MARINE CADETS’ SWIMMING SKILLS RELIABILITY FORMATION REGARDING THEIR GENDER DIFFERENCES

The article is dedicated to the study of the features of marine cadets' swimming skills reliability formation taking into account their gender differences and different swimming classes attendance frequency (4, 6, 8, 10, 12 times a week). The aim of the study is present the designed technique for maritime cadets' swimming skills reliability formation in the course of physical education and to check its efficiency. The study involved 175 male cadets studying at the Faculty of Navigation and 116 female cadets of the Faculty of Maritime Law. The testing according to 10 indicators making up swimming skills reliability were used to obtain preliminary and final data identifying a certain degree of the respondents' swimming skills reliability. Mathematical statistics methods were applied to determine mean values of the achievements of the respondents. The experimental program consists of the following stages: 1. The stage of initial swimming training for cadets (4 compulsory classes); 2. The stage of in-depth study of swimming (up to 4 and 6 com-pulsory, additional or independent classes in the 2nd term); 3. The stage of initial improvement of swimming skills for cadets (up to 4 and 8 compulsory, additional or independent classes in the 3rd terms); 4. The stage of in-depth im-provement of swimming skills (up to 4 and 10 compulsory, additional or independent classes in the 4th term); 5. The stage of professional improvement of swimming skills for the best cadets of the experimental group (up to 12 obligato-ry, additional or independent classes; 1-4 terms, 12 lessons in each term for the swimming team). The general effect of the impact of the introduction of intensive and standard methods of conducting classes changed the level of swimming skills reliability in the male cadets in the following way: a very low level was decreased in the number of persons by 13%, low – by 12%, although the average level was increased in the number of persons by 15%, high – by 5%, the highest one - by 5%. In the female cadets, the very low level was decreased by 12%, low - increased by 3%, average – increased by 5%, high – increased by 3%, the highest – increased only by 1%. The efficiency of the technique of the swimming skills reliability formation could be observed in 50% of male cadets and 24% female cadets, thus it can be used by coaches to increase their students' swimming skills reliability.