Knowra Finswimming Finswimming Finswimming is a competitive aquatic sport in which athletes use monofins or bifins to move through the water. Events take place on the surface, underwater, or with breathing apparatus.
Monofin : A single wide fin worn on both feet, used with a dolphin-like undulating kick. It joins both legs into one propulsive surface in finswimming's fastest events.
Surface finswimming : A finswimming event format in which competitors remain at the water's surface and breathe through a snorkel. It is the sport's defining format for races using monofins or bifins.
World Underwater Federation : The international federation that governs underwater sports, including finswimming. Its formation provided an institutional home for the sport's international rules and events.
Competitive swimming : Organized racing in water using strokes such as freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly. Unlike standard competitive swimming, finswimming permits specialized fins as primary propulsion.
Bifins : A pair of separate fins worn on the feet for swimming with alternating kicks. They enable an alternating-kick technique in finswimming events that differs from monofin swimming.
Apnea finswimming : A finswimming race format performed underwater without breathing apparatus, after a breath-hold. It tests submerged speed and breath-hold capacity rather than surface snorkel swimming.
Underwater sports : Competitive activities conducted underwater, including finswimming, freediving, and underwater hockey. Finswimming grew within a broader organized community of underwater sports.
Snorkeling : Recreational observation of underwater environments while swimming at the surface with a mask and breathing tube. Both can use a snorkel, but finswimming is a timed competitive sport with regulated events.
Dolphin kick : A swimming kick in which both legs move together in a wave-like motion. It drives monofin swimming by transmitting body undulation through the legs to the fin.
Immersion finswimming : A finswimming format in which competitors swim underwater using compressed-air breathing apparatus. Its equipment permits submerged racing without the breath-hold constraint of apnea events.
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