My major sport is definitely SWIMMING. I love to move in the water… You feel free, well I feel free there.
Since my childhood, I prefer the water than any other type of sport. I practiced it a lot, during a certain period even in an association where we got the opportunity to participate in small competition. I like to swim against others, because in that way, you can see if you are good, better or just in the middle-class of swimmers. But there are also some other reasons why I am so inspired by swimming…With swimming, I can forget for a certain period of time everything around me. At this moment – being in the water, looking for a free place or fighting sometimes even for it – all my power will be focused on the swimming lane and my objective to do at least 3.000 meter of laps.
Swimming: More than flounder about in the water
Swimming is a sport which can be much diversified. There are at least four different strokes: the breaststroke, the freestyle, the backstroke and finally the butterfly. Each stroke has its positive and negative points, but which one would be the best four you depends on your objective. Why do you want to swim? Just for the pleasure or on a professional level? In my opinion, for those who want rather do some sport the breaststroke would be the best style. But if you want to do it more seriously, all four strokes are possible.
Personally, I especially prefer the freestyle as swimming style. It is definitely my favorite… I think it is a good way for moving fast – as a sprinter – but also for having a good endurance for longer distances – as an endurance swimmer.
Water sports on the web
As I searched a little bit on the web, I found a blog of someone who seems to be also a passionate swimmer as I am. That’s why I chose his article about “Distance vs. Sprinting” for giving you a deeper impression of this domain.
Even if probably the majority think that there are lots of differences between a distance swimmer and a sprinter, the author of this article doesn’t see it so. According to him there is no such a big difference… with remarks like “both need a large amount of time commitment and dedication”, “no one type is easier than the other” and “they require the same amount of training at the same amount of difficulty”, he underlines this opinion. But in the following, the reader learns some details of each stroke, so that it is clear that they are finally different…and that concerns not only the time of being in the water. For getting further information, don’t hesitate to read on your own the article on the following website:
http://esawka.wordpress.com/2008/12/07/distance-vs-sprinting/
Live the element of water
To sum up, we can say that swimming is a hard sport, but if you do it with passion and dedication it can be a real way of life. Personally, after having done my lanes, I am happy and proud of me with the good feeling of having done something, so that I can’t wait for the next time for being wet like a fish…
And if this little comment on swimming inspired you, go on the following link for getting the news of the wet world:
http://www.swimnews.com/News/view/6571
