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New Freestyle Swimming Tips & Tricks

  Do not try to fly Even top-level athletes often make the common mistake of not gliding between the strokes.   Swimming should not be done in a continuous motion, as with a bicycle pedal stroke.   Before each stroke, a brief glide is followed.   When the arm touches the water above the head, time the drift.   Let it extend fully for a few seconds, and not try to move in a zigzag fashion.   This will make swimming feel easy and effortless.   Don't forget about being relaxed during the entire action. Use closed palms  with high-elbow diving. The water is pulled back using the arms alternately.   The water is pulled back by one arm, and the other pulls it from the hip.   The high elbow technique involves bending the elbow and bringing the forearm up to vertical.   This is done during the underwater phase as fast as possible.   While your forearm should remain straight in active pulling phase, you want to keep the bent elbow as high as possible.   This improves the propulsion by incre

Tips to Improve Backstroke Swimming

  Backstroke is the only competitive stroke to be done from the back.   It is very similar the Front Crawl with one major difference. The head is facing up and looking at the ceiling.   In terms average speed, breaststroke is slower than backstroke.   It is the most difficult stroke to master for competitive purposes, despite it being one of the easiest to learn as an amateur.   Ryan Murphy Aaron Piersol and Lenny Krayzelburg have all been masters at this stroke.   Their success had one thing in common: each of them kept their basic skills intact while they built their supremacy.   Here are some advanced tips to increase your backstroke swimming performances. Flat body, with the head pointed towards the ceiling This is probably the most important and difficult task in practicing the stroke.   To get the fastest backstroke speed, you should keep your whole body flat.   When swimming backwards, the instinctive human reaction is to look around.   If you're going to be racing, this is