The Effect of Special Exercises with the Overlap of Two Styles (Total and Partial) Using Aids in Learning Freestyle Skills for Beginners Aged (17-20) Years

Abstract

The teacher and trainer strive to enhance the exercise's caliber in numerous ways, such as diversifying and elongating it. Their objective is to reach the learner's optimal level of efficient and effective learning during educational or training units focusing on sports prowess. The exercise's successful design plays a major role in completing the learning process, as per the researcher's analysis. The researcher opted to overlap the total and partial methods for learning free swimming skills. Teaching free style swimming proves difficult due to a lack of appropriate teaching methods for these more challenging ages. This poses a research problem for the researcher. Young adults in their late teens to early twenties can find it daunting to learn how to swim if they were not exposed to the skill in their childhood. Their lack of familiarity with the water can easily give way to fear, making it difficult for them to break free and learn how to swim. To tackle this problem, a researcher devised special exercises that utilize both partial and total approaches to aid beginners in mastering freestyle swimming. This study aims to help those between 17 to 20 years old overcome their fear and acquire the essential skill:

1. Preparing exercises for the overlap of two styles (total and partial) using means of aid in learning freestyle skills for beginners ages (17-20) years.
2. Learning freestyle skills can be challenging, especially for beginners in the age range of 17-20. To combat this, an exercise program is being tested that involves both total and partial styles and uses aids to enhance the learning experience. The goal is to analyze the effect this program has on skill acquisition and improvement.

Using an experimental approach, the researcher identified the community and research sample of beginners aged 17-20 years, who were taking swimming courses at the Diamond Pool - Holy Karbala. Their design included a pre and post measurement format for one experimental group.