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When was first included in the college physical education
1920 and early 1930s
Swimming became organized as an amateur sports
19th certury
When modern competitive swimming began in london
1837
When first modern olympic
1896
The earliest form of swimming stroke
Human crawl or human stroke or known as the dog paddle
Classification of swimming stokes
Competitive strokes
What are the Competitive swimming
Freestyle
Breast stroke
Butterfly
Backstroke
What are the Survive/Resting strokes
Elementary backstroke
Side stroke
Trudgen stroke
The fastest, most effective stroke and beginner find it the easiest to learn
Freestyle
Oldest known swimming stroke. It is one of four strokes used in competitive swimming, but is also very popular for leisure swimming because the head can be kept up and out of the water making vision and breathing easy.
The breaststroke
The variation of the breakfast stroke. Both arms are brought forward together over the water and then brought backward simultaneously.
Butterfly
Essentially the crawl stroke in its reverse form with the swimmer head back turned to the water.
Backstroke
What are survival /Resting strokes?
Side stroke
The Trudgen stroke
Elementary backstroke
The safety stroke all lifeguard must master but also offers recreational swimmers more variety in underwater movement and survival and rescue.
Side stroke
A combination of side and free-style swimming stroke for survival swimming
The Trudgen stroke
Is swim stroke that expands minimal energy with simple arm and leg movement.
Elementary backstroke
Form of exercise that burns a lot of colories, that increase cardiovascular fitness levels, improves muscular endurance and strength.
Swimming
Suffocation in the water
Drowning
What are the Personal safety
1.Learn to swim well enough to survive is an emergency.
2.never swim alone and swim only with a buddy who has the ability to help when necessary.
3 swim only in supervised areas.
4 follow the rules set up for particular pool, beach or waterproof
5.learn the simple and safe reaching rescues.
6.know how to administer artificial respiration.
7.know your limitations and do not overheated or overtired.
8.stay out of water of sufficient depth.
15.call for help only when really need it.
What are the pool regulations?
1.Medical certificates
2.Attire:
-Male-swimming trunk
-Female-bathing suit with swimming with a cap.
3.Take a shower before going to the swimming pool.
4.Step on the foot bath for disinfect.
5.Do not smoke or eat candies or other foods that attract insect within pool area.
6.Do not urinate in the water
6.Do not split in the water, use the gutter.
Swimming equipment
Swimsuit attire
Pair google
Swim partner/buddy or lifeguard
Keep water out of your eyes
Pair goggles
A swim partner or lifeguard offer a measure of safety. Children (and adults) unable to swim should be attended closely by an adult when in the water.
Partner/buddy or lifeguard
Optional swimming equipment
Swims fins
Kickboards
Hand paddles
Leg floats
Provide your lower body(muscle of the hips and knees) with a good workout and improve the flexibility of the ankles
Swim fins
Equipment that should used only by those who have learned advanced swimming.
Kickboard
Hand paddles
Leg float
Safe and best time to swimming
1.Favorable weather
2.last two hours in the morning
3.last two hours in the afternoon
4.after digestion has taken place for at least 1 to 2 hours.
5.clear water, bottom transparent
6.with lifeguard
7.never swim alone
Dangers(accident) in swimming
1.Craps
A.stomach
B.back
C. Leg
2.Exhaustion
A. Over fatigue
B. After a tiresome sports
C. After a long distance swimming
3.After taken a heavy meal
4.underwater holes
5.weeds
6.sea unchin
7.jelly fish
8.cone shells
9.irregular bottom
10.sharks
11.panic sting rays
12.currents
Water weeds known by several common names such as Canadian water weeds, common elodia or ancharia it will grow in a wide rage of condition, from very shallow to deep water and in many sediment types
Sea weeds/ water weeds
Urchins are small, spiny, globular animals that belong to class echinoidea.
Sea urchins
Know as jellies or sea jellies are free-swimming members of phylum cnidaria
Jelly fish
Large genus of small to large predatory sea snails, marine gastropods molluscs, commonly known as cone snails, cone shell or cones
Conus
Are a family (Dasyartide) or rays, cartlaginous fishes related to sharks.
Tine stingrays
Live cone snails are dangerous they are capable of stinging umans with unpleasant result.
Cone shell
Consist of numerous neurotoxicity peptides and can result in the death of humans.
Cone venom
Swimming offers a pleasant and enjoyable experience to swimmer but, they must be more alert to the hazard they might encounter.
Hazards in the aquatic environment
Sudden unreasoning and overwhelming fear that destroy a person’s capacity for self help.
Panic
Simply loss of energy and the resultant inability to make necessary movements to keep a float and make progress through the water.
Exhaustion
Is a spasmodic of the muscles usually caused by fatigue, cold, over exertion
Cramps
A surge travelling on the surface of water from small lake ripples to huge oceans swells usually caused by the wind.
Waves
Flowing movement of a large volume of water seeking its own level, are an ever present source of danger to river and open water swimmers.
Currents
Safety and rescue equipment
Lifeline
Booms
King buoy
Shepherds crook
Heaving line
Safety/Rescue post
Life guard stand
Backboard
These are buoyed lines that mark and separate swimming and diving limits. In emergency, it can be used as temporary support to a tired swimmer.
Lifeline
These are made of goods chained together and are often used to enclose an entire swimming area, especially in streams and rivers. It si serve as breakwater and in a emergency, offer support and protection.
Booms
Throwable device considered as standard equipment used at the pools and beaches.
King buoy
Reaching device and known as the oldest piece of good rescue equipment. The blunted hook is large enough to encircle the entire body of the victim and its effective even though the victim is unconscious and unable to hold on.
Shepherd crook
Any strong line, properly coiled and thrown, can be used to extend the rescuers reach to 30 to 40 feet.
Heaving line
A home made safety post can be constructed from easily obtained materials and should be set near water at any point where swimmers might get into difficulty or in trouble.
Safety/Rescue post
Should be located or positioned or constructed from 5 to 6 feet above deck level and should have proper foot and back rests, with some provision made for shade and shelter.
Lifeguard stand
Spine standards rescue equipment at all swimming facilities.
Backboards
Can be easily be made from inexpensive materials, vanished with several coating of a good spar vanish, and should be kept ready available.
Spine board
Are made of flexible isolate foam coveres with a vinyl skin, usually in red, yellow or international orange
Resume tubes
Three major causes of drowning
1.failure to recognize hazardous conditions or practices
2.inability to get out of dangerous situations
3.lack of knowledge of safe ways in which to aid persons requiring assistance in the water.
Rescue techniques
Assess the situation and remember your training
A. Be calm
B. Pinpoint the subject position
C. Make sure medical aid has been summoned if it appears needed
D. Keep curious by standers from interfering with the rescue effort.
2 planning the rescue quickly and calmly (prescribed pattern of rescue
A. Reach
B. Throw
C. Row
D. Go
Extend fishing rod, branch, par, towel, or other objects that can be used to reach out the victim and pull him or her to safety
Reach
If the victim is too far away to reach and boat isn’t handy
Throw
To the victim and then use an oar or paddle to pull the victim to the stern.
Row
Swimmer without lifesaving training should not swim to a victim.
Go
Four types of people (swimmer) in need of rescue.
Tired swimmer
Panicked swimmer
Non swimmer
Unalded/unconscious victim
What are the Approach to further reduce the number of fatalities
1.accident prevention
-study their cases
2.self prevention
-learn how to swim
3.training to assist other
-educate students the basis the water safety as it is to actuary to perform a rescue
Accident prevention :
Qualified supervision (21 years of old older)
Physical fitness
Safe swimming area
Safe swimming area
A. Check area for hazardous
B. Make any dangers which cannot be moved.
C. Divide the area by depth according to the swimming ability of individual
D. Non swimmer - waist deep water
E. Beginner - may swim in water just over their head.
F. Swimmers-swim in deep lifeguard can easily reach bottom (less than 12 feet)
Calm and will reply to the spoken words
Tired swimmer
A. Poor swimmer, frightened and franctic
B. Must be approached with caution
C. Contact should be avoided
D. Speed is important
E. Will remain on the water for several minutes.
Panicked swimmer
A. Lacks the ability to remain at the surface and generally will submerge in less than a minute
B. Unable to call or wave for help
Non swimmer
A. May float at the surface o sink to the bottom
B. Speed is utmost or necessary
Unaided/unconscious victim
