本学海浜実習における着衣泳体験とその必要性について  [in Japanese] The Necessity of Dressed Swimming In Seashore Swimming Practice  [in Japanese]

The purpose of this study was to examine the necessity of dressed swimming of students who participated in seashore swimming. This study compared the change of their knowledge before and after dressed swimming experience. The subjects were 262 male and female students from J University who participated in seashore swimming practice. Most of these groups experienced dressed swimming for the first time. The results were as follows. 1) In experiencing dressed swimming, they felt that it became difficult because of the clothes and shoes.As a result, they felt anxiety and were extremely cautions about falling into the water While the clothes were worn. 2) Thorough practicing dressed swimming using that clothes or pet bottles, they acquired ways of dealing with falling into the water. 3) They tried swimming the crawl, backstrokes, breaststroke, butterfly, elementary back stroke while the clothes were worn. As a result, they recognized that the breast stroke or elementary back stroke ware easiest for swimming while wearing clothes. From those results, it seemed that they recognized the need to experience dressed swimming. Therefore, It is suggested that practice in dressed swimming should be included as a part of swimming instruction, in order to prevent water accidents.