AQUATIC ACTIVITIES Flashcards
This can either be individual or team-based. There are world championships, Olympics, and many other renowned competitions that test athletes in different types of sports.
Competitive Water Sports
This brings out the best in each contender. It requires great physical strength, perseverance, determination, positive attitude, and a burning desire to excel.
Individual Water Sports
One of the most popular water sports, has been around for centuries. It has evolved to become one of the most common recreational activities as well.
Swimming
Is riding a surfboard on the forward face of a wave, which mostly carries you towards the shore.
Surfing
The radical technique of surfing, combined with sailing know-how and skill
Windsurfing
Is basically racing over a body of water on a one man watercraft machine. Fancy stunts and tricks, like flipping and jumping over a ramp, can be done with freestyle jet skiing
Jet Skiing
Imagine surfing while being towed along by a high-speed boat.
Wakeboarding
Basically skiing on water. An individual uses 2 skis or a single ski to skim or glide along the surface of water, and is pulled along by high-speed boat with the help of ski cable or rope.
Water Skiing
A type of race that popularly involves swimming, cycling, and running various distance in immediate succession.
Triathlon
Uses a small surfboard or wakeboard which is pulled by a kite. You will need to go through some training in order to understand the movement and direction control of the kite.
Kite Surfing
a board sport in which a skim board (much like a surfboard but smaller and without fins) is used to glide across the water’s surface to meet an incoming breaking wave, and ride it back to shore.
Skimboarding
a water sport in which the surfer rides a bodyboard on the crest, face, and curl of a wave which is carrying the surfer towards the shore.
Body boarding
One form wherein divers jump off cliffs or rocks in fresh water or salt water.
Cliff Diving
This water sport can be a lazy, relaxed activity, or a frenzied and highly competitive sport.
Fishing (Angling)
This sport involves teamwork, synchronization of movements, balance, energy, and a joint efforts to succeed and win.
Team Water Sport
