Swimming
Swimming is the greatest sport in the world, there are different strokes like Butterfly, Backstroke, Breaststroke and Freestyle. It is in triathlon’s as the the first event. Every lane pool needs to at least have 25 metres to hold swimming meets. Swimming can be done anywhere in the world but some places not as warm as others. On the West Coast the sea temperature is: max is 15.7*C, average is 13.8*C and the min is 12.8*C.
You should do swimming because it is a great way to get fit and healthy, you can meet new friends that can teach you new things. There are swimming meets you can enter to get ribbons and medals, then you could qualify for Country And Town where you can get all of of those things and trophies.
You can learn how to swim by taking swim lessons and once you finish that then you could move up to swimming clubs and that's when you can get all of those things and after that you could head to the Olympics. For training in Greymouth Swim Club for the groups 2 and down you train 3 hours a week but for the top group it’s 5 and ½ hours.
You can become a pro by practising hard and always turning up to practice working hard on your strokes and giving up other passions to get where you want to go in swimming. Millions of people do it around the world.
I hope this encourages you to go out and give swimming a try, but why are you still here when you could be swimming!
By Pippa
Yr 5
