GINCANÁGUA: ASECOND TIME PROGRAM'S EVENT IN VOLTAREDONDA

Abstract

The City of Volta Redonda by the Municipal Department of Sports and Leisure (SMEL), in partnership with the Department of Education of Ministry of Sports, promote the Second Time Program (PST) in the town. The PST is designed to ensure access to sports practice to students enrolled in public elementary and middle schools of the country, having children and adolescents aged 7 to 18 years old, preferably in areas at risk and social vulnerability. In these areas are installed cores, where the students have sports and leisure activities, school and feed strengthening. One of these cores is the Municipal Aquatic Center of Volta Redonda (MAC), where students have swimming classes. The MAC's educational proposal is drafted in accordance with the principles of PST, and has as one of its objectives explore the many experiments that the aquatic environment offers, enabling the participation of the student aware of their water sport´s practice construction. In this context, it is systematic practice of PAM the realization of events as a measure of the evaluation and motivation to work. This paper aims to report the experience of the event Gincanágua, contributing to a vision of the swimming event that exceeds the traditionalism in which it is based, where most of the time, the official model of competition of the high-yield plays indiscriminately as the only way to event. In Gincanágua were explored different waterfowl skills from the capacity of swimming, because the Competitions (Clean water, Mount the word, trailer alternation and “Sonrisal” alternation) happened in the Olympic pool with a depth of 1.80 m.