Synchronized swimming movement origins

Synchronized swimming is the women's sports. Originally for swimming competition intermittent when water performance project. By swimming, skills, dance and music arrangement and become, have "water ballet," said. Synchronized swimming is one of the artistry of elegant sports, it also requires strength and skill, need many years of constant training to control. There are ten referee attention they each movement, playground must make many groups may nominate, spin, bending, all these movements are not by the bottom of the ground. Even without breathing condition under stretching, routine lasts five minutes, simultaneously performance. Even in the most intense routine requirements, water ballet athletes also strive to maintain easily imagine.

Synchronized swimming originated in Europe, 1920 synchronized swimming founder Curtis (Katherine Curtis) will diving and gymnastics tumbling action layout complete performance in water. But after 1930 to the United States and Canada, in the original foundation again gradual deserve to music and dance, the rhythm. At first only as two games swimming of games between entertainment, then gradually into the dance and music, become a beautiful water competitive projects.

1934 in Chicago world fair.how held on the first performance, thus makes its reputation big noise. (but has some refereeing opposition!) Founded in 1937 exam sandhust world first synchronized swimming club. In 1942 American amateur sports federation confirm synchronized swimming as official event. 1952 was an Olympic performance project. In 1956 to receive international swimming federation admitted. 1973 held the 1st session of the world synchronized swimming championships. 1984 the 23rd Los Angeles Olympic Games, became the Olympic game project, single and double two in 1984, synchronized swimming was classified as official event, a women's synchronized and group two gold MEDALS. Synchronized swimming countermeasure in China for a short time, still belongs to the early stage. From 1983 began, China has invited to Japan, America, Canada and other countries experts in China etc. August 1984 held the first synchronized swimming championships. In 1987 the 26th Olympic Games listed them as official event. The United States and Canada since establishment synchronized swimming hitler-stalin carve-up of Olympic Games since the first four games, but with all the gold MEDALS in the main in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics after retirement, Russia and Japan debut, and in the 1998 world championships in soil. China, France and Italy in this project also made rapid progress. In Asia, China on this project obvious advantages, Japan, South Korea will bring some challenges to China, gold at will be China synchronized swimming athletes goals.

Technical movements

Conventional technical movement requirement is strictly. Although athletes can choose their own music accompaniment, but they must, in accordance with regulations make a set of movements combination. Designated action by water ballet movement every four years technical committee start afresh. An athlete must be completed within 10 seconds routine, duo will be completed in 20 seconds, a big group in two points completed in 50 seconds.

Eight people group and in the free performances twosome choose their own music and movement. Their goal is to create a set of movements, this movement is creative and can be identified, this combination should also include of difficult movements. A set of such combination should contain emotions and speed change, and innovation movement complex combination and combination changes, still have the spectacular action. Free performances of time: twosome four minutes, eight groups of 5 minutes.

The water stay

In all of the movement of athletes have 10 seconds to float on water, if athletes choose it. This movement is ok to give the referee and audience a good impression. Although this movement is not covered by scoring range, but it can make a good first impression.

Technical value

Technical value is to see athletes doing special movement of the completed. It includes three parts: executive, coordination, difficulty.

Execution: executive should see swim way, promoting skills and forms. Athletes in the water should be easily do the action. The referee will see athletes endurance, one of the top athletes from beginning to end game should maintain a high quality swim delimit manner and excellent use propulsion skills, while their tricks at the end of the race should also like start as a simple and have difficulty.

Coordination: in this respect, the referee should see athletes and team mate and coordination of music. Eight groups or twosome members should be in action, location and transposition keep harmonious. They both in the water or underwater action compatible.

Difficulty: considering the difficulty when referee see athletes in skill and strength. The referee will see athletes in the water YouFa, figure of difficulty. Another consideration is "the element of risk" - athletes in the competition to show have difficulty considerable skill.

Artistic impression

Artistic impression refers to a combination of integral feeling action. Judge artistic impression referee combination of creative movement observation athletes and diversity. They want to see the coherence and motion athletes action whether express music performance mood changes.