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Freestyle, this stroke technique mainly works on triceps and lats

muscles

Keep your body as flat in the water as possible

Head facing down your forehead and nose bridge should be just
below the water surface

Eyes are looking forward but down towards the bottom of the pool

Relax your neck and upper back muscles

Aim to keep the stroke neat and tidy and as streamline as possible

Freestyle leg kick is an up and down alternative but continuous


action the movement involves the whole leg

The kick begins from the hips not the knees with pointed toes when
you kick

Keep the legs close together and relax with a slight knee bend with
the feet and ankles relaxed and flexible as the leg moves

Up there is a slight bend in the knee as the leg performs the down
would kick the leg straightens pointing your toes during the
downbeat to help with propulsion

The arm action is continuous and alternating at the beginning of the


stroke

The hand extends out in front of the body until almost straight with
the thumb and first finger palms facing down and fingers together

The catch phase of the stroke is important as it is the beginning of


the propulsion phase the hands should be relaxed a slightly cupped
to begin to pull the water

Pull your arm down through the water in line with the body
Bend the elbows slightly under the body as your hand passes your
hip

Push the water all the way to the upper thigh beginning to straighten
your elbow

The recovery of the stroke takes place over the water with your
hands close to your upper thigh

Lift one arm out of the water with a bent elbow trying to make sure
your elbow is higher than your hand

Reach forward over the water extension of the arms starts as the
hand passes the shoulder stay nice and relaxed entering the water to
begin the next arm cycle

To breathe turn head to the side whilst one arm is in the recovery
phase

The head turns to the water before the entering arm has past the
face

Six Beat Kicking is a technique in which each arm cycle has six leg
beats. Since this movement technique has a higher beat frequency,
freestyle swimmers can learn faster and more efficiently. This
technique is frequently used or taught to freestyle swimming
athletes who are completing a prescribed workout.

There are no guidelines for how many kicks should be performed


every stroke cycle. It's usually two, four, or six. Distance swimmers
and skilled triathletes frequently use a two-beat kick because it feels
so good and slow.
Swimming with in corkscrew is a combination of two strokes:
freestyle and backstroke. The swimmer swims three freestyle
strokes, then three backstroke strokes, in a corkscrew motion.
Swimming needs the swimmer to rotate from front to rear every
three strokes in this motion.

Every arm alternates between front crawl and backstroke in a


corkscrew pattern. As a result, the swimmer rotates constantly. The
stroke is mostly used for training and is also known as Newfie Stroke,
which refers to Newfoundland. The waltz crawl is when you rotate
every third stroke.

We rotate from front to back every three strokes, doing three


strokes in the front and three strokes in the back. You can begin this
workout by lying on your back or front, and then pulling with your
arms three times.

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