A NATAÇÃO DO DESENVOLVIMENTO DAS HABILIDADES MOTORAS EM CRIANÇAS INSERIDAS NO ENSINO REGULAR

Abstract

Swimming is one of the most primitive sports, already practiced since Ancient Greece, a sport used at the time also in training soldiers and in educating the people. It effectively contributes to several aspects of human development, including learning to swim. The practice of swimming provides the student with new movements, improving balance and motor skills. When the child starts to experience the aquatic environment, he begins to know new movements, improving his psychomotor development, temporal space, balance, improving his socialization, among others. Through the research carried out by Rosa et al (2002), its objective was to verify the gain of motor skills with the constant practice of water activities, and to analyze how swimming can directly contribute to motor development in school-age children . From the reading of different materials, it was possible to verify to what extent the practice of swimming influences the motor development of children and, consequently, contributes to the development of learning to swim. It can be seen that the practice of swimming brings several benefits: it significantly contributes to organized learning, improvement in general motor coordination, physical development, increases self-esteem, reduces stress, improves interpersonal relationships.