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• Self propulsion of a person through water or other liquid for survival, recreation, sport, exercise or other reason.

  Swimming
• • Achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs, the body or both.

  Locomotion
• Swimming is the perfect example of a sport, leisure and fitness activities into one and is open to all.
• Early man probably learned swimming by observing animals that used a running motion to move about on or in water.
• Water is an unnatural medium for humans because it interferes with the breathing mechanism unlike animals, they are usually better equipped anatomically for swimming. Humans can’t easily keep the nose above the water while horizontal
• As early as 900 B.C., carvings have been found, showing people swimming. Human civilization near bodies of water have traces of great feats of swimming
• a German professor who wrote the first book on swimming.?

  Nicolaus Wyman (1538)
• a Frenchman who wrote a book more on scientific treatise.?

  M. thevenont (1696)
• Swimming was also one of the most viewed in Summer Olympics, even in the beginning of the first modern olympic.
• Is the national governing body for swimming and other aquatic sports in the Philippines.?

  Philippine Swimming Incorporated
• Is the governing body for the sport of swimming in the world and the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC). Fina accredited the PSI.?

  International Swimming Federation (Fédération Internationale de Natation or FINA)
• The overseas international aquatics competition in Asia, and is affiliated to the Olympic Council of Asia and to FINA.

  Asia swimming federation