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Kicking Action
Steady alternate kick keeping in line with the body and close to the water surface. Start the kicking action from your hip and use the whole of your leg with feet and toes pointed. Knees slightly bent with legs and feet passing close to each other creating a small amount of splash.

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Stroke Development Frontcrawl | Stroke Development Frontcrawl

Stroke Development Frontcrawl:

Pulling Pattern
Enter the hand into the water with forefingers and thumbs first and elbow held high stretching your arm to full extension. After hand entry the hand moves slightly out and down to the catch position. The hand then presses under the body and pushes backwards and outwards towards the thighs. The elbow then leaves the water first followed by your wrist and hand with your arm moving over the water close to your body for a controlled entry.

Stroke Development Frontcrawl
Stroke Development Frontcrawl | Stroke Development Frontcrawl

Stroke Development Frontcrawl:

Body Position
Streamlined and horizontal lying flat with your face in the water looking slightly downward and forward. Hips slightly lower than your shoulders with rotation of the shouldersand upper body. Head central and fixed turning to the left or right to breath. The hips should also roll in tune with the shoulders to eradicate any rigidity in the stroke. A common fault is snaking of the hips which swimmers should resolve as early as possible.

Stroke Development Frontcrawl
Frontcrawl - Drills | Frontcrawl - Drills

Frontcrawl - Drills:

Frontcrawl Streamline Drill. Push off the wall
underwater with hands overlapping and the
body stretched out. Kick underwater for a few
seconds or to a maximum of five, ten or fifteen
metres whichever is more comfortable. Walk
back to the wall and repeat as necessary or
swim easy for the remainder of the length.

Frontcrawl - Drills
Push and Glide - noodle | Push and Glides - Front

Push and Glide - noodle:

Hands move from wall to front of noodle. Face in water.

Push and Glides - Front
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