Skills:
The basic skills you need to know to be good at swimming are
• Positioning: You need positioning because you need to position yourself on your own lane, and you need to have your body in the best swimming position to stop drag and increase your speed. To do this your body has to be straight and long, parallel to the surface water, as you swim. • Strokes/movement: You need to know the freestyle, backstroke, Breastroke and butterfly because these are the main strokes and you need to do these strokes in medley in a specific order.
• Rotation: To swim faster you need to grab the water then press and you must add body rotation.
• Pressing: You must press on the water with the largest muscles. For most swimmers it is the muscles in your chest and back, not in your arms or shoulders.
• Grab/catch: You must grab or catch the water so you can push yourself forward with your muscle power. To do this you should imagine as if you are grabbing food. This way, you go faster.
Technique:
• Position. Your position is vital because it helps you swim faster and it reduces drag and increases your speed. You can do this by Imaging that you are swimming in a long tube. Keep yourself in that tube as you move forward. You might use a gentle kick, it may require looking a little more backwards than down, but practice your positioning.
• Strokes: Strokes are vital because they help you swim and move in the water. I am going to describe the
backstroke and how you do it. The backstroke is easier than the butterfly or breaststroke and similar to the front crawl. The two keys to a proper backstroke are (1) that your arms move with equal strength, otherwise you will swim off to one side, and (2) that your body rolls from side to side so that your arms catch enough water to propel you forward.
• Rotation. This is important because when your arm is grabbing the water, your body is rotated so that the grabbing arm is under water and the opposite side is above water or at least closer to the water's surface than the grabbing arm. You can improve your rotation by imaging a string going from your hip to your palm. Move your hip to start and press by pulling on that string when the hip begins to rotate from a deeper position to a shallower position.
• Pressing. This is important because it helps you move faster and when you pres on water your back and chest muscle pull your arm from front to behind your chest, and your armpit feels like a pocket when you apply force to the water.
• Grab/catch. Grab is important because it helps you move. You can do this by Imaging that you are reaching forward and down over a wall as you swim, with the edge of the wall at your elbow. Point your fingertips towards the bottom of the pool, point your elbow up towards the sky or out towards the side, and think of everything from the elbow joint down your forearm and through your fingertips as one large paddle.
Tactic:
A good tactic for swimming is to watch your opponents and see how fast or slow they are, then you need to know how hard you need to train to beat them.
Another good tactic would be to enter a race that has a specific stroke that you know you are good at; this would benefit you because you have a good chance of winning.
Strategies:
A good swimming strategy is to do only the strokes you are fast at for the whole event. That way you have a great chance of winning.
A bad strategy would be to try strokes that you are slow at for the wholes race, if you do this there is a big chance you would lose all your races.
The basic skills you need to know to be good at swimming are
• Positioning: You need positioning because you need to position yourself on your own lane, and you need to have your body in the best swimming position to stop drag and increase your speed. To do this your body has to be straight and long, parallel to the surface water, as you swim. • Strokes/movement: You need to know the freestyle, backstroke, Breastroke and butterfly because these are the main strokes and you need to do these strokes in medley in a specific order.
• Rotation: To swim faster you need to grab the water then press and you must add body rotation.
• Pressing: You must press on the water with the largest muscles. For most swimmers it is the muscles in your chest and back, not in your arms or shoulders.
• Grab/catch: You must grab or catch the water so you can push yourself forward with your muscle power. To do this you should imagine as if you are grabbing food. This way, you go faster.
Technique:
• Position. Your position is vital because it helps you swim faster and it reduces drag and increases your speed. You can do this by Imaging that you are swimming in a long tube. Keep yourself in that tube as you move forward. You might use a gentle kick, it may require looking a little more backwards than down, but practice your positioning.
• Strokes: Strokes are vital because they help you swim and move in the water. I am going to describe the
backstroke and how you do it. The backstroke is easier than the butterfly or breaststroke and similar to the front crawl. The two keys to a proper backstroke are (1) that your arms move with equal strength, otherwise you will swim off to one side, and (2) that your body rolls from side to side so that your arms catch enough water to propel you forward.• Rotation. This is important because when your arm is grabbing the water, your body is rotated so that the grabbing arm is under water and the opposite side is above water or at least closer to the water's surface than the grabbing arm. You can improve your rotation by imaging a string going from your hip to your palm. Move your hip to start and press by pulling on that string when the hip begins to rotate from a deeper position to a shallower position.
• Pressing. This is important because it helps you move faster and when you pres on water your back and chest muscle pull your arm from front to behind your chest, and your armpit feels like a pocket when you apply force to the water.
• Grab/catch. Grab is important because it helps you move. You can do this by Imaging that you are reaching forward and down over a wall as you swim, with the edge of the wall at your elbow. Point your fingertips towards the bottom of the pool, point your elbow up towards the sky or out towards the side, and think of everything from the elbow joint down your forearm and through your fingertips as one large paddle.
Tactic:
A good tactic for swimming is to watch your opponents and see how fast or slow they are, then you need to know how hard you need to train to beat them.
Another good tactic would be to enter a race that has a specific stroke that you know you are good at; this would benefit you because you have a good chance of winning.
Strategies:
A good swimming strategy is to do only the strokes you are fast at for the whole event. That way you have a great chance of winning.
A bad strategy would be to try strokes that you are slow at for the wholes race, if you do this there is a big chance you would lose all your races.
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