The effect of using an innovative aid in teaching belly crawl swimming for beginners at ages (8-10) years

تأثير استخدام كرسي المشي للمسنين في تعليم سباحة الزحف على البطن للمبتدئين بأعمار (8-10) سنوات

Abstract

The research aims to identify the effect of using the innovative aid (the hanging jacket) in teaching belly crawl swimming for beginners. The researcher used the experimental method and selected  the research sample in a deliberate manner for one of the summer courses for the swimming pool of schools and Shaq Al-Mada’in Al-Ahlia schools, at ages of 8-10 years per 16 learners , divided into two groups, one of which is experimental (8) learners who used the aid  means (the hanging jacket), which the learner wears on  chest and attached to the back with Rubber ropes connected to an iron pulley suspended by a metal wire fixed to both sides of the pool and at a height of 1.5 meters from the surface of the water, and the other control group (8) learners who did not use the aid means. The homogeneity of the sample was verified and the equivalence  (age, height, weight ,  while three tests were used to determine the effectiveness of the educational method in the process of teaching belly crawl swimming, which are (standing in the water for 20 seconds), (the alternate leg shots and progress in the water for a distance of 15 meters) and (swimming for a distance of 15 metres). The use of an educational program for crawl swimming unified for the two groups with 12 educational units distributed over four units per week, the duration of one educational unit is 60 minutes. The researcher reached a set of conclusions, which are the presence of significant differences between the experimental and control groups and in favor of the experimental group in all tests, the effectiveness of the means Helping to remove the fear factor and speed in learning to crawl swimming for beginner learners.