Articles of category "Synchronized swimming scoring"

Synchronized swimming is a very interesting and attractive sport. Judges scrutinize each routine for artistic creativity, skill and level of difficulty. There is a special system of points that judges give to swimmers for technique and artistic skills. But there are also special swim penalties. In the technical routine, swimmers can acquire swim penalties for something as simple as raising their heads out of the water at the wrong time. There are pretty simple and also serious offences penalties for both technical and free routines.

Synchronized swimming is a sport that has already been known for about a century. The score making system of synchronized swimming is pretty close to figure skating as long as artistic skills of swimmers have to be judged. The process of scoring includes several different stages - there is a technical part and so-called free part of the program. So, in most competitions, a computer is used for getting the total sum of the points.