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Swimming: Frontcrawl

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Kicking Action
Constant alternating leg kick using the
whole of your leg pointing your feet and
toes and creating a small splash keeping
your legs in line with the body.

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Frontcrawl:

Body Position
Lying flat and streamlined with your face in
the water in a horizontal position.

Stroke Development Frontcrawl

Frontcrawl:

Pulling Pattern
Alternating arm action placing your hand
in front pushing it back towards your thigh
close to your body past your hip and lifting
your elbow and hand out of the water to
recover the arm forward.

Stroke Development Frontcrawl

Frontcrawl - Technique:

Kick.

Alternate kick kepping in line with the body and close to the water surface. Do not kick too deep. Start the kick from the hips and use the whole of your leg through to your feet and toes with feet and toes pointing towards the opposite end of the pool. (Do not drive or strat the kick from the knees). Knees will be slightly bent with legs and feet pasing close to each other with feet creating a small amount of white water splash. Increase the speed of kick to a six beat leg kick for greater propulsion over short distances (six leg kicks to every full arm stroke cycle). The kick for distance swimmers is mainly used for balance.

Frontcrawl - Technique

Frontcrawl:

Breathing
Regular consistent breathing by controlled
turning of the head to the side.

Stroke Development Frontcrawl

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