Backstroke Coordination
The last step to fully developing your back crawl is the coordination of both arm and leg...
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Backstroke Recovery
After the pull phase, proper recovery is the next phase of helping you execute the backstroke. Hand position is the most important part of the recovery in backstroke pull. Make sure your hand is exiting the water thumb first and...
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To fully develop an efficient back crawl, arm movements play a big role, and can help a swimmer move farther, faster, and more efficiently through the water. Backstroke uses a backwards arm motion to help propel the swimmer....
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After developing a streamlined body position, kicking is the second step to build a swim stroke. Kicking provides propulsion and balance support and is critical during arm recovery in back crawl. Swimmers need to know how to...
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Body position is the foundation for all swimming strokes. When correcting strokes, look at the body position because it affects all the other components of a stroke (legs, breathing, arms, and coordination). In order for a...
Read MoreFreestyle (Front Crawl)- Timing
The final step of the stroke pyramid is coordination and refinement of the whole stroke. Timing, or synchronizing upper body and lower body movements will help you coordinate all of the working pieces of the stroke. Coordinating...
Read MoreFreestyle (Front Crawl)- Power Pull
The third component of the arm movement for the freestyle stroke is the power phase. With the power phase, once your forearm is perpendicular to the bottom, you try and move this forearm in a straight line from in front of your...
Read MoreFreestyle (Front Crawl)- Pull Catch
Continuing on with the fourth step of the freestyle stroke pyramid is working on arm movements. For a freestyle or front crawl stroke the arm movements can be broken down into four sections: recovery, catch, power, and finish....
Read MoreFreestyle (Front Crawl)- Pull Recovery
The fourth step of the stroke pyramid is working on arm movements. For a freestyle or front crawl stroke the arm movements can be broken down into four sections: recovery, catch, power, and finish. The recovery phase is the...
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