A comparative analysis of technical difficulty of free routines between chinese and world top synchronized swimmers

Introduction

The abstract is intended to explore the new trend of synchronized swimming and expose the existing problems in the aspects of the degree of technical difficulty of Chinese synchronized swimming free routines through a comparative analysis of the degree of technical difficulty of free routines used by the first eight winners in the synchronized swimming solo, duet and team events in the 9th World Swimming Championships and the 8th China National Games. The aim is to find out the problems for reference in training and technical choreography.

Methods

Observation, Statistics and Comparison

Results

The result indicates that Chinese synchronized swimmers have lagged far behind the world top swimmers. The latter obviously take a lead in several aspects, such as more movements with superior difficulty, innovation of the degree of figure difficulty, diversity and comprehensiveness of technical difficulty in single, continuous movement and entire figures, the degree of difficulty intensified through repetition of a single movement, clear definition of strength and tempo, flawless integration of difficulty with tempo.

Discussion / Conclusions

It can be concluded (1)(3) that the developing trend of the world synchronized swimming free routines reflects the following characteristics: continuous increase of the degree of difficulty in single, continuous movement and entire figures, diversity and comprehensiveness of superior difficulty and technical difficulty intensified, focus on flawless integration of strength with tempo and difficulty with tempo. It is worth noting that the above is just what the Chinese swimmers require to improve in addition to lack of originality and poor endurance.

References

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