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Swimming: Stroke Development Breaststroke

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Always touch the wall with both hands. Lift the knees towards the chest and place your feet on the wall after the hands make contact. Push one hand forwards cutting underwater and point this arm in the direction you wish to swim. The trailing arm will move over the water surface at which point start to push off the wall with your legs. Hold a streamline position underwater for two seconds and execute one arm stroke by pulling back past your hips then kick once as the hands are pushed to the front of the stroke. The breaststroke leg kick sends you up towards the surface, hold the stretch position until you reach the surface and resume full stroke.

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Breaststroke - Drills

Breaststroke Kick on your back with arms stretched down the pool above your headpressing over your ears in a streamlined position and looking up towards the ceiling. The knees will be kept under the water surface. Develop a symmetrical kick. This drill will help stop the knees coming forward under the body when swimming full stroke.

Breaststroke - Drills

Breaststroke Swim two kicks to every one arm pull with the second kick executed just under the water surface. This will help develop good timing, streamlining and stroke length. Simply swim one full stroke and whilst keeping your hands together in the stretched streamlined position, execute the second leg kick and repeat.

Breaststroke - Drills

Stroke Development Breaststroke

Breathing
Lifting the head clear of the water and to the
front of the stroke during the arm action and
before each kick.

Stroke Development Breaststroke

Timing
From the fully extended streamlined position the arms pull, the breath is taken, the arms begin to recover, the legs recover and kick back to the full stretch position. Pull, Breath, Kick, Stretch.

Stroke Development Breaststroke

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