Our reader Suzanne writes: While swimming backstroke, how do I avoid hitting the end of the pool with my head? It’s a fear I have, and it’s happened to me a couple of times which meant the fear increased. I don’t like backstroke because I don’t know where I am in the pool and how …
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Swimming backstroke poses a few challenges for breathing. You have to keep your face above water to breathe, and splashing water can be a problem. But these difficulties can be overcome. This article explains how. Keeping Your Face Above Water To keep your face above the water surface, you need good balance. This means you …
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The Slide and Glide swimming drills described below are the last ones in our series of drills to learn to swim backstroke. With these drills, you’ll finally practice simultaneous arm stroke movements with both arms. However, you will include short pauses between arm strokes to rehearse the correct execution of these movements and also to …
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In the following drills to learn to swim backstroke, you’ll practice the arm recovery above water in addition to the underwater arm sweep you learned previously. However, to keep things simple, you’ll practice the arm stroke movements one arm at a time. This allows you to sidestep coordination issues that can occur when you move …
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Underwater Arm Sweeps is the next one of our swimming drills to learn to swim backstroke. This particular drill lets you practice both balance and the underwater movements of the arm stroke. All the backstroke drills you practiced up to now focused on balance while using a flutter kick for propulsion. The arms always remained …
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