Course: swimming

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Course title swimming
Course code KTV/PLS
Organizational form of instruction Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements Course does not contain work placement
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Kuprová Klára, PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Repetition of correct execution of breaststroke and basic swimming skills. 2. Repetition of the correct execution of backstroke and backstroke swimming. 3. Non-competitive swimming methods - side, backstroke. 4. Ways of immersion. "Treading Water". Swimming underwater. Leap into unknown water. 5. Helping a tired swimmer - individuals, pairs. Hunting items. Improving swimming skills. 6. Overweight, dragging the drowning, pulling out of the water. Swimming over obstacles and with weights. 7. Endurance swimming. 8. Swimming with a handicap (visual, hearing,...). Specifics of swimming for different groups of people (pregnant women, seniors, children). 9. Specifics of medical swimming (post-operative, acute and chronic conditions). The drowning rescue complex. 10. Endurance training. 11. Applied swimming activities - aqua aerobics, water polo. 12. Games in water - chases, game exercises in pairs, in teams, in a team. 13. Jumping into the water. 14. Fulfillment of credit requirements.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Motoric and practical working skills training
  • Preparation for credit - 40 hours per semester
  • Class attendance - 28 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The teaching is focused on advanced swimming training, endurance training and rescuing drowning people. The student will learn about the preparation and organization of swimming competitions.
The student masters all swimming techniques and rescue of drowning people.
Prerequisites
The student masters the technique of swimming styles.

Assessment methods and criteria
Student's performance analysis

80% active attendance at exercises is required. Fulfillment of practical requirements: 1) rescue of a drowning swimmer - rescue action without swimming goggles at 50 m; 2) start by falling backwards to swim 200 m crawling and meet the limit: men 5:30 and women 6:00.
Recommended literature
  • COUNSILMAN, J. E. Závodní plavání. 1. vyd.. Praha: Olympia, 1974.
  • ČECHOVSKÁ, I., JURÁK, D., POKORNÁ, J. Plavání: pohybový trénink ve vodě. Praha: Karolinum, 2018. ISBN 80-2464-03-41.
  • ČECHOVSKÁ, I., MILER, T. Didaktika plavání: vybrané kapitoly.. Praha: Karolinum, 2019. ISBN 978-80-246-4283-3.
  • DRAGOUN, M. a KUPROVÁ, K. Plavecký způsob prsa - 1. část. TUL, 2022. ISBN 978-80-7494-582-3.
  • DRAGOUN, M. a KUPROVÁ, K. Plavecký způsob prsa - 2. část. TUL, 2022. ISBN 978-80-7494-589-2.
  • HOFER, Z. Technika plaveckých způsobů.. Praha : Karolinum, 2000. ISBN 80-246-0169-9.
  • Pravidla plavání. Pravidla plavání - novela 2017.


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