MY FAVORITE SPORT - SWIMMING

Hello viewers, do you like being fit, if you do , you do this by exercising and mostly playing sports, so I am going to tell you about my favorite sport; swimming.

     I really love swimming, more than soccer, because I started do the sport ever since I have been 5 years and I have been training for up to five years now. Sometimes I wish that I started since I was a baby so that I will be training in the squad before I go to boarding school.

Right now, I am in the junior squad of Ikoyi club. As soon as I got there I was in the last group or in 3^rd group and then after some time I got to 2^nd group then my coach, coach tuff, started timing how long it takes us to swim from the deep side to the shallow side. Soon, I got much faster and went to 1^st group, 1^st group is always made up of the six fastest people present in the squad, because they are six lanes.

     They are so many things I have and need for the squad, the things are alignment board, swimming talker, flippers, snorkel, goggles and a as Coach swimming cap. The pictures of them are below to see them well just zoom out and they are very useful to use you know      When I was little I was afraid to swim in deep pools and even when I started swimming in the deep side, I was using a kickboard to swim from the deep side to the shallow side more than once. 

The name of one of my previous coach is Coach Abola, he wasn’t as strict as coach tuff. When I was swimming in the more shallow pool, I was really wishing I was in the swimming squad. Thus I trained very hard to become faster and faster and then finely, since last year on March, I have been in the squad. This is how it happened

a.     First, I was walking into Ikoyi club after some months that coach Tuff was training me and then I saw the squad getting ready to swim and then she told me to join them.

b.    When I joined , I had to line up on one of the lines( because they were six lanes and six lines)the key was that a vertical line represents a lane while a horizontal represents a group, the groups were 3^rd, 2^nd and 1^st group, the group you are in depends on your stamina( meaning-how fast you swim), technic(meaning- how well you swim as well) and behavior.  I have been there for a long time.

Contributed by:

Otitochukwu Eberendu

Class 5Red