Sports Time By Ashley & Michelle "Go hard, or go home." - Anonymous
You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get. - Michael Phelps "Don't ever be afraid to dream too big. Nothing is impossible. If you believe in yourself, you can achieve it." - Nastia Liukin
Table of Contents Gymnastics Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg. 2 Why It's My Passion . . . . . . . pg. 3 Famous Gymnasts . . . . . pg. 4,5,6 How To Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . pg. 7
Swimming Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg. 9 Why It's My Passion . . . . . . pg. 10 Famous Swimmers pg. 11,12,13,14 How To Guide . . . . . . . . . . . .pg. 15
Culture Gymnastics The culture of gymnastics is about significant commitment and the search for perfection. Gymnastics has it's own special language, requires a certain amount of knowledge, and needs a LOT of physical training. There are so many different skills that all the names have ended up becoming a language, that all gymnasts learn. Some of the names are the same as the person who invented the skill, examples of this are the Tsukahara, Stalder, and Yurchenko. All gymnasts require knowledge on how to do their skills, and how to make them look nice. They also must have the mental toughness to focus and go for skills even when they're scared. Gymnastics requires a lot of physical training and practice, so that you don't injure yourself when you're doing skills. Most National level gymnasts train at least twenty-three hours or more per week. All in all the gymnastics culture is a combination of language, knowledge, and physical training.
Why It's My Passion Gymnastics
Gymnastics is my passion because it's my favourite sport, I'm at a National level, and it's a great way of staying fit and strong. It's my favourite sport because I've been doing it all my life, it's fun, and it's amazing to see what people are capable of. I'm currently in National Novice, which is a high level of gymnastics where you compete throughout Canada against the different provinces and territories. It's always fun travelling to different places and I enjoy seeing the sights. It's taken me 8 years to get here, and if I quit now and regret that decision, there's no going back. In gymnastics you have to be strong, so we do intense training and conditioning. The result is ending up fit and strong. It's important to do physical exercise, and gymnastics is a great way of doing it. In the end however, gymnastics is my passion because I've been doing it so long, I can't imagine how my life would be without it. Watch me compete here!
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Famous Gymnasts Brittany Rogers Brittany Rogers (born June 8th, 1993), is a Canadian artistic gymnast, who competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. She is currently a student at the University of Georgia, and competes for their team, the Georgia Gym Dogs. She has been to many National Stream Cup, World Artistic Gymnastics Championship, and Canadian Championship competitions. However, in 2009 she fractured her medial malleolus bone, and it wasn't healing naturally. She had surgery on it shortly after, and a couple months later, she was raring to go. After this small setback, Brittany was still able to make it to the 2012 Summer Olympics, and is hoping to go again in 2016.
Famous Gymnasts Nastia Liukin
Anastasia Valeryevna (Nastia) Liukin (born October 30th, 1989), is a retired American Artistic Gymnast, who has been to several Summer Olympics. She was also the World Champion on bars and beam in 2005, and the World Champion on beam in 2007. Nastia started gymnastics at the age of 3, and was one of the strongest junior gymnasts in the U.S. by 2003. She was too young to go to the 2004 Summer Olympics, but had she been old enough she would have made the team. In 2008 however, there was nothing to stop her from going to the Olympics in Beijing, where she got gold all-around, silver on bars and beam, and bronze on floor. Nastia's career ended in 2012 after the Olympic trials, but she still enjoys making appearances at various competitions.
Famous Gymnasts McKayla Maroney
McKayla Maroney (born December 9th, 1995) is an American Artistic Gymnast, who was on the winning U.S.A. Olympic team in the 2012 Summer Olympics. At the Olympics she won 2nd on vault with the huge score of 15.800. She has also been to the World Championships, and Visa Championships, where she won gold on vault both times. McKayla started gymnastics at the age of 2, and has wanted to be an Olympic gymnast since the age of 9, after seeing Carly Patterson compete at the 2004 Olympics. Now, her dream has come true and she got an Olympic silver to go with it.
Watch McKayla's Olympic vault here!
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How To Guide Gymnastics How To Do A Cartwheel
1. Start by standing straight with one leg in front of you, and your arms beside your ears.
2. Then step forward into a lunge position, and place your hands sideways on the ground.
3. Kick your legs over your head, and land back in the same position as in step two, but with your legs on the other side of your head.
4. Stand up, and repeat step one. You have now done a cartwheel
How To Do A Front Walkover
1. Start by standing straight with one leg in front of you, and your arms beside your ears.
2. Then step forward into a lunge position, and place your hands on the ground.
3. Kick your legs over your head, and land in a bridge position.
4. Using your legs, stand up and repeat step one. You have now done a front walkover.
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Culture Swimming
Competitive swimming became a popular sport in the nineteenth century.Urna The Semper goal of competitive swimming is to constantly improve Office: 123-456-7890 your time(s), or to beat the competitors in any given event. Cell: 123-456-7891 SwimmingEmail: is an event at the Summer Olympic Games, where male and female athletes compete in 16 of the recognized events each. no_reply@apple.com Olympic events are held in a 50-meter pool, called a long course #654321 pool.Tincidunt Most swimming sport events are held in special competition swimming pools, which are either long course pools such as those Lorem Ipsum et: used 1234 in theMain Olympic Games (50 m) or short course pools such as Street those used in the FINA World Swimming Championships. Anytown, State ZIP Competition pools have starting blocks for each competitor dive in, and possibly also touch-sensitive pads to electronically record the swimming time of each competitor. In competitive swimming, four major styles have been established. These have been relatively stable over the last 30–40 years with minor improvements. The four main strokes in swimming are: freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly. There are many events that a swimmer can swim during a meet. It ranges from events on freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, and individual medley, where you swim all four strokes in one event. Competitive swimming has two major seasons. During the short-course season, swimmers swim in 25meter pools. This season lasts from late-September to the end of March. The longcourse season takes place in 50-meter pools and lasts from April to the end of August.
Why It's My Passion Swimming
My Passion
People's point of view on swimming can be vast, and it varies from person to person. Lots of people believe that swimming is a fun and relaxing sport, and only for recreation. Recreational swimming can be used for people to exercise, or relax. But Competitive swimming is a whole different thing. When you swim competitively, there isn't a time when your in the pool, and relaxing. Swimming literally uses all the muscles in your body, and because your constantly kicking and moving your arms, in my opinion swimming is one of the most tiring sports. I swim competitively for Chena swim club, every day when you go to practice, you are required to improve and try your hardest, or else the coaches would suggest that your wasting your time. We also have swim meets every now and then to see if you are improving or not. To be honest I'm not a really big fan of swim meets, it's mostly because you have to get up super early, and jump in freezing cold water for warm up. Most people, like me, don't like to start their day off like that. I chose swimming as my main sport because its fun and and it help keeps you fit and healthy. Swimming also makes you realize that team spirt is really important. Even though swimming is a individual sport, we go to swim meets as a team and we always try to win as a team, that's what team spirt is all about. Competitive swimming not only keeps you fit and healthy, it also helps you develop traits that most sports won't, so all in all, swimming is a great sport to do.
Famous Swimmers Missy Franklin
Missy Franklin
Missy franklin, short for Melissa Jeanette Franklin (born May 10, 1995) is an American competitive swimmer, and fourtime Olympic gold medalist. At age 17, Franklin won a total of five medals, four of which were gold. She swept the women's backstroke events, winning gold in both the 100-meter and 200-meter backstroke. Franklin's success have earned her the World Swimmer of the Year, and the American Swimmer of the Year award in 2012. She currently holds the world record in the 200-meter backstroke (short course and long course) and the American record in both the 100-meter and 200meter backstroke (long course). As a member of the U.S. National Team, she also holds the world record in the 4Ă—100meter medley relay at the London Olympics.
Famous Swimmers Ryan Lochte
Ryan Lochte
Ryan Steven Lochte, born August 3, 1984, is an American competitive swimmer and an eleven-time Olympic medalist (five gold, three silver, three bronze). His seven individual Olympic medals rank as second all-time in men's swimming. As part of the American team, he holds the world record in the 4Ă—200-meter freestyle relay (long course). Individually, he currently holds the world record in the 100-meter individual medley, 200-meter individual medley (long and short course), and the 400-meter individual medley (short course). Ryan Lochte has won a total of 70medals in major international competitions, and is looking forward to the 2016 summer Olympics in Rio de Janiero, Brazil.
Famous Swimmers Rebecca Soni
Rebecca Soni
Rebecca Soni is also an American gold medalist. She currently holds the world record in the 100-meter breaststroke (short course) and the 200-meter breaststroke (short and long course). She is the first female swimmer to go under 2 minutes 20 seconds in the event 200meter breaststroke. As a part of the American team, she also holds the world record in the 4Ă—100-meter medley relay. She has successfully defended her Olympic title in both the London and Beijing summer Olympics. In total Rebecca Soni has won 22 medals in major international competitions.
Famous Swimmers Michael Phelps
Michael Phelps
Michael Fred phelps is a retired American swimmer, and also one of the best swimmers of all time. With 22medals, he also holds the all time record for Olympic gold medals. Phelps is the long course world record holder in the 100-meter butterfly, 200meter butterfly and 400-meter individual medley as well as the former long course world record holder in the 200-meter freestyle and 200-meter individual medley. He has won a total of 71 medals in major international long-course competitions. Michael phelps retired after the 2012 London summer Olympics. "I'm retiring. I'm done. I've been able to go to all these amazing cities in my travels and I haven't been able to see them at all. I see the hotel and I see the pool, that's it. I just want to go and do whatever I want to do. I'm excited," says Michael.
How to guide Swimming
Breaststroke Backstroke
1. Push off the wall in a tight stream line.
1. Do underwater dolphin kick as far as you can on your back
2. Push your hands to your side, and do a slight dolphin kick
2. When surfacing, switch to flutter kick
3. Stretch out in a stream line again, and Surface the water
3. The basic pull is a straight arm that exits the water thumb first and enters the water pinky first
4. Still in a stream line, pull your elbows to the sides of your body, then bring your hands together in front of your chest
4. While you move your arms, you always keep each arm opposite of the other arm. If one arm is going in the water (pinky first) the other arm is exiting the water (thumb first). 5. Remember to keep your head still, and rotate your shoulders. Also never stop kicking.
5. While completing step 4, lift your head, and upper chest out of the water to breathe 6. Bending your knees, bring your feet towards your bottom and kick backwards 7. Glide!!!!!!!
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