Sports activities frequently require skills and physical exertion to which a person or a team has to compete against each other for the entertainment of participants or the audience. Water sports are actually one of the least popular yet, exciting sports these days.
Let us check some of them in the next lines.
Swimming and Diving
Swimming is moving through water using your entire body. Competitive swimming is among the world’s popular sports nowadays.
Then we have diving to which is the act of plunging in water, normally off of a diving board. People are diving competitively by doing airborne acrobats before they hit the water.
Surfing
This sport lets you ride on waves. Traditionally speaking, people surf by kneeling, standing or lying on their surfboards.
On the other hand, they might surf as well with their body or otherwise known as bodysurfing or with sail attached to their board or called as windsurfing.
Competitions or tournaments take place wherever waves are being ridden. Surfers are then judged as per the size of wave, distance they’ve ridden as well as quality of their moves.
Waterskiing
This one is an activity where people are being pulled behind motorized boats with skis that are attached to their feet. The kinds of competition for such include:
- Slalom
- Trick
- Jump
- Race