RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES f) Hobby & collecting: bowling,

 From the term recreation meaning

tennis. Billard, fishing
relaxing or denoting activity done for
enjoyment when one is not working.
 Time spent on an activity one loves to RECREATIONAL OUTDOOR
engage in. ACTIVITIES
 gives people the benefit of a positive
change from stereotypical lifestyles.  Mountaineering
 Also help develop leadership skills and  also known as mountain
interpersonal skills. climbing, it is a sport of reaching
or trying to reach high points in
mountainous areas.
Scope of Recreation:  joy of climbing
 INDOOR ACTIVITIES  involves walking or traveling
a) Games and sports: Chess, long distances thru trail signs.
parlor games
b) Dance Activities: stop dance, a) Orienteering
trip to Jerusalem  Learners find their way to
c) Music Activities: singing, various checkpoints across rough
instrumental playing country with the aid of a map
d) Drama activities: story telling, and compass
comedy skits
e) Arts & Crafts: origami, pop-up b) Camping
cards  Outdoor activity living in a
f) Hobby & collecting: cooking, campsite
dancing, stamp collections,
antique collection. c) Trekking
 exhilarating outdoor activity that
involves long-distance
 OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES walking through various
a) Games and sports: dual and terrains.
team sports
b) Dance Activities street dancing d) Hiking
and aerobics  day-long walk on established,
c) Music Activities: singing easily accessible trails.
contest during fiesta
d) Nature & Outdoor: camping,
hiking field trips, picnic, Tools & Proper Equipment
excursions  Tents
e) Arts & Crafts: painting,  Backpacks
drawing  Orienteering compass
 Camping stove  Learn to swim (infants, all ages,
 Cook set adults)
 climbing  Specialties such as scuba,
lifeguarding, instructor courses
in swimming
 AQUATICS  Water exercise, lap swimming,
 Outdoor sports include bodies of aquatic therapy
water.

a) Diving BENEFITS
- exploring underwater  Increase longevity
environments.  Become more physically fit
 Joint friendly aerobic activity
b) Aqua Zumba
 Rehabbing from injury and
 combines the joy of dancing
illness
with the refreshing
 Decrease risk of illness
experience of being in the
water.
10 AQUATIC ACTIVITIES
c) Snorkeling
 explore the underwater world  Wakeboarding
while floating on the surface. • Sailing
• Skim Boarding
Tools & Proper Equipment  White Water Rafting
 Goggles
 Snorkels • Diving
 Dive mask • Surfing
• Water Skiing
AQUATIC RECREATIONAL • Standup Paddleboarding
ACTIVITIES
• Kitesurfing
 In or somehow related to water
activities is an educational task  Canyoneering
that involves direct experience
and participation of a student

TYPES
  SWIMMING
10 AQUATIC SPORTS
 Rafting - Propelling the body in the water
through movements of legs and
• Canoeing
arms while floating.
• Kitesurfers - Participants followed structured
• Wakeboard guidelines

• Fly board
• Water Skiing  KAYAKING
- Propelling a small boat
• Wave ski (kayak)by paddling a double-
• Surfing bladed oar paddle
- Can be done in almost any body
• Bodyboard of water
• Dive - Can accommodate one or
sometimes two paddler
- When loaded kayak “sits” low on
AQUATIC RECREATIONAL water
ACTIVITIES
As the country is surrounded by  SURFING
and filled with various bodies of - Includes a person (surfer)
water, Filipinos have a variety of “riding” ocean wave using a
water forms where they can surfboard.
engage in water-based recreational - Surfer rides on the forward face
activities. The Philippines over 7 of a moving wave which carries
100 Islands boast of beaches him toward the shore.
lakes, rivers, and other forms, not - Can use ocean, river, and
of mention hundreds of artificial waves.
swimming pools that have
become quite accessible in many
cities and provinces. Considering  WATERBOARDING
this abundance of natural and man- - Involves a person
made bodies of water, it is not (wakeboarder) moving over the
surprising that may Filipinos surface of a body of water while
choose to engage water-based riding a special board called
recreational activities. wakeboard.
- Wakeboarder techniques can be Varieties:
towed by a motor board or a
- Spearfishing
close-cable system.
- Free diving photography
- A growing sport in the
- Underwater football
Philippines and world involving it
- Underwater football
in the 2020 Olympic games in
Tokyo.
 SCUBA DIVING (recreational)
- Purpose of leisure and
enjoyment.
 SNORKELING
- Uses basic equipment only
- Swimming through bodies of
- Does not require special training
water wearing a mask and a
- Involves use of breathing system
tube.
(self-contained underwater
- Swim only near the water
breathing apparatus)
surface allowing to breath your
mouth whilst floating underwater
1. BREATHING
- Overlooked basic skill but an
 WATER AEROBICS
important one.
- Aerobic exercises done in water
- Breathe out underwater and
- People perform in a shallow part
breathe in when lifting your head
of a swimming pool
and putting your face back
- Some exercise are done in waist-
down.
high water while some are done
neck-high water.
- Promotes low-impact
2. FLOATING
movements and blood flow
- Help in getting used to the habit
- This prevents overheating of the
of moving through water
body
property.
- Helps in keeping your body on
the surface of the water in a
 FREE DIVING
horizontal position by relaxing
- Individual performing
and floating with gentle arm
underwater relies on his ability
and leg movements.
to hold his breath underwater
- Two types are back floating
until resurfacing.
and front floating.
- Does not involve use of any
breathing apparatus.
 Back Floating with arms
- Also considered as both sport
extended
and recreational activity.
- Lie back on the water while your - Legs are drawn up toward the
arms and legs are spread out. body and spread outward at the
 Back floating in a T-position knees with the feet together and
- Lie back on the water while then extended or straightned
making the shape of the letter T. outward the legs apart and then
brought together again with a
snip.

3. YOUR BODY MOVEMENT

 Dolphine Kick
SHOULD BE WELL CO-
- Involves up and down
ORDINATED
movements of the legs an lower
- All body parts should be well
trunk together with the knees
coordinated with each other.
bent in the upswing.
- Must able to move the muscles
of your lower back , abdomen,
and hips in a synchronized way
5. BUTTERFLY STROKE
to keep moving forward.
- Advance stroke requiring
- Hand should move and cut
strength and coordination.
through the water first, followed
by elbow and then the body
should make a way through the PREPARING TO SWIM
water
- You need to know what to do
before and after swimming.
4. KICKING
- Helps body to move in the
forward direction. TWO TYPES OF SWIMMING
- Some coaches uses kick boards POOL LENGTH
to support swimmer’s body. - 50 m
- 25m
 Flutter Kick
- Used in freestyle stroke
- Legs are extended straight back
and moved up and down
alternately with a slight knee
bend on the upward
movement.

 Frog Kick