The synchronized swimming is a sport which combines swimming,
dancing and gymnastics.
It consists in swimmers who perform some movements in
the water following the rhythm of the music.
For this sport, you need flexibility, endurance, art
and precision, and a very important thing: a control of the apnea underwater.The groups of this sport are usually duos, but there
are teams that practice this:
Nowadays some boys have begun to compete. For example
Pau Ribes, he competes with Gemma Mengual in the Spanish Championship.
The competition for swimmers who are over 18, is
divided in two parts: technical exercise and free exercise. The judges score
the technical quality, delicacy, artistic creation in sync with the music; the strength,
the height of each figure and the artistic expression with a maximum of 10
points is verified.
The swimmers may be penalized if they touch the bottom
of the pool, rest on the edges or if they show signs of fatigue and do not have
any grace or smile.
Some positions are:
Ballet
leg double position
Vertical position
Crane position
Tuck position
Vertical position
Crane position
Tuck position
Back
pike position
Tub
position
Split position
Split position
Iria P. V. 4t B
