Swimming: Stroke Development Frontcrawl

To improve your Breaststroke, hold the top of a large float and kick Breaststroke down the pool. Concentrate on lifting your heels high up to your costume line. Always turn your ankles and feet out sideways in order to catch the water and push it back. Feet come together and meet up at the end of every kick.

Turns
Touch Turn. View the wall with your last
arm stroke, touch with one hand, lift your
knees towards your chest, place both your
feet on the wall and pivot to the left or
right, push with your touching hand
followed by a push with both your legs.
Hands and feet come together following
the push off the wall to develop good
streamlining.

Turns
Touch Turn. On the last stroke into the wall stretch your arm and touch the wall with one hand, lift your knees towards the chest and pivot to the left if your left hand is on the wall or right if your right hand is on the wall then place your feet on the wall, allow your hand to then move over the water surface close to your face. Push off the wall on your back and underwater with both arms stretched out in a streamlined position hugging your ears with hands together. After the push off execute a strong leg kick before the first arm stroke.

Turns
Tumble Turn. Focus onto the wall five metres away and aware of how many strokes it takes you to reach the wall. On the penultimate stroke the hand is taken down under the body at right angles towards your opposite hip in order to pivot around the wall. Do not execute the frontcrawl tumble turn in a head over heals fashion as you will be left on your back. As the feet are planted on the wall the leading arm finds a straight direction to follow whilst underwater. Once the feet have been firmly placed they drive off the wall with both hands together underwater, push off underwater to create a streamlined position, hold for two seconds after the push off; This will keep the body under the oncoming wave you have created and cut back on resistance; After a short glide start to kick with frontcrawl or dolphin legs underwater for another two seconds, the head then breaks the surface first to resume full stroke.