what is competitive swimming?

Question

swimming in a competition

Answer 1

Swim meets are hard to explain because there are so many types, including, high school meets and club meets... yet here goes.

At meets they are usually 5 to 8 lanes depending on the pool. The lanes are separated by lane lines. There is a block, on which the swimmer stands on, at one side of the pool for the start. At the beginning of the race the swimmers stand up on the blocks, then
when an official says "take your mark" and then beeps the starting system the swimmers dive off of the blocks and into the pool (in their respective lanes). The swimmers then swim how ever many lengths they are supposed to (depending on the race) and then the touch a touch pad at the end that records the time it took them to swim that specific race. The goal of competitive swimming is to swim the fastest for a given distance. The first person to touch the wall after swimming a certain distance (depending on the race) wins.

Each swim meet offers a variety of events and distances, depending on the age group and classification. Each swimmer will have a limit to the number of events he or she may swim each day, depending on the meet rules. Officials watch over the pool - making sure that all competitors are swimming the strokes properly.

There are four strokes: butterfly, freestyle, backstroke and breaststroke.

Competition pools may be short course (25 yards or 25 meters), or long course (50 meters).

Answer 2

Competitive swimming is the best thing alive. You basically train for 6-7 days a week usually 2- 3 hours a day ( sometimes more). Then you go to meets its so much fun

Answer 3

Competitive swimming can be different depending on the team. The team I used to be on was pretty intense and there was vigorous practices and long meets, but there are some more relaxed competitive teams. It consists of swimming in practices every week, and then usually a meet every two weeks or so. At a meet, you compete against one team (dual meet) or several teams (invitational meet) and depending on the type of meet (dual meets are usually shorter), it will range from 2-6 hours.

Answer 4

there are a lot of different types of competitive swimming:
1. age group swimming (usuallly club swimming)
2. high school swimming
3. college swimming

in competitive swimming, there are two seasons: short course and long course. short course runs roughly from september to march and long course runs from about april to august. short course meets are usually held in indoor 25 yard or meter pools and long course season holds some of the larger meets in 50 meter outdoor pools.
during the winter, around december to janurary, depending on the club, thats purely training. its where you put in the longest yardage and set a base to taper off. this is the most crucial time to be at practice because if you dont set the base, the tapering is pointless.
tapering happens around 1-2 weeks before and up until huge meets, like state or zones. tapering is the funnest part for most people because practices are way shorter yardage goes down and intervals are longer.
when you do sets, intervals are the way to make all the swimmers leave at the same time. for example, one of the sets could be 10 fifty's, and the interval for that would be on the :55, which means you do a fifty every 55 seconds.
meets can be local or sometimes can be out of town. in meets, for age group swimming, theres usually two sections-in the morning the 11 and under swimmers have there meet and in the afternoon the 12 and over have there meet. in a meet, you are assigned (but can sometimes choose) what events you swim in. depending on the pool, there are between 6 and 8 lanes. swimmers from all different clubs compete with you and you race to gain your best time, or to move up in the rankings. competitive swimming involves four strokes-the butterfly, the backstroke, the breastroke and the freestyle (front crawl). one event is also the individual medly, where you swim each of the four strokes. yardage of strokes can range from 25-1650(mile), but only 8 and under is allowed to do 25 and only 12 and under is allowed to do 50's (except for freestyle)
there are also relays, which range usually from 200-800 and consist of four swimmers who take turns swimming the respected yardage.
"events" are the groupings of races---(the girls 13-14 100 free, etc)
"heats" are the races in the events, as there are usually more swimmers that want to do the even than there is room in the lanes for one race. you are placed in a heat according to a personal best time, with other swimmers with a similar time. this is to ensure that a beginninng swimmer is not racing against a more experienced. the first heat holds the slower times, and the last heat holds the fastest times for that event.
you are ranked within your heat and also within the whole event. events like the 50 free are the most popular and therefore the hardest to gain status, but events like the 200 butterfly are usually wide open and therefore easier to move up in the rankings.
once you have been swimming for a while, you develop "your stroke" which is usually the one you are most comfortable with and do the best/fastest in. some people are butterfliers and some people are freestylers. some people also specialize in distance swimming (usually 400 or over) and some people do better in sprinting (50-200)
sprinting also requires endurance b/c you have to go all out and hold it.
hope this helps!

Answer 5

When you go to a swimming lesson, the students are divided into 4 groups. (Toddlers,Basic,Advance and Competitive). The competitives are divided into to two groups (A and B). Group A are the ones who's time is fast while Group B are the ones who's time is not that fast 🏊

Answer 6

well basically you are on a big metal block dressed in a skin tight swimsuit 20 dollar goggles and a funny looking swim cap. You jump off the block and basically try to kick the person next to you's butt. It is also the best sport ever created.

Answer 7

Competitive swimming is the greatest sport known to humankind.

Answer 8

ya swimming is the best thing NE1 has ever invented! and if you really dont no what is it is where you race a certin amount of laps and try to win the ppl you are racing aginst!

Answer 9

This is where you race against someone else and try to win, as opposed to jumping in the water and moving back and forth for exercise.

Answer 10

competative swimming is swmming against other people to try to win and get the best time