i need help with flip turns! i CAN"T wait until june 16th me and my friend start swimteam! i luv water click heart if u agree! later till the flip turns, CT
softballdude108, I wish the school around here would have a swim team!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm mad that they don't the school that does is 2 1/2 hours away from my house!!!!!!! -Sidnee#8
unicorn~princess: no, u r never 2 old 2 learn 2 swim. i agree with swimmer mae, if u want to learn, maybe try like the YMCA or somthing, or some other kinds of lessons.
unicorn~princess, It is never too late to learn how to swim! It's not that hard you just have to get in the water and practice! I hope you learn! -Sidnee#8
Swimming is the best sport ever! Hey, Swim4ever513, do you want to exchange swimming tips? Heres one of mine: When doing the 200 FR in long corse just swim as fast as you can on the 1, 3 and 4 lap. Good luck Swim buddy!
PS want to be friends? I have to go to a private school
leaftoria, I would wear a really cute one piece. Bring: goggles underwear towel sunscreen clothes snack bathing suit brush ********** Hope this helped. Pointe♥
leaftoria if your talkin about swimming competively u have to wear a one piece. swim4ever513 u r soooooooooooooo lucky!! i wish it was summer for me. idk my times but i post them next time. my team is the Home Of The Lightnning what is yours
And I hate one-pieces so please say tankini,but if I must I'll wear a one-piece because once I went to this indoor public swimming pool and I was wearing a two-piece and diving boards and two-piece equals two-piece top go up.
Can somebody here help me with stride entry?! How do you clap at the right time?And I'm going to a water park for my class field trip and we're only allowed to wear a tankini or a one piece.What should I wear and what should I pack?This trip is going to take up most of my day and I want to be prepared for any situation.
Hey people!! my school got out yesterday!!! so 4 me, its SUMMER!!!! Oh, guess what? since I'm on a year-round swim team, the short coure season just ended (short coarse is in the winter, fall, and spring and its when u swim in the 25 meter pool) anyway, I have my first long coarse meet next weekend!! (long coarse is when u swim in a 50 meter pool outside. its in the late spring, summer, and early fall) WISH ME LUCK!!!!
I take swimming classes and I'm just learning to swim.Thoses are the basics.It depends on what kind of swimming you do.Competitive swimming is more advanced than swimmer4 so yeah.
Hey swim4ever513, yes i looooovvveeee to swim and i can tell you so to! and yes i am on a competitive team, were called the Titans, what are you called? i can do: butterfly front crawl back stroke breast stroke back dives front dives front flip-turn back flip-turn and my fastest record for doing a 50yrd front crawl is 38.2 seconds! write me back pretty please! and i am so not trying to show off i p! ~yodude~
Hey everyone it is so true! sbdude is so fast! she can almost beat me but she doesn't know how to breath quite yet! And i know this because she is my next door neighbor and we are B.F.F.S!!! it is totally awesome! And she will do swim team in 7th grade! and dyou won't be able to see her she is going to be so fast!!! and i figured out the hard way, don't ever show off in the pool you might end up nearly getting drowned, or a new boyfriend!! ~yodude~ p.s. she was not bragging
kgdq so does my coach. we cant breath off of the flipturn u have to take 2 strokes b4 1 breath. i have like the worst lung compacity in the world though!
back crawl front crawl standing dive encurance swim egg beater stride entry?
wht the heck r this is swim on a club theam never heared of these. im with cookygirl202. omg yesterday at practice i got a charile hore in my calf and it hurts and its sore and in gym before that at like 200 i had to run a mile!!! ughh im soooooooooooo sore!
Catlover111,Stride entry is still harder than it looks.The clapping part does work but when I do it I always clap either before I hit the water or when I'm under the water.How do you get timing perfect?
leaftoria, I'm good at all the things you mentioned, so I'll try to explain stride entry. Just kind of walk into the water and push your arms together when you hit the water(It's kind of like clapping). Hope I helped, Catlover111 p.s. I hate whip kick
Does any one here have any advice to pass swimmer 4?I plan to accually pass swimmer 7 or 8 before grade8 which is like around 3 years away and that seems impossible so HELP.In swimmer4 there's -Back crawl -Front Crawl -Standing dive -Whip Kick(It's a miracle I passed this) -breast stroke -Encurance Swim -Egg beater -Help!Stride entry(I always SINK) If you have any advice please comment cause I'm going back soon as school starts again next year.(But first of all,HAVE A GREAT SUMMER EVERYONE!even though it's still may
I have asthma 2 and u should bring ur inhaler 2 meets & practice so after ur lap u can take a couple puffs. When i joined i told my coach about my asthma so he could watch it when i'm swimming.
yankeefever, the way 2 fix ur flipturn is 2 NOT breath in the flags and to focuse on the wall. It wked 4 mine. Coach HATES it when we don't do that in our flipturns.
i luv swimming! i am a naturally good swimmer i am as fast as my neighbor who has been in swim team fr 2 yrs! and i have never been on a team! (i m so not tryin to brag) ~sbdude
soccer*, Put your arms up in the air now put one hand on top of the other one (like you are about to dive) But make sure your arms are behind your head not in front of your head that way your head can't come up! Does that make since? I hope so! If not tell me and I will try to explain it better! K! -Sidnee#8 P.S. Cool friends it is then! Yea!
cookygirl202, cool thanx! I know what to bring I was just talking about something that is not on the list just something you have for fun. Thanx anyway! -Sidnee#8
HELP! Hey guess what?!?! I'm going to a swim camp this summer for 1 week! Is there anything I should remember to bring? Oh and my swim team has time trials the same day as my birthday! I don't know weather to be pumped or sad that I will be swimming, but I love to swim so idk! -Sidnee#8
I am a pretty good swimmer.Ihave been swimming for 6-7 years. When you dive,try to picture yourself falling in.Make an arched C shape.Then splash hit the h2o
Hey ilovejustin5456, I want to be your friend cuz i loooovve water and i do an almost year round swim team!! Here's a swim secret: When doing your front flipturn tuck your knees up close to prevent your knee hitting your eye!!! hey can i call you ilj5456? let me know please! Now it';s your turn to trade a swim secret with me!!! p.s. write back ~yodude~
I love the show H20 on Nickolodeon every swunday at 7:00 or 7:30!I love the show H20 because it reminds me of swimming and water!They both rule!!!!! , add hearts if u agree!
I'm so psyched, I LOVE the H2O, but don't have anyplace to swim at the moment, but I am going to Florida, where I can swim as much as I wanna cuz of the pools and ocean and stuff. I heart vacay!
Heeeey! If anyone wants 2 be friends! just ask!!! but does any of u actually swim for a year round club team?? cuz i do?! because if were gonna "trade swim secrets" u kinda have 2 have some!
my FAV sport is gymnastics (the username) but my second favorite sport is DEF swimming. its so much fun. last summer, in the championships, i swam the IM and got 1st place!!!yay.well anyways, swimming is SO much fun. but so is gymnastics. o well, i cant choose!lol...
Swimin dude, I wrote to you on the other page, but yes I do swim team only in the summer though because where I live you can't do it all year around because it snows. But I would LOVE TO DO IT ALL YEAR AROUND!!!!! lol! -Sidnee#8
I've got some good advice for your front flipturn: When you turn, tuck your Knees tight to your chest so as not to hit your eye with your knee! Whoever wants to be my friend type back! Swimin Dude
sidnee#8- oops, sorry! I know what u mean, but I didn't mean it like that. I just meant u give good advice and stuff like that. Thanks again, and swim4ever, u 2! -bsgmea13
Hey everyone at the swim team club that is reading this right now. I was at a swim meet and my event was breastroke. So after that event I got second place but the girl who got first wasn't even doing breastroke and she didn't get disqualified. I was and still am soooo angry.
swim4ever513, if you know you can beat them then try challenging them!! It might not convince them that swimming is a sport, but at least they know you can beat them at it.
swim4ever513, Swimming is totally a sport!! Dancing is 2!! If your ever at the pool with them challenge them 2 a swimming competition. Just make sure you know you can beat them.
bsgmea13, Hi thanks for saying I give good advice! I don't like to think of my self as popular because when most people think of popular people they think mean and snooty and I am totally NOT like that at all! I like to think of it as I have a lot of nice, good friends. I will ask you if I need any help so you can help me out sometime, but right now I don't have a prob. lol! -Sidnee#8
sidnee#8- thank u! Ur really good at giving people advice! No wonder ur so popular at the Advice Club! If u need my help, tell me! I'd like to help some1 out sometime! -bsgmea13
well swim4ever513 if they play baseball tell them if competive swimming wasnt a sport it would be called Baseball!! and if they dont tell them they are wrong that its alot of work. so they arw W-R-O-N-G!!!
bsgmea13, Well if your tried your hardest then there is nothing to be upset about. Just keep practicing what you learned and you will get it. You should totally let your friend know that you are not mad at her you are more mad at yourself. -Sidnee#8
Hey, guys, I've got a problem. My swim lessons just ended, and I didn't pass. Normally I'd be okay with that, since I just passed into this level and all, but my friend passed and I didn't. I know it's not her fault, but I can't help being a little upset and a little mad at myself for not being good enough. My friend thought I was mad at her for getting through, but I'm not! If anything, I'm mad at myself. What should I do? -bsgmea13
greenbeen, I totally agree with you I swim to relax! Plus I can sacrefidce smelling hair to swim. I would just buy a shampoo that smells really strong and that works for me! -Sidnee#8
SportzsGrl3, I know what you're talking about. I had to buy a special shampoo because I couldn't get the smell out of my hair! But if getting to swim everyday for and hour and a half means having weird smelling hair, that's a sacrefidce I can make!
Kaija1997, I agree with sidnee#8! You should join the swim team and get into tha action and stuff! It's sooo much more fun that way! My team is like my family and at least for me, it SOOO much fun!!!
Ahahaha! Swimming is like my dream! A lot of my friends think that swimming laps is exersize but I do it just to relax. I do swimg team twice a year and for anyone thinking about joining I strongly recomend you do! My team is like my family and I get a really good work out too. Backstroke rocks!!! Who else likes it?
Okay, so I was at championships about a month ago. I was in the 100 freestyle and I'd been trying to get my time down all year. So when I got out of the pool after my event I went over to my mom. She had a HUGE smily on her face and told my the in that last event I had dropped 11 seconds. I was SOOO happy that my friend and I couldn't stop jumping up and down!
does anyone always smell like chlorine??? cuse i do and its weird.when i swim every day it like it drink chlorine and sweat chlorine. i love butterfly and freestyle!! click the heart if u agree
So, I always get those weird chlorine colds after I go to the pool, so I like to stick to natural water, but I'm thinking about doing swim team in high school as my sport. I just hate any competition, even in sports I LOVE(like swimming), but my mom wants me to do some school sport so colleges will like me. (yes, kinda early as I'm only in 8th grade, but...) Should I try it?
Ok, this is kinda weird, but I love swimming and sailboats and all boats and the water and I'm not scared at all, but I'm deathly afraid of canoes for some really weird reason! Even though I could swim away just fine if it tipped, I HATE going in them! Even in two-inch deep water! It's soooo weird, I'd rather just swim or take a rowboat!
urlilathlete, I LOVE butterfly too! You don't sound like a boy I know some girls that like butterfly too! I have rock hard tummy muscles too! lol! -Sidnee#8
i luv butterfly! i kno i sound like a boy but i have some rock hard tummy muscles! I HAVE A 6 PACK. (and i can do the belly roll but im not sure u needed 2 kno that)
cookygirl202, Tips for flip turns: 1. The faster you go into the wall the better! 2. Throw your arm into your stomach and flip. 3. Push off the wall and then dolphin (or butterfly kick) kick off your turn then once you start to break out start your normal freestyle!
Hint if u like diving but can't do it standing up Kneel on a diving block or what ever u can dive of and it the same thing as diving only it saves u ebaressment until u get better
i just went 2 the beach 4 the 1st time this year... with mileylover1!!! i feel like im on land when im in water. if u get what that means... i luv swimming any1 have tips on butterfly, backstroke or flipturns?? this is cookygirl202
I Love to swim but my coach used to b in the olympics and he is a slaveworker my swim team has all my bffs on it the guy i like and 2 guys who r like my bros always teasing me
Does any of you have swimming clases in school like every monday every kid???But not like a choice is part like of the schechule ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
ok amatomboy29 i kno its hard for me too!! wen i practice i get it perfect but wen i compete i always miss it!! but this weekend i made it!! all you have to do is belive in your self and keep practiceing!! it all pays off
swimming is like my life!! i try and do compitions but its hard to keep up w/ skool and hw at the same time!! its good exercise and its very relaxing to be in the water!! who ever love the wayeras much as i do rite bak!!! love, krys29 *swimm luver**
i have swimming in the summer everyday 4 an hr and meets r on sat. the good thing is that you only go when you want to. we have like 70 ppl on our team including my big bro, my big cuz, and my bff. last yr our coaches rocked! the only day i have to be there is fun friday cuz we just do games so we an be ready 4 meets. my fam has bin doin swimmin since my 21 yr old cuz was 7. In my first meet i didnt really swim xpet 4 1 race cuz (we have three races per meet) the first rime i was in the b-room, the 2nd i lost my goggles and the 3rd i got first place but it was a relay.
ive been doing competitive swimming in the summer since i was 7 and i can never do flip turns. I can do them when i practice, but when races come, I get nervous and just touch the wall. even in relays. when we race, we get disqualified if we touch the bottom of the pool and at one of the racing pools, the shallow end is 2 ft. I practice it every practice. My brother helps me after practice, and my coach even helps me b4 practice. I just get scared 4 sum reason. everyone helps me and i stilll can't get it! WHAT DO I DO?? PLEASER HELP ME!!!! I love breaststroke, but I can't do butterfly. I love FREESTYLE RELAYS!!!! Here's something that might help in breaststroke: when u take a breath, do it quick and only lift your head as far as u need 2. when your about to start, make your hands look like u r clapping and push out so that it feels like the water is splitting, then flatten your hands and repeat. Remember; always keep your fingers closed and you don't do flip turns, you just touch the wall (YAY).
There was one time I wanted to do a cool backflip on the highet diving board at my community swimming pool. I was up on the board ready to do my trick. As soon I jump off the board, I did my backflip. It was one of the colliest thingsI've ever done in my life.
in synchronied swimming, because we are up-side down in the water so often, so we don't get water up our nose, we use nose-clips!! hplvr123:well..... you don't know untill you try!
swedishfishyfashion, You just have to take a breath and blow out your nose! Yes it is that simple just blow out your nose! It totally helps! I know because I had the same prob. -Sidnee#8
I absolutely love swimming! We have a great swim team in our city and I have some of my greatest friends there. My favorite stroke is the breaststroke. And my favorite thing about swimming is hanging out with friends and swimming hard at swim meets!
swim4ever513, Well you don't have to be good to like it! That is okay you are not going to any swim camps you prob. swim enough anyway! LOL! ~Sid Squid~
swim4ever513, I really want to go to this camp with my friend, but I don't know if we are going yet! So wish that it happeneds! How are you doing? I am good maybe you could help me with my post in Advice club (date april 1st.) Well that is it for now. -Sidnee#8
I love swimming. I'm not on a swim team because the practices would clash with my art classes, but I've been doing lessons for 7 years and I've passed all the levels. All I have left to do now is lifeguard training.
bsgmea13: well, heres what u should do. if you really want to keep swimming but not give up on your other sports, maybe you should try a summer team. if you really would be willing 2 give up another sport, you could try year round. But, if you dont like swimming, or think you will be stuck in lessons 4 ever, mabe just stop. after all, swimming is not 4 everybody
Hey all girls that are competing here is a really good tip! So put your goggles on before your swim cap that way when you dive in there is LESS chances of your goggles falling off! -Sidnee#8
swim4ever513, I love to swim! I am on a swim team and love breast stroke and butterfly the best! What do you like the best? Are you going to any swim camps this summer? ~Sid Squid~ ♥
I wasn't sure if I should put this in the swim team or the advice club, so I'm putting it in both. Anyway, here it is: I really like to swim. I take lessons, but the thing is, I'm getting a little too old and a little too good for lessons. I'm in Level 4! I want to join a team, but I feel like I'm doing too many things. I already do dance, soccer, and softball. Please help! -bsgmea13
actress616: ok, here is a few tips: 2 stay afloat, just kick your legs and push your arms dowsand to the sides. this is treading water. there are 4 strokes: Freeystyle, wich is when you kick your legs and move your arms, well, its hard 2 explain! in breaststroak, you look like a frog and you lunge yor arms out and far apart and then push them in twords your chest and put your hand 2gether. Well, thats alll i say right now! Hope i helped! Remember: SWIM4EVER!!!!
I'm horrible at swimming! But I'm going to sleep away camp this year and I don't want to be the only 6th grader on a lower level. Does anyone have any swim tips or secrets for me?
i love swimming i have prqctise six days a week and meets on Wed. the meets are seven hors and practise is to i love free breaststroke and back if you can give me the best swim wear tell me -swimmer36
I used to be on a swim team and I learned that swimming your hardest counts the most, even if you don't win. I think that swimming is a great sport for anyone because that is a life skill plus if you're on a swim team, it is a team sport!!
I love doing backward rolls underwater! It's awsome! I am in love with doing handstands underwater! Swimming rocks! Wearing goggles makes it 100% more fun! Snorkeling is FANTASTICIA!
oh yeah, sorry if I sounded mean on my last post about people who can't swim. I was just trying to say that swimming is cool and that everyone should at least try it. (Did that sound stupid?)
I luv the water and swimming soooo much, but I don't think I could ever do it competitively, because the chlorine always makes my nose get really stuffy! But, I'm pretty good at swimming, and I love going to lakes and oceans!
I really love swimming. I hate butterfly but i love doing breaststroke. Dives are so fun to do. For those of you who can't swim, you are really missing out.
I still don't know how to swim. I have a fear of the water. I've also had some bad experiences in the water. Once, when I was a little girl I had one of those floater's around my waist and was trying to go toward my mom and I kicked too hard and my head went underwater and my legs went up in the air. I kicked so hard that it was like I did a spin in the water. Also my cousin always grabs my waist and dunks me underwater.
This is the best page ever!!!!!!!!! I love to swim I am on a Swim team in the summer, but I would love to swim all year around! So need any tips on any stroke? I can help you out! -Sidnee#8
I was on a swin team from age 7 until i was 11 and i liked it ok. it took up lots of my free time in the summer, but i got alot of positive experiences from it.
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I'm mad that they don't the school that does is 2 1/2 hours away from my house!!!!!!! 
