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INTRODUCTION. ALMOST FORGOTTEN TERMS AND NOTIONS ANALYTICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE SPORTS SWIMMING TECHNIQUE ARCHIMEDES, NEWTON, BERNOULLI, FROUDE- REYNOLDS .... AT
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INTRODUCTION. ALMOST FORGOTTEN TERMS AND NOTIONS BABIES AND SWIMMING Staring from
the fact that the child spends his intrauterine life in an environment alike
the aquatic environment for 9 months, you may expect that at the water
contact he may show normal friendly reactions. In the case of
some inaccurate, tough handles with the child in the water (soap,
temperature, loss of a vital balance for the act of breathing) some instinctual
defense reactions can be observed. Talking about
instincts, the manifestations will not leave “traces” in the consciousness state
of the real life. These aspects
change after the age of 2 when the baby starts to understand his relations
with the environment. In these moments the baby will start to chose and if he
doesn’t like the events “offered”, our baby will become a “grown up”: vigilant,
careful, dainty or headstrong. So, “swimming
teaching” for babies under the age of 2, is an activity where instincts have
something to say. Following this
idea, we can say that the child “doesn’t learn anything” but the instincts
help him to survive even within hard tests like water immersion, changing of
the positions etc. If these
stimulus are given by care (love) and if they are not exaggerated, the child
will stay in water and the parents will believe he “learns to swim”. But it’s
not quite like that… Often, knowing
how to swim is equal to the aware and after that, automatic coordination of
the breathing during immersion or the temporary interruption of the breathing.
It means that
we are talking about an assumed, willed act. We know that when the monkey
baby falls into the water he will block his breathing for a period necessary
for his “mother” to save him. So, the advice
to take the babies to the swimming pools stand still. Environment changing
will help his harmonic development and his endurance (though the thermoregulation, as a system, is not established at
these ages). Water sessions
with “friendly” temperatures (not very hot) can become “lessons” especially
for instructor-parents who can learn the limits to go. When the power of the
instincts shows up, don’t be afraid to “condition” them a little above their
adaptation and defense capacity. “Sport” asks for some sacrifices! A “swimming
lesson” with babies under the age of 2 may have a period of 30 minutes… every
time you must do “something” more, this is the sports’ law.
(*photo Sport Unterricht,
D.Kuhlman, Munchen, 1973) © 2007 Mircea olaru, Despre inot… |
