Kian's holiday news

My Homework

On Sunday 28 December 2008 I got to do a master class with five times world champion 200m butterfly swimmer James Hicman.He gave us some good advise and some helpful hints to make us better swimmers.

He shown us how to streamline to make us go further under water,the way he explained it was a good streamline is as straight as uncooked spagetti and a bad streamline is like cooked spagetti.

Another helpful hint he told us is that when you dive if you try to go to far and you know you can't do it you'll make a big splash causing resistance in the water where as if you dive as far as you know you can the dive will be smoother causing less resistance and the quicker you will go.

A good fact he told us about the heart and lungs was that the longer you could stay underwater the stronger and healthier the heart and lungs will be.One of the older boys doing the class managed to stay underwater for 50m (2 lengths) this put James Hicman under pressure but he mangaged to do 65m!! (2 and a half lengnths.)

After the master class he answered a lot of questions and told us all about his experience when he was in the olympics.He told us to always aim high with our goals in life,he also told us that when he was in the olympics he spent a lot of time on the toilet!!!!!!!!

A great thing he taught us was how to celebrate which is very important when you achieve your goals!!!