This document provides information about the individual sport of swimming. It begins by listing the learning competencies and objectives related to understanding the nature, history, and skills of swimming. It then provides brief descriptions of the four main swimming strokes - front crawl, butterfly, breaststroke, and backstroke. The document continues with a short history of swimming from ancient times to its inclusion in the modern Olympics. It concludes with identifying common swimming equipment and their uses.

1. Individual Sports:
SWIMMING

2. Learning Competencies:
 Describes the nature and
background of the sport.
(PE7GS-Id-5)
 Executes the skills involved in
the sport. (PE7GS-Idh-4)

3. Classify whether the following sports is
Individual Sports, Dual Sports or Team
Sports.
1. Basketball
2.Swimming
3.Athletics
4.Volleyball
5.Badminton
6. Baseball
7. Football
8. Gymnastics
9. Futsal
10. Table Tennis

4. Process Questions:
•Which of these sports have been
mentioned Team sports? Dual? Individual?
•What was your basis of classifying the
sports into Team, Dual or Individual.

5. Match Column A with Column B
1. Backstroke
2.Front Crawl
3.Butterfly
4.Breast Stroke
a.
b.
c.
d.

6. HISTORY OF SWIMMING
 Swimming can be dated back to the stone
age, but did not truly become an organized
sport until the early 19th century.
 In the Pre-historic, Swimming was referred to
in Greek mythology.

7. OLYMPIC HISTORY
1896 – Swimming featured on the program of all editions of the Games.
1904 – Backstroke was added to the very first Olympic along with the
freestyle and breaststroke.
1908 – The world swimming association was introduced called Federation
Internationale de Natation (FINA)
1912 – Women’s swimming became Olympic at the Stockholm Games.
1940 – Breaststrokes discovered that they could go faster with both arms
over their heads.
1956 – The birth of Butterly whose first appearance during games in
Melbourne.

9. 4 STROKES IN
SWIMMING

10. FRONT CRAWL
CHARACTERISTICS
• Popularly known as
Freestyle.
• Fastest and most efficient
swimming technique.
PROCEDURES
1. The body is in prone
position.
2. Involves alternating over
arm strokes and the
flutter kick.
3. The head remains in the
water, the face alternating
from side to side.

11. BUTTERFLY
CHARACTERISTICS
• It is the powerful and
graceful technique.
• The most difficult and
exhausting stroke.
PROCEDURES
1. Hands enter the water
shoulder width apart.
2. Legs move in fishtail or
Dolphin kick
3. Arms move up and
downward; shoulders
rotate bringing arms
around.

12. BREAST STROKE
CHARACTERISTICS
• The slowest of the 4 official
style in competitive
swimming.
• Requires comparable
endurance and strength to
other strokes.
PROCEDURES
1. Legs remain extended
back and feet don’t start
to come up to set up to
the kick until the arms are
turning the corner to start
recovery.
2. The feet push back on the
water, arms extended in
front and the head is in
line.

13. BACKSTROKE
CHARACTERISTICS
• The only competition style
that has a different start.
PROCEDURES
1. Push off the wall on your
back, in a streamline
position. Begin several
dolphin kick prior to
rising to the surface.
2. Pull your bottom hand
through the back stroke
pull pattern as quickly as
possible.

15. ACTIVITY

16. Identify the following equipment in
Swimming in terms of its uses.
1. Keep hair away from eyes and
mouths so that swimmers can see
and breathe.
2. They protect your eyes.
3. They keep a swimmer's upper body
afloat while the swimmer works on
their kicking techniques.
4. It accurately records an athlete's
time and eliminates human error.
5. used to signal the start of the race
in athletics, swimming
A B
C
D E

17. Quiz Time!

18. See You Next Time!