32410 - Theory and Didactics of Swimming and Underwater Sports

Learning outcomes

The course aims to provide students with scientific knowledge and appropriate teaching for understanding, designing and carrying out physical activity in aquatic environmental. With depth for specific disciplines and Rescue Diving.

Course contents

Studies related to the differences between the movement within terrestrial and aquatic and the different methods of intervention, with specific reference to swimming. The course contents are divided into four areas:
1. Social and various water activities
2. Biomechanics and Physiology
3. Teaching / Technique of Swimming
4. Rescue and Diving
Social area and other water activities
* Learning to swim
* History
* Social and cultural aspects of swimming
* The swimming today and swimming for all
* Different types of physical activities in water
* Water Polo / Synchronised swimming
* Finswimming
* The water gymnastics / Stroke Water / Water-Bikes
* The rehabilitation techniques in water
* Recreational and professional

Area biomechanical and physiological
* The aquatic environment
* Differences between the terrestrial and aquatic motor
* The floating
* The movement in the water and the propulsion
* The resistance
* The mathematical models of swimming
* Physiological aspects of motor activity in water
* Aspects healthy preventive and rehabilitative aspects

Teaching Area / Technique
* The teaching of swimming
* Models and educational values
* The water movement patterns and development of water movement
* The organization of the course and swimming lesson
* The methodology of the various stages of
* The evaluation and the correction mode in swimming teaching
* The swim elementary
* Technical analysis of competitive swimming
* Turns and dives starting
* Analysis of the race
* The exercises of specific coordination
* The evaluation and the correction mode in competitive swimming
* The efficiency and effectiveness swim
* Technical regulations

Area Rescue and Diving
* The rescue as a social activity
* Protocols of conduct
* Swimming rescue techniques
* Rehabilitation Techniques
* Psychological aspects of the dive
* Disability and Diving
* Teaching dive
* Free diving techniques and equipment
* Physiology of diving

Readings/Bibliography

Notes or the teacher
Swimming Even Faster Maglischo of EW, Mayfield Publishing Company 1993
Swimming - Handbook of Sports Medicine and Science of Stäger JM, Tanner DA, Blackwell Science Publishing,
The new Science of Swimming Counsilman of JE, Consilman BE, Prentice-Hall, New Jersey 1994

Teaching methods

Lectures are planned with technical aids for teaching and participation in expert speakers to call for the theory. Practical activity in water led to exercise qualified.
And 'compulsory 70% attendance at lectures of the course (both in theory and in practice).

Assessment methods

The level of preparation by students will be assessed by an oral and work tests.

Teaching tools

films and slides

Office hours

See the website of Giorgio Gatta

See the website of Matteo Cortesi