Study of the trend of technical arrangement of free optional moves in synchronized swimming
The authors studied the technical arrangement of free optional moves of top 6 collective and double event teams in three major international synchronized swimming games held in recent 4 years,and revealed the following findings: the development of difficulty of techniques in the matching category,driving techniques and upper limb move matching techniques is the most distinct trend of the technical arrangement of free optional moves for the col-lective event nowadays;technical difficulty of synchronized swimming moves in the technical arrangement of free optional moves for the collective event is being gradually lowered,so showing technical abilities by relying simply on high difficulty synchronized swimming moves is not the mainstream in the technical arrangement of free op-tional moves for the collective event;the driving,moving and upper limb move matching techniques for the double event have become the key direction for difficulty development,and more technical contents and difficulty tech-niques in synchronized swimming are adopted for free optional moves for the double event than for the collective event.