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Can you swim in waves? Children´s swimming, floating and entry skills in calm and simulated unsteady water conditions
Kjendlie, Per-Ludvik; Pedersen, Tommy; Thoresen, Trine; Setlo, Trond; Moran, Kevin; Stallman, Robert Keig (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)Little is known about the transfer of swimming skills from indoor, flat, calm conditions to outdoor, wavy, unsteady conditions. The aim of the current study was to examine the differences in swimming, floating, and entry ... -
Can you swim?: an exploration of measuring real and perceived water competency
Moran, Kevin; Stallman, Robert Keig; Kjendlie, Per-Ludvik; Dahl, Dagmar; Blitvich, Jennifer; Petrass, Lauren A.; McElroy, G. Keith; Goya, Toshiaki; Teramoto, Keisuke; Matsui, Atsunori; Shimongata, Shuji (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)Little is known about the relationship between real and perceived water competence among youth in the context of drowning prevention or of their perceptions of their risk of drowning. This study reports the findings of ... -
Drag characteristics of competitive swimming children and adults
Kjendlie, Per-Ludvik; Stallman, Robert Keig (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2008-02)The aims of this study were to compare drag in swimming children and adults, quantify technique using the technique drag index (TDI), and use the Froude number (Fr) to study whether children or adults reach hull speed at ... -
Perceived versus real swimming skills of adolescents under standard and challenging conditions: Exploring water competencies as an approach to drowning prevention
Rejman, Marek; Kwaśna, Anna; Chrobot, Magdalena; Kjendlie, Per-Ludvik; Stallman, Robert Keig (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)In this study, we compared adolescents’ actual (expert assessed) front crawl swimming skills to their self-assessment in two conditions: in standard swimming (wearing a swimsuit and goggles) and in a simulated risk scenario ... -
A proposed framework for developing a plan for research in lifesaving and water safety
Stallman, Robert Keig; Kjendlie, Per-Ludvik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2008-02)In the centers for aquatic research, the infrastructure, methodology, and expertise already exist. What remains is to integrate the needs and interests of lifesaving research into these programs. Especially in physiology ... -
The relative age effect in German 11- to 18-year-old male and female swimmers
Staub, Ilka; Stallman, Robert Keig; Vogt, Tobias (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Relatively older athletes have a greater probability of being selected and subsequently exposed to a higher level of coaching, training and other talent-promoting factors. Grouping by chronological age is, therefore, ... -
Revisiting the metaphorical concept of “No Strokes First - All Strokes First”: Part one: Beginning strokes
Stallman, Robert Keig; Mwaipasi, Alexander; Horneman, Ebbe L.; Laakso, Bente W. H.; Nysted, Haakon-Paavo L.; Vikander, Nils Olof; Ongala, Toni (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The aim of this article is to address the familiar question “Which swimming stroke should be taught first?” The discussion is usually focused on breaststroke versus crawl. Provoked by these naïve discussions of which stroke ... -
"Which stroke next? All strokes next!": Part two: Strokes for intermediate and advanced swimmers
Stallman, Robert Keig; Horneman, Ebbe L.; Vikander, Nils Olof; Mwaipasi, Alexander; Laakso, Bente W. H.; Nysted, Haakon-Paavo L.; Ongala, Toni (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The primary goal of this two-part project is to answer the rhetorical question of which strokes should be taught first, and which later (Langendorfer, 2013, Stallman, 2014a). As you have seen in Part One, we emphasize (as ...