed by the loss of his brother. His brother’s name is Jordan Jarrett but everyone calls him Buck. Conrad and his brother had a bond that could not be broken. Jordan is everything to Conrad and after he died he did not know what to do with himself. Conrad feels like it is his fault that he died and feels broken inside. He feels as if he could have done something to avoid his brother dying. When Conrad is talking to Berger, he says, “You don’t understand ….. Or what...
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