Artistic Swimming Explained – Swim England Artistic Swimming Hub https://www.swimming.org/artistic-swimming Home of the sport of artistic swimming in England Tue, 09 Jul 2024 14:05:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.1 Artistic Swimming Technical Routines https://www.swimming.org/artistic-swimming/artistic-swimming-technical-routines/ https://www.swimming.org/artistic-swimming/artistic-swimming-technical-routines/#respond Wed, 07 Dec 2016 12:01:54 +0000 https://www.swimming.org/synchro/?p=1575 Artistic swimming technical routines are a core element of most senior synchro competitions. The technical routine involves performing five predetermined elements, executed in a specific order. Technical routines are not commonly held for junior or age group events. Instead, figures competitions are held to test swimmers’ execution of certain artistic swimming moves. In domestic competitions, … […]

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]]> https://www.swimming.org/artistic-swimming/artistic-swimming-technical-routines/feed/ 0 https://d1s9j44aio5gjs.cloudfront.net/2016/12/synchronised_swimming_technical_routines.jpg Artistic Swimming Moves https://www.swimming.org/artistic-swimming/artistic-swimming-moves/ https://www.swimming.org/artistic-swimming/artistic-swimming-moves/#respond Thu, 01 Dec 2016 12:02:11 +0000 https://www.swimming.org/synchro/?p=1577 Artistic swimming routines are essentially a series of athletic movements performed in water and choreographed to music. There are a huge range of artistic swimming moves used by swimmers to impress the judges. These are called figures and are typically movements between one or more of the 19 basic artistic swimming positions. The majority of … […]

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]]> https://www.swimming.org/artistic-swimming/artistic-swimming-moves/feed/ 0 https://d1s9j44aio5gjs.cloudfront.net/2016/12/synchro_moves_introduction_to_figures.jpg Artistic Swimming Free Routines https://www.swimming.org/artistic-swimming/artistic-swimming-free-routines/ https://www.swimming.org/artistic-swimming/artistic-swimming-free-routines/#respond Wed, 07 Dec 2016 12:01:39 +0000 https://www.swimming.org/synchro/?p=1573 Artistic swimming free routines are a performed at nearly all synchro competitions. In domestic competitions, free routines are introduced at Level 3 events, while they are held at all international competitions, right up to the Olympic Games. Unlike technical routines, artistic swimming free routines have no required elements to perform, meaning there is a much … […]

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]]> https://www.swimming.org/artistic-swimming/artistic-swimming-free-routines/feed/ 0 https://d1s9j44aio5gjs.cloudfront.net/2016/12/synchro_young_team_lift.jpg Artistic Swimming Presentation https://www.swimming.org/artistic-swimming/artistic-swimming-presentation/ https://www.swimming.org/artistic-swimming/artistic-swimming-presentation/#respond Thu, 01 Dec 2016 12:06:54 +0000 https://www.swimming.org/synchro/?p=1583 One of the unique and most recognisable things about artistic swimming is the athletes’ costumes, make-up and presentation. Artistic swimmers will often wear elaborate costumes which, while they do not count towards any of the scoring, should complement the music selection and be in good moral taste. Presentation marks are affected by swimmers’ facial expressions … […]

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