Swimming as the means of developing personality

Besides the health preserving functions of swimming it has several other positive effects. The harmonious, graceful and collated motions are required. When teaching swimming it is also required that students should be informed about the rules, the national and international sports results of swimming. Swimming improves self-confidence, stamina, brevity, will-power, tolerating pain and realistic self-assessment. All the personal features are crucial for being able to fit into society and to create the optimal conditions for our life. These qualities are such complex physiological and psychological phenomena that are the basis of fitness and stamina (monotony endurance, maintaining interest and attention). Without all these swimming from wall to wall cannot be put up with. Most researchers lay emphasis on developing self- assurance, self-confidence and adaptability. Regular swimming trainings will provide opportunities for students to get into touch with others, play, offer help, observe their trainers’ work and methods, evaluate their partners, trainers as well as their own achievements. Students shape each other mutually, that is, the “social regulatory factors” improve children’s interactions among each other. As soon as children get into a community, either it is at school, in a swimming pool or in competitive sports; accept the teachers’ and instructors’ leading positions, in other words, they are under the “control of authority”. It is age-related and its development overlaps with starting swimming. Children can get easily used to swimming even at a very early age. In this period of their life they are very sensitive to the leadership style of their trainers. Learning swimming is not just acquiring the ability to use few motions one after the other but it is such a complex pedagogical system within which the qualities of children’s personality will be developed.