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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