Swimming
The Best Sport Ever
My view on swimming...
Swimming. In my eyes it's the best sport in the world. When you step on to the block, everyone else in the world just vanishes. All my problems in life, they are just gone. When you hear the announcer say take your mark, your adrenaline starts to pump. And then the beeper goes off and you dive in. At that moment in time, all the hard work, extra hours in the pool, two hour practices, it all pays off. Because when you swim, it's only you, the water, and the clock. And the clock won't lie to you about your time, tell you did good, when really you could of pushed yourself harder. Your coach isn't going to hive-five when you did bad. But when you do good in a race, hearing your coach tell you, "You did amazing." It means more to you then anyone else could tell you. So swimming is more than just another sport to me. The pool is more than just another lap lane to me. My coaches are more than just coaches to me. My team is more than just a team to me. It is my second life, second home, my other parents and my second family.
The strokes... (Breaststroke)
Breaststroke: this stroke is my second favorite stroke. In breast you pull your arms out and pull them to the side then push them up forward. The kick is kinda hard to explain you bring your legs up to your chest then pull them around, and they push you forward. Jessie has pretty much re-taught me breaststroke this year. It the slowest stroke out of the four.
The strokes... (Butterfly)
Butterfly, to most people (minus Madelyn) is the devils stroke. In this stroke you bring your arms up over your hear, then push them down past your stomach, and make your feet do a constant dolphin kick. This stroke sucks. Majorly. Most of the time when we're being bad, or not listening to Dave or Grant (assistant coaches) they make us do 25's of butterfly.
The strokes... (Backstroke)
This is probably my 3rd favorite stroke. All you do is lay of your back while kicking and move your arms up over your hear and keep constantly doing that. If your a backstroker, then during warm ups you have to go to the flags and count your strokes so you know when to do a flipturn so you don't get DQ'd.
The strokes... (Freestyle)
This is my favorite stroke. It is pretty close to the same as backstroke besides you are on your stomach and your arms bend more when your swimming this stroke. This is also the stoke that I went to state in my 200 Free with! So this is many people favorite stroke.
Devils stroke
This is a picture of Michael Phelps swimming butterfly.
Rebecca Soni
In this picture you can see how the arms are brought up then she will pull them up.
Breaststroke kick.
Here is a picture kinda showing how you use your legs in breaststroke.
Diving
This is Ryan Lochte diving in for his leg of the men's 4x100 freestyle relay, in the back you can see Michael cheering his team mate on.
Rebecca's Butterfly
This is Rebecca Soni swimming butterfly at the last Olympics.
Missy Franklin's Backstroke
As you can see in this picture to do backstroke you have to have an amazing start, because your start will help you out a lot.
Phelps vs. Lochte (400IM Finals) - 2012 Olympic Swimming Trials
Phelps vs. Lochte
Lochte dominated Phleps in this event, Phelps strong stroke is his butterfly and back, while Lochte's is breast and free, so Phelps was ahead at the beginning of the race with Ryan hot on his trail, but as soon as the hit there 100 breast and 100 free, it was Ryan who took the win.
Event Information
Next upcoming Olmpics
At 7 o'clock on August 5-26, 2016, is when the next Summer Olympics are. Make sure to watch, I am very excited to see what Ryan, Missy, and Rebecca will bring to the plate, it is sure to be the event to watch.
When?
Friday, Aug 5, 2016, 07:00 PM
Where?