HOPE 4

• Aquatics


  Also known as water sports, or anything played in water
• Nature of aquatic sports

  • Water sports are fun and popular forms of recreational activity
  • Activities such as going to the beach or having swimming parties are enjoyable for most people in general
  • Importance includes inculcation of competitive values, therapeutic values, psychological values, and safety
• Types of water sports

  • Sports played in water (e.g. swimming, triathlons, water gymnastics, water polo, synchronized swimming, snorkeling)
  • Underwater sports activities (e.g. scuba diving, free diving)
  • Sports played on water (e.g. boating, canoeing, dragon boat racing, rowing, kayaking, fishing, sailing, surfing, wakeboarding)
• Swimming


  The self-propulsion of a person through water or another liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival
• Triathlon


  A multiple-stage competition involving the completion of three continuous and sequential endurance disciplines (swimming, cycling, and running)
• Triathletes


  Compete for fastest overall course completion time, including timed "transitions" between the individual swim, cycle, and run components
• Water aerobics


  The performance of aerobic exercise in fairly shallow water such as in a swimming pool, done mostly vertically and without swimming typically in waist deep or deeper water, a type of resistance training
• Water polo


  A competitive team sport played in the water between two teams, consisting of four quarters, usually of eight minutes, in which the two teams attempt to score goals and throw the ball into their opponent's goal
• Synchronized swimming


  Demands advanced water skills, and requires great strength, endurance, flexibility, grace, artistry and precise timing, as well as exceptional breath control when upside down underwater
• Snorkeling


  The practice of swimming on or through a body of water while equipped with a diving mask, a shaped breathing tube called a snorkel, and usually swim fins
• Scuba diving


  A form of underwater diving where the diver uses a self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (scuba) which is completely independent of surface supply, to breathe underwater
• Freediving


  A form of underwater diving that relies on divers' ability to hold their breath until resurfacing rather than on the use of a breathing apparatus such as scuba gear
• Surfing


  A surface water sport in which the wave rider, referred to as a surfer, rides on the forward or deep face of a moving wave, which is usually carrying the surfer towards the shore
• Boat racing

  A sport in which boats, or other types of watercraft, race on water
• Dragon Boat Racing


  A human-powered watercraft, with roots in an ancient folk ritual of contending villagers, which has been held for over 2000 years throughout southern China
• Rowing


  A sport whose origins reach back to Ancient Egyptian times, involving propelling a boat (racing shell) on water using oars
• Banana boat


  An unpowered, inflatable recreational boat meant to be towed, accommodating three to ten riders sitting on a larger, main tube and resting their feet on two laterally flanking tubes which stabilize the boat
• Water skiing


  A surface water sport in which an individual is pulled behind a boat or a cable ski installation over a body of water, skimming the surface on two skis or one ski
• Sailing


  Employs the wind—acting on sails—to propel a craft on the surface of the water (sailing ship, sailboat, windsurfer, or kite surfer), over a chosen course, which is often part of a larger plan of navigation
• Fishing


  The activity of trying to catch fish, using techniques such as hand gathering, spearing, netting, angling and trapping
• Kayaking


  The use of a kayak for moving across water, distinguished from canoeing by the sitting position of the paddler and the number of blades on the paddle
• Kitesurfing


  A surface water sport combining aspects of wakeboarding, snowboarding, windsurfing, surfing, paragliding, skateboarding and sailing into one extreme sport
• Windsurfing


  A surface water sport that combines elements of surfing and sailing, consisting of a board usually 2.5 to 3 meters long, with displacements typically between 60 and 250 liters, powered by wind on a sail
• Flyboard


  A brand of hydroflighting device which supplies propulsion to drive the Flyboard into the air to perform a sport known as hydroflying
• How to Observe Personal Safety Protocol to Avoid Dehydration, Overexertion, Hypothermia, and Hyperthermia during MVPA Participation

  1. Drink fluids before, during, and after exercise to avoid dehydration

  2. Consider FITT goals to avoid overexertion

  3. Layer clothes and cover parts of the body to prevent hypothermia

  4. Stop training, bring to cooler environment, activate EMS, and give fluids to avoid hyperthermia
• Dehydration


  Loss of fluids occurs in exercise through sweat, breath, and urine, resulting in loss of coordination and fatigue
• Overexertion


  Exercise greater than the capacity of an individual to handle, can be a factor of frequency, intensity, time, and type
• Hypothermia


  Condition of low core body temperature caused by training in a cold environment, leading to shivering and cold extremities
• Hyperthermia


  Heat illness caused by losing too much water and heating up because of exercise, including heat cramps, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke