SPEED SKATING

APOLO OHNO SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN DISQUALTHE OTHER CANADIFIED. THE CANADIAN GUY SHOULD HAVE BEEN BECAUSE HA SHOVED THE OTHER GUY AND APOLO BARELY TAPPED THE OTHER CANADIAN.

Basketball players!!

F.T.B.M.S boys.. Congratulations to all that tryed out for the team!! And for the ones who tryed out!

F.T.B. Sports Girl!!

Don't get sick. Wash your hands and do everything to not get sick.

Butterfly

Did you know that butterfly came from breaststroke. The kick consists of an up and down motion and is kind of a cross of a mermaid kick and a dolphin kick. It is actually called the dolphin kick. They are very small, very fast kicks in which you keep your legs and feet together and move them up and down. With the pull you need to make sure to lead with your wrists when you recover. When you pull down through your thigh you make an S figure with your left arm and a backwards S figure with your right arm with your elbows slightly bent. Then you snap through to your thigh from about half way through. When you recover you bring your arms out of the water and lead with your wrists and then when they are stretched out you put them back in the water keeping your elbows strait the entire time of recovery. When you do the entire stroke make sure to have only 2 dolphin kicks per stroke, 1 when your hands enter the water and 1 when your hands leave the water.

Front Crawl or Freestyle

If you don't know how to do this stroke this might help you a little.

Each arm stroke has been divided into 5 phases: (1) the entry and stretch (2) the down sweep (3) the catch (4) the insweep, and (5) the upsweep and recovery. Where the relations between armstrokes and leg kicks are concerned, swimmers use a variety of rhythms. The six-beat rhythm is most widely used . In it they use six whole leg beats during each stroke cycle. A complete leg beat includes both an upbeat and a downbeat. Other combinations of kick per stroke cycle are the two-beat, two-beat crossover, four-beat, and four-beat crossover rhythms.

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Dry-Land Time

As you might know dry-land is basically stretching. But it is really important so I will be including some of the stretches I do. I will do Dry-Land Time about once or twice a week. I will also include the name of the stretch and how to do it.


MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS
You get into push- up position (shoulders and hands should be parallel,und and elbows strait). Then you basically hop with one foot once and your foot should be parallel with your knee. Then you keep doing that alternating legs every one hop. But keep in mind, you have to keep your hands on the ground during this stretch.

About Me

Okay, you are going to know who I am so I am going to tell you.
My name is Kendyl. I swim year round. And I love salad. I used to play volley ball, then I started to swim every day, but I had to stop. I have been swimming since I was 5 or 6 years old. That's pretty much it. Now you know me.