CHARACTERISTICS OF MODERN SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING AS A SPORT

The purpose of our work was to characterize modern synchronized swimming as a sport and identify trends in its further development. To achieve this goal, a summary review of the materials of scientific research by domestic and foreign scientists and specialists and their own pedagogical experience was used. Synchronized swimming is distinguished by the artistry and expressiveness of competitive programs, due to the integration of swimming with elements of dance, ballet and gymnastics in their content; coordination complexity and stereotypical forms of movements and their combinations; participation of proprioceptive, visual, auditory, vestibular and tactile afferent systems in their operation; performing movements in an aquatic environment, in areas of maximum and submaximal power; synchronicity of movements of a group of athletes; the interplay between the rhythm of movements and the tempo of music. The criteria for the effectiveness of the technique in synchronized swimming are an economical and logical sequence of connecting elements in an arbitrary program and a competent tempo-rhythmic structure of the execution of mandatory figures. The judges evaluate performance, artistic impression and complexity. The main trends in the development of synchronized swimming include increasing the complexity and originality of compositions through the mandatory inclusion of risky acrobatic elements that involve balancing without taking off from the support. A special place in group programs is occupied by outliers and supports, which give the program entertainment and influence the evaluation of competitive programs by the judges. The complication of arbitrary programs occurs due to the inclusion of elements from all figures approved by FINA, the compilation of whole figure modifications from them, as well as from new elements and their organic compounds in combination. There is a contrasting distribution of complex elements throughout the program, a tendency to have several peaks of high technical complexity of the program.

synchronized swimming, development trends, acrobatic elements, competitive programs, coordination complexity, competition rules

Turkina D. A., Beloglazova Yu. V., Drandrov G. L. Characteristics of modern synchronized swimming as a sport. Biznes. Obrazovanie. Pravo = Business. Education. Law. 2023;4(65):260—264. DOI: 10.25683/VOLBI.2023.65.778.