The Art of Teaching Swimming: New Concept Swimming

Swimming is interdisciplinary science. Swimming instruction and swimming training needs a wide participation of range of knowledge. There are Kinematics, fluid mechanics, Biomechanics, Theories of sports training, Anatomy, Physiology and Psychology, pedagogy, philosophy. If you are really serious to teach swimming and are immersed in it, increasingly you will gradually discover the mysteries of art in it, and discover the interconnectedness of this knowledge. You will also find, correct posture sometimes are not necessarily correct, the old posture sometimes are new and the new posture sometimes are old also. Teaching swimming is not just thinking about swimming, and also to study the laws of human. Swimming is the movement of axis . Freestyle and backstroke is the movement of vertical axis. In the freestyle and backstroke, the human body along the vertical axis turn right and left to move forward. Butterfly and Breaststroke is the movement of horizontal axis. In Butterfly and breaststroke, the human body does not turning right and left, at the core parts of the human body (The body center of gravity in the water) has a horizontal axis, when swim in, the body's center of gravity trajectory without departing from this axis move ups and downs the undulating, to swim forward in wave-like motion. We can think of swimming as "the movement of lines and dots", whether it is a straight line or curved line, dots are in the line, line is in between the dots, line and dots connected, implicated in each other.The author has a new understanding of swimming and comprehensively expounds the concept of swimming. The author believes that swimming is microscopic discipline, and the entire athletics sport is macro discipline, teaching swim must first study the basic theory of sports, broaden their horizons and boundless imagination, in order to make the coaching swimming development has more space. The author not only used the principles of the movement, but also regarded the swimming in the vision of philosophy and psychology. After long-term exploration, the author summed up a set of systematic and unique teaching methods, and flexible use of varies from person to person, teach students in accordance with their aptitude, overcompensate, reverse teaching method carries out teaching. In this book, author explains in a tone of narration and illustrated method.Finally, the author classifies swimming skills according to its characteristics and degree of difficulty. These "drills" are not a play in the water, instead, it combines around the "body balance", "streamline" and the concepts of sport that can help swimmers improve the physical fitness in the aquatics.